July 2009 Archives : Bruce Clay Blog
July 31, 2009Twitter Tools-Twitter Bootcamp
Our very own SEO manager Kate Gamble recently spoke at the Sydney Twitter Boot-Camp on the subject “Twitter Tools” and by all accounts was a great success. Kate is speaking again at the Melbourne version of the event so while we can’t give away all her delicious secrets we can put up her first slide [...]
Friday Recap: Power Nap Edition
Virginia and I swapped assignments today, so I’m writing the blog. We’re on the home stretch into the weekend here, people. If that’s not enough to cheer you up, I know what will. Ready for a smile? Chris Winfield brought home a beautiful baby girl from the hospital this week and she’s already got a [...]
July 30, 2009
SEO is in the Details: Bruce Busts the Boondoggle
SEO is not snake oil, not a boondoggle, not a waste. That SEO is snake oil is a point of view that’s been argued over the years, sometimes even endorsed by well-known industry insiders. That’s not to say that there’s no one selling sub-standard SEO services and thus giving the profession a bad name. But [...]
July 29, 2009
Yahoo! Microsoft Partnership: In Search of a Strong Suit – SEM Synergy Extras
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced their long-awaited search partnership today, and the search engine marketing community is all abuzz. Today on Bruce Clay, Inc.’s weekly podcast, SEM Synergy, Yahoo!’s Search Submit program was the subject of the show. Of course, in light of the Binghoo development, strategies aimed at search engine optimization for Yahoo! search may [...]
July 28, 2009
SEO News Bites
Remixed from photo by Rich115 I’m not sure if my attention span is short circuiting or if there’s a good reason I’m unable to concentrate on one topic at a time. I think it’s a busy news day. Am I alone here? Bueller? Whatever the cause, today my focus seems to be shifting from one [...]
July 27, 2009
SEOToolSet Tool Review Recap: 3 Quintessential SEO Tools
So far in this series of SEOToolSet tool reviews, I’ve detailed the use-case for and reports provided by three of the SEO tools our Bruce Clay, Inc. analysts and clients could not do without. They are the Check Server Tool, the Single-Page Keyword Density Analyzer and the many tools included in the Search Engine Ranking [...]
SEO Tips-ALT tags
Photo by fabio via Creative Commons An ALT tag is simply a HTML tag that renders alternative information when non-text elements, normally images, can’t be rendered. In addition ALT tags provide more information for an image and give more information to people with text-only browsers; the “ALT” attribute tells the reader what they are missing [...]
July 24, 2009
Friday Recap: It’s My Party, I’ll Blog If I Want To Edition
Monogrammed chocolate cupcakes from Paula! Yum! To the tune of the old birthday standard: Happy birthday to me. Happy Friday to you! Here’s a recap for this week And cupcakes for you, too! On this thirtieth week of the year (a.k.a. my birthday week!) lots of magical things happened. There was the longest solar eclipse [...]
July 23, 2009
HTML 5, Online Viewing Trends, Guest Blogging and the Twitter document leak – SEO Recap part 2
Last Friday, after a very busy week here at the BCA offices, the team finished the last of the emails saved the spreadsheets one last time, and cracked a few beers to sit around the virtual board room table (we are still missing a wall after our office relocation). This following post outlines the 2nd [...]
SES San Jose 2009 Liveblogging Schedule
Tomorrow’s my birthday and I thought of the perfect gift. No, not for me. For you! (I’m cool like that.) So just for you, through tomorrow you can catch early bird registration for Search Engine Strategies San Jose. And this early bird will enjoy a tasty $200 worm, er, savings. Plus take 20 percent off [...]
