Posts in Google

I’ve converted, but my first experience with Google Chrome occurred about a year ago and it was not a positive one. It was disappointing and frustrating. However, after fighting with Firefox, which crashed many times daily and demanded updates that slowed browsing and constantly interrupted me, I gave Chrome a second chance.
My biggest concern was [...]

As an SEO, I know that my industry is constantly changing and evolving. That is one of the reasons why I truly love marketing through the search engines. One upcoming change will be the release of what has been code-named “Google Caffeine,” which can be beta-tested here. It will be a new, more powerful version [...]

We all know that almost every business has peak times and low times. The great thing about doing SEO and online marketing is that you can very easily find the peak seasons for searches and traffic in your industry.  Once you have that information, you can act on it to keep your business rocking all year [...]

Scott Smoot

What SEOs DON’T Know

I don’t know everything. I’m really, really close though. In fact, I pretty much have everything down except for the finer points of string theory. That, and how Roland Emmerich (Director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow) was able to make more movies after the Godzilla catastrophe.
In all honesty, there are actually a [...]

Joe Bergevin

Removing a Ban from Google

Banned from Google? Ouch. Anyone who’s been banned from Google before knows that it’s not a fun ordeal. As of June 22, 2009, a report shows that google.com is used for around 90% of all searches done on the internet (worldwide). And with the next closest search engines in the running being 85 points away [...]

Search engine optimization is about influencing what people read about you just as much as whether people read about you. I’m confident that most SEO professionals understand this when it comes to their companies, clients, and corporate SEO. Yet my personal feeling is that people, SEO specialists included, frequently fall short in the area of [...]

Greg Shuey

Does the Google Sandbox Still Exist?

Over the past four or so months, I have talked to many individuals in the SEO industry who believe the days of the Google Sandbox are behind us. I, myself, don’t agree in the slightest and neither does Rand over at seomoz.
I am an SEO who loves to test, test, test, test, test! Over the [...]