Google Launches A Google+ Dashboard For Managing Business Pages
Google announced yesterday on Google+ a new Google+ Dashboard for businesses that manage their Google+ local page on Google+.
Jade Wang also posted about it in the Google Business Help forum explaining:
Google’s Matt Cutts On Disavow Tool Mistakes
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video the other day explaining the top six or so mistakes that SEOs and webmasters make when using the disavow tool.
By far, the most common mistake is uploading anything but text (TXT) files…
Link Building & The Power Of The Customer
With the growth of social networks and the ability to instantly tell the world how you’re feeling, we’ve watched power shift from brands to consumers. No longer can companies simply rely on their marketing to do the talking — they now have to rely on what their customers are…
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Egobait: How to Get Links & Exposure in a Variety of Verticals
Egobait exists for one main purpose: to increase visibility (which will hopefully generate links). It works well, but it can be done to death. Need some examples of how to do egobait effectively? Eight SEO experts weight in with their top tips.
Is Being Found Part Of Your Social Media Strategy?
Successful communication is all about getting the right message in front of the right people at the right time. In the first part of this two-part series on search and social media sites, I noted the undeniable importance of social media as evidenced b…
Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
Webmaster level: IntermediateSmartphone users are a significant and fast growing segment of Internet users, and at Google we want them to experience the full richness of the web. As part of our efforts to improve the mobile web, we published our recomm…
Google: When You Move, We Will Transfer Your Maps Reviews In Most Cases
Moving is a stressful process for most businesses, adding onto that losing a lot of your data and confusing your Google Maps listing is something that gets added onto that.
But it seems like Google is trying to make that process easier…
Apple’s Siri In iOS7 Powered By Bing
Yesterday was a big day for Apple, announcing iOS 7 at their WWDC event. Part of that announcement was showing that Bing was the default search engine for Apple’s Siri, replacing Google…
Video: Google Glass Search
Googlers Mike LeBeau, who is in charge of search within Glass and Amanda Rosenberg, the product manager of Glass…
How to Navigate the Google Analytics Location Report
Does your website target users in a specific location or around the world? Businesses of all sizes can gain valuable insights from Google Analytics location reports. Here are the top uses of this data, from beginner right through to advanced level.
Google’s Matt Cutts On Common Disavow Link Tool Mistakes
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video discussing some of the more common mistakes when using the disavow tool. Here are the six most common mistakes, note, the first one is by far the most common mistake out of all of them. (1) The file you upload should be a regular…
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Beyond the Like: Marketers Share Social Advertising ROI Tips Ahead of #SESTO
To drive success on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn requires understanding which social network is best for your company’s needs; the differences between search and social advertising; bidding and budgeting; and how to avoid ad fatigue.
Majestic SEO Takes Their Site Explorer Tool Free
The Majestic SEO team announced today that they have made their Site Explorer tool free for verified domains. With that, they also announced improvements to the user interface, additional features and unlimited use for paid users of the tool. Free user…
3 Ways Attribution Modeling Can Help You Work Smarter, More Effectively
Rather than optimizing in a vacuum and giving all the credit to the last click, you should start incorporating some form of attribution modeling into your daily routine. Here’s how attribution modeling can help you work smarter and more effectively.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 10, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri One of the things that you might have missed if you weren’t paying really close attention…
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Google Doodle Celebrates ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Author Maurice Sendak
Today’s Google Doodle takes visitors on an animated journey through Sendak’s alternate storybook worlds, and ends with a gathering of the creatures from his tales. But the celebrated children’s book author and illustrator wasn’t always well received.
Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri
One of the things that you might have missed if you weren’t paying really close attention to the live blogs of the Apple WWDC keynote is that when iOS 7 comes out Siri will be able to directly search Twitter, Wikipedia — and Bing. From a search perspective that’s potentially huge…
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Google Under Fire Again for Providing Easy Access to Prescription Drugs
An Attorney General claims Google is making it too easy to find sites that sell drugs without a prescription. Meanwhile the Digital Citizens Alliance released reports of Google profiting from ads on content focused on illegal topics in YouTube.
Google Analytics Finally Gives Developers Content Experiments API
The same tool that allows users to use A/B content tests on their site is now available through an API. The new content experiments API allows developers to pick and choose from all the features and create a custom solution that fits their needs.
Facebook Simplifies Advertising Options
Marketers spoke up about Facebook ads and what they wanted; Facebook listened, and made a decision to simplify its advertising options. Over the next six months, Facebook will reduce its ad units from 27 to less than half of that number.