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$200 Twitter Contest: 122 Characters Sent Back 2000 Years

Whoever comes up with the best answer wins $200 (via paypal).

11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search. The changing nature of social media marketing and [...]

Why 6th Place in Search Might Soon Be a Player

What’s good for the Goose is good for the Google.

Microsoft Cross Platform Flow

This type of thing really is going to be huge.

Hear That? It’s the Sound of Socialist Heads Assploding.

But . . . but . . . Canada has teh best health cares system evah!

The Real Reason Google Dropped Youtube Support

So you’ve probably heard that Google has decided to drop IE6 support for Youtube. At first I just figured “Cool, we’ll get more people away from IE6.” But the real reason is that they want to promote Chrome:

That first Slot will get a majority of the clicks. Very clever Google. Evil. But Clever.

How Journalists Use Search & Social Media

TopRank ran a survey of journalists, reporters and editors on their use of search and social media in 2008. We found 91% use search engines like Google to do their job. 64% use social networks.  Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reports 89% use blogs and 65% use social [...]

15 Social Media Answers From OMS10

Online Marketing Summit 2010 in San Diego is host to a smorgasboard of internet marketing topics and this afternoon I am priveledged to participate on a panel about Social Media. Panelists include:

Chris Baggott, CEO, Compendium Blogware Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online Marketing Michael Senger, CEO & Founder, StoneMass Caitlin McCabe, Founder, WhiteLabel Marketing Ben Hanna, VP Marketing, Business.com

That’s a [...]

Small Business Tips For Reporting Web Metrics

[Last week, we shared some web analytics basics for small businesses or web site owners new to tracking website visitor data. Building on that, this post explores what you should do next to report that data.] It’s an exciting time to be a small business owner or communications professional. Why? We’ve never had [...]

Aaron: It’s not Spam, It’s a “Newsmaster Site”

Since you’re having trouble with it (and you ARE an SEO expert), no doubt some of my other readers are struggling with it as well. So for all of you, I’ll give you this infographic cheat sheet:

Scary

Spying on kids.

Nuclear

Let’s make energy so damn cheep that only a fool would use Oil, Gas or Coal.

3 Reasons PR & Communications Pros Need to Know SEO

The PR industry is in a state of flux with increasing importance on getting into the content and social web business. Consumers are spending more time with digital and social media. Advertising dollars are following. That means less budget to staff newsrooms and reporters, journalists and editors to pitch. Understanding the needs of their “customers’ customer” [...]

7 Answers to News SEO Questions You Should Know

Recently I was invited to give a basics webinar on optimizing news content  for search.  The intersection of search and PR/communications are obviously something quite familiar and while I’ve done several such presentations with our client PRWeb, I had not done one with Search Engine Watch before. The outcome exceeded all expectations thanks to the excellent [...]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Giggle!

My guess is that no one but SEOs will use it. And then once SEOs figure out it’s not effecting rankings, even they won’t bother.