by Mark Thompson | Oct 18, 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 | Oct 18, 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 | Oct 18, 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 | Oct 17, 2018 | News, Tools
Today is the day! Hopefully by now, you have been following the List Eruption launch week posts and have been getting as excited as I have been. Today we are officially launching List Eruption to the public. If you may have missed the sneak peak post about List...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 17, 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...
![[Webinar] Make Money Online with SEO by Daniel Lew & Mark Thompson](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/webinar_sign1.jpg)
by Mark Thompson | Oct 16, 2018 | News
Happy Memorial Day to all of the StayOnSearch readers. I wanted to make a quick announcement that I will be hosting a free webinar with Daniel Lew (creator of Keyword Winner and GSEO.net) Webinar Details Title: Search Engine Rankings Followed by Sustainable Quality...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 16, 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 | Oct 15, 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 | Oct 15, 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 | Oct 15, 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 | Oct 13, 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 | Oct 13, 2018 | News, Tools
Happy Monday to everyone. We are just one day away from the List Eruption launch, so as you can imagine I am super excited! I am looking forward to giving you guys what I use to really help grow my list. List Building Essentials – Tip #5 Social Media is a great...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 12, 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 | Oct 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 | Oct 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 | Oct 9, 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 | Oct 9, 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...
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by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 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 | Oct 8, 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 | Oct 8, 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 | Oct 8, 2018 | Make Money Online, News
Hopefully you guys have seen a few of my emails or read my previous blog post about the Six Figure Mastermind coaching program I have been putting together the last few months. We have just OPENED THE DOORS and are now accepting students who are serious about how to...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 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...
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by Mark Thompson | Oct 8, 2018 | News, SEO
I was recently contacted by Carlos Paulinich, who created this amazing infographic that shows a graphical representation of the Google Panda Update. I thought I would share it with the readers. Make sure you give him some props on his amazing job! Image...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 5, 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 | Oct 5, 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 | Oct 5, 2018 | News
MySpace is no more ‘the social internet king’ ! But once (upon a time) it was. Founded in the year 2003, the social networking website dominated the social internet between the years 2006 and 2008. After April 2008, however, things began to change as...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 3, 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 | Oct 3, 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 | Oct 3, 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...
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by Mark Thompson | Oct 2, 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 | Oct 2, 2018 | News, Tools
So over the last 3 days we have talked a lot about things you can do on your blog to help increase the number of subscribers you can get. Let’s shift gears a little and talk about an effective way to inexpensively drive THOUSANDS of targeted people to your...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 2, 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 | Oct 2, 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 | Oct 2, 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 | Oct 2, 2018 | Make Money Online, News
Hey all StayOnSearch readers. You have probably wondered where I have been for the last 6-12 months. To be honest my business has changed in a different direction (for the better!). I have found that the Affiliate Marketing and Product Creation side of the Internet...
by Mark Thompson | Oct 2, 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...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 29, 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 | Sep 29, 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 | Sep 29, 2018 | News, Social Media
YouTube has introduced a new editing feature on Wednesday. This allows users to edit their videos on the website. The user can edit the already uploaded videos and the videos will retain the same video IDs so that the counts and comments are not lost. All the links...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 29, 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 | Sep 27, 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 | Sep 27, 2018 | Design/Development, Ecommerce, News, Social Media
Quick Response Codes better known as QR Codes are frequently used in the physical world to drive individuals to check out websites, social media platforms, articles, music releases and of course videos. However, many marketers have actually been daring to take QR...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 26, 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 | Sep 26, 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 | Sep 26, 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 | Sep 26, 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 | Sep 26, 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 | Sep 24, 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. ...
by Mark Thompson | Sep 20, 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 | Sep 19, 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,...
