Archive for February, 2009

What's Your Strategy?

If you haven’t chosen your favorite Internet marketing tactic, now’s the time to give your opinion.  Lee Odden of Top Rank Blog is conducting a poll on which Internet marketing tactics are most favored for 2009. It’s not surprising to see that blogging ranks as the number one tactic.  Hubspot asked 167 respondents and 75% […]

New Duplicate Web Pages Fix

Google, Yahoo and MSN yesterday unveiled a new way for website’s to specify which pages are your “main” or “original” ones.  This goes a long way towards helping prevent the dilution of backlinks to a website. For example, if you work for the Tourism Board of Mars and have the following page on your website, […]

Search Marketing as Effective as Ever

Gord Hotchkiss put up an excellent article profiling Google, and particularly Search Marketing, in the midst of the econolypse.  It’s true that while most advertising is being curtailed (and most business and consumer spend have slumped in general), people are still searching online and clicking on paid and organic listings at Google.  While the rest […]

Save your money on Valentine's Day

Most of us have received unsolicited emails from online companies indicating they can get you on the first page of Google for a little amount of money no matter what the competitive pulse of your particular industry. Only because Valentine’s Day is a few days away, I thought this would be appropriate to showcase that […]

Google to Disable Ability to Track Keywords?

A possible new update to the way Google displays search results might break all of your website tracking software and statistics – are you prepared? There’s been a backlash in the last couple of weeks against a possible update to the way Google displays search results and  Google has admitted to testing AJAX-formatted search results. […]