Archive for 'SEO Industry' Category
Top 10 qualities of a great SEO Consultant (or future consultant)
1. Avid reader - you will be reading possibly more than you’ve had to read for any other discipline. Even after you “feel” like you understand what is going on or what it takes to drive a website up the SERPs, if you don’t keep up with the news and changes over at Google [...]
Small Business Key to the SEO Industry
The article was written back in January of 2008, but the relevance is still very, very key. Matt McGee writes the post titled “Why The SEO Industry Needs Small Business:”
“… a MediaPost article said print Yellow Pages “will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts” in 2008.
Last year, Yellowpages.com opened 11 new [...]
Search engine optimization is one of the most cost-effective marketing tools available
Tannette Johnson-Elie of the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel tells us a few days ago (Feb 24, 2009) that…
“Search engine optimization is one of the most cost-effective marketing tools available. Yet many small-business owners and entrepreneurs haven’t taken the time to educate themselves about SEO, so they aren’t aware of its potential return on investment for [...]
Salary, Job growth data about SEO Professionals in the UK
Continuing the gathering of data on SEO Jobs information, I examine the same website from yesterday to gather information about their Permanent SEO Jobs they market on their website. This complements my post about there being plenty of opportunity for SEO Consultants moving forward and SEOMoz’s Survey on the SEO Industry. My goal is to [...]
Fear Spiders? Then stay away from a career in Search Engine Marketing
Any thoughts recently as far as learning about spiders? How about expanding your mind about how things are catalogued? You’re probably asking yourself why the heck you should worry yourself over topics that only librarians or arachnologists should concern themselves with, but if you want to stay competitive in the Search Engine Marketing field, you [...]
Chill out SEO wannabes: there’s plenty of business to go around…
This SEO article is definitely not directed at any one in particular. Moreover, I haven’t seen enough SEO Professionals out there attacking one another that somebody needs to step up and decry foul play.
To be frank, this may be just a personally gratifying post more than anything else because on a regular basis, I feel like [...]
2 the point: Google predicts more Blackhat hacking of websites in 2009
Google’s Matt Cutts presented Google’s thoughts about what they did in 2008 & what they will be doing for Webmasters this year. It was his “State of the Index” presentation he gave recently at a bigger Search Engine conference (PubCon Vegas). This version though was what he likes to call the “director’s version [...]
Thinking backwards: a great method of mining for great online marketing resources
I’m very close to giving a service a try which costs about $100 a month which is definitely not a cheap investment. For close to a $1000 a year, this service better be worth it!
Regardless if I decide to give the SEO membership service a try, I have to admit this service does a [...]
Google losing market share?
According to a CBS Marketwatch article titled “Google’s search engine share slackens,” the Search behemoth decreased from a 57.7% share to a 56.3% share of the U.S. Search Engine market. The same article says that Yahoo also fell slightly from 17.9% to 17.7%. However, Microsoft rose from 12% to 13.8% in the U.S. market in [...]
Top 10 Search Engines
According to Nielson Online and Search Engine Watch (January 15, 2009), the top 10 Search Engines are:
Google Search
Yahoo! Search
MSN/Windows Live Search
AOL Search
Ask.com Search