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Link Acquisition Strategies Presentation courtesy of SEOMOZ

by Geoff Simon on July 29, 2010

in Search Marketing

Thanks for making the embed with scribd such a seamless process and an excellent set of SEO Tools.  If you haven’t seen or read the content coming from seomoz.org, you should head over there as soon as you get a chance and get yourself caught up.  Anyway, attribution link to seomoz.org.

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Adding Media Sitemaps to Your Blog

by Geoff Simon on July 22, 2010

in Image Search

There is a plugin out there that will add a sitemap for your video content, add image url’s to your xml sitemap and also create a sitemap index to keep track of all this stuff. There is no “rebuild now” feature so I am attempting to force a rewrite of the sitemaps by updating the blog with a new post, ahem….we will see how it works.

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Put Images in Your XML Sitemaps Part II – AKA: The Part I left Out.

by Geoff Simon July 19, 2010

If you were left with questions after the last post it was because I never got to give examples of the formatting of images in your sitemap.  Hopefully people just googled it if they were serious, already knew, didn’t care, ad nauseum of reasons, and in case you didn’t we got you covered with this [...]

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Rank Images in Universal Search, Image Search

by Geoff Simon July 16, 2010
Google Image Optimization

Image Search Best Practices Image URL’s in XML Sitemaps The purpose of this post is to review best practices for image search, also to inform people who haven’t heard, you can now include images in your XML sitemaps.  For up to 1,000 image you can add per page, I will point you to the resource [...]

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Will Facebook buy FourSquare, what about McDonalds?

by Geoff Simon May 12, 2010

So apparently Facebook will team up with Ronald Mcdonald and the rest of the Fry Guys to implement a Facebook app that allows users to “check in”. Not only does this sound like the first public announcement utilizing Facebook’s new Geolocation feature, but also like the opening volley shot over the bow of FourSquare, the [...]

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Pardon our Dust

by Geoff Simon May 8, 2010

We are working on redesigning our site but wanted to leave it up so we can see the changes along the way. Anyway, there will be some kinks, so the RSS Feed is probably the best way to access out content for the next 45 days or so.

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Fastest Way to Remove Your Info from Spokeo

by Geoff Simon May 4, 2010

Quick Guide on Removing Your Information from Spokeo Fastest way to remove your info from Spokeo Spokeo positions itself as a white pages, yellow pages search product.  But what it doesn’t tell you is that what it actually is which happens to be a clearinghouse for information put online by you. Regardless of whether the [...]

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Disney YouTube Video Channel

by Geoff Simon April 9, 2010

The Disney video shows how to craft a paper flowers from tissue paper.  They are fun paper crafts to make and great for any festive event.

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Ranking Factors: Google News from Google Employee Video

by Geoff Simon March 3, 2010

I came across this while stumbling stuff for a Spanish language site that I am working on and found it extremely interesting.  There is a lot in there, almost all you need to know if your familiar with SEO, on how to optimize for the news search portion of the site. Without any more hesitation, [...]

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Is Video Search the New PR Frontier?

by Geoff Simon February 16, 2010

Los Angeles, CA. (07/09/2009)…PR firms are continually finding new ways to exploit the potential of search engines to spotlight their clients and get the word out about the products and services they have to offer.  Search engine optimization and purchasing ad keywords help to get clients’ websites ranked high in search engine results.  For years [...]

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The Ultimate Bookmarklet – Quix

by Geoff Simon January 29, 2010

If you are into bookmarklets, you might want to take a look at a side project that Joost de Valk, editor of one of my favorite “go to”  tweaking websites locations, Yoast has developed.  Basically, if you don’t know what a bookmarklet is, its a drag n’ drop link that you can put on your [...]

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Could Lack of Customer Support Kill the Nexus One?

by Geoff Simon January 11, 2010

For some it’s a pastime, poor customer service and a general mistrust and sort of half cocked hatred towards bad consumer electronics companies.  I can remember before blogs became a sort of consumer equalizer many had no where in common to vent, aside from the BBB, email or unless a class action lawsuit was initiated, [...]

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How to Create Proper Google Video Sitemaps

by Geoff Simon December 17, 2009

So back in December of 2007 Google’s Video team announced changes to their sitemap protocol. Specifically changes to the way Google uses sitemaps to index your video content. Now this can be done for a number of different sites that have videos, but would be an absolute killer change for sites that contain mostly video [...]

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Measuring the Success of Online News Releases

by Geoff Simon October 13, 2009

Find out on October 21, 2009 when PRWeb offers a free webinar on “Measuring the Success of Your Online News Releases”.  According to their pitch, “if you’re still lugging a clip book around to demonstrate that your online news programs are successful, you might want to bring your strategy to the 21st century.” The feature [...]

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Are Google Duplicate Content Penalties a Myth?

by Geoff Simon October 5, 2009

Well according to Greg Grothaus from the Google Search Quality team it is. We are used to getting tips from Matt Cutt’s YouTube channel, great channel to subscribe to by the way if you do not already subscribe, but this time someone from Search Quality has weighed in on the subject of duplicate content. For [...]

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Zune 4.0 Software is Live

by Geoff Simon September 15, 2009

After much anticipation, Zune’s newest software package in now available for download. You can download Zune software here. This happens to fall on the same day that the Zune HD goes on sale as well. So whats new with Zune 4.0?  Well there is brand new HD content waiting for you to download, from movies, [...]

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Cash4Gold Has Some Serious PR Problems

by Geoff Simon September 10, 2009

According to several sites, including one submitted to a complaint board by a former Cash4Gold employee, located in Pompano Beach, FL. details the entire Cash4Gold Scam.  Consumers should be warned that by sending their gold to a company that is accused of these things is risking their gold. Details of the entire Cash4Gold Scam can [...]

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Millions of Blogs Now in Real Time

by Geoff Simon September 9, 2009

If you haven’t heard already WordPress announced that all of their blogs now provide RSS Cloud support.  There is a plugin used for self hosted blogs.  Basically what this means is that there is no longer that slight delay in receiving messages. In an age where speed is sometimes more crucial than other factors, some [...]

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Google Domestic Trends Predicts Unemployment

by Geoff Simon September 7, 2009

According to a post by Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian, Google Domestic Trends has been used to mimic variables such as initial claims of unemployment, among other things to predict short economic trends.  Given that one of the biggest leading indicators of economic activity is number of people who file for unemployment this could be [...]

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Social Media: Your Online Chamber of Commerce

by Geoff Simon September 3, 2009

For decades, businesses and consumers have relied on the local chamber of commerce as a place to network for sharing ideas with other business owners, learning about new business strategies, and meeting potential customers.  Regular face-to-face interactions have always been the staple of chamber of commerce meetings, and they always will be.  But with today’s [...]

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