Google Cites Local Inventory Ad Successes After Walmart Drops Out

Impact on in-store visits outperforms TV ads, says Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores.

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Google’s About To Close Your Local Doorway Pages

Please Do Not Slam The DoorToday Google published “An update on doorway pages”. The post implies that Google will soon be updating its algorithm to weed out offending doorway pages from the SERPs: Sites with large and well-established doorway campaigns might see a broad impact from this change. While sites with spammy set ups such as multiple exact match domains […]

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February’s Google Analytics Blog Insights to Grow Your Business

Here’s your summary of what happened over on the Google Analytics blog, and in the analytics industry in general, in February and how you and your team can take advantage of these developments!

Who Should Care: Anyone who uses AdWords to advertise and Google Analytics to analyze!…

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The Evolution Of Google SERPs: Three Key Takeaways From SMX West 2015

We all know search engine results pages look different these days. Contributor Adam Dorfman shares information from experts that quantifies the difference and explains how marketers can cope.

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How Much Traffic Will You Lose From The Upcoming Mobile SEO-Pocalypse?

Google’s mobile-friendliness update is coming this April, but should you be rushing to make your site mobile-friendly? Columnist Bryson Meunier explains how to estimate the impact on your site.

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Everything Search Marketers Need To Know About Gmail Sponsored Promotions, Part 1

GSPs are now available to all advertisers. Columnist Susan Waldes has been there since the beta launch two years ago and shares her hard-won best practices.

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Take These 3 Actions To Ready For Google’s Mobile Search Update

Columnist Aleyda Solis provides recommendations to analyze, optimize, promote & monitor your mobile web search presence.

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Is Google’s Panda Algorithm Creating An Endangered Species?

Occasionally, I find myself connecting with random memories from my childhood that have no reason standing out in my brain.  Coincidentally, I remember a movie I saw at age 9 titled The Amazing Panda Adventure.  It was a terribly acted family movie where a young American boy visits China and winds up helping his father (who is a zoologist) rescue a panda cub from (and I’m quoting IMDB here) “unscrupulous poachers and saves a panda reserve from officious bureaucrats.”  It seems almost fitting that Google would choose “Panda” as a naming convention for an algorithm through which I’ve found some well-intentioned websites get caught in the bear trap of Google’s algorithmic penalty box.…

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Song Lyrics Hit The SERPs: Analyzing Google & Bing Traffic To 5 Large-Scale Lyrics Websites [Case Study]

Many have noted that 2014 was a bad year for lyrics websites, but contributor Glenn Gabe set out to quantify the impact of search engines displaying song lyrics directly in the results pages. Read on for his findings!

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