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Tip Tuesday: How To Assign Blog Comment Tasks

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

A few days ago I was chatting with a buddy who said, “I wish Raven had a way to assign responding to a blog post to someone else in the organization.” We didn’t build Raven Tools with this specific function in mind, but we did build it to be as ...

If You Want to Rank in Google, Start by Fixing Your Site

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

This is a feature article I had the honor of writing for the May issue of Vue Magazine, a monthly magazine from Market Research and Intelligence Association in Canada. They gave me permission to republish the article on our blog. You can also download a PDF version of the article. ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 68

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

This week’s SEO Weekly Digest will be in honor of April fools. You have been warned. Dear Internet, Meet Facebook Status Optimizer SEOmoz’s faux Facebook Status Optimizer caused quite a stir, and why not? Just who wouldn’t want their Facebook status optimized? Facebook is unique in that it is able ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 67

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Qualifying SEO clients; Keeping Pareto at Bay SEO Dojo Sensei David Harry’s post at the Search Engine Journal this week talks about qualifying clients. David talks about qualify the project, qualifying the client/contract, qualifying yourself, and putting it altogether. Taking on new clients can be daunting, without due diligence you ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 66

Friday, March 19th, 2010

SEO Trademark Registration Terminated In one of the most selfless acts this industry has ever seen, Rhea Drysdale took on an immense challenge and conquered. In short, she used her own money, filed a notice of opposition to Jason Gambert’s “SEO” trademark application, and won. Let’s just put it like ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 65

Friday, March 12th, 2010

20 Tips To Search Conference Success Conference season is upon us already, and as Search Engine Marketers, some of us need a little help at being more social. Fortunately, Josh Dreller gives us 20 pieces of advice to help us get the most out of the next conference we attend. ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 64

Friday, March 5th, 2010

SMX Coverage For those of you who weren’t able to attend SMX West in Santa Clara this week, fear not – Lisa Barone over at Outspoken Media did a stellar job liveblogging. To see the sessions which were liveblogged, head on over to the Outspoken Media blog for more SMX ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 63

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Had Success with Affiliate Marketing Sugarrae tells it how it is. If you’re an affiliate marketer and you haven’t read any Sugarrea’s previous posts on the subject, then go do it. Once you’ve done that, you need to check out the most recent post. In it, are ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 62

Friday, February 19th, 2010

3 Reasons PR & Communications Pros Need to Know SEO PR Agencies and professionals have not always been engaged in Social Media or even thought it could be useful. With consumers spending increased time online and in Social Media, how can PR people use and utilize SEO to provide better ...

SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 61

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Monitoring Your Local Business in Real Time Foursquare and Yelp are fairly synonymous with local search. But how should business go about using these services to monitor or interact with their local customers? Matt Siltala’s post at Search Engine Journal provides practical advice for business owners looking to get the ...