It's been awhile since I updated you all on my Toronto Blog Google Challenge. I want to rank #1 in Google for Toronto Blog searches.  I want to be the definitive Toronto blog, according to Google. What makes this challenge particularly tough are two multi-authored and financed blogs. As I've

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I've been keeping a close eye on the world of Search Engine Optimization for several years now.  In fact, one reason this blog came to be was so I could use trial and error to see what worked for the bots.  Over the past few years, one thing became abundantly

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I mentioned in my interview with Andrew Goodman that I'm attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Toronto 2009 today and tomorrow.  I'm throwing down a quick entry with some thoughts about search engine marketing and e-marketing in general, and then we in Raging Storm have a game to

I've been attending the Search Engines Strategies conference all day today, and I'll write a bit more about that later.  In one discussion about the future of search, a panelist mentioned Wolfram|Alpha. I'll admit, I hadn't heard of Wolfram|Alpha.  I wrote down the name and Googled it at

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Google has been my search engine of choice for most of this decade.  Before that, I used Yahoo!.  I don't believe I've ever used a Microsoft search engine for non-work purposes. Microsoft has never got search right.  They keep trying, bless their little hearts, and every few years we get

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I have one of those jobs that didn't exist when I was in high school.  I'm an eMarketing Manager.  You take search marketing expertise, add a dose of HTML / CSS / PHP / Photoshop / Movable Type geekery, throw in mad webmaster skills and polish it all off with that shiny U of

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According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in January 2009. By a pretty massive margin, the most popular entry in January was Scientology, Autism and the Death of Jett Travolta. A glance below will show you why. jett travolta autismjett travoltadon

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in December 2008. How do you visit your daily web haunts?  Do you have the site bookmarked?  Do you manually type in the URL?  Or do you throw the name in Google and click

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in November 2008. Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was the young Somali Republic girl stoned to death, according to Amnesty International and Somalia media.  I wrote about her and to this day I'm in the top

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in October 2008. Over the past 31 days, 72.83% of visitors to this site came via a search engine. 90.8% of those searchers come from Google. By a pretty good margin, the

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in September 2008.  Sixty percent of this list is radio-related.  The Rick Hodge inspired searches are particularly high with 1,143 people hitting my site up after googling his name. wedding songsrick hodgeroger rick

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in August 2008.  There's still a lot of Toronto radio morning show searches taking place and the debut of Igor Kenk. wedding songsrick hodgeroger rick and marilyngeorge carlin quotesbig shiny tunes 2igor kenkstu jefferieswedding

According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten keywords that brought people to this site in July 2008.  As you'll see, Rick Hodge dominates the top ten, but he couldn't match the 4,828 people who searched for info on the HMS Ontario. hms ontario foundrick hodgeroger rick and

I do a lot of email marketing.  I use a tool called Constant Contact to manage my lists, send my HTML marketing messages and ensure I stay CAN-SPAM Act compliant. Constant Contact hosted a free email marketing seminar this morning at the Sheraton Toronto on Queen Street near Bay.  My

I'm going to do this a little differently for June.  In Google Analytics I see the vast majority of traffic to this site comes via organic Google search results.  I can then break that down and learn that 7,977 keywords account for that traffic.  Here are the top ten

Yesterday, I attended sessions entitled "What's Different About B2B?", "SEM Toolkit", and "Web 2.0 and Search Engines". Here are some final thoughts from the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Toronto 2008. Measure Everything, But Don't Forget to Act - Bryan Eisenberg referred to the abundance of data we

I mentioned I'm attending the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Toronto 2008 today and tomorrow, and that's where I've been all day.  I'm throwing down a quick entry with some thoughts about search engine marketing and e-marketing in general, and then we in Raging Storm have a double header