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How to Get Reviews on Facebook & Manage Them Like a Pro

Facebook reviews can help you win over new customers on this super popular social platform. Find out how to get more--and manage them.

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Improving Quality Score Part 3: How is Quality Score Calculated?

Google determines Quality Score slightly differently for each of the different advertising networks that it runs. Here we’ll learn how Quality Score is calculated for Google Search, which is the largest source of traffic for most advertisers.

How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your Website

Broken links can have a negative impact on your site's SEO and usability. Learn how to use Xenu, Google Analytics, Excel and other tools to find and fix those broken links. It's easy and fast and will keep Google and users happy.

Guest Author
June 2, 2010
SEO

How to Find Your Quality Score on Google and Yahoo

Learn how to find your Quality Score in Google AdWords and your quality index score in Yahoo Search Marketing.

Lifetime Value Versus CPA

Performance-based advertising is focused on CPA (cost per action), but you should also take lifetime value (LTV) into account.

Web Spam: The Definitive Guide

As such, I thought it would be a good idea to look at the many faces of web spam, from the search engineer perspective. This isn't about teaching you how to be a better spammer -- quite the opposite actually, as I am not a fan of that crap.

Guest Author
April 28, 2010
SEO

What’s a Good Click-Through Rate (CTR) for Google Ads?

What's a good click-through rate (CTR) for Google Ads? Find out! We offer the data and free tools you need to show how you compare to the average CTR for Google Ads in your industry.

How to Determine Your Maximum CPC in Google Ads

This blog post discusses steps for determining your maximum cost per click amounts for your AdWords campaigns.

Keyword Optimization: Why Optimizing for the Right Keywords is ‘Do or Die’

Keyword optimization (also known as keyword research) is the act of researching, analyzing and selecting the best keywords to target to drive qualified traffic from search engines to your website. Check out this post to learn how to get the most out of your keyword optimization efforts.

5 Tips for Passing PPC Certification Exams

Five tips to help you ace your upcoming pay-per-click (PPC) industry certification exam, including the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test.

5 Steps to Get Quality Backlinks for Free

There are no magic shortcuts, no highly classified insider hacks to getting quality links for your website. Building amazing backlinks takes work.But that's the last thing the forum vagrants want to hear.

Ken Lyons
April 1, 2010
SEO

Google AdWords Search Funnels: What Are Search Funnels?

What are Google AdWords' Search Funnels reports and what are the benefits of using Search Funnels for PPC analysis?

Christine Laubenstein
March 30, 2010
SEO

Pros & Cons of View-Through Conversion Tracking

Learn the pros and cons of view-through conversion tracking, a type of tracking that measures conversions that don’t result from clicks on a PPC ad.

What Is Cost Per Action Advertising?

Cost per action advertising is a form of online advertising that generally involves little risk for the advertiser.

Rotating Ads vs. Optimizing Ads: Which Is Better?

Should you set your ads to rotate or optimize in Google AdWords PPC campaigns? Learn why rotating ads could be detrimental to your profits.

7 Ways to Segment Your Landing Page Visitors

Learn seven ways to segment your landing pages so you can make the right media buys, capture the right audience and convert the best leads.

How We Got a Link from The New York Times

Link Bait Case Study - Learn how we got a link from the New York Times! Link bait strategies and techniques to make your link bait campaign a success.

Ken Lyons
February 18, 2010
SEO

Ten Ways to Improve Your AdWords Click-Through Rate (CTR)

Ten steps you can take to improve your AdWords click-through rate (CTR), such as simplifying your ad and getting rid of abbreviations.

Google: The King of Disruptive Technology

Search itself was a huge disruptive technology. Now with the Nexus One and the no-click search model, Google is proving to be the king of disruptive tech.

Actually, Google, That’s Not What I Meant

Google is now bolding synonyms in the search results. This is a big, potentially exciting change, but how accurate are the synonym results?

Social Media Interview Series: Alexander Howard

In this interview, social media expert Alexander Howard shares his thoughts, predictions on Twitter, how social media has changed journalism, and top resources and tools.

Elisa Gabbert
January 18, 2010
Social Media

Top SEO Toy Websites

Toy companies make great toys for tots, but how good are they at SEO? Find out which toy vendors are best at SEO on our list of Top SEO Toy Websites

Ken Lyons
December 23, 2009
SEO

Best Keyword Ranking Tools for SEO

Keyword Ranking Tools quickly track your rankings in the SERPs for target keywords Find out which are the paid and free Best Keyword Ranking Tools for SEO.

Ken Lyons
November 12, 2009
SEO

Top SEO Candy Websites

Candy companies may be able to create tasty treats, but how good are they at SEO? Find out who the Top SEO Candy are in our Top SEO Websites Series.

Ken Lyons
October 29, 2009
SEO

The Future of Content Creation: Keyword Research on Steroids

Demand Media's content creation model (extreme data-driven keyword research based on a sophisticated algorithm) may be the future of content generation for the web.

Elisa Gabbert
October 23, 2009
Copywriting

What, Exactly, Determines Your PPC Keyword Price?

It's a question that's asked more often then you might think. "What determines my pay-per-click keyword price?" The answer is most certainly not "Google" or another PPC search engine. Truth be told, this question is aptly answered by a quick lesson in PPC fundamentals.

12 Ways to Find Someone’s Personal Email Address

If you have someone's name, you can find their personal email address. Sure, it may take some extensive digging and sleuthing, but if it's that important to, it can be had with some good old fashioned organic searching, scanning, and scouring the Internet. Today we'll show you 12 ways to find anyone's personal email.

Ken Lyons
September 23, 2009
Marketing Ideas