May 24, 2012 at 9:03pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The search marketing agency, iAcquire, that was allegedly responsible for buying links for clients was just banned from Google's search results. iAcquire was cited as the agency behind Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation's link buy request emails. For more on that see our story named What Can We Learn From The Latest Brand To Be Called Out For Paid Links? A site command search for [site:www.iacquire.com] returns no results. Here is a screen shot: iAcquire's robots.txt file and source code has no signs of them manually requesting to be deindexed from Google. So this seems t [...]

Funny Google Matt Cutts Mashup Video

May 15, 2012 at 10:49am ET by Barry Schwartz

It has been a long couple months for the search marketing community between the Penguin update, a Panda refresh, the link notifications and the parked domain bug - you guys need a laugh. Sam Applegate put together a hysterical parody video of Matt Cutts talking about how to achieve number one ranking in Google. The video takes dozens of the videos Matt put together from the YouTube channel and mashes them into a video I think you all will appreciate. Here is the video: [...]

iCrossing Tops Search Agency Revenue Rankings In Ad Age

May 3, 2012 at 5:20pm ET by Pamela Parker

New York-based iCrossing, a division of Hearst Corporation, tops the latest Ad Age list of top 25 search marketing agencies by revenue released today. (Link is available to subscribers only.) The agency brought in $105 million in search-related revenues in 2011, up 13.6% from the previous year. Rounding out the top five were Dentsu's 360i, WPP Group's Group M Search, Aegis Group's iProspect, and Performics, a Publicis Groupe company. Several standalone agencies did make the rankings. The Search Agency, based in Los Angeles, came in 7th, with $32 million in search revenue in 2011. New Yor [...]

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SEOmoz Raises New Round Of Funding: $18 Million

May 1, 2012 at 10:41am ET by Barry Schwartz

SEOmoz, the SEO toolset company, has announced they have successfully raised another $18 million in venture capital from Foundry Group and Ignition Partners. Foundry Group put in $15 million and Ignition Partners put in $3 million. Co-founder and CEO of SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin detailed the financials, growth, future plans and management changes of SEOmoz. One big change for the SEO industry is that Rand's mother and co-founder Gillian Muessig is stepping down from the board of directors and resigning her title of President. Here is the slide deck they shared: For more details see [...]

SEM / PPC Jobs Big In New York, Chicago, San Jose, Austin & Seattle

Apr 13, 2012 at 1:45pm ET by Search Engine Land Infographics

Looking for a job doing SEM / PPC work? As with SEO, New York is the leading city based on job volume. But Chicago takes the second spot, unlike LA which leads second with SEO jobs. San Jose, Austin and Seattle are other leading cities. Those doing paid search earn anywhere from $35,000 to $131,000. The stats are from an infographic produced by Onward Search, an online recruitment company. Last December, created one about SEO salaries and job locations. This time, paid search gets the focus: Want the infographic guide for yourself? You’ll find it here: PPC Jobs Salary Guide. [...]

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