HarleyJane

One of the resounding themes of this year’s PubCon was a short but profound question: What value are you adding? While it seems like an easy question, having a solid answer to the question can be the difference between success and failure for your s read more »
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In a move that will increase the amount of Page Rank and traffic Google gives to Facebook Pages, Facebook launched a new feature over the weekend that essentially added hundreds of millions of new internal links to Facebook’s brand Pages in users’ p read more »
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Today’s news briefs: Google AdWords Editor update, Yahoo Search Marketing content upgrades, and upcoming features for Microsoft’s adCenter. An in-depth guide to some great Firefox plug-ins for search engine marketing professionals, followed up by th read more »
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In the past I [Ann Smarty] did quite a few posts on competitive research:

* How to evaluate your keyword competition;
* Tools for spying on competitors search marketing tactics;
* How to select your competitors; etc

Today I am go read more »
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eVisibility is excited to announce the first annual “SEO Halloween Costumes Contest“!

1st Prize - $200 Apple Store Gift Certificate
2nd Prize - $100 Apple Store Gift Certificate
3rd Prize - eVisibility Robots.txt Shirt read more »
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So while at it and during the remaining of the last 30 days nothing much happened, besides, yes, besides that I got in a way “popular” on Digg (where I was buried before reaching the frontpage) and 3 other social sites where you’d rather not expect read more »
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As I continue to build my credibility of a Social Media Specialist, and in my efforts for what it’s worth, I wish to contribute what I think is the best practice in social media marketing. read more »
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It seems that Google had gone the route of Microsoft by releasing a product too soon, and allowing the user community to find the bugs and make recommendations for how to make it better. read more »
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Great article by Dave Snyder on the various microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Plurk, and FriendFeed.

"As with any social media platform that grows in popularity, Internet marketers are eager to figure out how to leverage microblogging pla read more »
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Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
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A discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of letting employees use social media at work, and how to make it work in the benefit of employers. read more »
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I am not sure if anyone noticed or not, but Reddit.com has removed the advanced search option from it’s site. I used to use advanced search strings like “(site:brentcsutoras.com)” to check if anyone had submitted my posts to Reddit. read more »
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Mark throws a tiny tantrum - 8 annoying things about Stumbleupon. read more »
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Why should anyone care about being a role model?

Because people will listen when you speak. Because people will care about your opinion. Because people will talk about you and the things that you have to say. read more »
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In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative." Microsoft isn't happy and quickly read more »
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Google is giving the ability to select your own time on you emails so you can have proof that they were snet when YOU say they were, allowing for the possibility of never being wrong again. read more »
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Let's imagine you've just dreamed up some brilliant new web startup company that's going to change the world and fill this great unfulfilled need. Now, if only there were some way to figure out if other people were interested in solving the same pro read more »
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A little SEO April Fools Day joke on the sales person. Who else is better to play pranks on than the sales team?? LOL. read more »
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It is April Fools Day and the search media is full of misleading, teasing headlines. This morning, while preparing for an important conference call, I was caught by one.

I want to believe… I want to believe… I want to… awwww shucks, it’s April Fo read more »
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If you haven’t heard the news yet you are well behind the pack! Google known for it’s catch phrase JUST GOOGLE IT has agreed to sell the company to yahoo for a whopping 200 Billion! That’s right folks 200 Billion Dollars! read more »
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Some tips on how to achieve this highly desirable goal for bloggers. read more »
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There are basically three kinds of social media marketers. Guess which type is winning in the long term. read more »
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How social media can become an obsession and how you can avoid it. read more »
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Alternative Energy Posts Are So Hot a PDF Gets Dugg read more »
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I previously talked about the importance of social media marketing and I reckon most of you are interested in learning how to use social media to your website or business’s advantage. So let’s get started. read more »
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