by Didit Editorial | Nov 21, 2013 | Articles, SEO
November 21, 2013: SEO salaries appear to have peaked in 2011, according to SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), which periodically studies the compensation environment. In 2011, the average salary for an SEO was $75,542; today, it is just...
by Didit Editorial | Nov 14, 2013 | Articles, SEO
November 14, 2013: Eleven months ago, Jill Whalen dropped a bombshell on the SEO industry. “My work here is done,” Ms. Whalen wrote in the final installment of her newsletter, alluding to the massive changes imposed by Google’s Panda and Penguin updates that forced...
by Didit Editorial | Nov 12, 2013 | Articles, SEO
November 12, 2013: Remember being called into the principal’s office in Middle School? Well, getting a Google “Manual Penalty” notification from Google is much worse — it’s the online equivalent of finding a notice from the local sheriff...
by Didit Editorial | Nov 5, 2013 | Articles, Interviews, SEO
November 15, 2013: As part of our coverage of SMX East 2013, I sat down with Dan Shure, the owner of Worcester, MA-based SEO firm EvolvingSEO, for a few minutes shortly after the show. We talked about some of the most pressing subjects in SEO right now, including...
by Didit Editorial | Oct 17, 2013 | Articles, SEO, Social Media
October 17, 2013: Social recommendation site StumbleUpon.com – unlike flashy competitors such as Tumblr — which made its founders rich through a well-publicized Yahoo acquisition, doesn’t get much press these days. But the site is still alive and webmasters of...
by Didit Editorial | Oct 3, 2013 | Articles, SEO
October 3, 2013: Google’s recent decision to encrypt all searches — thereby hiding data about the particular keywords used prior to executing site visits from Google.com — weighed on the minds of many at the SMX East trade show this past week in New York....
