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10 Twitter Ranking Sites: Cut Out the Noise

With the widespread growth and popularity of Twitter these days, the userbase so broad, do you know your place within this vast social network? How do you rank amongst your fellow Tweeple? The following 10 Twitter ranking websites are being graded on a scale of 1-10...

Combating Click Fraud – Putting the Engines to Work

Click fraud is a way of life for the search engine marketer, but its impact can be minimized at the expense of the search engines. Here are some helpful tools to submit claims to the various click quality departments. It can be time consuming, but every dollar you get...

Twitter Gmail Gadget Developer Pushes Out Updates

It’s one of the more useful Gmail gadgets out there and it’s just got better. If you are a user of the Twitter Gadget For Gmail, you may have noticed a couple of cool improvements lately. For those of you who don’t know what the gadget is, it’s...

The Search Deal 18 Months in the Making

So it finally happened: Microhoo, YahooSoft, YaBing…however you call the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo it is now officially signed with the biggest pen I have ever seen.  There has been tons of write-ups on the pros and cons by people with a lot more...

ROI Is a Number, Not “Awesome”

You probably get them as much as I do: those sales calls from people who can “guarantee top positioning in Google and other search engines”.  Little do they know that when they call me, they’re talking to someone who doesn’t mind showing them...

The Fundamentals of Manual Bidding

Image via Wikipedia I was recently speaking to a fellow search marketer who was stumped as to why all the key performing indicators were moving in the wrong direction on one of his accounts.  We checked the the main culprits to make sure nothing was inadvertantly...