Could a 25-year old SEO expert by the name of Rhea Drysdale have started a revolution in our industry? Her successful fight to save the SEO trademark has renewed interest in others who stand accused of profiteering from the industry.
First of these was VerifiedSEO, who attempted to establish a system to verify SEO [...]

The Times and Sunday Times announced today their plans to restrict access to paid membership from June.

News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for £1, or £2 for a week’s subscription. Readers who have a seven-day subscription to the print editions will not be charged extra for [...]

The guys over at RedFly have kindly released a new Firefox plugin to help with international SEO. You can use the Google Global plugin to view PPC and organic results from any set country, region or city around the world.
I’ve just added a new search for Russian results, choosing .ru as the Google extension. [...]

There’s a sad story in the Guardian today about several leading music blogs being shut down on Blogger.com. It seems they had DMCA notices filled against them and although they attempted to respond to the complaints, Blogger deleted their entire sites. These contained more than four years of archives.
“It’s just sad because we were [...]

ICANN has just delayed the launch of their new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension program, which lets businesses apply for custom extensions such as .shoes, .flowers and .texas. They have cited technical, economic, legal, and policy issues that still need to be resolved. There’s one issue ICANN are unlikely to consider though; how these domains [...]

Communication has been drastically changed by the Internet. Now world events are commented on within minutes by thousands of users. So when Henry Thierry used the ‘hand of God’ to push them through to French team through to the 2010 WorldCup – millions of comments appeared on the web.

In terms of client reputation management this [...]

My first thought when hearing that Google are making site speed a ranking factor, was how this would affect International SEO.
Hosting infrastructure in the US is large-scale, reliable and often cheaper than local providers in developing countries. The Planet states that 42% of their customers are located in international markets. On the other hand [...]

In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow.
Underneath each submission there is an add button, as you see below. Click this to add this person [...]

This piece of email marketing from Vocus PR made me smile today.

You have to wonder if they checked the mailing without the images being shown (default usually). Writing out the full word “Bullet” in the ALT tags is going to take a few seconds longer – but trust me – you give the reader a [...]

AFAIK this is a first time Twitter has appeared in the world of Dilbert. Goes to show how far the service is progressing into the mainstream. A recent report by eMarketer suggests that Twitter user numbers could exceed 26m in the US alone. Global estimates have been put at 35-45m current users. Even with the [...]