For at least the past 5 years, there has been endless rabble about local search. Every year up until now has been the “Year of Local”. Mostly thanks to the growing influence of Mobile in the past two years and Google’s investments in developing Google Places, we are finally seeing this happen. In 2010, Google [...]

“What’s it worth to ya?”, I would ask first-time clients with a stoic face when asked how much SEO services cost. A laugh of uncertainly, maybe slight hesitation, and I’d tell them I’m kidding. SEO is really its own unique breed of species in the service industry; it is billed and paid for like many [...]

These three niche posts on random topics brought over half of the Google traffic to Market Misfit this month. Crisco, Sears, and dirty catheters are random topics I’ve written about. They all have low competition and some get enough searches. While these keywords have no importance to me or this blog at all, it brought [...]

I’m often asked to review quotes for friends in marketing who are looking for SEO service, but don’t understand too well what SEO is.  I could probably name off at least a dozen organizations I felt were providing Snake Oil service.  And it’s really strange to me; SEO is very dynamic; the game changes frequently.   [...]

Google Instant search rolled out this week – and in my opinion it’s the biggest change in Search Google has made in a long, long time.  It’s impressive how fast it works and it’s fun to use.  There is no doubt in my mind this changes the discourse of search.  Even Google warns of fluctuations [...]

**UPDATE: December 17- I have removed delicious and a few other sites that no longer exist. Download Now.** The past two weeks I’ve sporadically been working on a comprehensive list of the sites I feel are most important for Social Marketing, SEO, and Promotions in these categories: Free Email accounts “The Big Guys” (ie, Twitter [...]

I found this great article this morning on Twitter: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6039/stop-wasting-time-with-social-media.aspx I had a few thoughts I wanted to share about it since I agree with the author about monetization. I’m glad I’m not the only one realizing that Social Media has little monetization value outside of the self-promoting Tech industry that uses it most.  That’s [...]

Manipulating seach results is something most SEO’s think about their own sites. But as brands grow, so do conversations about them; reviews, mentions, even entire Websites are sometimes built to dog or deter new customers from doing business. These sites can be as influential for a purchase decision as your own site. While the best [...]

One of the best ways to get ahead in life is simply volunteering your time. This is a time-tested lesson; providing personal time to assist others opens up new opportunities, builds new bridges and forges new relationships. In the book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, the author learns an important lesson about money in the first [...]

Lately, my Websites have really taken a strong footing in Google and traffic has been growing substantially in the past month for several of my Websites. I am currently operating about 18 blogs, about 6 of them for my full-time job and the rest for my own experimentation and business. Here are some stats with [...]