Search Engine Optimization

Steve Hammer on September 15th, 2011

I’m always impressed when people take a challenging concept and make it more user friendly.  Search Engine Optimization is in many ways about getting all of the details right.  ScribeSEO is a pretty nice tool to check your work.  It’s not free, but it is worth the price.  Check out Scribe Plans and Prices here. See [...]

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Steve Hammer on July 21st, 2011

It wasn’t that long ago that NYT began a series of hit jobs investigative articles about Google and shady search engine optimization practices.  Fox News has now decided that they need to jump on the Google-bashing bandwagon now with an article that is even less deep and accurate than those in the  New York Times.  [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 30th, 2011

Today Google unveiled it’s latest attempt at social media with the plus one (+1) button.  In many ways it’s an exciting development that could eventually be a strong signal for search.  It’s not hard to imagine how having users vouch for the quality of search results could lead to less junk in search results.  However, [...]

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Steve Hammer on March 5th, 2011

With a number of high profile brands getting attention in the media for questionable SEO tactics, it’s easy to see the suspicion of the career of SEO rising in the public opinion.  It hasn’t risen to Enron accounting levels yet, but hitjob pieces are starting to pop up everywhere, including a recent mashable article.  I’d [...]

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Steve Hammer on October 27th, 2010

Many people evaluate the validity and ethics of tactics in search engine optimization according to the color of your hat.  Tactics which people view as unethical and against search engine ideals are tagged as “black hat” while those that are above board are called “white hat.”  Black hat SEO is viewed with a combination of [...]

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Steve Hammer on October 11th, 2010

There are a few tools that I can’t imagine doing search marketing with out having in my tool belt.  A few are functional as free, but get a lot more powerful with the paid services.  The last one is paid only, but well worth it for a program of any size. One of my favorite [...]

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