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Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world, June 11-12 in Seattle. SMX Advanced features two days of expert-only sessions, keynotes and the highest-level networking anywhere. Six in-depth workshops offered on June 10. SMX Advanced has sol…
Twitter Celebrates 8th Birthday With #FirstTweet Tool
Twitter today is celebrating its eighth birthday. With 500 million tweets sent per day and 240 million active global users, Twitter is using the marking the occasion by giving everyone the opportunity to look back at the first tweets for any user.
Twitter Reveals Which Tweets Get the Most Engagement [Study]
Twitter conducted a study of more than 2 million tweets to find out which elements in a tweet actually garnered more engagement. The data was then broken into segments like news, TV, sports, music and government to show what worked in each sector.
You’re Kidding? T-Mobile & WebDesign.org Buy & Sell Links Over Twitter
You know selling and buying links is against Google’s guidelines right…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Multiple Breadcrumbs For The Same Product
There is an interesting SEO question that Google’s Matt Cutts did a video answer for. The question was:
Many of my items belong to multiple categories on my eCommerce site…
Google’s Matt Cutts: We Can Take Action On Sites Benefiting From Guest Post Networks
Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts announced they’ve penalized a large guest blog network but never said which one. The search community believes it is MyBlogGuest…
Google Search Share Stable, Bing Growth Continues At Yahoo’s Expense
In February Google controlled 67.5 percent of US search query volume, according to comScore. Bing had 18.4 percent and Yahoo 10.3 percent. These numbers were essentially unchanged from last month. Compared with a year ago, Bing’s share has grown and Yahoo’s declined. In February 2013…
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Google’s Matt Cutts Implies MyBlogGuest Publishers Will Receive Penalties, While Many Begin Receiving Manual Action Notifications
Google has taken action on a large guest blog network that we believe is MyBlogGuest.com. In fact, the owner of MyBlogGuest.com, Ann Smarty confirmed last night she received a penalty. Yesterday, there as confusion over if those publishers who particip…
Google Can Now Solve Your Geometry Math Questions
Google has quietly upgraded their search calculator to not just answer your basic math questions or graphical or 3D math questions but now it can do your geometry homework. You can ask Google geometry related questions and it will solve them for you, s…
Going Beyond Basic SEO Techniques: 3 Overlooked Traffic Growth Opportunities
Following SEO best practices will result in steady improvements to a point. But what happens when you hit a plateau? Here are three examples of how you can break through your plateau and help you steadily increase your search visibility.
The Knowledge Graph: Should Your Content & Business Strategy Change?
Many articles have been written on the Google Knowledge Graph and its impact on SEO, but have you given thought to how the Knowledge Graph potentially impacts your content strategy — or even your entire revenue model? For many publishers, it’s time to take stock of how to work with the…
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Google Knowledge Graph Adds “Related Topics” Section
Alex Chitu noticed that Google’s knowledge graph has now added a “related topics” for certain types of queries. The example provided shows a search for [equilateral triangle shows a knowledge graph that also adds topics for equilateral polygon, square, regular polygon, and…
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Okay Google: Take A Photo/Video Comes To Google Mobile Search
Google announced on Google+ that you can now ask your Android phone to take a photo or a video by saying, “Ok Google,” then “take a photo” or “take a video.” This will launch the Android camera app in the photo or video mode so you can quickly take a photo. I…
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Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others Remind Us It’s The Spring Equinox Today
I still have mounds of snow at my office and home in New York but hey, today is the first day of Spring, also known as the Spring Equinox. Yep, no matter what, on March 20th, in New York and this hemisphere, it is Spring today…
Google Glass New Glassware Design Is Pretty But…
Google has quietly pushed out an updated design and interface to the Glassware page that Google Glass Explorers go to in order to activated or remove Glassware for their Google Glass…
4 Recent Changes to Search That Make SEO Easy as Finding Hidden Treasure
The rise of keyword “(not provided)”, Google’s search results page redesign, Google’s heavy focus on paid search, and too many people claiming “SEO expertise” have all combined to make search engine optimization more challenging than ever.
Spring Equinox Google Logo Marks First Day Of Season With Blooming Flowers
After an especially long winter, today’s Google logo is a site for cold eyes, celebrating the much anticipated start of Spring with an animated illustration of flowers blooming. The logo starts with a white amoeba-shaped character holding a watering can on a blank screen. As the oddly-shaped…
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AdMob Now Has Google Analytics Integration, Tag Management for Content Experiments
Google has announced that AdMob users now have access to Google Analytics data from directly inside the AdMob platform. Google has also added tag management for content experiments, which gives more tools for in-app purchase options.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 19, 2014
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: We’ve Taken Action On A Large Guest Blog Network Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, announced really early this…
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New Study Diagnoses Why Google’s Flu Trends Are Always Wrong
It seems that Google Flu Trends has had a nasty habit of overreporting flu rates. Media coverage and even some of Google’s own algorithmic changes are the two biggest culprits causing the inflated flu trend data, according to a new study.