Social commerce is one of the latest buzzwords that's making its way through the online marketing and ecommerce world. But what does it really mean? Many people seem to have a general idea of what...

1 min read

Does StumbleUpon Cycle Content at Regular Intervals?

Like many online marketers, we view StumbleUpon as a valuable tool to promote fresh content. With the help of Google Analytics, I've noticed an interesting pattern that has occurred enough times now...
1 min read

Google Now Showing More Search Results From a Single Domain

Big news from Google today - Google Software Engineer Samarth Keshava posted on the Webmaster Central Blog this morning that Google is now displaying more results from the same domain in its search...
3 min read

Overcome the Disadvantages of Buying and Selling Online

There are many advantages to shopping online, and these advantages are the reasons we're doing more and more of our holiday shopping online every year. Mostly, shopping online is convenient. The...
2 min read

Website Usability: Solutions or More Problems?

Oh, if we only knew more about our users! It's a lament that we commonly hear among website owners. There are numerous ways to learn more about your users (analytics software, user surveys, focus...
1 min read

Three Great, Free Keyword Research Tools

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about the practice of link building, and talked about how it was a time-tested SEO technique. But even before link building, there was keyword research - the oldest...
3 min read

Link Building In Three Easy Steps

For time immemorial (i.e. since the late 1990's), link building has been a key part of search engine optimization. Over the last ten years or more, countless methods have been suggested for getting...