/blog SEO - Search Engine Optimization | Tools and Resources Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:47:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 /blog/market-share/browser-wars-following-the-latest-skirmish/ /blog/market-share/browser-wars-following-the-latest-skirmish/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:39:06 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=615 /blog/market-share/browser-wars-following-the-latest-skirmish/feed/ 0 /blog/seo/googles-war-on-content-farms/ /blog/seo/googles-war-on-content-farms/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:18:35 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=481 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet On February 24, 2011 Google has announced a major algorithmic change to its search engine.  This change targets content farms – low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by either producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites [...]]]> /blog/seo/googles-war-on-content-farms/feed/ 6 /blog/seo/microhoo/ /blog/seo/microhoo/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:22:01 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=363 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet On August 24th, 2010 Bing and Yahoo! have announced that Yahoo!’s English language algorithmic (organic) search results in the US and Canada are being powered by Bing.  According to previous Search Alliance posts Bing will power 5.2 billion monthly searches… that’s 31.6% of the search market share in the U.S. (290 million monthly searches and [...]]]> /blog/seo/microhoo/feed/ 0 /blog/sem/online-reputation-management-free-tools-to-monitor-your-reputation/ /blog/sem/online-reputation-management-free-tools-to-monitor-your-reputation/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:28:40 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=344 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet In my previous post, I gave an overview of Online Reputation Management (ORM) and the importance of adapting ORM in your business. Continuing on the topic of Online Reputation Management, here are some free tools that you can use to monitor your online reputation. With the large number of tools available, you will need to do [...]]]> /blog/sem/online-reputation-management-free-tools-to-monitor-your-reputation/feed/ 4 /blog/sem/basics-of-online-reputation-management/ /blog/sem/basics-of-online-reputation-management/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:08:34 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=331 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet All businesses, especially those who rely on Search Engine Marketing, can be subject to bad publicity. It takes just one negative comment on a blog or website with the right audience to drive your reputation into the ditch. If you haven’t heard of or are not doing Online Reputation Management (ORM), here are the basics [...]]]> /blog/sem/basics-of-online-reputation-management/feed/ 4 /blog/sem/5-content-marketing-tips/ /blog/sem/5-content-marketing-tips/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:46:29 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=313 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet When it comes effective search engine marketing – Content is King. This holds true as much as ever these days. Gather CEO Tom Gerace, who is also founder of the Social Media Advertising Consortium (SMAC), a non-profit organization working on the creation of standards for social media engagement campaigns, offered some tips on marketing through [...]]]> /blog/sem/5-content-marketing-tips/feed/ 1 /blog/seo/google-confirms-mayday-update/ /blog/seo/google-confirms-mayday-update/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:29:17 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=295 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet High rankings in Google search results are the prize most webmasters seek, but Google is constantly making changes to their ranking algorithm – roughly one change per day! Now Google has confirmed the “Mayday” update with Matt Cutts saying at Google I/O that “this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites [...]]]> /blog/seo/google-confirms-mayday-update/feed/ 0 /blog/sem/above-the-fold/ /blog/sem/above-the-fold/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 04:47:27 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=277 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet Where do you begin landing page optimization if you have a beautiful, clean and profitable website? When there are no apparent issues with the basics such as call to action or page clutter then what can be done short of remaking the entire site? Usually a good place to start is to change the perspective. It’s [...]]]> /blog/sem/above-the-fold/feed/ 0 /blog/privacy/google-confirms-collecting-data-from-wi-fi-networks/ /blog/privacy/google-confirms-collecting-data-from-wi-fi-networks/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 22:34:31 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=246 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top:40%; left:60px; z-index:1; #F0F4F9} #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; width:55px; height:60px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { float:left; height:30px; width:100%; #F0F4F9} #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height:30px; width:85px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Tweet Google has confirmed today in their official blog post, that they have been collecting data from Wi-Fi networks with their Google Maps Street View Cars as they have driven around. The issue was brought up several weeks ago by the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany.  Google has denied that it collected personally identifiable [...]]]> /blog/privacy/google-confirms-collecting-data-from-wi-fi-networks/feed/ 4 /blog/social-media/facebooks-new-open-graph-api/ /blog/social-media/facebooks-new-open-graph-api/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:45:26 +0000 Ed Gluzman /blog/?p=223 /blog/social-media/facebooks-new-open-graph-api/feed/ 2