by Jenny Halasz | Mar 20, 2014 | Conferences
Today’s lineup at Pubcon seemed to be all about transparency. Whether it was Peter Shankman (@petershankman) talking about how companies need to get serious about customer service or Larry Kim (@larrykim) throwing down ways to hack AdWords, everything today was...
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 19, 2014 | Conferences
The first day of Pubcon was a rousing success. But even more so for me, because I am a Pubcon virgin. Earlier this month, I wrote the 5 top reasons you should attend Pubcon, but I wrote those solely based on things I had heard. You see, I’ve been a speaker...
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 13, 2014 | SEO
We’ve revamped our link checking workbook to be in line with current Google requirements. Please download it and use it! If you have suggestions for improvements or if anyone wants to code some scripts to make it easier, contact us.
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 12, 2014 | SEO
We see a lot of examples of Google Manual actions, notices of failed reconsideration requests, and timelines of recovery. But we almost never see examples of the reconsideration requests that are sent, especially ones that succeed. While all of the steps involved in a...
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 6, 2014 | Conferences
I am so excited to announce that I will be attending Pubcon in New Orleans in mid March. I’ve always wanted to go, but this will be my first Pubcon. As a speaker, I almost never attend conferences that I am not speaking at, but for Pubcon I’ve decided to...
by Jenny Halasz | Feb 7, 2014 | Random Musings
There is an old Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times.” It sounds very positive, but it was actually meant as a curse… referencing the difficulties of being interesting and having interesting things happen to you. When I started working in marketing 14...
by Jenny Halasz | Aug 22, 2013 | Random Musings
I got hacked. You may have noticed that my blog was offline for a few hours recently. The hackers won. I was unable to remove all traces of their activity, and ended up reinstalling my site from a clean WordPress install and a backup (thank goodness I had one!). But...
by Jenny Halasz | May 23, 2013 | SEO
Recently (last Friday), we launched our corporate website. We’d had a one pager up for a few months while we worked on content, design and architecture, but we didn’t want to open it to Google for indexing until we had all our proverbial ducks in a row. When we...
by Jenny Halasz | Mar 20, 2013 | SEO
Ok, someone has got to explain this whole Google Authorship markup thing to me. I’ve been trying for nearly a year to get a client so that his picture shows up with his articles the way one of his competitors’ does. In doing some research today to see how other SEOs...
by Jenny Halasz | Aug 29, 2012 | Random Musings
Did you hear about the video that Bill Nye the Science Guy just made? It apparently urged parents not to teach their children about Creationism. But I don’t know for sure, because all I can find is the news coverage about it, not the original video. Ok, I found it...