MediaWhiz, formerly known as Text Link Ads, is now Matomy SEO. Back in 2006, Text Link Ads sold their business to MediaWhiz, and now it looks like it’s been sold once again to Matomy Media Group. [Read more…]
Omnicom Media Group Acquires Bruce Clay Australasia
Omnicom Media Group has acquired Bruce Clay’s Australasia division. Bruce Clay Australasia’s 70 employees will join Omnicom Media Group’s Resolution global search network. [Read more…]
SEO Agency Launches Google AdWords Campaign Targeting Blueglass
Vizion Interactive, an SEO Agency, has launched a Google AdWords campaign where they are specifically targeting searches for a competitor’s brand name. But, in this case it’s Blueglass, an interactive marketing agency that has had its share of controversy in the past few weeks. The majority of the employees at Blueglass, based in Tampa Florida, have left the company recently, and Blueglass apparently as a company (in the US) is collapsing. [Read more…]
Dallas Local Search Engine Optimization Expert Launches Argent Media
Chris Silver Smith, a local search engine optimization expert based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, has launched Argent Media, a search marketing agency. Argent Media will focus on providing both short-term search engine optimization services such as basic website audits as well as ongoing consultation retainers.
Chris Silver Smith is no stranger to the local search engine optimization industry. He previously headed up the technology department for Verizon’s Superpages.com, one of the nation’s top internet yellow pages. While at Superpages.com, Chris established Superpages.com’s sophisticated local SEO structure — which still provides them with advantageous rankings on thousands of geography + industry keyword combinations.
After working at Superpages, Chris worked at two internationally renowned search engine marketing agencies, NetConcepts (which has been acquired by Covario), and KeyRelevance.
Chris currently has five patents pending. His work has been featured in several publications, and he regularly contributes articles to Natural Search Blog, Nodal Bits, and Search Engine Land (which is the leading online publication dealing with paid and natural search marketing). Chris is a regular speaker at a number of technology and marketing conferences, and he currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Universal Business Listing (UBL) and on Thomas-Reuters FindLaw’s SEO Advisory Board.
Argent Media provides search engine optimization consulting, particularly specialized in Local SEO, which focuses upon achieving higher rankings in local search results, such as in Google Place Search, Google Maps, Bing Maps, and Yahoo! Local.
SEOmoz to Rebrand Itself as Moz
SEOmoz, a search engine optimization company that provides some of the best SEO software tools on the planet, will rebrand itself “very soon” and will be known simply “Moz”. SEOmoz, led by Rand Fishkin, will soon drop the “SEO” (which stands for Search Engine Optimization) part of their name. [Read more…]
Top Search Engine Optimization Firms for December 2009
Every month, Top SEOs comes out with a list of what they think are the top search engine optimization firms, the top search engine optimization companies. [Read more…]