SEO.com to run free Foursquare campaigns for qualified businesses to profile in a Foursquare ROI case study. The study will determine whether the social media platform can be an effective marketing tool, and can deliver a significant return on investment. SALT LAKE CITY – Can businesses make money with Foursquare? Right now? That’s the question [...]
Yahoo Redesigns Image and Video Search Pages to Show Trending Results
May 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yahoo announced today it redesigned Yahoo! Image and Video search results pages to include the most popular trending topics that people are searching for. These new pages are no longer bland and boring, and now shows up to five pages of topics that are trending in search. One really cool feature it added is the [...]
Walk on Water with Viral Video
May 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I recently ran across a video of athletes literally running on water. I saw the video, passed it on (with a fair degree of skepticism), pondered on its implications. Running! On water! Then, once I got over how cool it looked (and stopped trying to figure out if I could do this myself), I did [...]
Google Ends Community Editing In Maps
May 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Google announced yesterday it has ended the “community edit” free-for-all in Google Maps. In the announcement Google said, “all community edits will be reviewed before they are shown.” For business owners doing Google Places optimization, this means that competitors and spammers will no longer be able to edit your business listing however they see fit, [...]
Strategic Link Building That Drives Huge Results
May 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A strategic link building campaign is more than just picking one or two methods of building links and running with it. To build a well-rounded link portfolio and have the greatest chances of success, you need a combination of credible links and number of links. Today, I want to talk about the credible links and [...]
8 Tools to Better Understand Your Target Audience
May 24, 2010 by 30 Comments
We read a lot in the SEO world about things like keyword research, analyzing your competitors, and other things to get traffic to your site. But I don’t see information very often about deciding who your target audience is and how to make sure your keyword choices will actually reach them. This is one way [...]
Google AdWords Adds Ad Extensions Tab
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
On Friday afternoon, the Google AdWords blog annouced an ad extensions tab as an option for PPC campaign managers to view on those campaigns running ad extensions. For those who don’t know, ad extensions are features that can be added to your AdWords ads. Some of these include Ad Sitelinks, Product Extensions, Video Extensions, Location [...]
