Jun
23
An Internet Marketing Merger Worth Talking About
Published by Hamlet Batista on Wed 23 Jun 2010 2 Comments

I am thoroughly excited to announce the merger of seven highly successful internet marketing experts’ companies including Search & Social, 10e20, and Brent Csutoras Inc, all colleagues of mine and great friends. The new company will be offering their services under the name of BlueGlass Interactive. With a unique set of internet marketing skills in one place, I am confident that the stage is set for their continued success.

BlueGlass Interactive brings together some of the most sophisticated minds in search engine optimization, content development, social media marketing, and much more. They are a team that is focused on creating infinitely scalable solutions for internet marketing services. When many companies find themselves stretching their human capital to enormous lengths, the partners behind BlueGlass are busy learning how to surpass the human limits of their available staff with custom software implementations that deliver results.

This is a company that is here to stay. Its members are an integral part of the internet marketing community. It was exciting to see what they were up to before they got together to form BlueGlass, but as a team, they may very well be unstoppable. You can expect to see some great work coming out of their doors!

Here is their full press release with more details.

Jun
23
Here is Why Now Is The Best Time To Be In The SEO Business
Published by Hamlet Batista on Wed 23 Jun 2010 7 Comments

It seems like every time I check up on blogs someone is decrying the bygone days of search engine optimization as if it has been dead for years. This strikes me as more than strange. Granted, many of the old black hat techniques are certainly no longer viable. Google continues to create better and better algorithms to stop search engine spammers from ruining the web, and because of continual failure, many old school SEOs (myself included :-) ) have hung up those black hats and decided to pursue something else.

But here is the reality. SEO is thriving! I might even go so far as to say it is in its prime. A number of key factors have come together very recently to cause a dramatic uptick in demand for SEO services. Among them are the following:

  • Paid search is becoming more and more popular and very expensive as an advertising method
  • Google is no longer shunning most SEO as black hat. The company is embracing it with guides, videos, and search engineers who now act as SEO evangelists
  • The complexity of paid search is almost on par with SEO
  • Serious investors are getting involved in SEO

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There are many blogs about SEO. Many of them have done, and continue to do, a great job with traditional ideas. Unfortunately, knowing and doing what everybody else does is not a competitive advantage.

This blog is different. It’s about learning the most advanced SEO techniques, led by one of the industry’s up and coming SEO thinkers. Here you will find advanced search engine marketing tips and techniques that give you an edge over your competitors. The ideas are totally original: a fusion of Hamlet Batista’s own experience, research and careful experimentation, along with his readers’ questions, ideas, and thought-provoking input. Come along for the ride and explore, participate and push the limits of today’s SEO.
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