The other day SEOMOZ wrote about KeyCompete, a new service that uses scraping and a variety of ways to monitor competitor’s keywords and help a search marketer dig deeper into keyword research. Services like this are valuable because they provide another angle for real keyword data outside of the search engines tools. I know there […]

The Google Blog recently posted about audio captchas — basically a way to have human authentication for people who cannot visually see web pages. Most blogs or other places using verification schemes tend to show a visually skewed image that a user must decode and enter in order to post a blog comment, signup for […]

So Google just announced they are going to release more then a trillion unique words they have grabbed from pages. As a search engine marketer and general lover of words and phrases, this is like pure gold. Check out this example for Britany Spears
I think marketers in every aspect of the search industry should check […]

Saw this via searchenginewatch that OneStat had a study that less people are using one word queries then they were last year. Um, ok, yeah? As people use search engines more they will realize one word really isn’t enough.
Though I am not sure their sample size is a good one. 2 million visitors? Some websites […]

Many in the SEO and SEM world know that typos and improperly spelled words (wrods) can be a great source of secondary traffic at a cheaper cost from the higher priced, properly spelled word. While one might think of spelling choices that come from a slip of a keyboard, there are actually a range of […]

So today I received the word that Google Notebook was available for testing. Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion does not think its as big a hit as Google Trends and TechCruch is not impressed either. Google Trends has more of an “isn’t that cool” factor, but I can see using Google Notebook a lot more on […]