Another one of the interesting folks had a chance to catch up with at Pubcon 2009 was Jim Boykin of We Build Pages. Although Jim is known as one of the best link builders in the world, he has other things on his mind these days, including Google Caffeine. Jim took a few minutes to [...]
Read moreInterview with Brent Csutoras @ SMX East 2009
Just as SMX East 2009 was breaking down and packing up, I got to catch up with Brent Csutoras. Brent is a internet marketing consultant who specializes in social media, viral linkbait, and SEM. He was also a panelist for a session called “Social Media, Search, and Reputation Management.” So I decided to ask Brent [...]
Read moreBlended Search Optimization: Managing the Reputation of Your Brand
You may have noticed that for some searches, Google features a variety of results, such as news, images, and video. These are “blended” or “universal” search results.
They appear because Google takes your search query, runs it through its other search verticals (images, video, news, etc.), and if it finds relevant results, displays them amongst the [...]































