First you collapse in a faint. After someone has waved smelling salts under your nose and you’ve come to, sputtering, take a look at these THREE DIFFERENT, UNCONNECTED REASONS why your site might have lost its traffic. Only once you've identified the reason for the drop can you do anything about it. Penguin The most recent Google

Would you like everyone to see a picture of you next to the blog posts you’ve written when they show up in Google Search? Not just the new personalized search for people who know you, but everyone in the world?

First off, why should you want to claim your business on Google? What does it mean that your business is on Google?  We're not talking about your website - we're talking about the "Google Places" page for your business.  Whenever Google finds a business listing with an address anywhere on the web - directories,

We wrote about three weeks ago about using videos, products and other features of Universal search to rank in Google, especially useful in competitive niches. Let’s focus on video for today: how can you give your videos the best chance to rank? Let’s take a look at the search results

Not that I didn't know.  Not that I couldn't have guessed.  But when you see it in black and white on an Excel spreadsheet... While doing keyword research for a client building a site which includes games for kids, I spent some time reviewing the full list of potential keywords I had amassed around the

Sunday, March 7, 2010: A sudden invasion of the campus of Machon Lev by SEO and SEM professionals. Did they come for the sessions?  The networking with others in the industry?  The  constantly changing array of warming trays and platters containing tempting culinary experiences?  If only they had installed Google Analytics on SphinnCon Israel 2010,

A few weeks ago, I wrote an overview to the semantic web - and how Google's Rich Snippets feature uses it.  Now it's time to dive in a little deeper - take your semantic scuba gear along - and discover the differences between different types of semantic markup. Any type of semantic markup needs

Hi, all! We decided to put our latest SEO blog post on SEOmoz's user generated SEO blog - so check it out over there! Just to give a brief summary - recently Google announced that YouTube videos (and other videos from Google's video partners) will be able to have automatic captioning.  Admittedly this is a