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Are you the geek to beat? Prove your SEM chops and win a trip for two to SMX West plus your choice of an iPad Mini, Sony PlayStation 4, or an Xbox One. Just answer the most questions in the least amount of time to win. Test your marketing intelligence and see how you stack […]
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Google’s Matt Cutts: A Little Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt Your Rankings
If your duplicate content is for legitimate reasons, webmasters really shouldn’t be concerned about duplicate content. However if you’re utilizing duplicate content in a spammy fashion, Google certainly can take action against those sites.
Retailers Spending Record Levels On Paid Search In 2013 Holiday Season
An early look at the paid search performance this holiday season shows retailers invested at record levels, beginning earlier, and are realizing new levels of revenue from their paid search efforts this year. The record highs in paid search activity se…
Twitter Shares the Year on Twitter #2013
What do the World Series, the Royal Baby, and actress Lea Michelle have in common? They were all the center of this year’s most popular and trending tweets, as Twitter takes us down 2013’s memory lane.
Bing Dresses Up For Christmas
Bing has added a new set of decorations to their search results for the holidays. If you search for [christmas] at Bing, you will see a new wintery top area that counts down to Christmas day, lets you swap out different snowmen and also sends you to the Santa Tracker. Here is a picture of […]
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Nelson Mandela Ranks #1 On Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013
Google has published its top ten global trending searches of 2013, with the recently deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela ranking No. 1 for this year’s top global searches: It’s perhaps unsurprising that the #1 trending search of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and…
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Google Torches Yet Another ‘Undetectable’ Link Network
The target this time was Backlinks.com. The takedown was announced by Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter, where he cited a line from their marketing pitch where they said their paid links were undetectable by search engine bots.
Zuckerberg and ClickZ Live New York: There’s a Keynote Combination
The inaugural ClickZ Live New York, formerly known as SES New York, will begin with a bang, as Randi Zuckerberg opens up the ball as the keynote speaker.
“Let’s Go Caroling” Google Easter Egg Gives Mobile Users Their Very Own Christmas Carol Karaoke Machine
Phandroid.com, a website devoted to Android news and updates, has discovered Google’s latest holiday-themed Easter Egg. When performing a Google search for “Let’s go caroling” on an Android or iOS device, the first result includes the question “Which carol would you…
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5 Increasingly Commodified SEO Solutions That Confuse B2B Marketers
While discussing the changes in the search industry with a B2B marketing colleague earlier this month, he mentioned that many marketing professionals may be confused about SEO, particularly when it comes to advising clients on search initiatives. Jargon, conflicting “expert” opinion,…
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6 Ways to Accelerate Your Local SEO Success in 2014
Examining what Google Hummingbird means to local search in 2014, plus how mobile and local overlap; how to use Pinterest to increase local traffic; turnkey local SEO strategies; free, freemium and premium tools; and some important infographics.
Google: Let’s Go Caroling Card
There is a new Google Now card for a search on [Let’s Go Caroling], honestly, I am surprised it does not work on all Google searches.
In any event…
Google AdSense A/B Test Winner Not Setting?
A month ago, Google launched native A/B testing for AdSense ads.
When Google was 95% confident of an ad type being a winner, it would show you the results and let you choose the winner to continue to run…
Google On IE11 Displays Left Aligned
Google and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 are not acting nicely together. In short, if you are using IE11 and you do a search at Google, the results will be extremely close to the left hand side of the page…
Google: Duplicate Content Pollutes 25-30% Of The Web
We all know Google’s take on duplicate content, it is not spammy, it is not something they have penalties for unless you are being completely evil…
Did Google Soften The EMD Algorithm?
Over a year ago, Google introduced an algorithm to reduce the amount of exact match domains from showing up when those EMDs are not as useful as other sites.
Some at…
Breaking The Mobile Speed Barrier For SEO Gold
2014 will offer a new killer SEO technique or two, it’s my bet that leading the charge will be changes to the mobile SEO algorithm in Google. Or, more specifically, changes to the algorithm’s sensitivity to your site render speed on a smartphone device…
Holiday Ecommerce SEO: The (Almost) A to Z Guide
Has your ecommerce website been a bit naughty this year? If so, it’s not too late to implement these tactics to equip your ecommerce site with a competitive advantage and make the holiday season a little jollier for you and consumers.
2014 Social Media Tricks, Tools & Trends
In the new year, the stakes will be higher and the bar will be raised. Newsrooms will become social. Brands will become publishers. And you will have to pay to play the game. But you will thrive with these awesome social tools and plugins.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Backlinks…