Microsoft Search Ad Revenue Estimates Get Major Downgrade; Google Retains 74% U.S. Market Share [Report]
eMarketer has issued a major revision to its predictions for Microsoft’s U.S. search ad revenue. The latest estimates peg Microsoft net search ad revenue at $660 million last year and $890 million this year, down substantially from the previous estimates of $1.41 billion last year and $1.84…
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Matt Cutts: Google Didn’t Make Panda & Penguin to Force People to Buy Ads
Are algorithmic updates created solely to force webmasters to buy ads and increase Google’s bottom line? While it’s no conspiracy that Google wants to make profits, Google’s Matt Cutts says updates are only designed to improve the user experience.
Moved: I Thought Exact Match Domain Doorway Pages Were Dead!?!?!?
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Negative SEO Extremely Rare
Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.
In short…
Black Hat SEOs: Focus On Your Site, Not Competitors
In the SEO space, there are always two types of personalities. One is those that go head down and focus on improving their own site and then there are those that look at competitors and complain that they are doing things that are illegal…
Monetizing Site Search Queries
I believe that once everyone starts thinking clearly again after the last round of Penguin updates — focusing on their business rather than on ways to game the system or mass produce activities that are not scalable — we can get down to action that can actually move the needle. One such…
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3 Ways To Break The Link Building Block
We’ve all been there — that moment in any link building campaign where you hit a wall. There are so many things that you want to do, but there is so little time or buy-in to do them that you settle on just doing the things you need to do. That sucks. It gets tedious, […]
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Defining Authorship: The Difference Between Contributors and Guest Authors
Many people are missing the point of authorship. Strong authors who pass great Author Rank won’t be people who simply blog a lot, all over the place; they will be contributors who contribute amazing content that is relevant.
The Content Catalyst: How Content Drives Search & Social Synergy
Today, many a search marketer lives in a world driven by Pandas and Penguins. SEO as we used to know it has changed forever. As Google shifts its focus to quality and relevancy, content marketing adoption has soared. It is no coincidence that the incre…
Trulia Is Making A Real Estate Search App For Google Glass
Google Glass may never become a popular consumer device, but that’s not stopping Trulia from making what should be the first real estate search app for Glass. The real estate search engine revealed its plans to San Francisco’s NBC affiliate over the weekend and shared more details in a…
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YouTube Capture: Videos Upload Upside Down
Jennie from the YouTube team posted in the YouTube Help forums that the YouTube Capture app that is currently live is uploading videos upside down.
This seems to be a specific bug to version version 1.4…
Are These Your Best SEO Tips?
A WebmasterWorld thread has Webmasters and SEOs sharing their best SEO tips. The thread was started by moderator, goodroi…
5 Steps to Create a Website That Both Your Customers & Search Engines Will Love
A major mistake businesses often make when it comes to SEO is optimizing their website at the expense of their customers. Here are 5 steps you can implement to avoid this, and create a website that both your customers and search engines will love.
2 Underutilized Opportunities for Schema on Your Website
Want to make your website’s listing stand out from others within increasingly limited search engine real estate? Two schema.org protocols – breadcrumbs and person markup – both offer huge opportunities and are really easy to implement.
Twitter May Launch Retargeting for Advertisers
Although Twitter hasn’t confirmed the feature, those said to have knowledge of the matter say it’s coming soon. With all of Twitter’s advertising options and other engaging features rolling out, it seems retargeting could be a logical next step.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 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: Google’s Matt Cutts On SEO Industry Misconceptions: Updates, Revenue Goals & Link Building Obsession Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts,…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 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: Google’s Matt Cutts On SEO Industry Misconceptions: Updates, Revenue Goals & Link Building Obsession Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts,…
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A 5-Step Plan to Increase Brand Awareness Using the Google Display Network
When it comes to increasing brand awareness, AdWords can be a great medium that is often overlooked by marketers who defer to social media and other channels. Use this simple plan to create a brand awareness campaign on the Google Display Network.
Google’s Cutts On SEO Industry Misconceptions: Updates, Revenue Goals & Link Building Obsession
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts released another video today named What are some misconceptions in the SEO industry? In short, Matt outlined three topics in this five minute video. (1) SEOs confuse algorithm updates with data refreshes. (2) Panda & Penguin algorithms are not…
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“Text Link Ads” Was Latest Hit By Google’s Actions Against Link Sellers
On May 15th we reported that Google targeted yet another link selling network that resulted in several thousand penalties. Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, has revealed which link network was the target via Twitter last week. The target was one of the oldest and arguably the most…
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