Google Analytics Combines Data From All Devices; Renames Visits, Visitors
Visits will now be called “sessions” and visitors will now be called “users.” The Google Analytics team has also integrated web data and app data within the same reports. These new views roll out to all accounts starting this week.
How SEOs Would React To Google Dropping Links As A Ranking Factor
As you know, Yandex, the popular Russian search engine…
62% Say Attacking Google’s Matt Cutts Is Wrong
I am happy to say that the majority of our industry thinks that attacking Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, as wrong…
Google Hot Searches Email Subscriptions
Google announced you can how subscribe to Hot Searches for any country or the top US charts via email.
This way…
Google Penalizes PostJoint Over Guest Blog Links
It seems Google has gone after yet another guest blog network that is being used by SEOs for link building purposes. The link network is named PostJoint and has gone on record that they are different from MyBlogGuest, which was penalized a month ago.
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7 Tips to Ensure Your SEO Strategy Supports Your Brand
Sitelinks, logo schema, brand image alt tagging, Google+, publisher tagging, local listings, and looking beyond the first page of brand results are seven areas where you need to make sure the brand is given its fair share of SEO attention.
Got SEO Basics? 5 Tips To Boost Your Organic CTR
There’s no shortage of new digital marketing channels these days — and while they are innovative, exciting, and fun to experiment with, they can also distract you from SEO basics that can deliver performance gains. Your organic click-through rate (CTR) is a great example. A simple page…
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Learn Local Search Marketing
Last October Vendran Tomic wrote a guide for local SEO which has since become one of the more popular pages on our site, so we decided to follow up with a QnA on some of the latest changes in local search.
Q: Google appears to have settled their monop…
Yahoo Testing A Knowledge Graph Lookalike In Search Results
One of Yahoo’s latest search results tests should look awfully familiar. The website All Google Testing discovered a test that turns the right column of Yahoo’s search results page into a dead ringer for Google’s Knowledge Graph. The post even offers some instructions on how to…
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Google AdWords RLSA: 3 Ways to Take Full Advantage
RLSA is a very powerful tool, especially as personalization continues as a trend across the digital landscape. Here are three tips on keyword targeting, bidding, and ad copy, plus three important reminders on how to set up RLSA for success.
What Type of Content Should You Create: Long or Short?
Which form of content should you focus on creating? Should it be long, short, or a mix? If a mix, what’s the right ratio? It all depends. Here are the pros and cons of each, plus six critical questions to help you figure out what’s right for you.
Title Tags & SEO: 3 Golden Rules
Title tags remain an important part of SEO, and are well worth some attention. When writing your title tags, you should have one distinct page for each major user need you address; avoid overdoing the granularity; and never reuse title tags.
420 Dilemma? Marijuana Emerges In Local Search
Today marks the first time that April 20th — known amongst pot smokers as “420″ and frequently celebrated with smoking parties — is a legally observable event in the United States (in some places, at least, since the states of Washington and Colorado have legalized…
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SearchCap: New Google Penalty, Action Schema & Subscribe To Google Trends
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 Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint Google’s Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed on Twitter that Google has taken action on another guest blogging…
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Guest Blog Network PostJoint Confirms Google Penalty
Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed via Twitter that action was taken against guest blog network PostJoint. This is the second major guest blog network that Google has penalized this year, following the highly publicized MyBlogGuest penalty last month.
Google Slaps Another Guest Blog Network: PostJoint
Google’s Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed on Twitter that Google has taken action on another guest blogging network. This network is named PostJoint and claims “there’s no footprints.” Someone tweeted to Matt that PostJoint was penalized. In fact, if you check out Google for a…
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Google Trends Now Lets Users Subscribe To Receive Email Notifications
Google Trends announced today it has added a “Subscribe” feature, allowing users to receive email notifications on search topics, Hot Searches for any country, or any US monthly top chart. From the announcement by Googler Gavri Smith on the Google Search blog: I’m a Liverpool F.C….
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Google AdSense Quality Score Details Wanted
We all know that Google AdWords used quality score as a major factor with ranking ads and with that, they have added features over the years to communicate to advertisers how they can improve their quality score…
Google Q1 2014 Earnings: Paid Clicks Drop, While CPC Holds
This week, Google announced earnings and the buzz around the industry is that they missed their marks. Google blames the results on the purchase of Nest.
Google AdSense Ad Review Center Improved
Google announced they have made major improvements to the Ad Review Center within Google AdSense.
The ad review center lets publishers monitor and approve/reject ads from advertisers. The new features make it easier for publishers to monitor and make…