Stay Sharp On The Cutting Edge Of SEO At SMX Advanced
Anyone who’s tried to stay on the cutting edge of SEO knows that from time-to-time, you end up on the “bleeding edge,” thanks to things like unexpected algorithm changes, or from experimenting with seemingly benign tactics that go wrong, or even doing nothing and yet watching your…
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How to Diagnose the Health of Your Social Media Strategy
What do you know about your audience? Are your fans, friends, or followers engaged? Do you have a plan? What are others saying about you and how are you responding? Use this checklist to determine how healthy your social media strategy is.
800 Best SEO Posts of the Last 4 Years
Have you ever thought which of SEO and marketing websites statistically provides the best content? Or if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? The sunsetting of Google Reader forced me to find out whose content really is king.
Product Listing Ads: How to Maximize Your Returns
Product listing ads can be deceptively easy to set up, but there are still simple steps to take to make the most of them. Here are some of the simplest things you can do when it comes to bidding and optimizing your PLAs to maximize your returns.
Earth Day Logos From Google & Bing While Chinese Search Engines Show Earthquake Logos
Today is Earth Day throughout the world and Google, Bing, Ask.com, and also YouTube have special logos or themes today for the day. But as many of you know, China had a major earthquake yesterday killing almost 200 people and injuring an astonishing 1…
Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO
Brandon Wirtz, an SEO who started his own search engine named Samuru…
Google Captures Murder: Body Being Dragged Into Lake?
There are these internet rumors going around that Google Maps Satellite view captured a man dragging a body into a lake in broad daylight.
You can see the satellite imagery yourself on Google Maps at 52.376552…
Can User Generated Comments Cause A Google Penalty
There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…
Google Creates iOS App To Manage Your Google Places Listing
iClarified spotted that Google released (too early) an iOS app that lets businesses manage their Google Maps listings.
I am not kidding you…
Yahoo iPhone App Gets Story Summaries, Better Video & Image Search
Yahoo has launched an iPhone app using Summly’s technology less than a month after buying the firm for $30 million. The Yahoo app allows users to search for news topics they are interested in and displays summarized versions of chosen articles.
Facebook Home Hits 500,000 Downloads, Getting Negative User Reviews
With 500,000 downloads in nine days, only about 0.05 percent of Facebook’s user base is using the service. Facebook Home hasn’t had great initial reviews on the Google Play store from the majority of users. The app has a lowly two star rating.
Germany Fines Google €145,000 for Street View Data Collection
Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. Germany calls it “one of the most serious cases of violation of data protection regulations”.
Eric Schmidt on Google’s UK Tax Record: ‘We Fully Comply With the Law’
Eric Schmidt has defended Google’s UK tax payments, saying the firm operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of spend in the country. The Public Accounts Committee says Google paid £6 million in taxes from revenues of £396 million
Search & Social Synergy: Build Buzz, Get Links, Grow Your Brand
A look at where social is headed, what rightful place social has in the mix – along with PR, web design, promotional marketing, and search engine optimization – and some tactical considerations for what you may want to incorporate into your plans.
Google Experimenting With New Related Image Search Interface
Google appears to be trying on a new look for its related image search interface. While the standard interface for related image searches includes a list of the related image queries that only show image thumbnails when you mouse over the related searc…
Happy Earth Day! Google Celebrates With A New Doodle
Today’s Google logo celebrates Earth Day with a new interactive doodle highlighting the the many wonders of nature. The logo comes comes with its very own checklist of things to see, making sure users catch every detail. Google is spelled with different elements of nature from the field of…
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Pinterest Best Practice Tips for Brands
Pinterest is seeing explosive growth. It is being adopted by brands, as well as users following these brands. Here are the latest statistics, best practices, and some tactical strategies for one of the hottest and fastest-growing social platforms.
UbiquiTV: Video Fragmentation is the New Reality
Digital video helps build reach beyond what TV can cost-effectively achieve alone among prized demographic segments. Marketers who quickly develop the competency to optimize across channels will have a significant advantage over the competition.
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings
Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find about the app, and as best I can tell, the iClarified blog was first to report on it. The…
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Weekly Rundown: Lost Google Image Search Traffic, Facebook Search Ads & More
Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis “wrong”. Here’s a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.