Every new Web search is like a quick job interview. The interviewer isn’t exactly sure who they are about to encounter, but the time and effort they put into getting to know the person are definitely contingent on what they see and hear when they meet.

It's important to impress all of the Internet's search engines because you never know where your next big customer will come from. But it's even more important to impress Google because, at the end of the day, it's the search engine that the majority of people use to conduct online queries.

The way we share content continues to evolve and people are always looking for new and innovative ways to present thoughts and ideas. While video has been around for a while, it hasn't been extremely popular for SEO in the past. Previously, there was really no clear-cut way to optimize a video like you can for a blog post. However, in the past few years, more than 90 percent of marketers utilized video for content marketing. As a content medium, video can convey a lot more than words alone. It's no coincidence that marketers have started worrying less about technical SEO and more about user-experience.

With record-setting snowfall hitting the country this winter, you might find yourself with a little extra downtime. Your business may be temporarily closed, but when it comes to SEO, well, let’s just say it never stops. During all of these snow days, you can use your time productively to organize your SEO efforts. The following tips are just a few of the things you should cover during your snow day.

We are excited to announce that one lucky person who meets eligibility requirements and uses our Website Analyzer tool between February 17^th and March 16^th will win a free press release to help promote their brand, written & distributed by WebiMax.

It's no surprise to us when clients are hyper-focused on ranking reports as a measurement of SEO success. After all, they hired us to increase the visibility of their website(s) in the search engines. But in an industry that is constantly changing due to Google's algorithm changes, the way we show clients the value of our services has to adapt as well. Now that Google Analytics no longer shows individual keyword data, and SEO campaigns are becoming more about content & integrated social media marketing, the reports we show our clients as indicators of a successful campaign need to reflect that.

I love milestones, so in honor of my 30^th birthday I've created a roundup of the WebiMax Social Media Department's favorite social media marketing tools for 2014. We use a combination of the following tools in order to help our clients succeed with social media. Social media managers: are there any tools that you use regularly that you don't see on this list? If so, share them in the comments below and tell me why they're so great.

As an Internet marketing agency, social media is the heart of many of our clients' campaigns. Here are three ways we are spreading the love by successfully incorporating Valentine's Day into our social media marketing campaigns.

For an SEO-enthusiast, checking Matt Cutts' blog is not unlike checking the weather. You don't have to do it, necessarily, but it's nice to know which days you're going to want to bring an umbrella.

According to Moz, Google changes its algorithm 500-600 times per year.
Essentially, this means the landscape of the most popular search engine changes daily. And if you don't live and breathe SEO, it can drive you nuts.

Many of us use Wordpress for our daily, weekly, or monthly blog posts, but are you optimizing your content technically to the fullest extent? Wordpress has been the choice over Blogger for search engine optimization enthusiasts and serious bloggers for years because of the customization it allows. Unlike Blogger, Wordpress offers a variety of plugins to improve user experience and to truly tailor blog design, as well as content. One plugin that I use for every blog I post is called "Wordpress SEO By Yoast."

You might be thinking to yourself, "What does a marketing agency have to do with the Big Game or drunk driving?"

In today's world, anyone can be considered a blogger. If you write for a blog, you can call yourself a blogger, regardless of how good or bad the content is. However, not everyone can create a successful blog post. SEO copywriting is the art of creating great, readable, creative, and unique content that is also technically optimized to rank well in search engine results.

My dog Ollie is a great companion and through him I've learned a lot about the virtue of unconditional love. Recently I realized that the lessons he's taught me about life can also be applied to work. Here are three social media marketing tips we can all learn from Ollie:

Search engine optimization, in simple terms, is an Internet marketing strategy that strives to improve rankings and visibility for a company. It is successful when a website is ranked high on a search engine's first page.

In the summer of 2012, I created the Social Media Marketing Department at WebiMax. Since then, our social media revenue has more than doubled. Why? Because social media marketing works.

Moz, creator of popular SEO tools like Open Site Explorer (tracks links pointing to websites) and MozBar (ranks websites' authority), does more than create amazing tools that make the lives of website owners and online marketers easy. Moz also hosts an amazing resource that helps you understand every important Google update and algorithm change made since the year 2000.

As mobile continues to expand, it's important for businesses to understand how mobile and social usage is changing engagement between brands and consumers during the holiday season if they want to be successful. More consumers (42%) plan to shop on their smartphones and tablets this year compared to just a year ago. Mobile retail sales reached $20.9 billion last year in 2012 and are estimated to reach a whopping $34.2 billion, with social engagement and mobile advertising playing a vital role in holiday consumerism.

At the dawn of the Internet, the focus by advertisers was on broad, mass appeal advertising. Brands were consumed with generic level keywords and dominating positions around these terms was the sole focus of many companies – and make no mistake, it worked well for those fortunate enough to dominate the search landscape. Over time, things have changed….Web users are savvier, they don’t want generic answers, they want specific answers. This scenario has created a world of opportunity for advertisers who can now more firmly focus on a niche rather than just a broad based objective.

Well, the fine folks that develop WordPress have finally offered, what might be considered, one of the most controversial features they have ever introduced. While some might think this is a blessing others will think it to be the end of their site running smoothly. The updates will be enabled by default for Minor Releases only. These tend to be the security releases. You need to manually add other parameters for more (or less) functionality.

One of the most difficult things to do is revive a dead brand, but I have to give Yahoo credit for doing everything they can to make it happen. I recall the days that Yahoo was the champion of the search space and "the" place to go for online news. They were the success story coming in and pulling away the market share from AOL in the early days of the online revolution. Somewhere along the way, Google came in and with little advertising or fanfare blew away Yahoo into an afterthought.

 Follow These Steps to Help Remove your Manual Action from Google for Unnatural Links Pointing to your Site

For all of its virtues, the Internet has a serious issue when it comes to authenticity. While it does give everyone a voice that can be heard anywhere and everywhere, sometimes this freedom creates legitimacy out of false information. Do you believe everything you read on the Internet? Unfortunately, many people do, and this could produce seriously negative consequences.

I'll admit, I'm getting a little hungry thinking about the impending Thanksgiving holiday, but that's not the [entire] reason I'm writing this blog post.

It was all too easy. You didn't need to sign in ... you didn't need an Adwords account ... and you didn't get bid suggestions when you didn't want them. It was an easy, ultra-credible source of search traffic statistics directly from the source – Google.