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Some great infographics that any online marketer should see. - Alhan Keser

Some great infographics that any online marketer should see. - Alhan Keser

This is the world's biggest stickybits barcode! - Alhan Keser

"It's one of these places where you walk in and feel immediately at ease. It's classy and romantic without being prétentieux. And the food... delicieux. I had the crab cakes (the green salad will…" - Alhan Keser

"I've been to many of New York's barbers, including Astor Place, but no one does it better than Alex. He's quicker, cheaper, and just so happens to be near where I live. Alex usually makes jokes…" - Alhan Keser

Good for AMs. - Alhan Keser

Using basic SEO techniques to optimize the indexing and presence of PDF and other document types is an essential part of the entire search marketing mix, especially for businesses which insist on having their online documents in PDF format, for restaurants which use PDF for menus or ebook & whitepaper publishers who utilize online PDF docs for marketing campaigns. - Alhan Keser

Earlier this summer SMX Advanced landed once again in our fair city—Seattle—and it was indeed advanced. I got a number of questions at some Q&A panels that I had to go back and do a little research on. Here, as promised, are answers: - Alhan Keser

Some keyword research is surface-level, fire and forget type stuff. If you just need to see relative volume levels, then a basic keyword research tool is all you need. If, however, you want to really dive deep and get the full skinny on your keywords, I'd recommend having each of these data points. - Alhan Keser

This post is going to be all about the adcenter Ad Intelligence plugin for Microsoft Excel. For those that don't know what it is, this is a nifty plugin for excel which allows you to import keyphrase data into your spreadsheets. - Alhan Keser

One solution that emerged here (and, from my talks with other SEOs in the community, found widespread appeal) is "Link Consolidation." Put simply, consolidation is the practice of minimizing the number of pages that are linked to by consolidating content onto fewer pages. - Alhan Keser

Technical: An SEO is one who practices search engine optimization. Self-Constructed: I practice search engine optimization as a significant portion of the professional work I undertake and am, therefore, an SEO. Peer Validated: A community of peers in the SEO field has recognized this individual's achievement and views them as qualified for the title. - Alhan Keser

Learning how to evaluate a possible, or previously built link, is the foundation to quality link building. Without that skill you will not be able to make heads or tails of a quality link bait campaign and any webmaster outreach will be useless. - Alhan Keser

With the amount of Wordpress website flying around the Internet these days it is sometimes hard for designers to really have an impact and receive the attention they deserve. In this post, Designussion showcases a selection of outstanding Wordpress for you to admire and take inspiration from. - Alhan Keser

Dark web designs are very popular and can have an elegant and creative appeal. They are also perfect for many types of client work however, they are not suitable for every website and should be used only when appropriate. In spite of the striking visual impact that these dark designs can have, many designers don’t know how to effectively pull them off without turning off the visitor. - Alhan Keser

Below are ten of the most common mistakes web designers make, along with examples of sites who do things right. Some of these are easy to correct if you’re aware of, others might take a bit more time. But all are fixable and worth the time and effort to correct. While this is by no means a comprehensive list of common errors, it is a good starting point. - Alhan Keser

Females aged between 35 and 49 are the fastest-growing group within social networks and blogging sites, according to recent research by Neilson. So how can marketers ensure they are effectively selling to women? - Alhan Keser

Those of you who are managing larger PPC campaigns might be looking for an automated solution to help manage the bid process. Especially those of you in companies with large catalogs, numerous demographic and geo targets might need a bid management tool. At some point it becomes too difficult to manage all of the associated complexities. - Alhan Keser

If you're spending less than $5,000 per month, then using the search engines' bid management system may be all you need. Did you know that approximately 65 percent of Google advertisers spend less than $5,000 per month? - Alhan Keser

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories can be a great way to get links back to your Web site. Identify something of value you can contribute to your industry, then write a detailed article and submit it to a few article directories like Ezine Articles, Article City, and Go Articles. The opportunity to get backlinks comes from the author bio that goes with the article, so don't forget to add keyword-rich anchor text links pointing back to your Web site when writing your bio. - Alhan Keser

While the quantity of inbound links is important, the quality of those links is much more important. Links from sites that are topically or contextually related to your site carry much more weight than links from unrelated sites. - Alhan Keser

Once you decide to start running more than one ad per Ad Group, you might ask: * How many ads should I run? * How long should I run them? * Should I test offers or copy changes first? In this post, I’m going to answer the first two questions- - Alhan Keser

Re-launching a site is a crucial and often worrying time. There are many many things that can go wrong, and when they do go wrong the results are often spectacular. - Alhan Keser

In addition to having an "official response" (though not "official" in the sense of traditional PR) you have the opportunity to leverage this branding opportunity far beyond the reach that you could have before Dave released his video and turn it into a success story. - Alhan Keser

From the data you can see that with CAPTCHA on, there was an 88% reduction in SPAM but there were 159 failed conversions. Those failed conversions could be SPAM, but they could also be people who couldn’t figure out the CAPTCHA and finally just gave up. With CAPTCHA’s on, SPAM and failed conversions accounted for 7.3% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. With CAPTCHA’s off, SPAM conversions accounted for 4.1% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. That possibly means when CAPTCHA’s are on, the company could lose out on 3.2% of all their conversions! - Alhan Keser

All these statistics! Traffic, time on the site, bounce rate, oh my! Whatever happened to keeping it to just plain old "hits"? Plus, who possibly has the time to go through all of these measurements?! - Alhan Keser

Did you know that there is a whole mobile SEO and mobile Analytics industry on top or underneath the SEO and web analytics offerings we already got used to? - Alhan Keser

Here I want to focus on those few free SEO tools you must know to be able to practice SEO in a meaningful way. - Alhan Keser

Let's define "bear shaving" as the efforts we go to do deal with the symptoms of a problem instead of addressing the cause of the problem. - Alhan Keser

Anderson: Sorry, I don't use the word media. I don't use the word news. I don't think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. Today, they are a barrier. They are standing in our way, like a horseless carriage. - Alhan Keser