The Top 5 SEO Tools In My Arsenal

The Top 5 SEO Tools In My Arsenal

If you’re in the search marketing industry you know that there is a bunker full of SEO gadgets, gizmos, and whatchamacallits to choose from.  Whether you’re searching for keywords, checking backlinks, or scoping out the competition, everybody seems to have the next big tool to make your website a success.  With that said, each SEO seems to have their own stash of favorite tools that help them in their SEO ventures. Last week  Milwaukee SEO Anthony Verre did a great…

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A Golden Opportunity For Google Reader and Feedburner

A Golden Opportunity For Google Reader and Feedburner

One of my favorite Google properties is Reader. I use it daily and if I could keep up with it would add hundreds of thousands of blogs and websites to the feed just because it makes my life that much easier. But with the recent social changes being rolled out to Google Reader I got to thinking about how Google could take some of that social power and put the data back in the hands of bloggers. What if Google…

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Unto Each Social Platform, A Spammer Is Born

Unto Each Social Platform, A Spammer Is Born

There used to be a time when I had a safe haven on the net free of spammers.  My perfect little Zen garden full of information shared by those I trusted most, but today that place of Zen was tainted by the spammer world. This place of enlightenment was Google Reader.  Before the social overhaul Google Reader was a place where my friends and my fellow search geeks could share interesting reads, and even if it wasn’t something I cared…

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The New Twitter Home Page, Does It Matter?

The New Twitter Home Page, Does It Matter?

So there has been a lot of buzz this week revolving around the launch of the new Twitter home page, which features trending topics that are hot at the moment, hot for that current day, and hot this week, as well as a hot this month.  But more importantly Twitter’s home page is now dominated by a search feature.  The new focus on search has people talking about Twitter being the next big thing in search when it comes to…

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Celebrities, Brands, and Social Media

Celebrities, Brands, and Social Media

There are a number of celebrities using twitter and social media these days.  Some of them have their people do all the updates, some of them only update occasionally and others update regularly and interact with their fans on a regular basis.  However last night I saw a level of interaction from a celebrity that I hadn’t seen previously. Hannah Montana star and pop music starlet Miley Cyrus spent a good chunk of her night interacting with female fans on…

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