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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Bing Ads Now Has Time Saving, Pre-Formatted Excel Reports
This is one of those minor features that will bring a smile to any PPC manager’s face. Microsoft has added Excel to the output options in the Bing Ads report center. But that’s not the exciting part. What is exciting is the fact that upon downloading to Excel, reports are already…
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Fifty Shades Of Full Value
I recently saw an incredible presentation by Google Analytics guru/evangelist Avinash Kaushik on “understanding the full value of mobile.” The concept – at least on its face – is simple: to understand the value of a mobile click, you have to look beyond immediate conversions and give…
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Bing Turns 4: Was There A Search Update?
As you can see from the design of this site today, we are all decked out celebrating Microsoft’s launch of Bing four years ago today.
But that is not why I am writing this story, there seems to be some chatter, again…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Text Link Ads Link Sellers Targeted
A few weeks ago, we reported that Google busted another link seller network. We didn’t know which link seller network it was – until now. Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, tweeted last week that the link network they went after was “TLA linkse…
Hyperlocal Social News On Patch
Over the past few years, as print advertising sales have plummeted alongside circulation numbers, local newspapers have faced a somewhat treacherous path to survival. Many have ended up forced to choose between consolidating with national outfits or re…
Google Tests Larger Video Thumbnails In Tablet Search Results
Google Operating System blog has screen shots of Google showing larger thumbnail images for videos that come up in the search results. The larger video thumbnails show up for the first video result on tablet devices. I personally tried to replicate thi…
13 Twitter PR Secrets to Report News, Gain Publicity, & Build Relationships
Getting the most out of Twitter without Twitter getting the most out of you is a daily challenge for consumers, journalists, media, and brands small and large. But following Twitter best practices can ease the pain and increase the exposure rate.
Google (Rich Snippets) Structured Data Markup Helper Tool
In December 2012, Google launched a data highlighter tool that aided more novice webmasters in creating structure data for use in the rich snippets in Google’s search results.
Google announced that they added more data types support to that tool…
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Google’s Official Tips On Internationalizing A Web Site
Google’s Jens O. Meiert and Tony Ruscoe posted on the Google Webmaster Blog 6 quick tips for international web sites.
This is a topic we covered a lot and honestly is somewhat foreign (pun) to me.
The 6 tips in short are:
1. Make pages I18N-ready …
Have Links To Disavow? Google Says Google Webmaster Tools Link Report Is Enough?
Last week I wrote about How Do You Uncover Your Spammy Links? There I said, when you want to disavow links or have them removed, using Google Webmaster Tools link report is probably not enough. You probably need to use third party tools as well.
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Big Brand SEO & Penguin 2.0
Taking a broader look at Multinational SEO, though, throws up particular issues for the big brand sites out there, and I though that in light of the upcoming Penguin 2.0 update confirmed by Matt Cutts recently it would be useful to look at particular a…
6 Reasons the Website (vs. Social Media) Should Be the Ultimate Destination for the Brand
Social media offers unprecedented access to cultivate relationships with customers, one at a time. For those who seek to build sustainable brands, social media should never take the place of the website as the ultimate destination of the brand.
How to Dominate the Entire First Page of Google
Controlling the conversation around your brand is critical to upholding and improving reputation and converting more customers. Here’s how to make sure you monopolize all the available paid and organic brand real estate on the first page of Google.
How to Use Twitter’s Vine App
Whether you use Twitter’s Vine app to take customers behind the scenes of your brand, demonstrate new products/services, run competitions, or simply share things with your fans, consider these tips before activating your strategy.
Google Confirms Negative SEO Exists
A wording change to a Google help page is a clear admission that yes, negative SEO exists and it can result in third parties being able to remove a competitor’s site from the Google search index – or at least negatively impact their search rankings.
Google Updates Data Highlighter, Launches Structured Data Markup Helper
Google has announced two new structured data features. Google has updated the Data Highlighter, which now covers eight types of structured data. Also, the new Structured Data Markup Helper is designed to help guide webmasters with HTML coding.
Is it Time to Take a Machete to Your SEO Strategy?
Has your site been subject to a steady decline in organic search traffic? Or even hit by a penalty? Either of these are likely signals that something is wrong in how Google perceives your site. It’s time to get clean and let go of bad SEO practices.