by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Danny Sullivan kicked things off for SMX Advanced with a warm welcome and an interview with Kevin Johnson, President of Platform & Services division for Microsoft. The first session I attended was all about Link Building. There were some interesting takes on some...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, Vice President, Marketing, ExactTarget Speakers: Scott Brinker, President and CTO of Ion Interactive Robert Bergquist, CEO of Widemile Tom Leung, Business Product Manager at Google Jonathon Mendez, Founder and CEO of RAMP Digital Tom Leung...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor of Search Engine Land Speakers: Adam Goldberg, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of ClearSaleing Alissa Ruehl, Manager of Paid Search Services at Apogee Search John Tawadros, COO of iProspect Lauren Vaccarello, Director...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, VP of Marketing at ExactTarget Speakers: Andrew Beckman, President of Location3 Media Dave Davies, CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning Russ Mann, CEO of Covario Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo This was a back and forth...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land Speakers: Akin Arikan, Senior Manager, Internet Marketing, Unica Corporation Christine Churchill, President, KeyRelevance Rich Devine, Director of Search, ZAAZ Ryan Gibson, Director of Marketing,...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Moderator: Rand Fishkin, Co-Founder and CEO, SEOmoz Speakers: Brian Klais, Executive Vice President, Search, Netconcepts Laura Lippay, Group Program Manager, Search Strategy, Yahoo Jonah Stein, Founder, ItsTheROI Richard Zwicky, President, Enquisite Jonah Stein, 10...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
The newest projection for US Online Advertising Spend was just released by eMarketer. From the newest projections by 2013, online advertising will be a $59 billion dollar industry. I have added some previous projections to show how their predictions have been pretty...
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by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
I recently did an interview with Emily Maltby from CNN Money for their “Website Remedies” section. Feel free to check it out. How To Make Your Website Pay...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Google has just launched Google Dashboard, a centralized place to view all of your Google accounts in a clean interface. Have the ability to see all of your Google Accounts including Alerts, Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Docs, Friend Connect, Gmail, Google Sync,...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Virgin American flights starting November 10th, 2009 will be be giving away complimentary in-fight wifi from 47 participating airports across the country. The promotion is Google’s way of giving back during the Christmas season. The free wifi service will go...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
As most people know, you can’t just pick up the phone and talk to a Google representative…unless you want to spend money in Google Adwords. So here is a comprehensive list of request and contact forms for various Google products. Website Request Forms...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Ecommerce, News
Today is Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year. This is the day where online retailers slash prices in order to start the holiday shopping season off with a bang. According to Shop.org and Forrester Research, online retailers are optimistic about...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Google is making some news today at the Google Search Event, with the launch of real-time search and Google Goggles. As we all know users are needing information faster than ever before. With blogs and social media sites like Twitter and Facebook allowing people to...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Tools
If you needed one more reason to switch Twitter clients, well here you go. Hootsuite released their iPhone application today, that will allow you to perform all of the functions the web application can do, on the go. Even with the long list of twitter iPhone apps...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Design/Development, News, SEO, Tools
In April 2008, Google announced that page load time would effect your ad quality score for Pay Per Click ads. They stated the main reason for implementing this factor was to give the user a better experience and to be able to serve web content faster. In further...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Google officially is going head-to-head with Apple, when it announced yesterday the release of the Nexus One smart phone. The Nexus One has been talked about for some time now, with technology experts chomping at the bit to learn what Google was up to in their mobile...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Tools
SEOmoz launched a new link analysis tool yesterday, called Open Site Explorer which leverages the Linkscape index to provide comprehensive link data. Currently it will provide up to 1,000 backlinks and link metrics in its analysis. There is also an API that you may...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Social Media
Google just announced Google Buzz, allowing you to share photos, videos, and updates in gmail with existing friends you already have made. You have the option of sharing things with the world or specific friends. Easily connect with social sites you use like Picasa,...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Mike McDonald took some time during SMX West to talk to Matt Cutts to get a recap on the session he contributed to, as well as to give us an update on relevant search questions Matt Recaps “Ask the Search Engines” session Google Caffine: Rolled it out to...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Tools
In celebration of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, I have decided to put together 64 websites and resources that you can use to find the latest Web 2.0 tools, applications, and news. Feel free to click on my bracket to see my picks. Even though I...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
StayOnSearch has just launched the official Facebook Fan Page for everyone to join to keep up with the latest content and industry resources. It is also a place for you guys to share links to your favorite content related to SEO, Social Media, Blogging, PPC, and Web...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
As StayOnSearch becomes more popular and is quickly gaining more and more loyal readers, I thought it would be a good idea to improve the design slightly and add some new site features. I would love to hear from everyone to get your thoughts on the new design and...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM
Google has made some changes by officially retiring the Google Advertising Professionals program and changing it to the Google Adwords Certification Program. The new program provides agencies with comprehensive, strategy-focused training and certification on the...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Today, there was some big news in the Search world, as Search & Social (also Search Engine Journal), 10e20, and Brent Csutoras announced their merger to form BlueGlass Interactive. Seven of the world’s most respected Internet Marketing experts have...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM
By now, probably everyone has heard of Groupon and LivingSocial, and now a new service called InBundles joins the party for offering daily deals and specials specific to a certain city. Currently, InBundles caters to only people who are looking for discounts on local...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Tools
I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but i added a new WordPress plugin to the blog that will pull in related and recommended posts at the bottom of each blog post. This new plugin is brought to you by Arkayne, an awesome new product that will help you optimize and...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
I am pleased to announce that we are adding two outstanding bloggers and Internet Marketers to the StayOnSearch team. If you can give Kristi Hines and Ryan Beale a warm welcome as they will be contributing on a regular basis, their marketing expertise and insights to...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Social Media
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com released an introduction video to the new Digg v4.0. A key point that he made in the video below is how the “old” or “current” Digg only features about 120-140 posts on the front page of Digg each day. But...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Social Media
Some of you may have already noticed, but Twitter announced yesterday that they will be rolling out a new user interface. They will be pushing the new interface to a select test group initially, and then to the entire community over the next few weeks. This is one...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
I would first like to just preface that post by saying that it will NOT discuss anything related to Internet Marketing, so I am sorry in advance to the readers who usually enjoy the tips and strategies we typically discuss. However I will say that this post will...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
October 14th marks the start of Blog World Expo 2010 in Las Vegas. I am happy and excited to say that I will be attending this year, hoping to meet some of my favorite bloggers and Internet Marketers like Darren Rowse, Jonathan Volk, Jeremy Schomaker, John Chow, and...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Social Media
On Saturday, I decided to go see The Social Network with some friends. I had heard a few reviews of the movie prior to going, but really didn’t know much about it besides that it was based on the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. I must say...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Blogging, News
This keynote is with Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, and Sonia Simone. There are a lot of misconceptions about blogging and making money through your blog. Darren, Brian, and Sonia talk about 7 misconceptions and how you can succeed through blogging. #1 – Free is...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Blogging, News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Blogging, News
This post are my notes from the live session at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. Please forgive me if I misspell anything or if some of the notes don’t make sense, as I am trying to gather as much information from each speaker as I can. Quick Facts on the Session...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, Tools
Since the launch of the Link Builders Toolkit back in April of this year, I have received a ton of positive feedback on the product. I also received some awesome suggestions on how I could improve it. So I took all of that feedback and have updated the toolkit to...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
When I have a question or want to do research on a product or service, I go strait to Google. I don’t even think. It’s a natural reaction. Google dominates the search engine game. The screen shot below indicates that 71.61% of all search queries for the 4 weeks ending...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
One of the most important things when it comes to running a successful online business and making money online is creating landing pages for your products that lead to conversions. From November 30 – December 16, 2010, you can learn how to build landing pages...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
The New York Times ran a story dealing with a specialist designer eyewear company based in Brooklyn. The online company had a strict SEO policy – behave as rudely and as badly to every customer as was possible. Behavior included – threatening physical harm, issuing...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEO
Personally I have never been very fond of all of the broad directories out there like Superpages, CitySearch or YellowPages. Mainly because there are just SO many businesses listed in each of these directories, that your head will start to spin. It makes it hard to...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | Analytics, News, Tools
If you are not familiar with SpyFu, they provide intelligence data on your website and your competitors, offering organic and paid search data that will help you outrank and learn more about your target market. SpyFu just announced its Recon Files Report, which is a...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SOS Recaps
As StayOnSearch continues to grow rapidly, I wanted to give you guys a way to show off your guest post contributions. For anyone who has contributed at least one guest post to StayOnSearch, will be allowed to post one of our SOS Contributor badges on your website or...
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by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM, SEO
On Friday, Google officially announced an algorithm change that is one to pay attention to. Typically when Google updates their algorithm, it is something so minor that you wouldn’t really notice a huge increase/decrease in your traffic and organic rankings. ...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
As you all have probably heard by now, the latest Google farmer update has put a pretty big damper on article marketing, as it has dropped the keyword rankings for sites such as EzineArticles, Associated Content, HubPages, and other go to article networks now...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News
A massive denial-of-service attack on WordPress recently caused problems for the site’s users. There were days when users could not access the WordPress home Page. There were days when accessing the login page was as easy as typing Google.com, but accessing the...
by Mark Thompson | Apr 11, 2018 | News, SEM
It’s amazing how fast the Internet is moving! I remember like it was yesterday when I had to use my obnoxiously loud 56k modem to dial into America Online. A welcome message would popup that gave me access to my email, “Channels” and buddy list. ...
