Jim Hedger – SEO

Webcology #278 – All About Privacy, and the Death of Guest Blogging (says Matt Cutts)

Posted by on January 24, 2014 at 4:02 pm

Webcology #278 – All About Privacy, and the Death of Guest Blogging Airdate: January 24, 2014 Jim and Dave welcome guest Amone’s Michelle Stone and discuss online privacy. This week also includes news about Edward Snowden, Chrome bugs that hackers use to eavesdrop, Google’s possible integration of Bitcoin, and Matt Cutt’s news that Guest Blogging is Dead. […]

Webcology #277 – Marketing Tech’s Top Brands, and Facebook’s Demographic News

Posted by on January 16, 2014 at 5:57 pm

Webcology #277 – Marketing Tech’s Top Brands, and Why Teens are Leaving Facebook Airdate: January 16, 2014 Jim and Dave discuss the results of Marketing Land’s Most Recognized Marketing Tech brands survey, and the recent news from iStrategy Labs that reports on the teenage demographic’s abandonment of Facebook. Podcast: |

Webcology #276 – The Anatomy of a Hack

Posted by on January 9, 2014 at 4:29 pm

Webcology #276 – New Year, Same Old Troubles Airdate: January 9, 2014 Jim and Dave welcome the New Year in the worst way possible: one of them uncovered a hack! With special guest Clayton Gardner from Canhost Inc., the guys break down how to deal with a hack and how to protect yourself in the […]

Webcology #275 – The Year End Round Up

Posted by on December 20, 2013 at 5:15 pm

Webcology #275 –  Our Top Stories from 2013 Airdate: December 20, 2014 As the year comes to a close Jim and Dave look back on the notable news of 2013. The top Tech, Search, Social and Computer Culture stories include the Twitter IPO, (Not Provided), Edward Snowden, Google Hummingbird and changing consumer habits. Podcast: |

Webcology #274 – Google Penalties, Acronym’s new algorithm and more!

Posted by on December 12, 2013 at 3:45 pm

Webcology #274 – Majestic Search Engine Launches Live Rank Factors; Google Penalties Get More Severe for Repeat Offenders Airdate: December 12, 2013 Jim welcomes guest host Carolyn Shelby of 435 Digital and guest Dixon Jones to discuss Google Penalty Notifications, Acronym’s ‘Keyword Provided’ algorithm to recover ‘(not provided)’ keywords. Also, they’ll discuss Matt Cutts and […]

A Good Bad Back-link Removal Experience

Posted by on October 29, 2013 at 2:46 pm

Links are the ties that bind the web together. Some links are beneficial for a website while others are not. It is the job of a good search engine optimization specialist to know the difference between the two and weed out the bad ones. That’s much easier to write or read than it is to […]

On Google Keyword Data, an open letter to clients

Posted by on September 23, 2013 at 3:20 pm

For nearly two years Digital Always Media has been adapting to and lecturing about significant changes in the search engine marketing environment. Our clients and readers might have noticed a change in our language over the last year as we’ve talked less about keyword related placements and more about volume and quality of web traffic. […]

Knowledge and Experience Can Prevent Massive Mistakes

Posted by on September 19, 2013 at 12:35 pm

Facebook removed an advertiser this week. In a swift and very public move, advertising from an affiliate marketing website promoting Internet dating sites, ionechat.com/. Registered to an office in Luxemburg, ionechat.com advertised in over 35 countries, including Canada and the United States. The two page website provided information and links to Internet dating sites, receiving […]

Leonard’s Rules Applied to Copy

Posted by on August 26, 2013 at 2:32 pm

Elmore Leonard was one of America’s greatest novelists and certainly the best writer of his generation. Before he died last week, Leonard authored 49 novels, 9 screenplays, and innumerable short stories. His novels spawned several iconic characters including Assistant Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, Chili Palmer, Jackie Brown (nee: Burke), and Joe Kidd. Though he […]

A Strategic Alliance Announcement

Posted by on August 13, 2013 at 10:00 am

Digital Always Media Inc. Announces Strategic Alliance with Firestarter Social Media Toronto Digital Marketing Agency Expands into US to facilitate growth Toronto, ON— August 13, 2013 — Toronto-based Internet marketing agency, Digital Always Media Inc. announced today it has aligned all search and social media marketing efforts with Stuart, Florida based Firestarter Social Media. A […]

Fit to be Cloned

Posted by on July 30, 2013 at 11:43 am

Thrice DAMed and fit to be cloned! Earlier this morning, three of Digital Always Media’s brain-trust were named on the list. Myself, Alan K’necht and Michelle Stintson Ross have been honoured by being included on a list of exceptional Internet marketers from the SEO, social, paid-search, and online video sectors. Digital Always Media is especially […]

Digital Marketing Insights – A Fun Way to Share Knowlege

Posted by on July 17, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Over the last six months, Digital Always Media has worked with , and, to produce a series of video conversations on topics relating to the digital marketing sector. Our latest, recorded yesterday features three extremely clever SEOs, each focused on different types of websites, to discuss the differences between reporting based on traffic volume vs. […]

Integrated SEO in 2013 – A Google Hangout

Posted by on May 17, 2013 at 5:56 pm

Integrated SEO in 2013 – A Google Hangout Interview Panel Jim Hedger and Michelle Stintson Ross from Digital Always Media are joined by David Harry of Verve Developments, Dan Thies of Braintrust Labs, and Dave Davies of Beanstalk SEO discuss the future of search engine optimization, social media and digital marketing integration in a unique […]

SEO Hangout 1 – Integrated SEO 2013

Posted by on May 8, 2013 at 2:32 pm

SEO Google Plus Hangout – Integrated SEO in 2013 Featuring: , , , , and Next Thursday, May 16 at 3:30pm, we’re going to do our first open Google Plus Hangout session on the new roles played by search engine optimization specialists in the digital marketing environment. Social media communities and rapid adoption and innovation […]

Link Values Simplified

Posted by on May 6, 2013 at 12:59 pm

Earlier I read a piece on in SearchEngineLand. The article notes an experiment conducted by Daniel Tan, founder of WordPress SEO evaluation plug-in SEOPressor. Tan set out to disprove a Christmas Day comment made by Google Quality Control Czar, Matt Cutts to a Google Forum discussion of press releases. Cutts wrote “I wouldn’t expect links […]