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Last month TELUS held a contest for its business customers asking entrepreneurs to identify what their biggest challenge was. Today’s winning question comes from Patty who asked: “How do I grow my business?” TELUS asked me if I would answer Patty’s question. My advice included: There are three fundamental ways you can grow your business. [...]

I was very excited today to join Evan Carmichael and the rest of our team at Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2010 at the Downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel.  Aside from rubbing shoulders with the top names in the search business, the conference series cover cutting edge information on the evolution of search, conversion, information architecture, global [...]

Last year I covered a new keyword tool from WordStream (New Keyword Tool Better Than Google’s? – SEO University) which generated a lot of discussion. They have just launched a new product to help organic search marketers take their research to the next level and I thought I would update you on the new tool. [...]

Quick post today! Every year we put together a list of the top search engine optimization posts of the year. The idea is to make it easy for you to find the most important post of the year from some of the top experts in the field. If you’re interested in improving your search engine [...]

It’s been a while since my last AdSense post so to continue with the series on From $0.30 to $300 / Day on Google AdSense here is Part 6. If you haven’t been following along or need a quick recap our Money Making Formula is $ = V x CTR x CPC. In previous posts [...]

At my last SEO for Africa I introduced a new initiative called SEO Buffet. The concept is simple: I’ll give you free advice for your website and profile you on my blog if you bring me food from your cultural background! The first person to respond was John Carr. John is a Toronto based real [...]

(Photo Credit: Jeff McNeill) This is a special edition of SEO University where I have a guest post by Elisa Gabbert. Elisa was introduced to me by Byron Gordon, a great guy who I’ve worked with for a couple of years at the Search Engine Strategies conferences here in Toronto. When Byron asks me to [...]

It’s time for Part 2 in my series on Link Building Tactics. As I mentioned before, links are an important part of Google’s algorithm – if you don’t have links to your site, you won’t rank well for your keywords. Last month I wrote about how you can check the real number of links coming [...]

In my first two posts in this series I discussed the AdSense formula $ = V x CTR x CPC and how to increase your V through search engine optimization, Twitter, and getting others to write content for you. Today I’m going to assume we’ve solved the “How do I get traffic?” problem and move [...]

Well it’s been another great day here at SES Toronto. The day started off with a keynote speach by Emanuel Rosen who is the author of The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited. The Anatomy of Buzz is a great book to help you increase your word of mouth marketing and I’ll soon be picking up the [...]