The Definitive Guide to Technical Mobile SEO
At SMX Advanced, I moderated a panel about technical SEO. Google’s Maile Ohye spoke about SEO best practices for technical implementation of mobile sites based on how Google crawls, indexed, and ranks mobile content and presents it to searchers on mobile devices. She also talked about Google’s…
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Facebook’s Graph Search Then & Now: What’s Changed
Facebook has started rolling out Graph Search to all US English users, a move that comes about seven months after the product first launched to a small number of users in mid-January. Graph Search has gone through some changes since then, perhaps none …
Facebook’s Graph Search Expands To All US English Users
Facebook is opening up its Facebook Graph Search beta to all accounts that use US English. In an announcement today, Facebook says the expansion is underway now and will continue over the next few weeks. You’ll know you have Graph Search access when you see the new search box above. Facebook…
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Confessions Of A $100/Month SEO Client: Part II
Last month’s post on the realities of low-cost SEO for small businesses seemed to hit a nerve and got some great responses. One of the best was from a Bill Trott, the owner of Bill’s Pest and Termite in Phoenix, not to mention a guest star on Discovery’s Property Wars….
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 5, 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: Search In Pics: Xoogley Tesla, Google Lite Brite & Running Of The Non-Newtonian Fluids In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images…
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Search In Pics: Xoogley Tesla, Google Lite Brite & Running Of The Non-Newtonian Fluids
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. Xoogley Tesla Roadster: Source: Google+ Google’s Giant Lite Brite:…
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You’re Dead… If You Don’t Integrate Social Media & PR Into Your Local SEO Strategy
The peppered moth (Biston betularia), once white with black spots, faced a strange challenge in London during the Industrial Revolution. Buildings and trees, stained with soot, turned black. The light colored moths could no longer hide against this bac…
Webcast: Optimize Your Landing Experience for PPC
Digital Marketing Depot Webcast July 18th 1:00EDT/10:PDT – This webcast will focus on tactical, how-to advice for creating and optimizing landing pages to increase conversions with guidance specific to PPC. Attend this webcast and learn how to find the right combination of keywords for a…
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Search Engines Keep The Lights Out On Fireworks Ads, Mostly
Happy 4th of July! It’s fireworks season here in the US, a time when online searches for “fireworks” skyrocket. Yet, ads for explosives and pyrotechnic devices like “firecrackers”, “bottle rockets,” and “fireworks” are not allowed per…
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Bing Discovers Searches Made During July 4th Holiday Week Same As Any Other Day
What were Bing users searching for leading up to this July 4th holiday? It appears the same as any other day. Based on Bing’s search records from earlier this week, celebrities remained more popular than American historical figures and Independence Day topics. After reviewing search logs,…
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Google July 4th Logo Answers The Question: When is Independence Day?
Today’s Google logo celebrates this year’s Independence Day with an interactive image of an illustrated family of dogs road tripping across the US. Set on the background of a paper map like your dad may have used before Google Maps, stars highlight trip locations across the country to…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 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: New AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting Google has announced a new AdWords integratio…
New AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting
Google has announced a new AdWords integration for Google Analytics that starts rolling out today. The biggest immediate change is that campaign names in Analytics will reflect the lastest naming in AdWords. Currently, if you rename a campaign, the dat…
Google News OneBox Card Style
Aaron Bradley spotted a new look for the Google News OneBox results, as you would see them in the Google web search results. The new design for the news results in the web search results look more like “Cards” that Google has been using within their Google Now and mobile views. Here is…
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SMX Social Media Marketing Registration Open – Best Rates Available Now
Do you live and breath social media marketing? Everyday 24/7? Or manage a team that does? Join us for SMX Social Media Marketing, the only conference for social media marketing professionals that deliver cutting edge paid, earned and owned social media…
Google Logo Celebrates the 130th Birthday Of Franz Kafka
Today, Google’s logo celebrates the 130th birthday of one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, Franz Kafka. Born into a German-speaking family in Prague on July 3, 1883, Franz Kafka’s publishing career began with a number of short stories published in German literary…
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In-House Mobile SEO — Why Is It So Difficult?
As the growth of mobile charges on, mobile search optimization becomes an increasingly important skill for an in-house SEO to possess. If you are an in-house SEO preparing to delve into the world of mobile search, this article is meant to explain what …
Mobile: A New Element For The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors
When we updated our Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors last month, we came very close to adding a mobile element to it. Now we’ve actually done so, in the wake of Google giving explicit advice that sites with issues for mobile devices might not rank as well, in the future. We were close,…
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StartPage, Ixquick Passed 4 Million Daily Searches On Monday
StartPage and Ixquick, sister search engines that offer private searching, announced that they surpassed four million daily direct searches on Monday. The announcement comes about three weeks after the parent company announced that they reached three m…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 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 Alerts Drops RSS Delivery Option Google has quietly dropped the support to deliver your Google Alerts via RS…