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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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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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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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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