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Robert Clough

Search Engine Marketing Columnist

GTmetrix - A New Tool For Google's Speed Factor

GTmetrix is a free tool that provides in depth information on the speed of pages on your site and what you can do to improve load time....

If You See This Ad, It's Not Us

A company has created an ad that they are running through Google's AdSense on our site that, in my opinion, makes it look too much like the services are offered by us.  We have nothing to do with the company....

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....

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

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

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....

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.

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.

Work at Home Mom Is Acclaimed Search Engine Optimization Expert

I'm sure it looks like a huge accomplishment to those on the outside, I really believe that anyone who's fairly intelligent and who has the time to spend, can make themselves well known on the Internet. Even today, it's still doable if you work hard at it....