The New York Times’ interest in the underbelly of SEO continues today with an article that details Google’s struggle to fight locksmith spam in Google Places. While not as deep as the Times’ recent articles on J.C. Penney’s SEO tactics and floral industry SEO, it nevertheless casts Google — again — as unable to keep...Read More
After only being available for just over a month, Google’s +1 button has already become more popular than Twitter’s Tweet button. Are you using Google+ yet? Â With how hard it is to get an invite, we are sure the majority of you are not, which makes this news even more interesting. BrightEdge, a SEO platform,...Read More
If you spend much time using Google, and have actually logged into your account and opted into the Google Experimental project’s +1 button, you may have noticed the intriguing and faded little +1 button appearing right next to each listing in the organic listings from the search engine results. With it’s arrival in March (for...Read More
Visited: 979Not rated by Michael ShermanJuly 08, 2011 Everyone wants to be at the top. Similar to many new website owners that believed owning a website meant business would subsequently be automatic, the majority of executives and business owners purchasing SEO believe that being at the top means their business will flourish, have thousands of...Read More
Ted Mann made a lot of smart points in his recent post on the lessons he learned from two years running inJersey, a network of 17 hyper-local blogs across the Garden State. Many are givens if you want any chance of success: Build cheap websites on WordPress and BuddyPress? Natch. Live in the town you...Read More
BrightEdge, provider of an enterprise class SEO platform, has produced a report that says Google +1 has seen a surge in use, but Facebook remains the dominant social plug-in. BrightEdge officials said their analysis of the front pages of the Web’s 10,000 largest sites shows a 33 percent spike in placement of the new Google...Read More
Google continues to roll out largely unannounced changes to its online empire, on Thursday going live with a massive redesign of Blogger, its free blogging platform. Blogger users will now be greeted with a clean and spacious white and orange layout, with more essential Blogger tools built directly into the main interface when they log...Read More
Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionised website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose CMS used by millions of sites on the web. The success of WordPress...Read More
7 Google Plus Data Points That Could Change SEO By: Brian Chappell 2011-07-07 Google, as a company, is one of the most powerful PR machines in the world. In recent times Google has started discussing openly the lack of importance of Pagerank, which has been the main driving factor behind ranking in Google since its...Read More
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