SEOmoz today released the industry crowd-sourced SEO ranking factors for 2011. To do this SEOmoz surveyed 134 SEO professionals (including a couple of my close friends) on what which particular factors have the greatest effect on search rankings. SEO professionals are also invited to collate their thoughts on where they think the industry is heading. 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Versus 2009′s SEO Ranking Factors: The key take...

The Bank-banter escalates & “stealing” customers is now in fashion. NAB announces it’s relationship break-up from the major Australian Banks on Valentine’s day using variety of media types. Is this the most daring campaign of 2011? Well, I certainly like it. Before we go any further, here’s their Breakup Video: No doubt NAB have spent a while planning this break-up / campaign, & from a non-Australian...

Close friend Jye Smith, Digital Strategist at Weber Shandwick, asked me to write a guest post on the topic of “The Future of Search and Social Media“, which I was delighted to do so as it’s a subject I frequently ponder about. Post Summary: In Google’s Algorithm, Social Media Popularity is now more critical than ever. Websites must learn how to integrate themselves with Social Media to leverage SEO 2011 will see...

Will Facebook Questions be open to Search Engines? You may or may not of heard about Facebook’s new “Questions” feature. Basically it allows you to post a question to either your friends or publicly. Neat huh! When I heard about it, the first thing I thought about was Search. To my astonishment, Facebook Questions will not be accessible to search engines, yet anyway. When asked about search engine accessibility on the...