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TopSEOs.com Banned In Google

Posted on October 8, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

TopSEOs.com, a site that listed the “top SEO firms” in a list (for a fee) has been banned in Google. TopSEOs is a paid rating system website, that, in my opinion, has used deceptive practices over the years to list what were supposedly the “Top SEOs”. However, that’s just not the case: the companies on the list pay for their spot.

At the Pubcon Conference today in Las Vegas, here’s the TopSEOs.com booth:

TopSEOs booth

A search in Google reveals that TopSEOs.com has been banned in Google: [Read more…]

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MediaWhiz, Formerly Text Link Ads, Is Now Matomy SEO

Posted on January 6, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

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…]

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Omnicom Media Group Acquires Bruce Clay Australasia

Posted on July 1, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

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…]

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SEO Agency Launches Google AdWords Campaign Targeting Blueglass

Posted on April 29, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

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…]

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Dallas Local Search Engine Optimization Expert Launches Argent Media

Posted on February 14, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

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.

www.ArgentMedia.com

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SEOmoz to Rebrand Itself as Moz

Posted on September 21, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

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…]

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Top Search Engine Optimization Firms for December 2009

Posted on December 1, 2009 Written by Bill Hartzer

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…]

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Tony Wright Launches New Interactive and Search Engine Marketing Consultancy Wrightimc

Posted on October 24, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Tony Wright   Wrightimc internet marketing consultancyTony Wright, a fellow Dallasite, friend, and interactive marketing and search engine marketing expert, has officially launched a new consultancy called Wrightimc. The goal of this new consultancy is to help advertising agencies, public relations firms, web design firms and in-house marketing teams create or enhance their existing search engine marketing practices into effective and profitable teams. [Read more…]

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Didit Ranked 137th on Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List

Posted on September 5, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Didit     2007 Inc 500

Didit, a full-service internet advertising and marketing company, has been ranked number 137 on Inc. Magazine’s 26th annual Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in the United States. Didit is being lauded for having a three-year sales growth of 1,368.5 percent. [Read more…]

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TravelCLICK Acquires Blue Square Studios

Posted on June 22, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

travelclick       blue square studiosTravelCLICK, a company that specializes in hotel internet marketing solutions, has acquired Blue Square Studios, a company that provides web design, production, and search engine optimization services to the hospitality industry. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

This latest acquisition will present an interesting opportunity for hoteliers, which combines the merchandising and distribution technology of the TravelCLICK central reservation system with the web services available from Blue Square Studios.

Blue Square Studios, a company based in Phoenix, Arizona, has what they call a “web presence management system”, the “Hospitality Toolkit(R)”. With TravelCLICK’s iHotelier Central Reservation System and search engine marketing solutions, including PPC ads and ROI reporting, TravelCLICK has the ability to deliver a search engine marketing platform to the hotel industry from a single provider.

Blue Square’s web browser-based Hospitality Toolkit 2.2 allows hotels to update their websites as often as they like. The toolkit manages and delivers rich media content and integrates software modules to support dining reservations, guest requests, restaurant menus, packages and specials, photo gallery, spa
treatments.

TravelCLICK is a provider of emarketing solutions that help hotels sell rooms and drive profitability. TravelCLICK helps hotels maximize asset ROI by combining innovative market analysis and industry best practices with technology to develop and implement high-return strategies. TravelCLICK offers a set of solutions that includes reservations and distribution management, market intelligence-based decision support, and marketing services. TravelCLICK is headquartered in the Chicago area, and has more than 12,000 customers in 140 countries.

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TopSEOs Creates New Seals for Members

Posted on April 9, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

TopSEOs.com, a website that publishes monthly rankings of internet marketing firms in eleven categories, has created new seals for its members. [Read more…]

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Top 10 Mistakes Businesses Make Online

Posted on March 28, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

TruePresence, an internet marketing company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with fourteen “franchises” across the US, has come up with what they’re calling the “top 10 mistakes businesses make online”. It’s an interesting list, one that definitely covers most of the mistakes that companies make online. [Read more…]

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Sage Rock Launches First How-To Video Blog About Search Engine Marketing

Posted on March 1, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Sage Lewis, founder of the search engine marketing firm SageRock.com, has officially announced Web Marketing Watch, a new daily video show online. [Read more…]

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iCrossing Acquires Spannerworks Search Engine Marketing Firm

Posted on February 12, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

I’d like to say “congratulations’ to all my friends at iCrossing, who just announced today that they’ve acquired the U.K.-based search engine marketing firm called Spannerworks. Now iCrossing will have locations in North America and Europe, and it allows them to establish a new international footprint for both companies. [Read more…]

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topseos.com Publishes February 2007 Rankings of the Leading Internet Marketing Firms

Posted on February 1, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

TopSEOs has published its February, 2007 rankings of the leading Internet Marketing companies. There are a total of eleven different categories. Bill Peden began the TopSEOs.com site in 2002 as a place for internet marketing firms to show off their products and services. The site publishes their rankings of the top internet marketing companies once a month. [Read more…]

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The Long Tail Of Search

Posted on January 27, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Latitude, a search engine marketing agency in the UK, has published a new white paper that explores the mathematical theory behind the “Long Tail phenomenon,–and they how it’s applied to search. Written by Latitude’s Director of Search, Jon Myers, it uses mathematical examples: it examines the viability of the Long Tail concept, as well as the effect deeper buying in searches can have on sales. Additionally, it examines why brand name searches are more likely to result in a sale than generic searches. [Read more…]

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Agency.com Opens Second Office in Italy

Posted on January 26, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

Agency.com has opened a second office in Italy, an office in the Capital city of Rome. Agency.com’s Milan office was successful, so Franco Ricchiuti, Amministratore Delegato of Agency.com, will oversee both office in Italy. [Read more…]

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SE Analyst New Search Engine Intelligence Tool

Posted on January 26, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

SE ANALYST is a new data mining and benchmarking tool that can be used by search marketers to measure primary search engine optimization attributes of the top-ranked web pages. It can also analyze user-defined, or custom, URLs. The SE ANALYST tool gathers more than 30 metrics in the three primary attributes and then blends the metrics to calculate page value relative to a keyword. [Read more…]

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SEO Fox Adds Press Release and Online Publicity Services to Repertoire

Posted on January 26, 2007 Written by Bill Hartzer

I’ve been talking recently about press releases how to write a press release and how much they can be beneficial nowadays for promoting your website and your company. I’ve actually included instructions on how to do it all yourself. But, I know that everyone’s time is valuable and some things are best left to “professionals”. Yes, even I outsource things sometimes. [Read more…]

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