JG | Jerry Gertes

If you have a hard time understanding how user’s behave in their efforts to sort through mass amounts of news, stories, etc. you may want to spend some time with Digg Labs.  I gleaned a ton of insight for my link building efforts just zoning out to the yellow spheres…

“This is an individual that you will probably not find out there on the internet as a “guru”…” Body Mind Success’ thoughts on Jerry Gertes
As you know, I’m constatnly finding ways to share tips & tools for creating better health, more weatlh, and overall success. This time I wanted to share a simple [...]

We all know that there’s gold in the long tail. We know that there are huge numbers of searches, many of them completely unique, in the long tail.
The problem is that the long tail is hard to track and analyze. For example, on a sample website, 35 keywords yield 5,000k uniques. The balance of 26,000 [...]

One of the most common complaints I’ve heard from webmasters and SEOs in the past 18 months has been around Google’s inaction on spam reports. While the web spam team has been aggressive about asking webmasters to contribute via their spam report form (though they prefer the version in Webmaster Tools as this helps verify the identity [...]

This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. Until recently I headed up technical marketing for Yahoo Media, where our competition was in verticals like news, sports, movies, games, and finance to name a few. In terms of online competitiveness, [...]

Web services that connect job seekers with paid employment have become powerful tools in the arsenals of those that know how to leverage them. Unfortunately, the services themselves and the concepts of how to apply them have often been overshadowed by fear, uncertainty and lack of knowledge about how to apply. No more.
In this post, [...]

civil war n. A state of hostility or conflict between elements within an organization.
Alright, so search marketing isn’t really an "organization" but there is a certain hostility within its ranks. It’s the war of the acronyms and funding. For years there have been articles, studies, and conference panels surrounding the debate of paid search versus [...]

Real-time search is all the rage right now, but how can you turn your real-time content into SEO-Friendly material for your sites?  All of those tweets, chats, feebs (that’s short for facebook status updates–let’s make it happen, people), etc. add up to a lot of content…unique content that belongs to you.
For instance, if you don’t [...]

we have always striven to be at the forefront of understanding digital search. As web search has become an increasingly solved problem, some of our researchers have begun to switch their focus from Google to Facebook. Facebook is unique in that it is able to data mine social patterns between real life friends. This is [...]