http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/ Intrapromote Looks Under the Hood of Search Engine Optimization en 2008-07-02T08:28:41-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_maps_abr.html The inclusion of Google Maps in natural search engine results is nothing new for queries such as Ohio, Indiana, United States, etc. but I just noticed something new today. Google is now showing maps of foreign countries. I'm sure everyone... Google Sean Bolton 2008-07-02T08:28:41-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/microblogging_t.html Trying to keep up with friends across the myriad of micro-blogging communities can be quite difficult if you have many profiles created in this space. Rather than trying to go to each one on a daily basis to keep your followers updated wouldn't it be cool if you could log into one location and zip your messages to all of them. Social Media Brett Lane 2008-07-01T11:34:17-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_to_index.html Google has announced that it's much more able to crawl Flash files, extracting text and links. This is a quick summary and also lists some potential things to watch out for. Crawling and Indexing Erik Dafforn 2008-07-01T09:18:19-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/javascript_redi.html It may be time for a quick audit of your site to see if Javascript redirects are in play. Organic SEO Doug Ausbury 2008-07-01T08:39:04-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/exactly_how_acc_1.html Plenty of people are talking about Google Trends for Websites, but after the hype, is it even accurate? Here are some sample overlays of Google Trends data vs. actual site data. Web Analytics Erik Dafforn 2008-06-27T14:25:52-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/dmoz_meet_wikip.html I must say, I find DMOZ and Wikipedia incredibly interesting. Both can be incredibly helpful resources, as manifested by Google's love affair with each, a love affair that makes DMOZ and Wikipedia necessarily difficult to crack. Yet, as just a... Wikipedia Tom Lustina 2008-06-20T15:31:20-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/google_offers_m.html Daily Budget -Standard A daily budget is the amount you're willing to spend per day. When the limit is reached, your ads will typically stop showing for that day. Monthly Budget – Beta Monthly budget can be a good option... Adwords Charles Nevery 2008-06-20T14:17:44-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/yahoo_to_become.html Have you ever read anything that made Yahoo suddenly seem more insignificant? SEO Industry News John Lustina 2008-06-13T09:47:33-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/yahoo_in_with_g.html As many of our readers already know, the potential deal between MSN & Yahoo! has already reached room temperature. But what is this I see on the home page of MSNBC.com? It's an article that not only reiterates MSN losing... Yahoo Sean Bolton 2008-06-12T14:52:54-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/monitoring_vira.html Over the past few months there have been many video submission sites pooping up like weeds across the Web. One of the major challenges as a social media marketer is to keep track of where viral videos are appearing online. Social Media Brett Lane 2008-06-09T17:13:02-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/a_guide_to_robo.html Here's a summary of a Google Webmaster Tools post that collects current information about the many ways that you can utilize Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) on your site, either by robots.txt, meta tags, or x-robots-tags for non-HTML files. Crawling and Indexing Erik Dafforn 2008-06-04T08:07:16-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/urls_matter.html On this Friday before the long Memorial Day weekend, I thought I would share something very smart that a client recently said to me and group of his colleagues. Crawling and Indexing Doug Ausbury 2008-05-23T14:01:12-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/tumblr_and_seo.html Within about 48 hours, a single blog post resulted in a blog software/hosting site making significant changes to its architecture, almost entirely due to a conversation on FriendFeed. Why is this significant, and why was it so much more effective than simple C2B correspondence would have been? Social Media Erik Dafforn 2008-05-22T23:15:13-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/post_8.html This is from much earlier in this fleeting year, admittedly, but with most focusing on the average words per search query increase angle of the story, I wanted to make sure and dig out a fine morsel from the very mouth of Google that may have been lost had I not: 14% of Google clicks come from paid search and 86% of clicks are organic. Organic SEO John Lustina 2008-05-21T18:17:15-05:00 http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/corporate_blogg.html The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has a blog. That's big news. Joe Sharkey's February 10, 2008 NYT article, "Tell the T.S.A. (and Don’t Hold Back)," illustrates how the TSA has boldly begun a blog to help foster better communication between... Blogging Lisa Santora 2008-05-21T12:47:50-05:00