Blocking Spammers and Moderating Trolls on YouTube

It's annoying how social media platforms make it difficult to block people. When you are being followed all over the internet by a spamm...

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22 Buttons Beyond "Like" for Facebook

Facebook's Like button is not enough. We need the ability to express a wide range of reactions. Wouldn't you love to have buttons yo...

How NOT to Begin an Email Sales Message

What I say about email marketing has application to social media postings, as well as all other forms of sales and communications. This is h...

Shipping CEO: "Oil to $440"

The war games have officially begun... In the midst of global trade strife, Iran is threatening to close-off the Strait of Hormuz. This i...

Prosecuting Insider Trading in CDS

It’s now been three and a half years since Bloomberg’s Shannon Harrington and John Glover showed that there was a very strong pat...

Best Wall St. Stocks Today: BTU,ACI,FCL,KOL

On Monday, Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) announced strong first quarter results: 15% increase in revenue to a record $1.28 billion and EPS from ...

DuPont-DD Earnings Trade

  DuPont ( DD ) blew out earnings and revenue estimates before the open on Tuesday, and the company raised its guidance for 2010. Yet the st...

Spanish Real Estate Market Shows Promise

Property sales portal Kyero reports Spain’s property outlook has improved in the first quarter of 2012 when compared to the ...

FOREX:Forex: EUR/USD, investors await vote on EFSF – Forexrazor

Forex: EUR/USD, investors await vote on EFSF Forexrazor High-Risk Warning Forex , Futures, and Options trading has large potential rewards, ...

Majority of SMB Websites Fail to Provide Social Links, Contact Info [Study]

Just 19.5 percent of small to medium business websites have a link from their site to their Facebook page, with even fewer linking out to a ...

Sergey Brin Clarifies Open Web, Apple, Facebook Comments

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to Internet freedom is government censorship focused on crushin...

Sergey Brin Clarifies Open Web, Apple, Facebook Comments

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to Internet freedom is government censorship focused on crushin...

Earth Day 2012

Click on image for LARGER view. Shrine today at my ascetic hermitage. http://www.webofcreation.org/bible-verses http://www.earthcareonline.o...

Your Website Might Be Over Optimized If

There has been a great deal of speculation about the shape and form search engine rankings will take after Google’s chief spam cop Matt Cutt...

Be Careful Using AdWords for Keyword Research

For the past decade, most of us in the field of search have relied on Google's AdWords data (either in the public tool, the API or t...

Putting Guest Post Outreach Theories to the Test [With Some Real World Data]

Following the positive response to my last post here on SEOmoz, I wanted to bring you all some data right from a few of our real-world c...

Google Earnings: Lower Cost-Per-Click Does Not Reflect Health of Our Business

Google CEO Larry Page on Thursday appeared to address industry speculation about whether his company would buy Pinterest or another lucrativ...

Optimize – How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing

By now you may have heard that I’ve written a book called “Optimize“. �After months of writing and editing, it’s now the real deal and onlin...

Misinterpretation as Anti Troll Weapon

Internet trolls LOVE to make other people upset and disrupt an intelligent discussion. They do whatever juvenile thing they can think of to ...

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google and Apple

As a result of allegedly entering an illegal anti-poaching agreement that prohibited the hiring of each other’s employees, some of the top t...

Maryland Lawmakers Ban Employers from Requesting Facebook Credentials from Employees or Interviewees

Last week, Maryland�s House and Senate passed legislation prohibiting employers from asking for a current or prospective employee�s logins t...

Google Earnings: Lower Cost-Per-Click Does Not Reflect Health of Our Business

Google CEO Larry Page on Thursday appeared to address industry speculation about whether his company would buy Pinterest or another lucrativ...

How to Track Off-Site Clicks as Goals in Google Analytics

� On the Single Grain blog, we�ve talked a lot about the power of Google Analytics in general terms with the following posts: Google Analyti...

Resistance to Social Media

I've been actively engaged in analyzing and participating in social media since May 2005. As I've observed the realm of blogging and...