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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.

At least once per week I get approached by a potential client who wants us to run a pay for performance search engine optimization (SEO) campaign for their site.  I always entertain the idea and I usually try to figure out a model that would make sense for both parties. However, most of the time we decline to take these types of deals…even though the potential upside is huge.

I just sat through a session here at SMX Advanced titled "SEO Ranking Factors for 2009", which was led by a couple of industry heavyweights: Rand Fishkin (CEO of SEOMoz), Laura Lippay (Director of Technical Marketing at Yahoo), Marty Weintraub (President of aimClear) and moderated by none other than Danny Sullivan.

Hello from SMX Advanced in Seattle. I traveled up here for the 'must-attend' SMX Advanced. I've only been to one session so far, but as expected the content was superb. There's already lots of buzz around here about social media and, of course, Twitter. I'll be posting regular updates through tomorrow evening that will include session specific topics and general thoughts.

We normally don't promote our products or services on our blog but I'm really excited about our latest service and feel compelled to introduce it to all of our readers.

Any good business owner carefully monitors all company expenses. Business owners must make decisions on a daily basis of whether or not to "invest" (aka purchase) stuff for the business. This "stuff" can range from simple office supplies to marketing and all the way to sending staff to industry conferences.

A couple of weeks ago Spot Runner contacted us by phone stating that the following post "Google TV vs. Spot Runner" contained inaccurate information about their company. They asked that we either remove the post or correct the inaccurate info.

I just had to write this post about the explosive growth in the online advertising space. It seems our market is growing very fast even in these times of uncertainty.

First, The Background

One of my client's has a very robust, enterprise level site. Thousands of pages, 50k plus inbound links, lots of original content, and a damn fine technical SEO structure (if I do say so myself). However, the client's site was not showing up for any search queries in Google and only about 150 pages were indexed. Despite months of banging our head against the wall trying to figure out what was going on, we still weren't getting any love from Google.

At the beginning of May, Google announced the release of their new TV Ads Service. Spot Runner has been running a very similar program for over a year with great success.