A question that comes up from time to time in the SEO world from small business owners is “Why pay for SEO? Can’t I just learn to do it myself?” This is especially prevalent after reading an article giving a broad overview of SEO techniques. The answer is simple: yes you can learn SEO, just like you can learn to be a veterinarian. But don’t try to operate on your cat after reading a few online articles.
In a surprising turn of events, new sources have just revealed that Facebook hired a top public relations firm to secretly launch a PR smear campaign against Google’s Social Circles in an attempt to raise privacy concerns — privacy concerns whose source is information that Facebook deliberately makes public to search engines.
Google has announced the new Google Chromebook — a notebook computer that will release to the consumer market on June 15th in direct competition with notebooks… only it’s not really a computer. It’s a computer-looking device that only does one thing: run Google chrome.
Do you hear everyone talking about social media these days — Twitter and Facebook and those sites — and wonder what the heck the big deal is? Ecreative Internet Marketing has put together a simple infographic that demonstrates the reason 86% of B2B firms are using social media as part of their marketing plan, including statistics on B2B buyers and how social media impacts lead generation.
Google’s Amit Singhal has come out and talked about what kind of things Google looks for in a quality website, and what specific signals indicate high quality vs. low quality that they try to build their algorithm around. He also discusses the Panda update, and why some sites might have had their rankings hurt by it.
