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To Rank or To Sell? Writing Website Content for Search Engines and Conversions

Do you write your website content to rank on page 1 of Google or do you write it to drive sales from your visitors? Don’t worry. I’m here to tell you that you can have your cake, and get your fork, because you can eat it too.
It is absolutely possible to write website content that [...]

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow: Why You Can Pass on YellowPages.ca

I got no love for Yellow Pages. Anyone who knows me knows not to get me started. The Yellow Pages print book serves its purpose, on some level or another, or at least my dad likes it. I must admit, even I crack it open once every year or two but that’s only because so many [...]

Get Your Videos Ranking: Video SEO for YouTube and Google

YouTube is much more than a video site. Google enjoys 63% of the search engine market and of that, YouTube (owned by Google) accounts for 25%. With Yahoo at 11% and Bing at 9%, YouTube is the second largest search engine. It has over 300,000,000 user accounts and is the second largest social media website [...]

Google Adwords & Search Engine Marketing

It’s a fact: consumers use search engines to research on and offline purchases.
Approximately 87% of online Canadians use search and 13% of North American Internet users report frequently clicking on sponsored listings.
Search engine marketing is hands down the most successful method of online advertising. For one simple reason: you are advertising your product or service [...]

This Is The Way The Newspaper Ends: Not With A Bang But a Dumbass Block on Google

@WSJ WTF?

Dear Rupert Murdoch,
Just in case the public outcry hasn’t been unanimous enough, I join my voice in with the deluge to say that blocking Google from indexing your news sites is virtual suicide. Charging subscriptions on top of that is lunacy.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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