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I have decided that since I write a lot about SEO and SEM here that I need to have a new blog. One for my thoughts on my profession and one for personal comments and postings. With that in mind, I have just launched my new Blog
• AppliedSEO.com
For those of you who come here […]

In this field (actually any field building a presence on the web) the term “Targeted Traffic” is heard almost on a daily basis. It’s like one of those songs they play on the radio that you love at first and then the more they play it the more annoying it gets. Annoying or not, targeted […]

If you use Google AdWords and you have started Geotargeting your ads, here are a couple of links to help you define where you can advertise.
• Google Defines US Cities
• Google Defines Metropolitan Areas
This is interesting as a clear definition of which areas or cities Google deems important. In Florida, Google lists 300 […]

A few years ago I was at an Internet Marketing show trolling from booth to booth picking up promo items and keeping an ear out for interesting news or ideas. When I happened on the Google AdWords booth (and I do mean “happened” it was a small little booth at the time if you believe […]

My first two years in Florida were rather quiet when it came to hurricane season. As a matter of fact the most I heard of “Hurricanes” was talk about how my beloved Ohio State Buckeye’s “stole” the National Championship from the Miami Hurricanes. (That’s a whole different post). Well, this year and last has made […]

It’s a fact that every single 3 and 4 letter domain has been registered at one time or another. Many are for sale and many will never be sold. I actually bought one a few years ago just to say I owned one (2cy.com). I never even built a site on it. I had ideas […]

This proves if you look deep enough you can find one of anything on the internet.
I guess I am a bit behind the curve on this one. The folks at OK/Cancel have been doing this strip for a couple of years. I spent a hour or more reading through their entire archive. Their insite into […]

I have read many articles on keyword selection and management. One of the most common elements of these articles is the techniques used to find the right keywords for your site. I agree this is very important in the overall online marketability of your site. Now where I tend to diverge from the mass of […]

Jupiter Media has sold SearchEngineWatch.com and the SES trade shows to the London based company Incisive Media. Outside of the search engines themselves, these two products are at the center of the SEO/SEM community. The networking and education that happened at the SES trade shows is just not available anywhere else, and the SearchEngineWatch.com site […]

Google has yet another US Patent Application. This time they are trying to corner the market on the hot topic of Embedding Ads into Syndicated Feed content such as RSS or XML. Thursday the US Patent office awarded Google Adwords employee Nelson Minar a patent for “Embedding Advertisements in Syndicated Content”; patent # 20050165615. The […]