Yahoo! has just announced that they have expanded the number of ad keywords a site may exclude to 250 terms, up from 20 exclusion terms previously. Yahoo’s Excluded Words act on context sensitive ads displayed in search results. These excluded words can be applied to ad groups and entire ad campaigns. Yahoo’s exclusion approach is [...]

When considering all aspects that will make your blog more visible in search engines, link building should be on the list, if not close to the top.  According to Wikipedia, “Reciprocal linking between websites is an important part of the search engine optimization process because Google uses link popularity algorithms (defined as the number of [...]

At the Blended Search Revolution at SMX, Google’s David Bailey spoke on the topic of Google’s Universal Search.  When asked about SEO as it relates to Universal Search, Bailey responded “Well web results are still the primary results at Google and not backup, but Universal complements this listing.”
Bailey divulged a few tips that will help [...]

Warning: this is a rant - a rant to small retailers.

It’s called blog marketing people! It’s called search engine optimization! It’s called optimizing for local search!If you small retailers practiced it, finding you would not be akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Missing in Local Search
I’m looking for unique baby gifts. I have a [...]

Niche marketing is not new but it’s application via business blogging opens a myriad of opportunities to cultivate your target market.
We posted on aspects of niche marketing here and here. The objective in developing your niche market online is to establish yourself as a thought leader or expert in your given field. This can be [...]

If you have dedicated yourself to business blogging for the past few years you will have accumulated archives that are rich in relevant content. Does a post only serve it’s purpose at the time it is written? What about the wealth of information that you have preserved in your archives? And how does Google view [...]

Unlike a print or radio ad campaign where, once verbiage and images have been signed off on you are done, business blogging and social media marketing is almost a living thing, requiring your attention on a daily basis. But unlike that print or TV ad that fades from your customer’s memory as soon as it [...]

I’ve you’ve ever wondered how important back links are in regard to your search engine visibility, consider this. Adobe Acrobat Reader’s website is #1 on Google.com for the search term “click here.” Right about now you’re thinking, “So what!” Well, have you ever considered how they got to be #1 for a [...]

If you have taken any blog training, you no doubt are feeling that you have the formula down for search engine optimization and blog marketing. You probably may also be vaguely familiar with the love hate relationship between SEO and Google. One SEO expert suggests that the formula that you have learned, if applied without [...]