When you think of labor day what comes to mind? For me it is these 2 thoughts

lower earnings because few people are online today
since almost nobody is online, any hours worked today are me getting ahead of the market

Working hard & working lo…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA HANDYMAN — I get a number of email “circulars” from companies like Best Buy, Macy’s and others. Their width resembles the new size restrictions now in place for Facebook tab pages. What if, when companies create an email piece, they …

VATORNEWS — It shouldn’t come as a surprise that in less than two days, Apple’s new music-based social network, Ping, attracted one million new users. Apple’s iTunes service has 160 million users, after all. The service, which launched last Wednesda…

E-CONSULTANCY.COM — Given that it pays my wages, I’m not supposed to let you know that social media isn’t the be-all-and-end-all for marketers everywhere, but try as I might I still can’t quite come up with enough reasons to ditch your other st…

FORRESTER RESEARCH — I read Henry Blodget’s Business Insider article, "Here’s Twitter’s Big Problem: It’s Not Going Mainstream," and it made me reflect on how we define the word "mainstream," because by any definition I can think …

DIGITAL INFLUENCE BLOG — What makes a great Facebook Fan Page? What makes it fantastical and special for all to see? One quality of a great Facebook Fan Page is a strong level of engagement. But where does one even start a discussion? How do you keep…

About 25 days ago I announced the next Israel SEO/SEM conference. SphinnCon Israel is coming back in 2011, it will be taking place on Sunday, January 9, 2011.

I wanted to let you know that we are now accepting speaker proposals and pitches. You ca…

Last week, Google announced they are now indexing SVG, Scalable Vector Graphics.

As a searcher, you can now find SVG documents in the Google index. Google said they will index it as a standalone file or embedded directly in HTML. If you don’t want…

Ever since the weekend, when I do a search at Google, Google is returning 20 or more (I am seeing 30 results) search results on the page. I checked my Google search setting preference and it was set to show 10 per page. I even resaved the result, bu…

Many by now have seen the “try also” section under some of the AdWords results on a Google search. Google started testing them in March and went forward with them months ago.

A new Google Web Search Help thread has one searcher complaining that the…

Compared to the years before the Labor Day logos are lacking this year. Ask.com is the most dressed up for the day. Google has a small flag, which fades in, which is more than what they normally have. Cre8asite Forums has a logo, but we don’t (our d…

When doing your own search engine optimization, you can always find plenty of articles on how to research keywords. You can find tons of tools as well, such as WordTracker and the Google keyword tool. What you get is a list of potential keywords, infor…

Some people believe that all technology should be centralized in the IT department. They reject the idea that marketing should control its own software — even though modern marketing is now deeply entwined with the technologies it uses. The premise…

John Jantsch, the author of the excellent blog and podcast Duct Tape Marketing, explains how small businesses can create an effective referral generation system in The Referral Engine. Most business owners know that the referral is one of their biggest sources of new customers, but few actually have a system in place to generate referrals. …

Change is scary. Big, organization-altering, career-shifting change is downright terrifying. While it can be fun to blog about disruptive innovation and creative destruction — commenting as an observer to the end of the world as we know it — actually…

No, not like that, but in the good way!
The following is a guest post by Jim Kukral highlighting one of the most fundamental tips to succeeding online.
Have you ever really taken a step back from all the technical SEO stuff and thought about why…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

This week’s video is a bit longer than most, but that is okay, next week there won’t be a video recap. Bing seemed to update their search ranking algorithm this week. Google may have tweaked their MayDay algorithm? Google added better rich snippet e…

RADIAN6 BLOG — For all that social media is all the talk of the business town these days, the B2B sector seems to be having a tough time making sense of – or seeing the value of – these channels. Are they really useful for the B2B world? All we s…