Webcology

Jim and Dave speak with DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg. Named by Time Magazine as one of The 50 Best Websites of 2011, DuckDuckGo is a simple, straightforward search engine that is considered reminiscent of early Google. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

More Facebook Ranting; Microsoft launches Surface, a line of tablet computers running the Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT operating systems; Anatomy of an Internal Link. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim offers some SES Toronto 2012 Observations, including how SEOs should plan for Madison Avenue to look to them for help. Jim and Dave also discuss ICANN and the announcement of thousands of gTLDs revealed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Webcology Reaches 200 Podcasts as Jim and Dave reflects on the news that spoke about during that span. Facebook is reportedly testing out controls that would allow users under the age of 13 to participate under parental supervision. LinkedIn Password Leak is Confirmed after it was reported that over 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords had been leaked onto the internet. Advertising Inquiries: https://re...

Infographics and Data Visualization and how much to use them over blog posts or videos; YouTube Comedy Videos discussed with Darryl Lecraw from Fox Hound Digital and SkitforBrains.tv. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook fallout from Wall Street following its initial public offering, ,Jim and Dave analyze the past 7 days, plus they discuss an article titled Linking to Promote Keyword Clusters. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Microsoft plans to roll out a revised version of its Bing search engine that includes a way to involve Facebook friends in the search process. Plus, Micheline Maynard discusses a recent Forbes article on Whats The Real Problem: Facebooks Ads, Or GM Cars? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dave discusses his appearance on Ecom Experts and how ecommerce is being affected by the Penguin and Panda Updates. Also, the LinkedIn purchase of SlideShare otherwise referred to by Jim as Powerpoint in the Clouds for 118.8 million dollars. Plus, a look into the Facebook IPO Roadshow as the social network looks to pitch its initial public stock offering. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...

Jim and Dave discuss the Google Penguin and Panda Updates with Michael David, the author of WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization. Plus Jim recaps the highlights from SMX Toronto 2012. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We learn about the YummyMummyClub as we speak with journalist, TV personality, former MuchMusic VJ, writer and composer Erica Ehm. Headlines this week include Google Going After Parked Domain Pages? Watch Your Inbound Link Counts; Torontos Village Idiot Mayor Makes Boing Boing. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook buys Instagram: Good or Bad to Buy Before for the IPO, and will they try to buy Pinterest. Jim and Dave also discusses the Yahoo Layoffs and what CEO Scott Thompson plans for reorganization. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google Cracking Down on Unnatural Links, Deindexing Blog Networks; New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out 2,000 employees in purge; Breaking Down 50 New Google Search Changes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave discuss Google and the Over Optimization Penalty that Matt Cutts announced to allegedly level the playing ground. They also discuss a Bill Slawski post on his SEO By The Sea blog about the Evolution of Google With Social Search. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave discuss how former Googler James Whittaker openly blogs about about how Google is now obsessed with harvesting peoples private information and saying their social media efforts with Google + have been a failure threatened by Facebook. Jim also serves an extensive Forbes rant. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google has made a couple of changes involving the +1 buttons, including that the color scheme is changing to white and red, plus Signed-in Google users can now thank others for hitting the +1 button. Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Journal post entitled Are We Putting Ourselves Out of Business With All These How To Blog Posts? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Resources for Stocking Your Internet Marketing Toolkit, Dave takes us through a Search Engine Watch post that helps us separate the good from the bad, the expensive from the inexpensive and figure out how to tell when the price difference is worth it? Jim and Dave discuss the Death of Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart that lead to lots of negative Twitter comments. Advertising Inquiries: http...

Talking Link Building and Analytics as Citation Labs Founder Garrett French and SitesWithoutWalls founder Kristine Schachinger join Dave and guest host Terry Van Horne. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave discuss Bill C-11, the Canadian equivalent to SOPA and PIPA in the US and how the entertainment industry is lobbying to persuade the Canadian government to accede to their demands for highly punitive restrictions on copyrights. They also comment on Bill C-30, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: htt...

Google Screenwise Pays You To Give Up Privacy and Surf The Web With Chrome; Chrome Web browser comes to Android phones and tablets; Blackberry 10 operating system coming soon. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook filed papers Wednesday to raise at least 5 billion dollars and begin to sell stock this spring. How to Understand Your Google Not Provided Traffic. Jim and Dave also discuss a Search Engine Watch article from Miranda Miller entitled Google, Bing and Yahoo in Partnership to Sell Top Organic Local Listings?. They uncover some reported irregularities Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle....

Everything is measurable. How does that idea relate to Google Search Plus Your World? Jim notes that many old-time SEOs are suddenly consulting to new tool makers. This indicates A) a recgonition of SEO as important and B) recognition that changes make current/old metrics obsolete. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Controversial Protect IP Act legislation (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) asd Congress declares it needs more debate. SEO Rockstars host, SEMPO President and Director of Thought Leadership at Rosetta Chris Boggs gives us his take. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Looking Inside the BlueGlass as Jim and Dave welcome BlueGlass VP of Marketing / Managing Partner at BlueGlass Interactive, Loren Baker and the newly appointed Chairman of the Board Richard Zwicky. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim and Dave analyze the hiring of new Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, the task he has at hand of restoring the search engine to prominence and the overwhelming factors that he will have to overcome. They also discuss Rick Santorums near win in the Iowa caucus results and how it rehashed his Google problem for when you search for Santorum on Google. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands P...

Internet Marketers Year in Review 2011 Roundtable with panelists Jonathan Allen (Director, Search Engine Watch), Rhea Drysdale (Chief Executive Officer of Outspoken Media), Bill Slawski (SEO consultant and author of SEO by the Sea), Thom Craver (Web and Database specialist for the Saunders College at Rochester Institute of Technology), Cindy Krum (Chief Executive Officer at MobileMoxie, LLC) and D...