SEO is a dirty word. PPC isn’t a dirty word. Actually, they’re not words they’re acronyms, but you get my drift, I’m sure :) It must be difficult for SEO providers to stay on the “good and pure” side of SEO when the definitions are constantly shifting. Recently we’ve seen one prominent [...] Continue reading
Jon Henshaw put the hammer down on inbound marketing highlighting how the purveyors of "the message" often do the opposite of what they preach. So much of the marketing I see around that phrase is either of the "clueless newb" variety, or paid push marketing of some stripe. @seobook why don't you follow [...] Continue reading
If you run an SEO business, or any service business, you’ll know how hard it can be to scale up operations. There are many constraints that need to be overcome in order to progress. We’ll take a look at a way to remove barriers to growth and optimize service provision using the Theory [...] Continue reading
Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) is one of my favorite pieces of SEO software on the market today. It has been indispensable to me over the years. The software does it all and then some. I reviewed it a few years ago; you can read that here, most of it is still relevant and I'll be [...] Continue reading
It’s hard to disagree with Larry Page. In his recent speech at Google I/O, Page talked about privacy and how it impairs Google. “Why are people so focused on keeping their medical history private”? If only people would share more, then Google could do more. Well, quite. We look [...] Continue reading
It was hard to spot, at first. It started with one store on the outskirts of town. It was big. Monolithic. It amalgamated a lot of cheap, largely imported stuff and sold the stuff on. The workers were paid very little. The suppliers were squeezed tight on their margins. And so it [...] Continue reading
In spite of Yahoo! accepting revenue guarantees for another year from Microsoft, recently there has been speculation that Yahoo! might want to get out of their search ad deal with Microsoft. I am uncertain if the back channeled story is used as leverage to secure ongoing minimum revenue agreements, or if Yahoo! is trying to [...] Continue reading