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Now that Google is expected to pull site speed into their ranking algorithm, could this negatively affect your rankings? Should website owners look to improve their site speed? 

Today I noticed seomoz launched a new link analysis tool that really has the seo community buzzing and for good reason:

Nielsen has just released the latest search market statistics that clearly indicate Google dominating the search market in December 2009. Google received 67% of the 9.9 bill searches conducted in December.

By now, most people in the web industry have heard of Caffeine, Google's latest update to their search engine.  Basically, Caffeine promises to increase the speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of search results.  In August, Google released a developer's preview of Caffeine to get user feedback, asking people to compare and contrast Caffeine's new features with Google's current search engine.  With a large majority of the feedback being positive, Google is se

With smartphone and mobile device use on a drastic rise, mobile sites are becoming a necessity for many businesses. While a mobile site won't benefit every business, they can both increase leads as well as convert directly to sales for many businesses out their today. Some of the more common types of businesses that can benefit from mobile sites include...

HO HO HO Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!

I'm feeling rather jolly this holiday season and am going to share a bit of interesting data.  Want to drive a bit more traffic to your website?  Good, listen up.

Below is an analytics data set showing daily, organic traffic, collected over the past 18 months (June 08 - Dec 09) for just one of the website's we've worked on.

It should come as no surprise that the internet has become a major jumping-off point for viral marketing campaigns.  The ease and quickness with which information spreads on the web makes it a prime target for viral marketing experts.  Because of this, the internet has seen more than it's fair share of successful (and not so sucessful) viral marketing campaigns over the years.

Below are 5 examples of online viral marketing campaigns the enjoyed major success on the web.

1.  Hotmail Email Signup Campaign

Best Rank is pleased to announce the first in an additional set of services that we are bringing to market: Best Rank Cloud Search.  Our cloud based site search product enables our customers to add enterprise level, best in class search capabilities to their sites with minimal effort, at the same time avoiding the technical complexity, infrastructure and personnel costs of setting up their own servers.

When conducting various Internet marketing or even traditional marketing campaigns for your business, it is important to turn a potential lead into an actual customer through a well organized and highly effective landing page. It is very important that you do your research carefully and clearly lay out the objective of each landing page and then make sure the layout and content on your page supports this objective.

This week I've put together an info graphic featuring the Google/Yahoo! rivalry (which is now over 10 years old) in terms of most expensive acquisitions.  

Yahoo! Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and like Google, it started as an internet search engine but soon grew into a multi-faceted Web portal. It began acquiring other companies in 1999 in order to expand the range of its services.