There can be several reasons why a search marketing professional would want to be “ghost-googling” (i.e. searching Google without Google to know you are searching it): He/She may want to see absolutely “fair” results (not influenced by his/her recorded browsing preferences, territory, etc); He/She may want to be served “non-targeted” Google ads; He/She may want…
It is funny I’ve started a new project but haven’t shared it with my best friends – SEOsmarty readers (no, actually it is sad)… From now on, apart from seeing me regularly on Search Engine Journal, you’ll be able to read my posts at DailySEOtip.com – a new blog I’ve started together with my boss…
Today in the morning I was pinged by one of my Facebook friends with some cute news: a start-up called Magpie (aff link) offers you to monetize your Twitter account and earn money for Tweeting the ads. My instant reaction was “Nah…” The whole idea of earning money from friends sounds somewhat not good. But…
The common delusion (under which I’ve also been for some time) is that you can use any image you find at Flickr as long as you link back to it. Well, this is wrong. Let’s try to figure all Flickr image license types to see which images you are allowed to post at your sites…
Ok, my blog is back! I have to apologize for being so dumb that the hosting transfer took me about a week! But please bare with me: I have reasons (well, one reason to be precise) to be busy and overwhelmed and… Alright, I guess that’s enough for excuses – I just mean to say…
Guest posting (contributing to other blogs with the link back – usually in the “About the author” section) is the great way to: build backlinks; attract audience (probably interested in neighboring niches); build relationships with other bloggers, etc I’ve been recently involved in a number of guest posts throughout different-niche blogs and was struck by…
I’ve been recently thinking about optimizing my email signature. The problem is, I have too many things to include there and at the same time want to keep it simple and clean. Running a few experiments I came to important (yet evident) conclusions: email / digital signature is of great importance: it influences both the…
