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Robert Clough

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Robert Clough

Search Marketing Certification Courses

We are happy to announce that Search Engine Guide is now offering search marketing certification courses in partnership with Market Motive....

Robert Clough

Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week - May 20, 2009

This week's list of the top 500 most frequently searched keywords....

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Make Your Business Image Pop With A Twitter Profile Makeover

Want to be ignored? Be boring. Simple.But, if your business is ignored, you may end up living in a van down by the river. Not Good.So how can we be, um, not boring?  Well, there isn't a one size fits all quick fix, but one step everyone can take is improving how we present our business to the public....

Robert Clough

Composing the Perfect Letter of Surrender

Matt McGee made a post on Sphinn asking us, and other publishers, to be open with our decision making process and to share what we planned to do regarding Google's nofollow stance. I think Matt had a good idea and being open with our decisions may help other publishers. So I've decided to publish some of our IM conversations to provide insight into where we stand.

Robert Clough

Search Engine Guide Publisher Responds to PageRank Drop

Jill Whalen's article, Google's Paid-link Smack in the Face, presents a "get things back on the right track" opportunity for me because of the things she said about Search Engine Guide. Opinion or not, when someone with Jill's stature makes incorrect negative comments that portray our site and advertisers in a poor light, it's important to respond in order to sort opinion from fact.