Business to Business Web marketing Keys to Victory Evident

Typically I don’t pump other articles unless they have lasting value to the industry. I came across such an article last week pertaining to the expansion of B2b SEO (from SEWatch). Essentially, the report provides some data that suggests what many in the B2B...

Canadian Firms Way Behind Web Marketing Potential

Search Insider did a post SES Toronto article that notes some interesting trends in Canadian search. Essentially Canadian firms, be it the mom and pop operation, or more noticeably the huge corporation, do very little web marketing wise compared to their American...

How Webmasters and Managers Should Approach Google Page Rank

Google PR Elusive Yet Sought After I’m going to write a brief summary on some thoughts I’ve been kicking around in response to a growing number of number of SEO boards I frequent regarding the value and correlation of Google page rank and search engine...

Interesting Bits about Long-Tail and Meta Keywords

It’s unusual I post stuff about other SEO bloggers, but I should do it more. Two notable things have caught my eye with a new blog I found from StoneTemple Consulting. Firstly, Google revealed that between 20-25% of all searches per day are new to Google. That...

MY Piece on SEO in the Alberta Venture

New Media Rules – SEO Style If you picked up this month’s Alberta Venture magazine you would have seen my contribution explaining elements of web marketing. (May, 2007) in the Alberta Venture, a provincial business magazine, some introductory comments were...

What Comes After Web 2.0 – Web Cubed?

Everyone is starting to note the impact of Web 2.0. Well OK, admittedly if you’re just picking up on it now you’re quite late in the game. Still, web designers and marketers have long learned and implemented Web 2.0; much later (present day) the mainstream...

Negotiations and Client Sales for SEOs – A Rebuttal

Todd Malicoat invited Calum Coburn (from Negotiations.com) to write a blog article on ways consultants could convert prospects into sales. I particularly enjoyed this article because we don’t often hear about business component of search marketing in blogs. In...

SEO Consultation Not for Everybody?

I recently did an interview for a provincial business magazine (more details later if it comes out), and one of the questions highlighted was, “I’m the small business coming into your office that knows nothing about SEO, what are you going to tell...

Google Updates Links Command

For as long as I’ve been involved in SEO, the major search engines have opted for varying degrees of disclosure when it came to displaying the number of incoming links to a particular domain. By typing in link:yourwebsite.com in the search field you were able to...

Google Indexes Your Session ID’s – Proper Links

Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index. That was the old school Google Webmaster guidelines….that was then, this is now [wasn’t that a TV dinner commercial?]. Today, Google...