Archive for January, 2007

Reader Poll: What makes you love your SEO job?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

It’s pretty common knowledge that talented SEO professionals are in high demand. Agencies, companies and businesses that would not normally offer search marketing as a service are looking for SEO, SEM, copywriting, analytics and coding professionals. As a result, companies are offering a variety of enticements or perks to attract and keep quality individuals.
If […]

Top 5 Ways SEO Agencies and Clients Piss Each Other Off

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Communication is key in business relationships as much as it is in personal relationships. Most of the disappointments that often happen in client/agency relationships have to do with faults in communication. Not being able to empathize with another’s perspective can make things troublesome pretty quickly.
Below are some real and some tongue in cheek considerations […]

Google Cartoon

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Dan Rosandich sent me this cartoon. Apparently he runs a service that you can use to automatically populate your blog or web site with cartoon images via RSS or JavaScript with a daily cartoon. They’re not all about search engines or SEO, but some bloggers might find it to be an interesting way to add […]

Panama Geo-Targeting Update

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Yesterday I posted a link to aimclear’s blog about his frustrations with getting Yahoo geo targeting features to work for him. A thread had also been started at Search Engine Watch forum which apparently has been pulled, but thanks to Google cache, I was able to grab some of the info.
Basically, ackmnmn from aimclear says […]

Making the Most of Limited Content

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Note from Lee: Another contributor to Online Marketing Blog, Karen Sams who also writes her own blog at Media Relations Blog, makes her debut in this post about the ongoing challenge to gain original content for clients. Fresh content isn’t only necessary for making web sites attractive to search engines, but it’s also a […]

SEO: Rocket Science or Colonoscopy?

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Aren’t you glad I didn’t include an image with this post? OK, so SEO isn’t rocket science, but it’s not a colonoscopy either. Well, maybe GooogIe thinks SEO is rocket science, but what do they know.
What’s with the cliche’s? Cliche’s are simply a way to hide innuendo which was the […]

MyBlogLog Tools

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

MyBlogLog has been growing leaps and bounds since it’s launch about 6 months ago. Rumors and then confirmation of the acquisition by Yahoo didn’t hurt their visibility either. You don’t have to visit too many blogs not to notice the familiar array of headshots and avatars of people who have recently visited a blog - […]

Search Marketing News 011607

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Yahoo Takes Down Panama Geo-Targeting
Online Marketing Blog ranked #5 in top 150 Marketing Blogs - Todd And Power 150
Google Image Optimization - Chris Pearson
SEO Blogs get hacked - Search Engine Land
Optimizing Flash - Jonathan Hochman
Findory to fade away - Greg Linden
DMOZ taking submissions again - Search Engine Roundtable
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SEO Benefits from Blogs

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Is blog optimization part of search marketing? Absolutely! Blogs are web site content management systems with additional functionality such as comments, trackbacks and RSS. Blogs are really no different than web sites.
If you can optimize a document and that document gets indexed, categorized and ranked by a search engine, it’s part of search […]

Martin Luther King Day

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Google has a handy logo today in recognition of Marting Luther King Jr. Day and I was greeted by my 6 year old son singing a song about MLK this morning that I had not heard from him before!
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