Effective Web Site Promotion…

Is your website doing its job? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the answer to a different one: what, exactly, IS its job? Once you know what it's supposed to do, you can consider the issue of how it does it. […]

A study performed by Intelligent Positioning caused quite a stir recently among SEOs. It revealed that Wikipedia appears on the first page of Google searches 99 percent of the time, and in the first position more than half of the time. What, exactly, does this mean for SEO? A lot more – and a lot less – than you might think. […]

Have you ever experienced a sharp pain in your side or numbness in a leg and used Google to find out whether you should call the doctor? You're not alone; in fact, so many searchers do this that the search engine giant modified its algorithm to help. […]

Nearly everyone knows about Rick Santorum's Google problem, and how it may be tripping him up in his long race to win the Republican nomination to run for president. What not everyone knows is that he's no longer the only Republican hopeful with such a problem. Mitt Romney just recently joined the club. […]

When it comes right down to it, the best customers, those that are the easiest to “sell” your products or services to, are those that find you and decide on their own that youre the best in their field. They have decided, before they even contacted you, that they wanted to do business with you over and above any competition that you might have. People that c […]

When it comes right down to it, the titles of your content or your posts ARE your “hooks. Titles of blog posts, articles, videos, or any kind of content that are compelling and instill curiosity or a “need to know” will get looked at. Those that dont, will not. What kinds of titles hook readers? Keep reading for some compelling data on the subject. […]

Can you imagine paying $1,000,000.00 for a measly hamburger and soda? Is there any possible way that you would ever, for any reason, pay such an exorbitant sum? What I am going to do is prove to you that asking you to pay that amount of money for a hamburger would actually be a bargain. Im going to set up a situation where youll happily pay that much and mor […]

What do you do if your pet enterprise fails? If you're a brave (or perhaps foolhardy) entrepreneur, you build something even more ambitious. Such is the case with Nick Oba. When his contributor-driven online magazine failed back in 2010, he came up with a bigger idea: take on Facebook, but make the members into shareholders. And thus Zurker was born. […]

When trying to rank well on Google, you want to get as many factors working for you as possible. If you can use a few effective techniques your competitors overlook, so much the better. Keep reading for some ideas. […]

You run a local business, and you claimed your Google Local listing so searchers would see your website. That's a start, but with Bing and Yahoo together holding more than a quarter of the search market in the US, you're still leaving money on the table. Fortunately, you can easily get onto Bing Local by following a few simple steps. […]

Bing Vision add-on will add the option to scan in QR and bar codes as well as image recognition tools that will allow users to view sites and retail information by scanning images. Bing Imaging for Newspapers will also launch in March. […]

Twitter and American Express have announced a partnership that will see the companies offer $100 of complimentary Twitter advertising to the first 10,000 SMBs that sign up. Participants will gain access to Twitter's self-service advertising system. […]

Cloud marketing platform BloomReach has launched with a suite of three intelligent discovery tools for businesses. BloomReach accomplishes some pretty incredible things for web businesses in need of a holistic, well-rounded marketing approach. […]

Day 2 of SES London 2012 has come to a close. The day, much like Day 1, was packed full of great tips and strategies on SEO tools and metrics, PPC architecture, and more. Here's a roundup of today's live blogging and coverage of SES London 2012. […]

Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission over what it sees as a clear abuse of its industry standard patents, with Google's tacit backing. This follows a similar filing by Apple demanding EC intervention. […]