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Here's a quick and dirty tip for those of you managing PPC campaigns - and even those of you who want to improve your organic campaigns. It illustrates my philosophy that by being willing and open to learn from everybody - especially blackhats and people sm...
First off, a quick apology. I had posted this on Monday night without first checking with our nominees to ensure they could attend. I've now done so and thus, have a list of potential competitors who will be present if called upon! For those who may be confused, next month at the inaugural SMX West search marketing conference, two intrepid search marketers will take on teams from ...
Note: The following post is based on conversations I have had with top Microsoft employees and college graduates being recruited by Facebook. The conclusions I have come up with are based on the information they gave me along with many hours of independent research. Although the following is speculative in nature, it is based on fact. ...
Here at Altogether Digital we have an SEO team made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and this means that the metaphors we use to explain how we think the search engines work can be very varied. In my case, it means that I often think of the algorithms as being the engines' attempts at replicating a human brain, in so much as they try to predict what a human is likely t...
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I'm about to bring up something I've written about before (one month ago today, actually), but today I've taken part in an interesting task that further highlights the disconnect between advertising and search engine marketing. I saw a funny ad on the bus today while I was on my way to work. I really wanted to take out ...
If you were locked in a room with a whiteboard and plenty of RockStar Energy Drink and told to develop a social bookmark/discussion auto-posting site from scratch and to spend as little as possible doing it, what would you come up with? (Ok, you can have a bathroom in the locked room so you can concentrate.)You'd probably wind up with many of the features of these guys: ...
I'm currently in the process of re-authoring and re-building the Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here. Redirecting Pages f...
Changing demographics mean that an entirely different population is taking control of the economy. For instance, all the people who will be 21 in 2020 are already born, and these people have their own unique tastes and expectations. Television,...
My recent articles about doing SEO for the porn industry lead me to believe that I have a perfect link exchange experiment sitting right on one of the sites I own. Which site? LyricVault.comPayne, where are you going with this? Is this another advanced form of spam (ahem, viral marketing) you are ...
We have previously mentioned a few times on our blog that we were working on an SEO survey, and I'm pleased to say that today we're ready to launch it. Behold, the SEO Industry Survey in all its green-hued glory! ...
First off, we need to begin with the usual disclaimers and warnings -- not that they are necessarily necessary -- but just in case ... your mileage may vary, no claims made, use at own risk, don't try this at home, performed on a closed track with professional driver, and so on. And please note that these ideas are strictly conceptual, at least that I'm aware, and have not been te...
I don‘t know if you‘ve had the subject of purple cows on the moz before, but here you are.I guess I should start with explaining what I mean by „purple cows“. Those of you who are familiar with the work of Seth Godin can continue to next chapter. If you‘re not familiar with his work, I highly recomme...
The Question: I'm starting a new site and have no idea what I should do for software. Do I need to use a content management system, and if so, should I build my own or use someone else's? The Answer: It depends... I want to try taking a new tact with this blog post and give some direction about how to approach this issue. There's no way to tack...
I invited Mr. Thomas B. Duffy, one of RipOff Report's attorneys to contact me with any corrections, feedback, documents, or missed cases that he thought might be helpful. I am very grateful to him for taking me up on my offer and contacting me last week. The phone call lasted for more than an hour. For today's Legal Monday, I want to summarize five of Mr. Duffy's responses.