by Mike Moran Image via Wikipedia Yes, you really can learn SEO from your spouse. If you're married, you know something about SEO that you might not be putting to use. Think about how you landed your mate. When you do, you'll be learning something about how to do search marketing the right way. The other day, I wrote a newsletter entitled, " Search Marketing Is Like Dating ," where I explained how what you know about dating gives you the right attitude for search marketing.

The Best Pint of Abbot Ale, Ever Blogs have been touted as effective tools for companies to publish content and demonstrate the conversational side of their corporate personality. Blogs have also long been promoted as a SEO tool. Despite plenty of optimism about blogging, there's still a lot of mis-information, mis-perceptions and lack of awareness about effective, productive blogging for business. Take This Blog SEO Survey :  If you or your company publishes a blog,

Posted by randfish Prelude: I've long promised blog readers a detailed accounting of my experiences raising capital over the course of last summer and into the fall. My apologies for the long delay, and to those seeking more SEO-focused content. This entry is lengthy, detailed and designed to share as much as possible, so hopefully you've got a good 20 minutes to read it :-) We'll be back to SEO tips & tricks tomorrow.

You've heard the entire search engine optimziation world repeatedly talk about how you need to create compelling or "great" visitor focused content. We all have heard many times that once you have great content then you will magically make you a lot of money or boost your search engine rankings like a magic carpet ride. Well, there may not be any magic involved, but you should always produce the best possible content for every page of your website.

Image by SESConferenceSeries via Flickr Avinash Kaushik, author, blogger, and Analytics Evangelist for Google, is one of my heroes. And he's giving the morning keynote at SES London 2010 as well as one of the keynotes at SES New York 2010 . If you want to learn web analytics the right way, I strongly recommend that you read Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Kaushik (Sybex, 2007).

Here in China you can get the iPhone 3GS unlocked, but in the US apparently (and in Germany too for the iPhone) the main model is still to lock the customer into buying a carrier contract along with the phone. Bad for customers, perhaps good for carriers, but now we have a new phone on the market... the Google phone aka Nexus One.

There are huge international search opportunities, but using misguided research and not thinking locally are two big mistakes marketers can make. ...

If you know who Ann Smarty is then you're probably going to punch me in the gut for calling her "Ms. Smarty Pants." Sorry, Ann, for using you for title fodder. But I wanted to mention this new spam technique . It seems that someone thought it would be cool to use Ann Smarty's name and avatar to leave a spam comment on Mike Blumenthal's blog (I guess you could call that a virtual head fake). So is this the future of spam?

by Mike Krumboltz Roughly 99.9% of the time, airport delays are completely unremarkable. And that's a good thing. But every so often something kind of cool happens while delayed passengers play with their Blackberries and grumble about missed connections. Such was the case this past weekend, when a singer took it upon himself to lead some stranded passengers in a group sing-a-long of "Hey Jude" by The Beatles.

Nielsen Online has released data from a new survey suggesting that premium content just might work , but it depends on the type of content. 27,000 consumers in 54 countries were surveyed. I don't know how this survey found people who actually said they would pay for things such as newspaper articles that they currently get for free, but they did. Survey participants were most likely to shell out the dough for music and movies. Least likely was blogs. Ironically,