New Year – New Rules? My SEO Predictions For 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! It’s 2012 and since I don’t expect the world to end like so many dooms day sayers I am looking into the future. At the beginning of every year experts and analyzers look at previous trends and make predictions on what’s suppose to happen in their industry. SEO and Internet Marketing is [...]

Yahoo Explorer Retires Today

Today saddens me. Yahoo Site Explorer, one of the oldest SEO tools, is now gone. I loved Yahoo Site Explorer (YSE) and I used it regularly.  Sure it wasn’t smart or very pretty but it always worked! Open Site Explorer from SEOMoz is much smarter but it get so much traffic I can barely use it. [...]

The Freshness Update- What Have We Learned

    Earlier this month Google announced that there was an update to their algorithm making the Caffeine infrastructure even better at indexing fresh content. This new update is suppose to effect 35% of all searches, allowing Google users to retrieve information from pages that are only minutes old. Google elaborates: “We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last [...]

Bing: Good But Not Good Enough

Google. Think for a moment about what Google means to you. When that name pops into my head words like “email”, “reliability”, “search” and “monopoly” come to mind. I think about their logo and I think about SEO. When I think of Yahoo! words like “downfall” come to mind along with “annoying ads”, “entertainment”, “slow [...]

Social Media Failures Part 1: What You’re Doing Wrong

  Are you failing at Social Media?  If you are, you’re not alone. I’ve met a few people with failing Social Media campaigns. The first thing I ask is what is the goal of their Social Campaigns? More often than not, I get blank stares. You’d think that having a goal would be an obvious [...]