Why Big Brands Shouldn’t Use Adsense – Staples Canada

The average Adwords user may be unaware of the breadth of tools available in the platform. Two competitors could both be utilizing Adwords, yet only one is optimizing and leveraging their spend and revenues. Some of these often ignored tools are remarketing and...

Too Many Ads in the Header Bad for SEO

Google is now considering page layout as part of their ranking criteria. Although they claim actual search results affected will be under 1% we know every time Google makes an estimate like that you should add 10 points to the number. It’ll also be interesting...

PIPA and SOPA – Info

Don’t think for a moment the actions by the US Congress won’t affect Canadians. You’d be sadly mistaken. Some info on the issue: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Closes for Good

RIP YSE. Web marketers, for the most part, have lost a tool for link discovery, mostly for competitors. What Goolge Webmaster Tools puts behind closed doors, the YSE was publicly available to all. This year it was announced with the merge of Bing! Microsoft and Yahoo!...

SCC Rules on Whether Hyperlinking is Defamation

An interesting ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada that could’ve impacted the way you blog. The case was between Wayne Crookes, President and sole shareholder of West Coast Title Search and former Green Party Campaign manager, and blogger Jon Newton. The...

What OWS Teaches Us About Organizations

There’s an interesting story about eBay (or is it Skype?) that details an organization that has the best of both worlds: decentralized and centralized organizational structure. Not too many companies operate in this fashion. Decentralized leadership permits the...