My Twitter Tools

February 18, 2009

It should come to no shock to many of you that I am, and have been, a huge fan of Twitter since I first created my @khawe account in the spring of 2007. Over the 2 years I have been on Twitter I have tried just about every Twitter tool out there, over time I [...]

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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft all unite on Canonical URL

February 14, 2009

One of the most overlooked and potentially harmful pieces of the SEO puzzle deals with a websites potential duplicate content issues.  The top three search engines are tackling this issue head on with support for a new HTML <link> tag. The new tag will be used by search engines to determine the preferred (canonical) URL [...]

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ComScore releases latest Internet usage stats and Asia still rocks

January 25, 2009

ComScore, a leading provider of digital metrics, released their latest statistics covering global internet usage the other day. So what stands out? First the Global Internet Audience surpassed 1 billion (1,007,730,000 to be exact) for the first time ever. Of those 1 billion internet users 41.3% came from the Asia / Pacific region, Europe has [...]

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The True Value of Social Media

January 2, 2009

The true value of Social Media properties like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and millions of other websites & services dedicated to connecting people has been a question lingering out there since the term “Social Media” was created. Yes some of these websites drive millions upon million of visitors on a daily basis, but very few actually [...]

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The Future of SEO and Online Marketing…My Rant

December 10, 2008

Recently I had the chance to sit back and reflect on how far Online Marketing has come since my early days in the industry and where we are headed. Back when i got started in the late 1990′s, when I was more on the development side,  Online Marketing was nothing compared to what it is [...]

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Google finally launches SearchWiki – there was little rejoicing

November 24, 2008

A couple of days ago Google launched their much anticipated social media / wiki search initiative: SearchWiki. SearchWiki allows logged-in Google users to customize their search results by promoting, commenting, deleting or even adding specific SERP results. These new features are nothing ground breaking, social media services like Digg have been allowing interaction with SERP’s [...]

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New AdWords interface being beta tested

November 20, 2008

Google announced on their AdWords blog that they are testing an updated web interface for AdWords. The changes being made are not going to affect how ads run, bidding, ranking, quality score or any other AdWords elements. Seems as though Google is looking to make some superficial interface changes – I am guessing along the [...]

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