Category «Internet Marketing»

Social Media Golden Rules

Last month, I led a Free Social Media Seminar for local B2B and Industrial marketers here at Ecreativeworks‘ Twin Cities Headquarters titled “Set Conversions on Fire with Social Media.” The seminar was attended by a number of our clients, but also local B2B and Industrial Marketers and business owners. Instead of concentrating on the How-to’s, …

Google Cometh: Panda & Penguin Go to War

Ecreative’s Matt B drew up this adorable image of Google’s Penguin and Panda updates riding into war. Beware adorable black and white animals. Or maybe just beware manipulative & black hat tactics. With a white hat, the pandas and penguins of Google’s world should continue to be adorable and friendly and will only bite your …

Know the Language of Ignorance

Whenever we start an SEO program here at Ecreative, one of the very first things we do is dig into the keyword research. Even if the client already knows what keywords they want to target, we can’t in good conscience start work until we know what we’re going after, who the competition for those phrases …

Google Shopping Feed Goes Paid Only

In a startling move that, frankly, is still blowing my mind, Google has for the first time moved a free organic search service to a paid inclusion model. Google has announced that the Google Shopping Feed is moving to be paid inclusion only, and this change will be complete by the end of summer. Once …

Google Bans SEO Agency iAcquire for Buying Links for Clients

Google has deindexed prominent SEO agency iAcqire’s sites for buying links for their clients. iAcquire’s sophisticated link-buying operation was exposed when they sent a request to the wrong website, and Google reacted with the banhammer in just one day after their client fessed up and threw them under the bus.