Google Mobile Testing Search Results Snippet Descriptions
Google is testing showing site and search results description snippets in the mobile search results interface. Google launched site description overlays in the desktop results earlier this year and now it appears to be coming to mobile results. I perso…
Google Quietly Removes Author Stats From Google Webmaster Tools Labs
In December 2011, Google launched author stats within Google Webmaster Tools, giving those who used authorship across sites, statistics on how well their content did. Author stats were unique in that it would show you how many impressions and clicks yo…
8 Tools To Effectively Organize Your Link Building Campaigns
One of the most difficult parts of a link building campaign can simply be staying organized. Between gathering contact information, sending messages, making phone calls, reading responses, providing content… there’s a lot that goes into it! Plus, let’s be honest — a lot of things…
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Live @ SMX East: Deconstructing Pigeon, Google’s New Local Search Algorithm
If the changes going on in local search are giving you a headache, you’re not alone. For example, Google’s Pigeon update is a newly released algorithm to provide more useful, relevant and accurate local search results that are tied more closely to traditional web search ranking signals. The core…
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SearchCap: Google News Publisher Center, Google Pigeon Droppings & New Bing Ads Interface
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 Launches Google News Publisher Center Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News …
SMX East Preview: What’s New & Why You Should Attend
Our annual Search Marketing Expo – SMX East is less than two months away, and it’s shaping up to be an exceptional show. We’ve developed a ton of new content for the conference to keep you current with the latest tactics, tools and techniques. What’s New In SEO A better question…
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Google Launches Google News Publisher Center
Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News publishers to use to help manage their news sites within Google News. The new portal is named Google News Publisher Center. As long as your news site is verified within Google Webmas…
Picking Through Google’s Pigeon Droppings…
Local appears to have been hit with the most far reaching update since Venice, and one that has flung more kaka than Hummingbird – so “Pigeon” seems pretty apropos, perhaps because Google appears to be treating many local SERPs like so many statues in the park. Pigeon Is A Major…
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How SEO & Content Marketing Can Transform Your Business – And Life
If you’re reading this, you probably know that SEO can help businesses bring in new clients, increase cash flow, and encourage existing clients to spend more money. But have you ever thought about how, as a marketer or a consultant, SEO can help you market yourself, boosting your own career,…
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New Bing Ads Interface Begins Rolling Out Today: What To Expect
Starting today, some customers will begin to see the new Bing Ads user interface announced last week. All customers will have the new look in the coming weeks. The new interface design is cleaner with fewer competing colors and a bigger report canvas. …
John Venn, Inventor Of The Venn Diagram, Gets Google Logo On His 180th Birthday
Today’s Google logo is a hat-tip to British logician and philosopher, and inventor of the Venn diagram, John Venn on his 180th birthday. Born on this date in 1834, Venn came up with the idea of using circles to sort groups to illustrate their relationship to each other sometime around 1880…
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An Open Letter To The New SEO Generation
SEO is almost 20 years old. Can you believe it? There’s some argument about when the practice started, as well as when the term itself was coined, including a failed patent attempt from 2007; but most industry old-timers put the birth of SEO at around 1995. So, after almost 20 years, what do we…
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SearchCap: Foursquare Experts, Google Blessings & LinkedIn B2B Tools
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant – August 12th Webcast Digital Marketing Depot presents “Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant:…
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Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant – August 12th Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant: Emerging Trends for Call Tracking in 2014″ on Tuesday, August 12th at 1 PM EDT. Carlton van Putten from ContactPoint will share emerging trends for call tracking in 2014. He wíll explain why…
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Google Quick Answers For Jewish Food Blessings
Google is now offering the answers for what blessings observant Jewish people should make prior to consuming food or drinks in their quick answers. The term for blessing in Hebrew is ‘Bracha‘ and if you search for [bracha for yogurt], Google will return a quick answer telling you what…
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Foursquare “Experts” Reintroduces Gamification Into New App
In order to broaden its appeal Foursquare has been backing away from its origins as a “check-in app” for a long time. The banishment of check-ins into a separate app, Swarm, seemed to mark a complete break with the company’s “gamification” legacy. Not so apparently….
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How To Use LinkedIn As A B2B Link Prospect Development Tool
It’s no secret that LinkedIn is widely considered one of the top social media platforms for B2B marketers. As illustrated in the fourth annual B2B Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report, put out by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 91% of B2B content…
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Search In Pics: Google Cookie Tower, Android Framed & Google Whiskey Delivery
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. Google Whiskey Delivery Via Telepresence Robot: Source: Google+ Cup Cakes…
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Google Adds Webmaster Tools Verification For Google My Business
Mike Blumenthal reports that you can now instantly verify your Google Local listings, formerly known as Google Place Listing and now known as Google My Business, through Google Webmaster Tools. Google’s Jade Wang announced this in the Google forums saying, “starting today, if you’re…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Google Not Provided Insight & Intelligence
With Google’s shift to Secure Search it’s not uncommon for a company’s “Not Provided” keywords to account for more than 70% of all search traffic. Marketers and search marketing professionals lose all insight into the keywords that are performing in organic search….
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