Social Media Blog: Conversational MarketingA blog that disects conversational marketing via social media.

Thank you to my friend Linda who wrote about this last week. This rap was written by Chuck, a.k.a “m0serious,” who works over at Pop Labs; a search and social media consulting firm. Enjoy!

And, here is how I found this video…and I may be speculating on a few points. But, I blogged yesterday about the […]

Well, no it’s not but I made you click! So, I have several readers (not like thousands or anywhere close to that) that are somewhat new to SEO and to this notion of building links to a site in an effort to achieve higher rankings in the search engines. Now, regardless of what some of […]

In the past, I have written that search engine optimization is not rocket science and that anyone can learn the key fundamentals of on/off page optimization. Setting aside the new variables of SEO (social bookmarking, tagging and other social media strategies), the real challenge of in-house SEO comes when you are managing a site with […]

And if someone tells you that it is, they are misleading you. In fact, SEO is quite easy to learn if you have the time. I have been engaged with SEO for almost 10 years now and have watched it evolve almost daily from a time when spamming the meta tags was considered good practice.
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Many of you know that I am an in-house SEO for a company in the Bay Area (even though it’s not in my official title, I do manage and consult for several SEO projects within my organization); to qualify myself, I have been optimizing websites for almost ten years now dating back when spamming the […]

I own/maintain several websites dating back to 8 years or so. With some of my sites, like this one, I daily monitor my web stats (unique visitors, referring domains, etc.) I’m obsessed with data! With some of my other sites, I rarely, if ever, look at the actual web site much less the stats.  However, […]

I transferred my blog to this new domain in September 2006 and I am already gettin’ some love from Google and Yahoo (thanks to my utmost ethical link building techniques of course and my outstanding on-page optimization skillz - jk). For the terms “Online Marketing Blog” and “Internet Marketing Blog” I am on the first page of […]

A good friend of mine who I work with, and who also authors an SEO blog emailed me the other day to say that we made some “Top In-House SEO List” that the guys over at the Natural Search Blog put together. The article is very impressive and talks about the advantages of working in […]

If you are running an SEO program and Paid Search at the same time, you better keep reading.  According to Search Engine Land, the ranking of a particular website within the natural search results can be negatively affected by a paid search campaign. The report comes as a result of a patent filed by Microsoft; […]

I am not going to lie to you.  Achieving high rankings in Google is no easy task; and if someone tells you that it is, they are lying through their teeth.  Back in the days, reciprocal linking, link farms and free for all linking schemes used to be the trend; and believe it or not, it […]