SEO continues to be called a ‘waste of time’, ‘evil’, a ‘waste of money’ and worse all over the net, and by numerous different sites. I know I’m not the only SEO proponent banging my head against the proverbial wall.
 
Heck, if SEO is such a waste of time, perhaps the purveyors of these gems of [...]

There is so much misunderstanding of these two terms, how they relate to each other, and which to target. I’m going to try to diffuse that dichotomy. 
 
It’s not a case of the chicken-before-the-egg or vice versa. They are two completely different disciplines, though each can benefit from the other much as SEO and paid search [...]

I realize that spying on the competition may not seem to be of great importance when taken as a stand-alone SEO concept without understanding what you can actually glean from doing so, or knowing what insights the available tools can offer.
 
This post will try to demystify the issue.
 
Why Spying on the Online Competition Can Benefit [...]

Google apparently started blocking ranking software like WebCEO and WPB a few days ago. The subsequent horrified outcry followed by hard-line rebuttals of ‘sooo old hat’ and worse was really interesting to watch and read.
 
At the risk of putting myself in the firing line, I’m going to try to put my point across in defense of [...]

I hear a lot of questions that make me want to bang my head against a wall. This is one of them.
 
Make no mistake, this is a legitimate question. It is a good question. It is simply that I have had to field it so often, I am now going to write this post [...]

There are few things worse than hiring someone to fill a position based on false credentials. One thing that is worse is attempting to hire someone to fill a role that no-one else on your company understands, or has even heard of.
 
If you are planning on hiring a search consultant, here is a mini-glossary along [...]

We have notified & refunded our attendees, and chatted with the speakers. Now we can let everyone else know:
The SEM Canada Conference has been postponed until October of next year for the following reasons:
1. We are in final talks with a new corporate sponsor who will enable us to really make the SEM Canada series [...]

A classic case of wondering what your perfume is worth I suppose..
My favorite is Boucheron, so I Googled it – see the results:

So they have the first organic, and I am going to assume their major market is France, but come on people – they have a great scent (it’s not cheap either) but the [...]

I’m not going to introduce this post too much as each section speaks for itself, but the topics the post covers include:

QR Codes,
OCR (Optical character recognition), and
Reputation Management and Transparency.

1. QR Codes
The first time I heard about QR codes was when I read an SEOmoz post in September of last year.
QR codes are matrix, or [...]

It is sometimes very hard to get clients to understand why and how SEO can be of benefit to them. The hardest part is conveying the importance of effective keyword research and placement.
This post is going to try to make it easy and fun for SEO’s to inform clients as to why SEO - and [...]