How to break up with your Web Designer or SEO

Let’s face it. Business relationships don’t last forever. Sooner or later you are going to have to find a new Webmaster or Search Engine Consultant. The most important thing when ending a relationship is that everyone acts like the adults and professionals we all should be. I had a conversation this week with a great [...]

Google fires another shot in War on SEO – Raven Tools drops ranking reports

In a surprise announcement today Raven Tools (raventools.com) announced they will stop offering ranking reports for keywords in the Google SERPS. Why are they dropping this valuable service? Google has restricted address to their Adwords API unless Raven Tools stops ‘scraping’ Google for SERPs rankings and keywords. There is a anti-scraping requirement in the Adwords [...]

SEO in Spanish – Using a Foreign Language for Long Tail Results

SEO in English is common, but what many website owners have overlooked is SEO in other languages. e-Marketing Partner has been doing Spanish SEO for several years for Dr. Ben Marble, a podiatrist in Pueblo Colorado. When Dr. Marble created his website he decided to create a large number of unique articles concerning common Foot [...]

Blinna – Something different

In the 1870s a large number of Germans who had colonized Russia by the request to Catherine the Great were forced to leave their homes by Alexander II. Many of these Germans came to America and settled in the Midwest and Great Plains states. My family, on my father’s side has ties to this immigration. [...]

Managing Your Online Presence – Don’t Get Caught Like Progressive

Last week Progressive insurance got swept away in a viral firestorm of negative Internet opinion.  Progressive attorneys helped defend a driver in court who was accused of causing an accident that resulted in the death of a Progressive policyholder so they wouldn’t have to pay a claim.  The decedent’s brother, Matt Fisher, wrote about this [...]