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Here is a great simple pie chart showing how valuable SEO is in relation to PPC. This is not to say that PPC has no value but finding the right mix for your company can really help boost the quantity and quality of visitors you receive from the search engines.
Rand has certainly outdone himself yet again, proving why this guys time might actually be worth $1,000 an hour. I was playing around with OSE today and it is really a great, simple to use tool that gives you a nice quick snapshot of the relative authority and SEO value of a website. If Yahoo! Read more about Open Site Explorer First Look[…]
I received a private message at a forum I have been a member of for many years and it was from a relatively senior member that was promoting some discounted listings reviews in his network of web directories. The directories themselves look pretty nice, good templates and category structure but I took a quick look Read more about The Importance of Checking Backlink Profiles[…]
The quote below is taken from a great posting over at www.SeoBook.com and is an interview with Dennis Goedegebuure, aka DonnisG – head of eBay’s in-house SEO team. Now some of you might just think the bolded word below is a typo but I think it is more inline with a Freudian slip. The best Read more about Best SEO Tip Ever on How to Get Decision Maker Buy-In[…]
If I was not a fan of this guy already for the simple fact that he gets $1,000 an hour for SEO consulting, I am even more impressed with his recent post on his experience this year securing additional Venture Capital for SEOmoz. He gives a ton of great information and even though he holds Read more about Rand Fishkin on the Venture Capital Process[…]
John Dvorak over at pcmag.com wrote an article yesterday where he complained quite mightily about how SEO is ruining Google search results by: “tricking Google or Bing or Yahoo into ranking your particular Web site higher than the competition by reverse-engineering the tricks used by Google, et al to rank sites in the first place.” Read more about John Dvorak Stirs up the SEO Hornets Nest[…]
In a previous post you might have seen that we won a Google Knol; Top Pick Knol Award – just today I noticed that my Knol profile lists me as receiving a Top Viewed Author Award!
It seems that some companies are starting to ‘get it’! It is amazing the number of SEO/SEM job ads I see that go on for weeks and weeks as the salary creeps up from the absurd towards reality ($30k-$35k, then $35k-$45k, next week $45k-$52k). Recently I saw a couple of nice postings where the companies Read more about Salaries for Local In-House SEO’s Looking Better[…]
If your website was getting a lot of visitors searching for the weather or sports scores then, YES! As Google attempts to become stickier how many websites will it hurt? Or does the fact that they are actually helping the searchers make it a wash because that is their core business? But they make money Read more about Does Google Want to Put your Website Out of Business?[…]
Let’s play the game, “How Much is this Position Worth”? Read the description below and then guess how much they are offering to pay. Here are some clues, the offer is less than a window washer makes and about 30% less than a bus driver earns. Role: The Internet / SEO Marketing Coordinator will be Read more about How Much is SEO Worth – Let’s Play[…]