More Proof Google Counts Press Release Links, Using Matt Cutts’s Own Blog

About six months ago, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, made a comment in a Google forum thread that links within press releases won’t “benefit your rankings.” Since then, we showed one case where Google not only discovers the links within typical press releases but…

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93% Of Local SEOs Expect To Grow Their Business In 2013

Last week, we published the findings of the BrightLocal Local SEO Industry Survey 2013. The objective of this survey is to gain greater understanding about the health and nature of the local SEO Industry. Through this survey, we aim to find out what life is like “on the ground” for…

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Targeting: AdWords Vs. Google Display Network Vs. Programmatic Display

Search engine marketing’s meteoric rise over the last decade is due, in large part, to the superiority of query-level targeting as compared to other online advertising channels. The targeting edge that SEM once held, however, may be slipping. Indeed, for many advertisers and many verticals, SEM may…

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Google Search App With Google Now Breaks Into iTunes Top 10

When Google first released its updated Google Search app last October, it never made the iTunes top ten and, last week, wasn’t even in the top 100. But the addition of Google Now helped the app make the top ten in less than a week. Google relaunched its app last October with Siri-like voice…

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Local SEO Industry Survey Reveals Most Customers Want On-Site SEO & Google+ Optimization Services

A local SEO industry survey, managed by SEO software company Brightlocal, revealed that the most in-demand SEO services are on-site SEO and Google+ optimization. Conducted between January 20 and February 20 of this year, the survey evaluated the health…

Bing Ads To Launch Ad Diagnostics Tool: Learn Why Your Ad Isn’t Running And How to Fix It

Bing Ads has made several announcements about upcoming feature updates over the past few weeks (see below in Related Articles), and they’ve made another today. Soon, the Ad Preview Tool will get a new name and added functionality. In its current form, you can use the Ad Preview Tool to…

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