Dave Bascom

In Matt Cutts’ keynote at PubCon in Austin, he announced the Friend Connect API. This means is that we will now able to integrate Friend Connect within blogs, forums, content management systems, essentially any site. This change will allow you to add a plugin to WordPress or whatever platform you are using and visitors can post … Read more

Mar 12, 2009 1 Comment

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Just like the lamb lying down with lion, but the big three search engines came together for a rare joint effort to announce the launch of a new feature that will help ease the world’s duplicate content problems. The new feature, called the <link> tag tells the search engines what version of the URL is the … Read more

Feb 12, 2009 6 Comments

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From Speaking on Business
Listen here (mp3): SEO.com KSL Speaking on Business
Transcript:
February 2, 2009
This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business.
The Internet has become the marketplace of choice for many business owners. According to statistics from eMarketer.com, a company that provides research and analysis on digital marketing and media, in 2008, $10.7 billion was spent … Read more

Feb 2, 2009 1 Comment

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Yes, I live in Utah. Yes, I love SEO, and yes, I’m a geek. All three things are evident if you see my new custom Utah license plate featuring my favorite three-letter acronym: SEO.
So what kind of car would you expect to be sporting these sweet tags? A Hummer? A BMW? How ’bout an Audi R8? … Read more

Jan 30, 2009 13 Comments

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Google announced the release of their own open source XML sitemap generator tool. There are several third-party sitemap tools around that do a great job, but Google decided that they could add some value with their own tool.
As they describe it:
Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it … Read more

Jan 14, 2009 4 Comments

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It’s been a little over a month since I got my G1 phone from T-Mobile. So far, I’m really enjoying it. My old phone was a Blackberry Pearl, which was a great phone, but this G1 lets me do so much more. Even though T-Mobile doesn’t have the 3G network here in Utah yet, most web … Read more

Dec 2, 2008 14 Comments

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Do you search Google for your trophy keyword every morning to see if you’re still on the first page? Do you check more than once a day? If so, you are a rankings junkie and it’s time to shake the habit. Things have changed with the search engines to the point where rankings are no longer … Read more

Nov 22, 2008 7 Comments

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Getting ready for the second day of PubCon in Las Vegas. So far it’s been great. We’ve got a crew of six people from SEO.com here at the conference. I’ve met some great people and look forward to meeting many more over the next couple days. The sessions yesterday were very good, and the topics look … Read more

Nov 12, 2008 1 Comment

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I keep hearing about how tough the economy is and I know people who have been hit hard by the housing market, credit crisis, and all that junk. However, for our company, business is booming. We have been growing like crazy and it shows no signs of slowing down (we are hiring). Just yesterday, I got … Read more

Aug 27, 2008 8 Comments

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