4 Types of Low-Cost Content Small Businesses Should Create
Small businesses need to market themselves without breaking the bank. By creating great content and promoting that content via social media, small businesses are also creating buzz, relationships with consumers, and value to their clients.
4 Ways to Wash Away The Link Building Hate
This is a post from one link building nut to link building nuts everywhere. You know who you are. Link builders love building links — most of the time. But there are lots of reasons to hate it, too. If you hate link building and you’re a link builder, you’d better take a serious…
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Why Real-Time Bidding is Set to Become Huge
What’s all the fuss about real-time bidding? The speed and accuracy of the RTB model provides a massive opportunity to advertisers who may not have been able to spend their advertising budgets effectively with traditional display buying.
Twitter Officially Files for IPO
It has long been speculated, but Twitter has officially filed for their IPO, ending months of rumors. Twitter announced their intention, unsurprisingly, via their online Twitter feed. The terms of the IPO are confidential
SES San Francisco Keynote: Google’s Matt Cutts & Patrick Thomas on Search Engine Censorship
Designing a search engine is no easy task. Should a search engine filter explicit types of content? Here’s a look at the slippery slope Google and many other search engines must navigate when creating algorithms to crawl the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 12, 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 Trends Gets “Trending Top Charts” To Show Interest Spikes; Hot Searches Go Back 30 Days What’s hot in search? Often, it’s the…
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Google Trends Gets “Trending Top Charts” To Show Interest Spikes; Hot Searches Go Back 30 Days
What’s hot in search? Often, it’s the same-old, same-old. That’s why Google Trends has added a new feature today, “Trending Top Charts,” to show interest areas that are spiking in popularity outside the norms. Most Searched For Vs. Trending For example, the Top Charts…
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Search Engine Land’s SMX East Begins Next Month – Register Now & Save!
New developments mean constant change for search marketers. Are you leveraging the right tactics & tools? Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX East, October 1-3 in NYC. Check out the agenda, featuring three days of tactic packed sessions, keynotes, the highest-level…
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Google Webmaster Tools Now Provides Broader & More Diverse Link Data
Google announced today that the link data within Google Webmaster Tools is much broader, more diverse cross-section of links. What does that mean? Well, instead of showing you links in alphabetical order, exported in “lexicographical order” – Google is now showing you sample links…
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Better backlink data for site owners
Webmaster level: intermediate
In recent years, our free Webmaster Tools product has provided roughly 100,000 backlinks when you click the “Download more sample links” button. Until now, we’ve selected those links primarily by lexicographical order. Th…
Google: Unlinked URLs Use For Discovery But Not Ranking
I apologize for missing this a week ago, when I was sitting in the Google hangout where Google’s John Mueller went on record that Google uses unlinked URLs or domains in body content as a way of discovering new content and pages.
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Google Update Reports Again: September 12th
I’ve received a few emails, a bunch of tweets, plus I noticed new comments on our older posts and some updates in the WebmasterWorld thread that signifies a possible Google update rolling out this month.
The chatter is there…
Google Webmaster Tools Give Users More Link Data
Google has announced a change to the way Google Webmaster Tools serves backlinks to users. Now, instead of getting a huge list of backlinks in alphabetical order, they are giving a better representation of all the backlinks.
Google Testing New Look For Mobile AdWords Ads
Keep an eye out for a new look Google is testing for mobile AdWords ads. In the screenshot below, you’ll likely first notice the new eye-catching yellow ad icon next to the display URL. The bright new label replaces the much more subtle “ad” that rests next to the “i”…
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Your SEO Rainy Day Fund
Google penalties are a legitimate concern for anyone who runs a website. When your traffic vanishes, it won’t return overnight, and recovering will take both time and money. Here’s why and how you should prepare now for a huge traffic drop.
Google’s Cutts: Hit By Panda? Then Write Better Content!
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video on what to do if you think your site may have been impacted in a bad bad way by the Panda algorithm.
In short…
Google AdWords New Ad Format Labeled “Ad”
Spotted by two of our readers, @adaircameron and @tecnonetblog, Google is showing a new ad format test for mobile AdWords ads.
This one is interesting because it shows the ad as a normal search results listing…
Two Months Later, Google Alerts RSS Option Returns
Over two months ago, Google quietly dropped support for Google Alerts delivery via RSS/feed. It was believed that it was dropped because of the demise of Google Reader and that has not changed.
What has changed is that the RSS/Feed delivery option ha…
Google AdSense New Formats: Blue Circle Arrows & Cleaner Spaced Ads
Google is testing a new AdSense ad format. The new format has a whiter and cleaner feel, with blue circle enclosed arrows, with hover over animations that expand the ad. The old format had block arrows…
8 SEO Cleanse & Recharge Ideas For Fall 2013
Whether you mark it by Labor Day or the Autumnal (Fall) Equinox, summer is coming to an end — which makes this a great time to give your website an SEO cleanse and recharge the old batteries. Here are 8 things you can do to strengthen quality. 1. Fix Errors Listed In Webmaster Tools Both…
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