Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This year, though, I thought that I would come up with a new list, the Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders of 2011. Overstock.com was penalized for their shady search engine optimization tactics, JC Penney was caught gaming the search engine optimization system, and Google penalized Forbes.com for selling links on their website.

Engineering 137

Engineering Yahoo SEO Discount 137

Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 29, 2012

It started with the Google Panda update that first hit the Net back in February 2011. Since then Google has run that update several times. Then Google slapped them silly and they went reeling. Your SEO has to be as unique as your content. In fact, content is your SEO. Some of them have recovered.

SEO 156

SEO Template Templates Education 156

SocialFish

JANUARY 13, 2011

Eleven Digital Trends to Watch in 2011. Location, Location, Facebook – If 2010 belonged to solely Foursquare, it’s likely that Facebook will rain on their parade in 2011. We’ll all need to figure out better ways to deal with this problem in 2011. SEO is really really really really important. Like, really important.

Trends 208

Trends Foursquare Curation Mobile 208

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2012

Web Traffic Tracking Alternatives to Google Analytics by uber.la. WordPress SEO – 10 Essential Actions by WP Blog Talk. ” Top 50 WordPress Plugins for 2011 to Zoom SEO, SMO & Audience Engagement by Zoom Factor. 8 Excellent WordPress SEO Plugins by Six Revisions.

WordPress 184

WordPress Movable Type Review AJAX 184

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 7, 2011

A new report from Focus, 2011 Trends Report: Social Media Marketing presents observations and predictions from eight leading social media experts (and me) about social media trends and developments to watch for in the coming year. . “News Feed Optimization (NFO) on Facebook will become the new SEO. Post on Google Buzz.

Trends 187

Trends Social Media Marketing Technorati 187

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011. Marketing today is a far cry different than it was in 1950, or 1980, or even in 2000.

Small Business 161

Small Business Press Release Social Bookmarking How To 161

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are 11 concrete ways I think the environment in which B2B Marketers operate will evolve in 2011. After 9 years of Search Engine Marketing – I think it is safe to say any keyword you are going to buy is maxed out when it comes to the Google AdWords auction process. NFO is the new SEO – that’s News Feed Optimization on Facebook.

B2B 279

B2B Marketing Mobile CPM 279

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

So as I stumble across the finish line, here are my top posts of 2013 by pageviews: The Most Common Google News Errors and How to Avoid Them. SEO Tips for Infinite Scrolling. SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links. Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates. Publishing'

SEO 129

SEO Publishing Social Media Sports 129

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 3, 2011

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Officially, an expert in inbound marketing, online visibility and personal branding, via social media, SEO and SEM. Allison Mooney. allimooney. Lucretia M.

Twitter 279

Twitter Pharmaceuticals B2B Biotechnology 279

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News?

News 274

News Google SEO Postrank 274

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

» Google Linking Webmaster Tools And Google Analytics There have been several significant improvements made to Google’s Webmaster Tools over this past week. One feature that has been added is the ability to link your Google Analytics data to your Webmaster Tools account.

Analytics 161

Analytics Google Tools Case Study 161

Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! Featured Post – How to Optimize Social Media Profiles for SEO. This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Bad-Ass SEO Blogging Contest.

Analytics 113

Analytics SEO Social Media Google 113

Social Media Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

But after Google first updated on 23 Feb 2011, all website owners and SEO experts are very strict to create back-links for a website. Because these kind of website penalized by Google any time. If you can''t do that due to any reason, then Google also provide us a better solution, which named as Disavow backlinks.

Google 161

Google Tips Domain Name How To 161

Writtent Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

SEO as we know it is actually gone forever. The most recent Hummingbird update to Google’s search algorithm was a final nail in the coffin of an industry that had been in decline since the major Panda update in 2011 that affected as many as 30% of all search results. Google PageRank May Be Dying. Google Hummingbird.

SEO 95

SEO Content Marketing Press Release 95

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 22, 2011

There are other benefits to blogging, but these are three of the biggest SEO benefits. 3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Of course, you only get these benefits if your blog and if you blog in the right manner. Do you have a company blog ?

Small Business 168

Small Business SEO Case Study Press Release 168

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This last year Google brought a large number of algorithm changes to the table. In case you missed it through all the chaos, below lists all of the crazy Google changes that occurred in 2011and just what they all meant: Top 10 Google Algorithm Changes of 2011. Google claims the update “incorporates new signals.”

Google 176

Google Small Business Engineering Guidelines 176

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

Google 150

Google Content Case Study Press Release 150

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2011

Google does that automatically for you based on your IP address, or based on your personalized settings if you are a user of Google’s personalized search features. I’m pretty certain, and I’m sure Frank would agree, that Google Places will be the main focus on Google’s local efforts far into the future.

Small Business 170

Small Business Google Case Study Press Release 170

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.) Search algorithms.

Google 254

Google Class Creative Commons Yahoo 254

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 13, 2014

A business owner in Columbus, Ohio is offering fellow business owners free advice on how to rank quickly in the Google search results while staying away from costly SEO firms and using Search Engine Optimization to rank number one in Google. says that he knows the value (first hand, apparently) of ranking well in Google.

SEO 77

SEO Google Press Release Engineering 77

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 7, 2014

If we study how SEO has evolved in New Zealand, we can learn a lot about how the field of search engine optimization has changed in the last few years. This has a great deal to do with changes made by Google, of course. SEO tactics vary a great deal from one company to another. Part of this was due to ignorance, no doubt.

SEO 72

SEO Domain Name Directory Engineering 72

Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

SEO Ranking Factors are probably the most important thing to know when you are creating a web site since they are the rules that determine how popular your website will be on the internet–and how much high it would go in search results. Such web pages, with heavy advertisements on top of their page, are being hit hard by Google.

Engineering 120

Engineering SEO Mobile Report 120

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. Rebecca Lieb, author of one of the best SEO books ever , observes that “Press releases don’t work (the way they used to) any more. Small Business…Big Coverage! by Blogging PRWeb.

Vocus 188

Vocus Press Release Tips Blogger 188

Kikolani

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! What Your Analytics Software is Hiding From You – There are many reasons for confusing and missing data in Google Analytics. Related Posts.

Analytics 118

Analytics Research Real Estate Google 118

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 11, 2011

Then came the days of wanting to appear at the top of a Google search (either paid or organically). 11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011 Around this time last year I wrote about the 10. This is the algorithm that controls what you see in your News Feed when you log into Facebook.

Feed 264

Feed Feedly News SEO 264

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. (Happy Holidays! This is #1. This is probably my favorite post of the year. – Jay).

Google 149

Google Picasa Adwords Engineering 149

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Well, there are several things you can do right now to improve your SEO. In just a couple of weeks, you can improve your SEO tremendously. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Here are the top 5 ways to improve your SEO right now. Build quality inbound links and you’ll have staying SEO power.

SEO 87

SEO Case Study Press Release Small Business 87

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

After sending his condolences to all former Vine and Google+ specialists, who became specialists in a trend, Matt then challenges marketers to focus more on becoming marketing generalists, and hone their skills of media literacy. He has authored: Internet Marketing an Hour a Day (Wiley/Sybex) 2011. Wired to be Wowed, 2014. Background.

Engagement 131

Engagement Training Apple Conference 131

Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Already, some early Google Plus users have created 20 or more Circles to categorize their online relationships. SEOMOZ SEO Ranking Factors. But enough about that.

Google 166

Google Picasa Engineering Adwords 166

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2011

Mike Stewart, a good friend of mine here who is based in the Dallas area, who runs a Small Business SEO firm , sent me the following email he received today from a company who did just what I am describing here. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Chris B. Do you currently have an active SEO campaign. SEO Specialist.

Engineering 151

Engineering Industry SEO Domain Name 151

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 11, 2011

» 10 SEO Tactics That No Longer Work (If They Ever Did) Confused about SEO? Did you just buy a nifty SEO book, or download one for free, that promises to tell you everything there is to know about SEO? If your SEO guru or free e-book download is telling you to do these 10 things, fire him or throw the book away.

SEO 93

SEO Widget NoFollow Case Study 93

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. This is where Google Analytics Advanced Segments come into play. Search Engines / SEO. Is Google+ Imperative For SEO? Google stuff.

Mashup 146

Mashup Resources Press Release Adsense 146

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! 50+ Awesome Posts on Conversions – Catch up on the latest and greatest information in this list of over 50 awesome posts on conversions from 2011. Google Analytics.

Analytics 105

Analytics Conversation Social Media Google 105

yMarketingMatters

APRIL 15, 2013

There are many ways to go mobile: Sending out mobile-optimized emails , enabling your website for mobile visitors, undertaking mobile advertising, Google Adwords for mobile and mobile SEO. An impressive increase from 35% in 2011 and 44% in 2012. Currently, 31% of Americans own a tablet compared to 11% in 2011 and 22% in 2012.

Mobile 231

Mobile Smart Phone Marketing Adwords 231

Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Already, some early Google Plus users have created 20 or more Circles to categorize their online relationships. SEOMOZ SEO Ranking Factors. But enough about that.

Google 147

Google Picasa Engineering Adwords 147

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

While 47% felt somewhat good at social measurement in 2011, just 38% said the same in 2012. Women make up the larger share of users on Facebook (58% to 42%) and are a slightly larger share on Twitter (52% to 48%) while men are the predominate users of LinkedIn (63% to 37%) and Google+ (71% to 29%). WordPress Hosting SEO ).

Social Media 245

Social Media B2B Marketing SEO 245

Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2012

Google is constantly trying to stay ahead of the spammer curve by making improvements to its search engine system. Less frequently, Google makes structural changes that have even more dramatic impact on search results. According to SEOMoz 2011 Ranking Factor survey the top two factors influencing rank are link related.

Google 125

Google Content Construction Social Graph 125