Archive for May, 2010

This week, to launch the May thru July Link Building Tools Series of the SEO & Link Building Best Practices Blog I’ve had the extreme pleasure of speaking with a link builder that, in my opinion, really needs no introduction but just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, I’ll clue you in. [...]

Link building is the process of attracting inbound links to your website. It’s a difficult, time-consuming process – a recent survey revealed that search marketers find it to be the single most annoying, challenging task on their plates.   Annoying or not, link building is necessary to achieve high organic search rankings. In this tutorial, [...]

UPDATE: Lauren, at USO Networks Inc, is the winner of our "Where’s the Kindle" contest. Congrats! She found the icon on our Search Engine Optimization Video page. Thanks to all who entered, tweeted, and helped us promote this contest. This is the official kick-off of the Vertical Measures “Where’s the Kindle?” contest. We’ve placed an image of the [...]

Social media have claimed the mindspace of a generation. This is impressive, but it has not proven easy to monetize, and the model may be nearing saturation. Many therefore believe that the name players are out for bigger game, grabbing chunks of search, personalization, and e-commerce generally. Exhibit A in this case is Facebook Like.  The concept is [...]

  Much like Facebook Pages, LinkedIn groups allow business, associations and other groups to collaborate and lead discussions on any particular topic of interest with other members of the popular business centric social network. Amazingly, a new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of their members are outside the U.S. Additionally, executives [...]