Amazon Terminates Illinois Affiliates
After weeks of playing a political game of chicken with the state of Illinois, Amazon has terminated its contract with all affiliates in the land of Lincoln. Illinois Amazon associates received the...
View ArticleThe New York Times Becomes SEO Hitman
On Friday the New York Times published a piece by David Segal that alleged several high profile companies were trying to game Google’s algorithm with paid links. If this sounds familiar to you, that’s...
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7 Search Conference Tips for Success
I’ve been in the SEO industry for nearly 7 years. I started in the industry when I was hired to learn SEO on the fly for a real estate marketing & training company. I moved on to become the SEO...
View ArticleSocial Media Mind Control
I was incredibly honored to be invited to speak at BlueGlass TPA earlier this week. And just like all of the BlueGlass events I’ve attended in the past, TPA was absolutely fantastic. The lineup of...
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Yahoo’s Death Signals Seismic Shift in SEO Tool Landscape
For years SEOs have relied on Yahoo’s Site Explorer for gathering competitor link data. Unfortunately, Yahoo shuttered that tool today marking the end of an era in search marketing. While both Google...
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Google’s Jedi Mind Tricks
Last week Google publicly invited social media sites to integrate their activity streams with Google Analytics (GA). Google makes the pitch that integrating social data such as shares, diggs, reddits,...
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Pinterest’s Quiet Copyright Coup
The hottest new social site, Pinterest, has responded to concerns of copyright conscious website owners by offering a way for sites to block pinning directly from their websites (by placing a <meta...
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Google’s “Trust Us” Penalty
During a panel at this year’s South by Southwest, Google’s Matt Cutts mentioned that the search engine will be trying to “level the playing field” by rolling out an “over-optimization” penalty...
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Google, Responsive to Users
Over the years, when met with criticism or large-scale outrage, Google has fallen back time and time again on the excuse that their actions (or lack of actions) were good for the user. The user, Google...
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Adobe Kuler at the Quilt Show
Scenes from the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show This weekend, I attended the “World’s Largest Outdoor Quilt Show” in Sisters, Oregon. Anticipating your rolled eyes, all I can say is that, if you’ve never...
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