Google: Today’s Enhanced Campaigns Rollout Will Take Several Weeks To Complete

Account managers have been bombarded with alerts in their AdWords dashboards for months now. Today, notices like the one below started appearing upon login to AdWords — upgrade your campaigns by July 22  or Google will do it for you. Now, in a new blog post, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy

Duplicate content is a huge topic in the search engine optimization (SE)) space, heck, we even have a category devoted to the topic. But should we worry about it? Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said he wouldn’t stress about it – that is, unless it is spammy duplicate…

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Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX Social Media Marketing

Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered in a session at SMX Social Media Marketing on Nov 20-21, 2013? Something you’d like to see covered in depth, or a discussion strategies and tactics for getting the most out your social media marketing campaigns? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Anyone…

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SMX East Super Early Bird Rates Expire this Week – Register Now, Save Up to $300

Constant algorithm changes. New ad platforms and options. Breakneck growth in mobile usage and advertising. Attend Search Engine Land’s – SMX East, October 1-3 in NYC, and you’ll get the latest tactics, tips and advice from marketing experts who succeed in – or in spite of – the ever-evolving…

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Long Tail Content For SEO — 2013 & Beyond

There was the old way of doing SEO for the long tail. It worked for a long time, and lots of people made lots of money doing it. But those days are gone. What was the old way, you ask? In a nutshell: Research a long list of long-tail keywords Create a …

The Key To Success In Local Lies In A Vertical Approach

Vertical offerings are playing an increasingly critical role, not only in attracting consumers and directing them to relevant local business listings, but also in providing consumers with the necessary tools to evaluate and directly make purchases. As …

Five Steps To Clean Up Your Links Like A Techie

You’ve been in business for many years. You may have done it all on your own, or you may have enlisted the aid of unscrupulous SEO “services” to built links for you. Either way, you may be wondering whether you need to conduct a link clean up. This column contains a five-step…

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Google Enhanced Campaigns Are Here: What You Need To Know Now

If you haven’t done it, Google will do it for you today. All AdWords Enhanced Campaigns “legacy” campaigns will be “enhanced”. Many expected to wake up to an exclusively enhanced world. The big switch-flip at midnight didn’t happen, and you can even still create…

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HopStop Bought By Apple For Public Transit Data

Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Locationary, Apple has bought transit site and cityguide HopStop for an undisclosed amount. It’s an ugly site that has very useful public transit schedules, maps and related information. The value of the data to Apple Maps is obvious. HopStop launched in…

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Search In Pics: Glass Jeopardy, Yahoo Blimps & Matt Cutts With Stormtrooper

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. Jeopardy: What Is Google Glass: Source: Twitter Google Row Boat: Source:…

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Build B2B Brand Awareness, Not Links

Given the ample warning and increased transparency Google provided in advance of Penguin 2.0, it surprises me that B2B search marketers still blew up the forums about being penalized for link spam after it hit. There’s no reason webmasters should not have cleaned up their act before the…

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Link Building Campaign Design: How To Scale Outreach Today

“Scaling link building” is a buzzword that died a slow but well-deserved death over the course of the last several years. Panda, Penguin and common sense were nails in the coffin for many wild link building schemes advertised as “cheap and scalable.” But, if you’re…

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4 Days Before Deadline, Google’s Larry Page: 75% Of Active AdWords Campaigns Are Enhanced

On today’s quarterly earnings call, Google CEO, Larry Page, addressed Enhanced Campaigns and noted that nearly three quarters of AdWords campaigns have migrated. Page said: “… we want to make advertising super simple for customers. Online advertising had developed in very device…

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Enhanced Campaigns Countdown: 10 Best Images That Told Us How You Really Feel

T-minus just days until Google flips the switch on AdWords Enhanced Campaigns. For a bit of a break, we’ve rounded up the best blog post images and meme hijacks made about Enhanced Campaigns since Google announced their arrival in February. In no order of greatness, here are your Top 10: How…

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Google Confirms Panda Update Is Rolling Out: This One Is More “Finely Targeted”

This morning I noticed a possible Panda update was rolling out, one that seemed to be “softer” in nature than the previous updates, where many webmasters who were originally hit by the algorithm are now claiming recovery. Google has confirmed a Panda update is rolling out and this…

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Google: Authorship Bug Affects “Very Few Sites,” Actively Working On A Fix

Google has confirmed that there are current issues with displaying authorship rich snippets on “very few sites.” A Google spokesperson told us “it’s something we’re actively working on” but that “it affects very few sites” on the Internet. This is a…

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