Monthly Archives: December 2009
Is SEO Science or Art?
Recently SEOmoz posted about running a test that proved their thesis that nofollow PageRank sculpting still works (while actually only proving issues with sample size & methodology ). But the issue of “proving” things with SEO publicly is typically a misguided one. Continue reading
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Tagged business, cool, income, industries, location, market, marketing, people, price, public-relations, time
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Local Search & Maps in 2009
While analysts and practitioners have been prognosticating the imminent arrival of local search for the last several years, 2009 was finally the year that proved us right. A number of innovations and developments in mobile search , such as the widespread adoption of the iPhone, the release of Android, and a burgeoning number of location-based apps like Foursquare have certainly helped fuel local search’s rise. But local has gained mind share among SEO’s, marketers, business owners, and perhaps most importantly, searchers, in its own right as well Continue reading
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Tagged appearance, chris-silver, generic, google-suggest, industry, internet, internet marketing, internet-yellow, introduction, iphone, local-business, seo, year, yellow, yellow-pages
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Top 10 Social SEO Posts of 2009
You don’t have to look far to find social media roundup posts this time of year. But what about the most effective one-two marketing punch for building community AND delivering conversions and ROI? Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, digital, facebook, optimization, search-engines, seo, singer, social, social web, social-media, tips, top 10
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Local SEO – A Case Study
How Do You Do Local SEO? It’s quite clear that local SEO will be *one* of the places to be in 2010 and beyond. Need convincing Continue reading
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Tagged auto-insurance, car-insurance, client, georgia, goals, google-insights, guide, insurance, local-search, search, seo, state, study, time
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Art of SEO: Best Search Engine Optimization Book in 2009
Our recent reader poll of 14 books either focused on, or with significant content dedicated to, Search Engine Optimization has concluded with 174 votes. And the winner by one vote and 27% of the total votes is…. Art of SEO (Theory in Practice) by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin and Jessie C Continue reading
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Tagged books, books-reader, internet marketing, online-marketing, phone, rand-fishkin, reader, reader-poll, search, seo, seo-book, stephan-spencer, voting
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The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design
If I had to looking for some attributes to describe the Japanese style in Web Design I’d choose: essential, minimalist, with an intensive use of Adobe Flash, animations and music in background (mainly solo piano, inspired by Ryuiki Sakamoto’s compositions), traditional and modern at the same time. Here is a collection of some beautiful examples of Japanese websites for your daily inspiration. Go to the website Japan Post Service Go to the website Ishiyama Senkoh Go to the website Shanghai World Financial Center Go to the website Moonlinx Go to the website Japan Association Press Go to the website Mitsubishi Real Estate Services Go to the website Mikihiko Kyobashi Go to the website ffffff Go to the website RiskyBrand Go to the website NTT Docomo Go to the web site All Japan Kendo Federations Go to the website Karimoku Go to the website Idemitsu Kosan Go to the website DyDo Drink Go to the website Fit For My Life Go to the website Mitekero Continue reading
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Tagged adobe-flash, alignnone-size-full, design, ebq, estate-services, idemitsu-kosan, inspiration, japan, japan-kendo, japan-post, japanese, showcases, some-attributes, Web Design
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Alibaba.com for B2B Leads
You may never have heard of Alibaba — the e-commerce search engine, not the hero of the 40 thieves. Continue reading
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Tagged alibaba, amazon, baidu, chairman, financial-times, india, indian, london, search-engine, seattle, seo, time, turkey
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Google Will Be Only Seller Of Nexus One Gphone
The Nexus One aka Gphone will only be sold by Google when it is offered to the public next month, according to T Mobile . The two companies will share support for the phone and T Mobile will be the carrier for the phone. This should provide an interesting test of Google’s ability to sell a physical product and manage support for it Continue reading
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Tagged challenge, internet marketing, limited, mobile, phone, search, seo, should-provide, the-challenge, the-limited, two-companies
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