Google Does Love Windows Phone, When It Comes To Search — Angering YouTube Users

Google doesn’t care about Windows Phone, given the latest spat over its YouTube app? Think again. Google cares very much, at least when it comes to search. That apparent double-standards is something users of its Windows Phone search app have taken to its review page to express upset over….

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Search In Pics: Google Bus, Glass Welcome Here & Google Stair Case With Keywords

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 Bus: Source: Google+ Google Glass Welcome Here: Source: Google+…

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Building An Enterprise-Level Search Marketing Team: Part 2

In July, I began my two-part series on building an enterprise-level search marketing team. We left off with a review of the essentials for SEO, including all the technical and editorial factors that can hinder your website’s rankings in the search engines. If you’ve followed my…

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5 Ways To Get Way More Results From Link Building Outreach

If you’ve heard me talk, you know that I’m ridiculously passionate about link building that, ahem, works. I mean, getting a couple links out of a campaign is nice. After all, a link is a link. But if you’ve done all the work to find 100 “webmasters,” researched their…

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72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study]

Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling about paid search marketing and where they plan to spend their money in 2014. A large majority, 83 percent of respondents, said they are feeling positive about the state of paid search….

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How to Create & Measure Quality Content – Webcast Aug. 20

Digital Marketing Depot presents “How to Create & Measure Quality Content Your Audience & Search Engines Will Love,” Tuesday, August 20 at 1 PM EDT. Speakers Nathan Safran of Conductor and Ryan Howard of Trident Marketing will share their expertise. Registration is free at Digital…

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Attribution: Busting The Myths

As one of the hottest topics in marketing, attribution is often presented as a panacea for marketers’ dilemmas, allowing you to understand how different advertisements in a purchase funnel work together. The typical description first shows how conversions attributable to various channels…

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Used To Searching For Content? Now, Content Searches For You

When it comes to search, we are accustomed to queries that are initiated client-side and not server-side. But, Google Now and similar services are altering this long-standing trend. Search, by definition, implies user-initiated actions. How is this changed by technology such as Google Now and…

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10 Bad Assumptions About SEM That Might Get You Fired — Part 1

I’ve been a search engine marketer (both paid and organic) for over ten years, and in that time I have made my share of mistakes. I’m not talking about pure accidents here — most of these mistakes were caused by poor assumptions on my part which turned out to be horribly wrong….

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Google: We Prefer To Assess Reconsideration Requests On Links Within Webmaster Tools However…

What does a webmaster do when they receive a manual action from Google telling them they have a penalty because of paid or bad links pointing to their site? Google has told us back in June that you should use Google’s “links to your site” report within Webmaster Tools to analyze bad links pointing…

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Is Paid Social Media The New Paid SEO?

Brands have a new way to pay for external or offsite SEO, a path to influence rankings. It follows the search engines’ terms of service and can lead to the type of links Google says are among the most valuable. Google spokespersons even endorse the principle behind this new paid form of SEO……

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Paid, Earned & Owned. Facebook, Twitter & More. Get It All At SMX Social Media Marketing Las Vegas – See The Agenda!

Struggling to demonstrate the value of Twitter followers? Trying to decipher Facebook’s ever-changing advertising options? Uncertain if Google+, Instagram, Pinterest or Tumblr deserve a slice of your limited time and attention? Attend SMX Social Media Marketing for a jam-packed program of cutting…

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Over 19 Billion Searches In July, Google And Bing Both Up

Earlier today comScore released July 2013 US search market share data. The figures reflect modest growth for Google, stasis for Bing and contraction for everyone else. Google bumped up slightly from last month to 67 percent market share, while Bing hovered just below 18 percent. Yahoo lost a tenth…

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Google Brings More “Now” To Search With New Quick Answers

Google is bringing more of the capabilities of Google Now to the search box and providing a range of personalized “quick answers” regardless of platform. These new search capabilities focus on “travel and logistics” use cases: reservations, flights, package tracking and…

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Building The B2B Organic CRO Machine

Over the last few years, I’ve watched the search marketing industry grow from being traffic-growth focused to being conversion- and usability-oriented. In the coming years, I expect to see an even stronger focus on usability and conversion. One thing that makes the B2B sector different from…

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AdWords Editor Update Brings Upgraded Sitelink Management And More

Google released an update to AdWords Editor, version 10.2, that supports upgraded sitelink management and several other smaller feature updates. Apparently now dubbed upgraded sitelinks, these new sitelinks rolled out in June just prior to the enhanced campaign roll-out. They give advertisers the…

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