A little over a month ago, Google introduced a new report into Webmaster Tools: Structured Data. This new report allows website owners to access the types and amount of structur ...

Back in June, I detailed the sun setting on Google Website Optimizer in favor of the new Google AdWords Experiments. For the most part, I've been really happy with t ...

Over the past week, Google was at it again, challenging the sanity and stress levels of SEOs everywhere. Last week, many Webmasters received a message in Google Webmaster Tools th ...

If you're a Google Website Optimizer user like me, you likely received an email last week indicating that the free Google testing tool was being discontinued. While at first ...

This week, I'm at the Marketo User Summit in San Francisco, so I thought it might be an appropriate time for me to write about a topic near and de ...

I have to admit it - yesterday's column by Ryan DeShazer got my dander up a little bit. Just the headline -- "Doesn't Google Owe SEOs Something?" -- caught ...

Last week I posted some tips for optimizing your content for SEO. This week, however, I'll address something much more serious that you need to watch out for in t ...

Content has always been essential for SEO, but in today's marketing world, providing useful, meaningful content has become key to lead generation and lead nurturing. Search provides a way ...

For months now, marketers have been debating the benefits of Google+. With other options for social engagement, why should you make Google+ a priority? ...

I'm sure that the headline of this article seems too good to be true, but it's not. Surprisingly, many nonprofit organizations still are unaware of the Google Grant and i ...

Schema.org is a shared vocabulary of semantic markup language (or structured data), similar to other languages before, such as RDFa and microformats. Schema uses the microdata markup language. While RD ...

Last week I was out at the SMX West show, where, as always, there were many great nuggets of information to glean from some fantastic speakers. Here's a brief rec ...

Last week I spelled out some of Google's problems -- from having too much of its revenue tied to one product, to having to facing a myriad of new competito ...

As we all know, Google has been a publicly traded company for many years now. So it faces the rather daunting challenge of consistently showing value and growth to i ...

Google recently launched its new default search results deemed "Google Search Plus Your World," which is already creating quite a controversy in SEO circles and beyond. Regardless of if searche ...

In an effort to make tasks "easier" for us, software companies have been adding features to make even the smallest tasks "simple." Some of these changes, I believe, are misguid ...

Google+ pages for business launched about six weeks ago now, and since that time, the most common complaint I've heard is that the pages lacked the ability to have multip ...

First let me start off by saying that this article is pure speculation on my part. I have no confirmation from Google regarding this direction for the future of i ...

Not long after Google enabled Google+ Pages for Business earlier this month, it also enabled a new Google AdWords ad extension type: social extensions. Like other types of ad extension ...

A few weeks ago, Google made what seemed to be a quiet change that may have huge implications for the SEO world: it started indexing Facebook comments. While this m ...

Like Rob Garner, I was out at Pubcon Las Vegas last week. Some of my favorite sessions to attend are those covering online reputation management (ORM). As an SEO, ...

To the delight of many search marketers, Google finally launched the much anticipated Google+ Profiles for businesses yesterday. And while the Google+ Pages don't have all of the functionality y ...

Two weeks ago, Google began blocking referrers from organic search under the auspices of protecting users and their personal information. Regardless of Google's intent, the change poses some significant challeng ...

Conversion Conference, chaired by conversion guru Tim Ash, starts tomorrow in New York. It reminded me of all of the conversion optimization training I've had over the years, so ...

On Saturday, Disney World and I both turned 40. So for the past few days, I've been vacationing down at Disney World, and I can't tell you how impressed I' ...

As an SEO consultant, I have worked with a variety of content management systems (CMS) over the years, and when it comes to SEO, some provide better options than othe ...

Last week I was fortunate to speak at SMX East in New York, and I attended the majority of sessions in the Technical SEO track as well.Normally, I live-blog the ...

Most websites have forms for one use or another, from enewsletter signups to use as a filtering device. There's a few important things you need to think about to ensu ...

If you're moving or renaming your page URLs or the directories those pages reside in, you'll need to do 301 redirects. 301 redirects are like a "change of address" ca ...

If you represent a nonprofit organization, I hope by now you've applied for a Google Grant for Google AdWords. Started in 2003, the Google Grant provides nonprofits with $10,000 ...