Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the details of SEO.
This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. You got it?
- Bull Durham

Here are several excerpts from an article in thewisemarketer.com (free subscription required), Social Media Marketing to Grow in 2010:
Most marketers are planning to invest more in social media during 2010, but are struggling to find the time and resources to manage their activity, according to a research report published by  E-Consultancy and BigMouth Media.

Small businesses are often seen fumbling around in the dark when it comes to figuring out which SEO strategies really work and which don’t. There is an onslaught of information freely available online, much of it contradictory or confusing. Small business owners who attempt to perform SEO for themselves don’t often know which strategies are [...]

The field of search engine optimization has lots of interesting jargon, but a concept that should be crucial to any website owner is known as the “Golden Triangle.” Universities and private organizations have conducted eye-tracking studies, where they have test subjects go to a search engine and look up a phrase. Through “heat mapping” or [...]

Today’s post dwells on the discussion of link buillding tactics that influence search engine ranking factors in 2009. Link acquisition is a key component of the ranking algorithms. The number of external links pointing to your site and the anchor text contained therein can certainly propel your site to the top of the search results [...]

In SEO circles, there is always great debate over which factors make the biggest difference to your rankings in the likes of Google, Bing etc.
Fortunately every couple of years, Rand Fishkin and his SEOmoz team do the hard work for us by consulting with SEO experts around the globe to confirm what factors are still [...]

At the last eMetrics, Greg Dowling of Nokia and I did a presentation on Mobile Measurement and the work we’ve been doing in that area. Greg is leading a Huddle on the same topic at the upcoming X Change Conference, and X Change is the perfect venue for this type of topic because it’s mobile [...]

I was a bit suprised with the recent change in the NoFollow policy at Google. For a couple of years it seemed so clear. Google was allowing you to provide them information on what pages on your site you considered most important. I wrote about this recently for Search Engine Watch in [...]

Here are some factors that can help increase your local search results on Google, Msn, and Yahoo.  If you just joined us, this is an ongoing series on “Local Search”.  Local search has gotten really important for local businesses in 2009 due to customers search behaviors online.

During the last 12 months at least, some SEO clients have apparently been paying sizeable fees for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work that was completely ineffective.  That really is the bottom line on a development that Danny Sullivan describes in a post entitled, PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!