Posts Tagged ‘search’

Use Your iPad For Your Next Presentation And Make Life Easier

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

As I continue to be amazed at the way people are making use of their iPad , it occurred to me that the potential far outweighs the limitations.  For example, let’s say you have a presentation or speaking engagement coming up at one of the search conferences.  You now have a choice: bring your heavy laptop or bring your lightweight and ultra-portable iPad .  Not sure what to do? Here are some ways you can use your iPad at your next speaking gig, and then you can decide the best device to take

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Case Study: I Listened to Google and I Failed

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

This is a post of why natural link building seems to be no longer working, despite Google not admitting that.

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Case Study: I Listened to Google and I Failed

$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion.

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.

SEO Advice: Make a web page for each store location

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

If your company has a bunch of store locations, please don’t hide that information behind a search form or a POST. If you want your store pages to be found, it’s best to have a unique, easily crawlable url for each store.

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SEO Advice: Make a web page for each store location

A few thoughts on SSL Search

Monday, May 24th, 2010

I’m incredibly happy that Google has added the option to search over SSL by going to https://www.google.com/ — note the “s” in “https.” I’m writing this blog post in a hotel right now because I’m in Europe for a week doing a series of tech talks, but I could just as easily be working down at local Dublin cafe with an open WiFi hotspot. In both cases, I might want to do a private search that the hotel or local cafe can’t see. A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection provides an encrypted tunnel between my browser and Google, so other people can’t sniff what I’m searching for

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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail

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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I’ve been doing SEO for a few years, with specific focus on social media and ways businesses can find their audience, their prospects and make money out of utilizing social media to generate leads. What I am still troubled to see, maybe because I live and breathe this industry, is that social media still seems a place where businesses fail .

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How Do You Measure ‘IT’?

Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Okay, I’m going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I’m doing it with a twist. I’m going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way.

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Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote

Clean up extra url parameters when searching Google

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

You know when you do a Google search and get all those extra url parameters that crowd things up? “ie” and “hl” and so on?

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Clean up extra url parameters when searching Google