Monetizing Site Search Queries

I believe that once everyone starts thinking clearly again after the last round of Penguin updates — focusing on their business rather than on ways to game the system or mass produce activities that are not scalable — we can get down to action that can actually move the needle. One such…

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3 Ways To Break The Link Building Block

We’ve all been there — that moment in any link building campaign where you hit a wall. There are so many things that you want to do, but there is so little time or buy-in to do them that you settle on just doing the things you need to do. That sucks. It gets tedious, […]

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Trulia Is Making A Real Estate Search App For Google Glass

Google Glass may never become a popular consumer device, but that’s not stopping Trulia from making what should be the first real estate search app for Glass. The real estate search engine revealed its plans to San Francisco’s NBC affiliate over the weekend and shared more details in a…

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Google’s Cutts On SEO Industry Misconceptions: Updates, Revenue Goals & Link Building Obsession

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts released another video today named What are some misconceptions in the SEO industry? In short, Matt outlined three topics in this five minute video. (1) SEOs confuse algorithm updates with data refreshes. (2) Panda & Penguin algorithms are not…

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“Text Link Ads” Was Latest Hit By Google’s Actions Against Link Sellers

On May 15th we reported that Google targeted yet another link selling network that resulted in several thousand penalties. Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, has revealed which link network was the target via Twitter last week. The target was one of the oldest and arguably the most…

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Bing Ads Now Has Time Saving, Pre-Formatted Excel Reports

This is one of those minor features that will bring a smile to any PPC manager’s face. Microsoft has added Excel to the output options in the Bing Ads report center. But that’s not the exciting part. What is exciting is the fact that upon downloading to Excel, reports are already…

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Fifty Shades Of Full Value

I recently saw an incredible presentation by Google Analytics guru/evangelist Avinash Kaushik on “understanding the full value of mobile.” The concept – at least on its face – is simple: to understand the value of a mobile click, you have to look beyond immediate conversions and give…

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