Linksgiving: 10 Things To Be Thankful For This Year

With Thanksgiving just two days away, I thought it was only fitting to discuss what I think we should all be thankful for this year when it comes to link building. After all, with the surge of updates, algorithm shifts, and keyword reporting changes that have happened in the past year, it’s…

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5 Trusted Accounts Every Local SEO Should Have

As local marketers, most of us know how to set up a Google Places for Business account or create a Facebook Page. But, these are not the only accounts you should be creating in order to get the full benefit of your local SEO campaign. Below are five tr…

Google’s Matt Cutts: We Dropped The 100 Links Per Page Guideline But We May Take Action If It Is Too Spammy

Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why Google no longer has that 100 links per page Webmaster guideline. In fact, the guideline was dropped well before 2008 but SEOs and webmasters still think having over 100 links on a page is something that may lead to a penalty. The truth is,…

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Google Trusted Stores Now Integrates With AdWords, Shows StellaService Ratings In US

Today Google formally announced several updates for Google Trusted Stores, the free ratings service Google launched in 2011, just ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. AdWords Seller Ratings Integration Google Trusted Stores is now among the services that help to power seller ratings, which show…

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Covario Named 2013 Search Agency Of The Year By OMMA Third Year In A Row

OMMA (Online Media, Marketing and Advertisting) Magazine has named Covario the 2013 search agency of the year for the third consecutive year. According to a release posted on the agency’s website, Covario was recognized for, “its ‘smarter approach’ to delivering…

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White Ribbon On Google’s Homepage Helps Raise Awareness For UN’s Campaign To End Violence Against Women

Today’s white ribbon on Google’s homepage is in support of the United Nation’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The ribbon image links to the www.UNWomen.org End Violence Against Women webpage, offering visitors a brief overview of the…

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Ask.com Posts Most Popular Questions Of 2013 Without Waiting To See What Gets Asked In Dec.

It’s not even Thanksgiving week, but Ask.com has posted its Most Popular Questions and Search Terms for the year, listing 2013′s top ten trending terms for news, celebrity and entertainment, and political searches. According to the site, the Royal Baby ranked No. 1 for the top searched…

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Search In Pics: Duck Duck Go Flags, GoTo.com Swag & Google’s Winter Wonderlab

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’s Winter Wonderlab: Source: Google+ Glowing Google Book:…

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How Paid Search Can Aid Your SEO Efforts

PPC and SEO have always been complementary marketing channels — but have you been using this combination to its full potential? With keyword data now largely gone and Hummingbird making quality content vital to your SEO strategy, it has never been more important to invest in SEO — but…

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Doctor Who Gets A Google Logo & Video Game For Its 50th Birthday

Google is celebrating the 50th birthday of the BBC’s Doctor Who series early, with a global release of a Doctor Who-themed Google logo and game on its homepage today. The actual anniversary of the show is tomorrow, November 23, but Google has already started rolling out the tribute logo and…

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2014 SEO Roadmap: Adopting Semantic Markup

In Google’s relentless pursuit of organizing the world’s information, the most exciting shift we’ve seen over the last year is about its ability to understand the “meaning” behind content (via the Knowledge Graph) and queries (via its Hummingbird algorithm update). In…

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Hummingbird In The Trenches: A Canary In The Coal Mine

I’ve been gathering and analyzing reports and in-the-trenches data from in-house marketers about Google’s Hummingbird, and I believe what I am seeing is on par with finding a dead canary in a coal mine. Pardon the morbid analogy, but the writing is on the wall, folks, and it has been…

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Bing Integrates TripAdvisor Tools, Content Into Search Results

Travel site TripAdvisor made two Microsoft-related announcements today. The company announced a Windows 8.1 app. But more significantly TripAdvisor and Bing are now presenting TripAdvisor content and travel search capabilities within the Bing search en…

SPONSOR MESSAGE: SEO Opportunities from Hispanic Searches

Digital Marketing Depot Webcast: December 10th 1:00EDT/10:PDT – With 80% of Spanish-language searches in the US done in Google’s English-language interface, there lies a new opportunity for digital marketers. Join us as SEO experts from Covario demonstrate why having an effective Hispanic SEO…

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