"Search Engine Marketing" Posts
Google Toys With Ad Placements Before the Holidays

Leave it to Google to make big sweeping changes just prior to the major holiday shopping season. Not only did they announce 10 algorithm changes, which includes an update that will affect one-third of their queries by adding real-time …
3 Things Google Tells Your Customers—Whether You Like It or Not

Some of the most important SEO practices are also some of the most obvious. It’s easy to think of things like backlinks, title tags, and crawl errors. But what about when you do a search on Google, for example, and …
For Better Or Worse, Hubpages Makes The Move To Subdomains
Recently, I received an email from Hubpages.com letting me know that if I failed to migrate my account to a subdomain, it planned to do so automatically. This move reflects Hubpages’ efforts to rebuild its SEO after the farmer update …
10 Reasons To Outsource (Some) Marketing (6-10)
Previously, we looked at 5 of 10 reasons why you might consider outsourcing some of your marketing to an agency. In that last installment we explored factors such as specialized expertise, bandwidth, outside perspective, education, and R&D as potential reasons …
Advanced Search Engine Marketers Head To Seattle
SMX Advanced is billed as the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers, and is quickly approaching. The crown jewel of search engine marketing conferences will take place in Seattle on June 7th and 8th and according …
What Has Data Mining Done For You Lately?
As 2011 kicked off, there were already several digital marketing blogs citing what the new trends for the year ahead would be. Present on all of those lists was data mining. Those of us who collect data and use …
Google Introduces the +1 Button
Google has seen the success of Facebook’s Like Button and wants in on the action! Logged in Google users will now have the ability to “like” Google ads and Organic Listings in Google search by using the new +1 button. …