How Page Rank Sculpting Effects Your Site
OK hopefully this will be the last time I talk about PR Sculpting on this blog...probably not. Matt Cutts published an interesting post about the technique SEO's understood as PR Sculpting today: Matt Cutts Blog: PageRank sculpting. SEOmoz has a nice follow up post as well.

Date: 2009-06-17

Canadians Feel Social Media Is More Comfortable
Delvinia recently released a study in which they try to determine the behavior and attitudes of Canadians towards Social Networks. Here is a summary of Delvinia's findings: Highlights about Canada's view towards Social Networking include: 83% of female Canadians aged 18-30 feel digital technology allows for easier social connections, compared to their male counterparts at 76%.

Date: 2009-06-03

Ensure News Content Is SEO Friendly And Social Media Friendly
Changes in consumer preferences towards news consumption and sharing habits via the social web present both challenges and opportunities for PR agencies. Searchers increasingly expect to interact with what they find via search.

Date: 2009-05-13

Google Releases New Profile Search
Google must have big plans for Google Profiles. Just last week, it implemented a change that allows you to use a vanity URL and now we learn that Google will start showing said profiles in its search results. To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages.

Date: 2009-04-22

How To Target Your Actual Audience
I recently gained a Twitter follower named Gaming873. Now, don't get me wrong, I like gaming and everything, but I am not a gamer, per se. I might have at some point in time Twittered something about some video game, or possibly the word "game," but that doesn't mean that I am by any means a "gamer."

Date: 2009-04-08

Find Others In Your Niche To Build Backlinks
A common way to get targeted backlinks to your site is to find others in your niche and request to exchange links. You may even want to compile a list of related sites and employ some link baiting tactics. Whatever your strategy, finding other sites in your niche can be tough, so here are 5 tips to help you get started.

Date: 2009-03-25

Removing Duplicate Penalties
Upon further review of the new tag rel=canonical, that is used to let search engines know what URL you want indexed for any given page of your site, I can't find any reason why you wouldn't want to make it a standard part of every Web page on your site. This tag proactively handles a number of potential duplicate content issues.

Date: 2009-03-04

Introducing Rackspace Cloud Hosting
Minimize your expenses for hosting your sites, applications, files and email. Pay only for what you use. Grow as you need to without worrying about managing hardware. And do it for a lot less than what you are doing right now.

Date: 2009-02-26

Understanding The Good And Bad Of SEO
Time and time again it seems that SEO consultants are having to help the general public understand the good and the bad of Search Engine Optimization. There is a wealth of website and SEO information out there that the general public simply can't tell what is good useful information as opposed to silly ignorant and possibly hurtful bits.

Date: 2009-02-12

The Hub And Spoke Strategy For Websites
Should You Have Multiple Websites? Or just one? Let's take look at a web strategy that has a number of SEO and benefits: the hub and spoke strategy. A hub and spoke strategy is when you create one authoritative domain (the hub), and then hang various related websites off that domain (the spokes).

Date: 2009-01-28

Ensuring Your Site Is Advertiser Friendly
There are times when I'm maybe a little harsh on the lifestyle blogging community, but more than anything it's a Judge Judy kind of  tough love. What I really want is for people to grasp the concept that just because some people (who happen to be exceptional writers) are able to make money being  lifestyle bloggers, doesn't mean everyone can.

Date: 2009-01-14