6 More PPC Tasks That Are Ideal for an Intern
Internships can be a win-win for both the intern and the company. Hiring the right intern can be a big help to a busy PPC manager, while offering invaluable job experience for the intern. Here are six tasks that are ideal for an intern.
September Search Market: Flat As A Pancake
The September search market share data from comScore got pushed out earlier this evening by financial analysts. As always these numbers aren’t official until comScore releases them tomorrow. Here are the figures as we received them: Google — September: 66.9 percent; August: 66.9 percent…
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Bing Gives IE11 Users A Quick Look At The Top Search Result With New “Pre-Rendering” Feature
Bing released a new search feature today that “almost instantly” renders the associated page of the top search result when clicked. With the goal of providing a “faster end-to-end search experience,” the new “pre-rendering” feature is currently available only to…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 14, 2013
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 Images: Search By Image Not Working For Many Google’s Search By Image feature is currently not functioning for many searchers. The search by image…
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An Introduction to Facebook’s New Page Insights
Facebook Page Insights is where page managers go to get key page performance metrics. There’s a lot of data just waiting to be uncovered in the newest version of Facebook’s analytics. Get familiar with the metrics you can track in this guide.
Google Shared Endorsements Ads to Include User Names, Photos, Ratings, Comments
Google+ announced upcoming updates to its terms of service agreement that clarified how a user’s name and profile photo could show up in advertisements for a business that the person had previously endorsed in some way.
Metadata & You: Best Practices, Benefits & Implementation Made Easy
The benefits of getting the right metadata into your code are many and they go beyond SEO to social media and brand engagement. Here’s a look at the major metadata elements, their benefits, how to implement them, and some tools to make it easier.
Google Search By Image Not Working
Google’s Search By Image, a feature launched in June 2011 is currently not working.
When you upload an image in any format, be it .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .tif, or .webp. Google will return an error message that reads, “The image must be in one of the …
The New Google AdWords Partners Logo
Google has completely redone the AdWords Partners Logo. I suspect it has to do with Google’s new branding coming to AdWords, that we spotted earlier.
The new logo, well, looks nothing AdWords like now. In fact, it is almost hard to know what this r…
Google’s Search Tip Calculator
Google announced on Google+ a new search feature that allows you to quickly calculate the tip you should give after your dinner date.
The default tip is 15% with Google’s tip calculator…
Google’s Terms Of Service Update To Use Your Data On Ads
Starting this Friday, Google sent out a terms of service update specifically around how Google will display your details and information in their content and ads…
Read The Google Patents Related To Google Hummingbird
The talk of the SEO town these days, outside of Penguins, is all about the Hummingbird. To be honest…
Google Images: Search By Image Not Working For Many
Google’s Search By Image feature is currently not functioning for many searchers. The search by image feature allows a searcher to take an image from their computer or plug in an image source URL into Google Images and Google will return related images, with web pages that may have more…
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Eating My (Key)Words: Changing The Way We Think About SEO
I have glimpsed the future of search, and it is not keyword-driven. While I have long been an advocate of using keywords as an indicator of a searcher’s intent, I am about to eat my words. The truth is that search is heading in a direction that most of us could not have foreseen… a […]
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Google And SEO Communications: Swahili Vs. Latin
There are many in the SEO community that get very frustrated with Google, and one of the reasons for this is simple: there is a communications gap. This is not a simple case of US English vs. UK English, but more like Swahili vs. Latin. Many publishers — and many who profess to be SEO…
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3 SEO Success Factors for 2014
What will successful SEO look like in 2014? It will mean allowing your audience to help you build a local presence; building a community, a socialized brand; and optimizing an experience for those who are mobile and content hungry.
5 Inbound Marketing Essentials to Audit
As you go through an audit of your company’s current demand generation status, here are some tips and questions to ask about your target audience and messaging; website/homepage; blog; social presence; and lead captures/call to action.
Will Google Punish a Guest Posting Strategy Due to Unnatural Link Patterns?
After dropping in Google’s SERPs due to an algorithmic change, pursuing guest posting opportunities may look like an attractive option to recover search rankings. So is writing posts for other sites still an effective way to build credible links?
Bing It On Challenge Hits London: Bing Still Finds Bing Superior to Google
Just days after the validity of the Bing It On Challenge faced serious questions, Microsoft has apparently decided that people need more marketing pokes aimed at Google and kicked off another Bing It On advertising campaigns, this time in the UK.
Black Friday Readiness With Search in Mind: Is Your Business Ready?
Thirty percent of consumers begin their holiday shopping before Halloween. Be ready. Pay attention to how search influences the customer journey and plan promotions that coordinate with physical store(s) to drive more in-store holiday sales.