Why Facebook Can Destroy Twitter in Canada

Twitter has exploded in the US, and like most innovative things, Canadians are slow to the punch. The networking tool that permits no more than 160 characters per update has only ONE thing going for it–mobile. Twitter can be updated, and updates may be sent, by...

Seth Godin on SEO – Go Unique But Don’t Forget to Go Local

Seth Godin, marketer extraordinaire, recently blogged about SEO. You might remember him from the review we did on his book Tribes. Seth comments that the key to ranking in all the mess that’s out there is to find something your good at and give it a unique name....

The Next Generation Niche SEO – Mobile Browsing

***This is a repost from August 2006 with some additional insights.*** Looking for the next untapped SEO market? Well for the longest time proponents of mobile phones have pumped web access. The logical connection would be for SEOs and webmasters to start thinking...

Keywords Before Markets or Markets Before Keywords?

How to Identify Keywords for Your Website The old (well relatively new but old in terms of SEO age) question for web marketers is this: how do I choose keywords for my web site. There are a few methods of accomplishing this task, but we wish to suggest a different...

Facebook Changes TOS: How not to exert trust for your users

Privacy concerns are huge, especially when you deal with consumers. When dealing with consumers you have to protect their privacy and offer assurances their information is safe. Turns out the popular social networking tool Facebook wants to own everything about you...

Google and Yahoo Combine for Content Duplication Control

Google and Yahoo have released news they will support a new tag meant for duplicate content control that you place in your header tags. This tag will tell Google and Yahoo which version of your pages you declare as canonical so various versions (usually dynamic...

Are Longtail Keywords Worth the Time?

*For an intro discussion on long-tail keywords please visit this previous post.* There are a number of people asking the question regarding the use of long-tail keyword strategies when picking keywords for new content. If you’ve ever spoken to us or read our...

Avoid Flat Rate Packages from ‘SEO firms’

Staying on the topic of avoiding potential problem consultants here is another tip: avoid flat rate packages. Any SEO consultant/web firm that provides 1-5 (or however many) flat rate packages with varying price and escalating services is not really paying attention...