Google Penalties Might Follow You To A New Domain Name
So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain…
Google Targets Poland In Latest Link Network Penalty
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head spam fighter, announced on Twitter that Google has targeted two link networks that are popular in Poland and used often by Polish SEOs and webmasters…
How to Use Google Analytics Campaign Reports
Promoting a website? You’ll be interested in seeing where your traffic comes from then. This post is here to take you through the campaign reports in details – allowing you to take control of your website’s data and improve your results.
Ray Kurzweil’s Job At Google: Beat IBM’s Watson At Natural Language Search
If Ray Kurzweil is right, computers will be smarter than humans 15 years from now. It’s called “technological singularity” and a big part of his job at Google is making sure that vision becomes reality. Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist that became Google’s Director of…
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Google AdWords Search Funnels Attribution Modeling: Think Hard Before You Act
The Search Funnels Attribution Modeling Tool is Google’s attempt to give advertisers more data on the context of a user’s path to conversion. Here’s why you should be excited, and why you shouldn’t get carried away and try to use it too soon.
Live @ SMX West: Measuring The Mobile Lead
According to research from Morgan Stanley, 2014 will be the year that mobile usage surpasses desktop usage of the internet. Another recent study from InMobi found that outside the US and UK, mobile media time spent now exceeds TV. So clearly, obviously…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 24, 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: DoubleClick Search Adds Integration With Channel Intelligence For Product Feed Management Google announced Monday that Channel Intelligence’s feed…
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DoubleClick Search Adds Integration With Channel Intelligence For Product Feed Management
Google announced Monday that Channel Intelligence’s feed management and optimization capabilities will integrate with the DoubleClick Search Commerce Suite. Performics is piloting the integration for “a major retail client”. “We’re really excited to team with Channel…
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Google Targets Two Polish Link Networks While Continuing To Target German Link Networks
Google’s lead of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted on Twitter that Google has taken action on two link networks operated in Poland this week. Matt wrote that Google is “not done with Germany yet, but we just took action on two Polish link networks.” The Google Poland Webmaster Blog…
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Bing Updates iPhone App With New Search Widget, Bookmarks Manager & Shake Feature
Within a week of releasing three new Windows phone apps, Bing announced a series of updates for its iPhone app, including a search widget to help with navigation, new image tiles, and a shake feature to see what stories are trending. According to the a…
AdGooroo Adds Mobile Paid Search Spend Insights, Releases List Of Top Mobile Search Advertisers
Search marketing intelligence firm, AdGooroo announced it is the first to provide insights into search advertising spend on mobile devices. The new mobile search data is now included in the company’s SEM Insights Tool, starting with data from the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Additional mobile…
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Bing Tags Hangs It Up & Shuts Down
Bing Tags, which launched two years ago as Bing Linked Pages and then renamed and did an expansion about a year ago, has hung up the project and shut down the feature. Bing closed down Bing Tags on June 14, 2013. A Microsoft spokesperson told us: We ca…
Google To Look Into Movie Blogs Losing Traffic
About eight different movie blog sites, including Slashfilm.com, have lost traffic in Google — and the issue is apparently big enough that Google is looking into it. On Saturday, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts responded to the owner of SlashFilm on Twitter about the issue where…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: We Reserve The Right To Use EXIF Data For Image Search Rankings
Google’s head of search spam posted a video today reconfirming that while Google may not be using EXIF, exchangeable image file format, data for ranking images today, they do reserve the right to use the data in the future within their ranking algorithm. Google does recommend you use the EXIF…
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gShift Gives Content Marketers More Ways to Mine Twitter Keyword Data
SEO software company gShift has announced a new way for its subscribers to mine valuable data from the conversations a brand’s audience is having on Twitter. Its social keyword research module may expand to other social mediums in the future, too.
Boost Traffic, Rank, Engagement & Sales – Attend SMX West in Two Weeks!
SMX West returns to San Jose in just two weeks! Here is what’s in store: Up-to-date Tactics: SMX West sessions provide you with the latest tactics to cope with algorithm changes, understand evolving paid advertising options and leverage emerging platforms and opportunities. See the agenda….
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Video Ad Views Hit 26.9 Billion in January, SpotXchange Jumps to #1 Spot
According to comScore, 183.8 million Americans watched 48.7 billion online content videos in January 2014, while the number of video ad views totaled 26.9 billion. The number of video ad views is up 195.6 percent compared to January 2013.
10 Local Marketing Myths Hamstringing Your Business
As an internet marketer, I frequently encounter local business owners (and large chain store companies with many local outlets) that haven’t had time to really understand online marketing. Many of them have latched onto some myth that’s completely false — and which can keep their…
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New Google Easter Egg: Blink HTML
Google’s Ilya Grigorik who works on the Google Chrome team posted on Google+ a neat new easter egg in the Google search results…
Bing Warns: Poor Grammar May Lead To Poor Rankings
Duane Forrester from Bing strongly implied on the Bing Webmaster Blog that having poorly written content with poor grammar will have a negative impact on your search rankings within Bing…