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One of my favourite SEO anecdotes goes like this: two men are walking through an African game reserve when they come across a lion, one of the men calmly puts down his backpack and slips on the running shoes he has been carrying. The other man chuckles and says, “You’ll  [ Read More ]

In the real world, things go wrong. While we might all wish that everything we did was “fix once, stay fixed”, that’s rarely the case. Things that were previously “not a problem”(TM) can become “a problem”(TM) rapidly for a variety of reasons: someone changes something unrelated / without realising it  [ Read More ]

Last November Canadian digital agency Mediative (owned by Canada’s Yellow Pages Group) released an eye- and click-tracking study focused on Google Places and Google Maps on the PC. We wrote up the results when they were published. Mediative then followed up that study with a similar one focused on the  [ Read More ]

Videos Indexed in the SERP Did you know that major search engines want you to make video sitemaps for all of your embeds, even if you’re hosting on Vimeo or Youtube? Not only does it help them spider your website by giving the search engines clues as to where to  [ Read More ]

For a long time I’ve been pulling an RSS feed from Twitter for the query: “guest post” OR “guest author” [TOPIC] into my Google Reader. Every morning I would check it, blaze through 15-20 URLs — most of which were the same URL being tweeted. Then, I’d record the best  [ Read More ]

This has been quite the week for social media blunders, particularly on Twitter. McDonald’s most recent PR stunt is more-commonly being referred to as “#McFail.” The campaign was intended to shift consumer opinions using the hashtag #McDStories, by tweeting facts about their organic potato farmers in an effort to more  [ Read More ]

To most PPC marketers, the Facebook paid ads program represents an ideal marketing opportunity. Finally, you aren’t limited to targeting your ads based on geographic location and time of day alone (I’m looking at you, Google Adwords!). In fact, if you wanted to run a campaign targeting 16 year old  [ Read More ]

How much does SEO cost? How much time do you have to discuss the various models and prices out there! However, a new survey sheds some light on the subject. Over 500 people and companies who offer search engine optimization services were asked about how their models. Turns out, it’s  [ Read More ]

When you are a company whose products are synonymous with fast food and poor nutrition and whose job posts have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary as a byword for “An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector,” you might,  [ Read More ]

When it comes to targeting search engines to reach international markets, we’re going to have to do things a little differently. As we expand our horizons we begin to form connections with those who not only speak different language but bring a whole set of different cultural expectations to their  [ Read More ]