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SES Conference Changes Owners … Again


SiteProNews is reporting the sale of Incisive Media which owns the SEO industries largest conference Search Engine Strategies. The reported $375 million price was paid by Apex Partners, a private holding company with its hand in over $20 billion worth of investments.
The sale comes at a pivotal time for the industries best know conference. Recently, [...]

Google Disables Inaccurate Supplemental Query


A few days ago, I wrote about a new Google search query which would show you only results from a site that were listed in Google’s supplemental index. Google has now disabled this search query. The query result seems to now show the standard results for a “site:” query.
I am not surprised they did this [...]

Introduction to Social Media Optimization


I am in the middle of a site redesign and social marketing will be a big part of the changes. I have been dealing quite a bit with how best to implement these changes and thought I would do a quick summary of some of the things I am focusing on.
It’s not like we need [...]

Old School vs. Web2.0 in Supplemental Index


Recently, a blogger named “2K” posted a search query format over at SEOmoz which returns only pages which are in Google’s supplemental index. The query is not completely accurate as you will see below, but I was interested in giving it a little test.
If you want to try it, just use the following query format [...]

AppliedSEO.com Getting a Makeover


Be on the lookout for a new site design here at Applied SEO. Its been a long time coming. Along with the new look, I am changing the format of the blog. Instead of only posting 2 or 3 long detail articles a month I will be adding daily post to topics relating to our [...]