I was in London last week, reminding me how I always like the simple phrase that asks you to be careful as you step from the Underground subway car to…
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Do online reviews matter to your existing customers?
You have been hearing the old story for years now that online reviews found on Yelp and Google Place Pages and other places are increasingly important in your quest to…
Read MoreWhen is a search problem not a search problem?
Sometimes, problems that we are struggling with in our organic search rankings have somewhat surprising answers. After spending so much of our time treating a search ranking and traffic problem…
Read MoreA different kind of Facebook privacy issue
I’ve been in Europe the last ten days (coming home today) and it’s easy to see how European cultures differ from that of America, especially when it comes to privacy….
Read MoreTurning Off Social Media for One Month
You might recall that I like to take the month of August off, and that I stayed off social media for the entire month. Well, little did I know that…
Read MoreWhen social media is against the law
I know that many people worry about the risks of companies engaging in social media. Often they use these risks as excuses to stay out of social media and even…
Read MoreIn Technology We Trust
I don’t know if this is an American thing, but we seem to have a trust in technology so deep that it can never really fulfill our fantasies. I thought…
Read MoreHow do you get started in social media?
It’s the musical question that everyone seems to be asking these days. And the answer depends on what you are trying to do. Too often, people ask that question, assuming…
Read MoreDo your SEO tactics work for everyone?
In my speech at SMX Stockholm today, I challenged the audience of mostly search professionals to think about what they are doing, whether it breaks the search engines’ rules or…
Read MoreIn digital marketing, sometimes the enemy is us
I am old, so I remember the Walt Kelly comic strip from the ’60s called Pogo, of which the most famous line ever was “I have met the enemy and…
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