What you didn’t know about recent Quality Score changes
Columnist Frederick Vallaeys discusses the impact of some recent AdWords changes on Quality Score and provides an updated version of a free script that calculates account-level Quality Score.
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Penguin 4.0: what does it mean for SEO practitioners?
As you’re no doubt aware, Google finally rolled out its Google 4.0 algorithm update at the end of last week.
If Your Store Locator Sucks Don’t Be Surprised If You Got Hammered By Possum
Is your store locator a crazed bastard stepchild? Some more evidence that Possum|Platypus|Patagonia|Loren Baker was the “near me” update. We just discovered that the store locator page on one of our clients’ sites was deindexed by Google about two weeks ago. There was nothing “technical” that would have caused Google to do this (i.e. no noindex […]
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More online product searches start on Amazon than Google
The second annual State of Amazon study by BloomReach found that 55% of consumers start their online product searches on Amazon, compared to 28% who opt for a search engine.
How do you deal with local SEO KPIs that don’t pass the smell test?
We all know that data can sometimes be unreliable, but columnist Andrew Shotland makes the case for why we shouldn’t just rely on free Google tools for data collection and analysis.
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Why Google celebrates its 18th birthday, not on its birthday
On Google’s homepage today, Google is celebrating their own birthday. But it’s not really their birthday! Find out why.
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Google to roll out cross-device retargeting
Cross-device remarketing for signed-in users will roll out over the next few months.
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Reliable search volume data: a glimmer of hope
While poking around in the Google AdWords keyword research tool recently, I noticed something that made me do a double take.
Case study: JavaScript blocking Google’s view of hreflang
Contributor Sam Gipson troubleshoots issues with a client’s hreflang implementation, testing to see if JavaScript elements might interfere with Google recognizing these tags.
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Was Possum The Near Me Update?
Local SEO strategies targeting “near me” queries in the Local Organic section of the SERPs (the non-Local-Pack/Map results) have been kind of a thing for a few years what with Google making it a default suggestion for most queries it considers even remotely “Local”: While SEOs have been studying the effect of the latest update on […]
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Five Google Shopping tips to help nail your Q4 ROI
Google Shopping tends to be a strong revenue driver for businesses investing in digital marketing. So how do you make sure you are being as efficient and effective as possible on Google shopping?
Guide to Google ranking signals – Part 4: content freshness
This week’s guide to ranking signals continues diving into on-page content factors, with content freshness.
Six most important search marketing news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search marketing and beyond.
Plan device-specific user experience strategies with Google AdWords’ bid modifier
Google recently announced some changes to the way bid adjustments works in AdWords. Columnist Thomas Stern explains how this might affect your device-specific bidding strategies.
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What’s the Google AdWords Health Score and how is it different from existing tools?
AdWords recently released a Health Score feature that ‘grades’ your account, but is it just a rip-off of an existing free performance grader? Columnist Larry Kim compares.
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Penguin 4.0 is finally here, Google confirms
After a couple of years waiting, and various algorithm fluctuations described as ‘normal turbulence’, Google has finally confirmed today that it’s Penguin algorithm update is rolling out in all languages.
Setting up AdWords website call conversion tracking just got a bit easier
Track calls from the phone number on your website with a couple of pieces of code.
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CTR as a ranking factor: what we know so far and how to action it
For the last two years there has been much discussion and debate around whether click through rate (CTR) is something Google uses … read more
Everything you need to know about Google’s ‘Possum’ algorithm update
Wondering what’s up with local search rankings lately? Columnist Joy Hawkins has the scoop on a recent local algorithm update that local SEO experts are calling ‘Possum.’
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Five solid Google AdWords insights from analyzing half a billion dollars in ad spend
In which I set out to look at fresh Performance Grader data to get a sense of what is changing in terms of the overall AdWords ecosystem.