Here are highlights of recent quarterly earnings reports from selected Internet and media companies and what they say about the state of spending on advertising: Jan. 19: Google Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings report shows that the Internet search leader fetched less money per click on its ubiquitous online ads. That came as an unsettling surprise because [...]

Hats off to SEOMoz. They have loads of great content and loads of links. Majestic SEO competes with their Open Site Explorer product and whilst we honestly believe that our root data is now stronger and more nimble since we launched our fresh index, they have always been a worthy and noble competitor. This is [...]

By michellemacphearson | Published: March 7, 2011 The Bulk Backlink Checker is essential to find out the key backlink information from the broad range of websites you want to compare. This short video will explain how to use the Majestic Tool and how we can use this information in Excel to gain a greater understanding [...]

By Dixon | Published: February 20, 2011 I would assume that Majestic’s users are pretty much exclusively from the Internet Marketing community. There are also quite a lot of them these days. So it may be significant for a few geeks to see that Firefox 3.6 now has just over HALF of our user base [...]

by Joost de Valk Most people understand by now that links have a very real influence on rankings in search engines. How it works and in which ways a link can influence your ranking is often unclear though, resulting in many myths. This link building 101 tries to explain the basics of link building and [...]

Planning Can Help You Stay Relevant I’ve received a series of inbound requests for comments based on a report from Gartner, an IT analyst firm, that estimates as many as 70-percent of social media campaigns will fail in 2011. There are a series of discussions hitting the blogosphere and the Twitterverse exploring this very topic, [...]

Searching For (And Sharing) Quality Content On The Web Content Quality Critical for User Trust and Industry Growth Sometimes sites like Demand Studios, Yahoo’s Associated Content, AOL’s Seed.com, and Suite101 are called names like “content farms” or “content mills”. You can call them whatever you like, but the fact of the matter is that they’re [...]

An Inside Look at How Microsoft Handles SEO Across its Massive Site Only Ballmer Has Authority Over Microsoft.com As a Whole Chances are you don’t have a site that matches the size of what Microsoft has, but in the age of real-time user-generated content, there is a whole lot of content going up on the [...]

I’m a Vikings fan. Have been my entire life. And I’ll tell you, it’s a curse. The ’97 season. 41-0. The NFC championship game in New Orleans last year (Tom Martin, not a WORD!). I can only compare it to what it must be like to be a Cleveland Indians fan (sorry Chuck Hemann). Heartache. [...]

Your Social Strategy May Lack Key Elements for Increasing Conversions As a business, it’s great to get out there and engage with customers. It’s great to use a variety of social media channels to open up communication and spread your marketing message, but what a lot of business decision makers might not realize is that [...]