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Attend SMX Social Media Marketing for cutting-edge tactics to capitalize on opportunities and overcome the challenges of social media. Whether you are responsible for buying social media advertising, managing communities or customer service, you’ll get the techniques and best practices you need to…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: No More PageRank Updates This Year
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said on Twitter yesterday that Google won’t be pushing out a new Google Toolbar PageRank update this year. Niels Bosch asked on Twitter if we should expect an update to PageRank before 2014. In response to that, Matt Cutts said, “I would…
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Google Launches Fix To Stop Mugshot Sites From Ranking: Google’s MugShot Algorithm
On Thursday, Google released yet another algorithm update, no – not the Penguin update, but an algorithm to combat mugshot web sites from showing up highly in their search results. In February, Jonathan Hochman wrote a story here named Why Google Should Crack Down Harder On The Mugshot…
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What ‘(Not Provided)’ & Google Hummingbird Mean for Small Business SEO
Small business owners who once obsessed over their top keyword rankings and traffic from a few money terms now need to adjust their thinking with the rise of “(not provided)” keywords and the arrival of the Google Hummingbird algorithm. Here’s why.
How Network Admins Can Turn Off Google HTTPS Secure
As you know, Google originally announced SSL search back in 2011 where it would impact “less than 10% of their users.” Now, it is impacting over 90% of users and thus showing [notprovided] to webmasters and marketers about 90% of the time…
Google AdWords API Update Brings Offline Conversions Integration
Google announced last week a new version of the Google AdWords API, v201309…
Google’s Matt Cutts: No PageRank Update Before 2014
It is now over 8 months since the last Google Toolbar PageRank update, which happened on February 4, 2013. At the six month point, Google told us a “no comment” on why there has not been a PageRank update…
Google Penguin 2.1 Was A Big Hit
Late Friday afternoon, Google’s Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that they unleashed Penguin 2.1.
In short, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, said it impacted about 1% of search queries.
Looking at the hundreds of comments on our quick post from…
Future SEO: Understanding Entity Search
Last month, I asked you to imagine the future of SEO with a focus on Entity Optimization as I interviewed veteran semantic strategist Barbara Starr. We discussed an “answer engine” that uses relevant, machine-recognizable “entities” on Web pages to answer specific,…
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Sitemaps & SEO: An Introductory Guide
Sitemaps help ensure your site is fully indexed by feeding your content to search engines – be it a standard XML, or for images, video, news, or mobile. Here’s a walk-through of the initial first steps of how to create and submit your sitemaps.
How To Use The New AdWords Estimated Cross-Device Conversions
A couple of months after the paid search world had to transition to AdWords Enhanced Campaigns in the name of simplified and more relevant cross-device ad management, we are finally getting some initial food for thought with regard to cross-device performance. I called it the “next frontier…
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Paid Search And Marketing Grow Further & Further Apart
A few months back, I wrote an article for Marketing Land called “Is The Art Of Paid Search Marketing Dead?” in which I foolishly suggested there was still a small bit of art left in search marketing. Art? Are you kidding me? Ugh. I haven’t been so wrong or felt so foolish in a long […]
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Google Unleashes Penguin 2.1
Penguin 2.1 has officially been released today.
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam announced it on Twitter:
Penguin 2.1 launching today. Affects ~1% of searches to a noticeable degree. More info on Penguin: http://t…
Matt Cutts: Google Penguin 2.1 is Going Live Today
Google Penguin 2.1 is launching today, according to Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts. The first update to the second-generation Penguin algorithm designed to target web spam will affect “~1% of searches to a noticeable degree.”
Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live
The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. But since this Penguin update is using a slightly improved version of Google’s “Penguin 2″ second-generation technology, Google itself is…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 4, 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: Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me” A story on CNN.com claims that Atlanta voiceover…
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Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me”
A story on CNN.com claims that Atlanta voiceover professional Susan Bennett is the original voice of Siri, Apple’s iPhone voice application. According to the story, Bennett did voice work for the software company ScanSoft in 2005. CNN says ScanSoft was then purchased by Nuance Communications,…
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Search In Pics: Android Mini Golf, Google Garage, & Glass At The Emmys
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Mini Golf: Source: Google+ Google Top Contributor Summit Awards:…
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Instragram Ads Are Coming to Photo Stream
Instagram promises it will begin with only occasional ads. It will initially be U.S. only with a limited number of advertising firms. Also, advertisements must have high-quality images and videos, so they look as if they belonged in the stream.
Instagram Ads Are Coming to Photo Stream
Instagram promises it will begin with only occasional ads. It will initially be U.S. only with a limited number of advertising firms. Also, advertisements must have high-quality images and videos, so they look as if they belonged in the stream.