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I remember the good old days when a bunch of us on the photography web forums would join our purchasing power together to get 20% off a 1 meg memory stick from the local camera shop. Things have come a long way since then and now the hottest niche on the net seems to be Read more about Need New Visitors to Your Website? Breed Em[…]
So I have been happy to report over the past couple of years that Canada, in particular my neck of these woods, Ontario has been catching up to the UK and USA by offering good starting salary for valuable Search Engine professionals. But a quick look at Craislist today makes me wonder what is going Read more about SEO Jobs in Canada Just Silly[…]
Does the text color of your link matter? According to a Google patent granted a little while back it just might! You can view the document yourself here. But let’s spend a little time with claim 18, The one or more server devices of claim 16, where the data associated with the features of the Read more about Purple is the New Black in Link Building[…]
This is a good paying job for someone with high-end link building and management skills. Link building is one of the hardest SEO jobs and it can also prove to be the most frustrating. A Toronto Area search marketing firm is looking for a First-Class Link Builder to join our growing team. The Candidate will Read more about Search Marketing Company Looking for Link Builder[…]
I have the strangest Adsense bug happening and I am finding it very hard to contact Google customer support. When I look at the three month view of my Adsense balance I get one number and when I look at the twelve month view I get a much different balance.
I am all for putting your best foot forward, after all that is what SEO is all about but it seems Google has used some very creative accounting in making claims about how much it contributes to the US economy. They (Google) claim that in the US they “generated $54 billion of economic value in Read more about Google’s 50 Billion Plus Chest Thumping Gets Dissected[…]
Seth Godin had a really nice post about hourly work vs. linchpin work (flat fee) and I found it very applicable to SEO. I forever see the same questions floating around the SEO message boards, “how much should I charge” – usually it comes from someone who is just starting out but sometimes the replies Read more about Value of a Good SEO[…]
Chitika advertising network published some analysis it did of click through percentages based on 8,253,240 impressions. “In order to find out the value of SEO, we looked at a sample of traffic coming into our advertising network from Google and broke it down by Google results placement. The top spot drove 34.35% of all traffic Read more about Click-Thru Percentage for SERP[…]
It seems the US Government is preparing to classify search engine marketing as a real job and is consulting with SEMPO in working out job titles and descriptions. n a recent SEMPO newsletter, the organization explained what’s going on: You can be part of an important and exciting task force for SEMPO, to help the Read more about US Government Recognizing Search Engine Marketing as a Real Job![…]
A friend of mine just emailed me some social circle results that came up when he was doing a search for Toronto SEO – while I think these are interesting I am worried that Google is going to make it very hard for new companies in any industry to breakthrough in the search results.