Poll: How Much Of The Marketing Budget Should SEO Get?
A HighRanking Forum thread has a site owner asking overall what should one allocate of the marketing budget towards SEO…
Google Analytics & AdSense Come To Google Glass
The Apps for Google Glass are now rolling in and on the marketers front…
Google AdSense Confirms Favicons On Ads
Earlier this month, we reported signs of Google testing favicons on AdSense ads – the last time we saw tests on this was in 2005.
Well…
I Spun Hundreds Of Articles The Right Way!
Sometimes I don’t get it… I spotted a thread at BlackHat Forums about spinning articles – yes it is a black hat forum, but seriously.
Looking at the conversation that starts of by explaining that the SEO/Webmaster spun these articles the right way…..
Dropped Prices, Increases Conversion & Google Rankings Improved
There has always been a lot of discussion around the topic of conversion rates and if that impacts your Google rankings. Of course, the correlation versus causation item is on the top of ones mind when discussing such topics.
But I wanted to share with…
How To Search Nearby In The New Google Maps
As you know, Google Maps opened up the new Google Maps to all users who want to preview it. With that, comes confusion on how to use the new interface…
Cartoon Authorship In Google’s Rich Snippets
Google has confirmed the complaints about authorship not showing in the search results. They said this is a bug that is impacting a “very few sites” in their index. The fix should be out eventually, as they are working on it…
Lesser Known AdWords Quality Score Facts
Juliana S., a Google AdWords representative, posted a topic in the Google AdWords Help forum named “uncovering quality score.”
In her post…
Can You Redirect A Google Penalty? Probably.
Should you redirect a site that has a Google penalty to a site that does not have a penalty…
Google’s Cutts Says Don’t Worry About Duplicate Content But SEOs Don’t Trust
Yesterday at Search Engine Land I covered a video answer from Google’s Matt Cutts on the topic of duplicate content.
In short, should you worry about having duplicate content on your site or not. The short answer…
Google Earnings: Revenue Up 19%, Paid Clicks Up 23% But CPC Down 6%
Google announced earnings last week and for the first time in a long time, those earnings did not beat expectations.
The main concern from investors is the 6% drop in cost per click (CPC) prices. While we’ve seen a 2-4% decrease in those prices……
Don’t Try To Fix Your Google Maps Listing Yourself, Call Google.
About a month ago, some Google representative in India from the Google Maps team called my office to verify our address on Google Maps. We verified all was good and then he hung up. A day or so later…
Would Google Penalize A Google Ventures Investment?
Joe Hall on Threadwatch highlights a post by Jacob King on how Google Ventures, Google’s investment arm, has a big investment in one of the largest coupon sites on the internet – a site that gets the majority of their traffic from Google organic sear…
Panda Recovery Poll: Did You Recover Last Week?
As you know, Google pushed out a new Panda update last week, that was “more finely targeted.” I suggested this was the softer Panda release that we’ve been expecting but Google didn’t use those words…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 19, 2013
This week’s search video recap is sponsored by EliteFlyers.com and you can win a free t-shirt by watching this video.Google has finally released that softer version of their Panda update…
Google Product Listing Expander Shows 16 Products In Results
RKG spotted a new Google test with the Product Listing Ads, where Google will show an option to expand the products listing ads in the web search results to show up to 16 products in total…
Poll: SEO Clients Not Paying? What Do You Do?
A BlackHat Forum thread has a topic that comes up every now and then – what do you do if your client is not paying you for SEO work you’ve done…
Yahoo Tests Green, Instead Of Blue, Search Ads
Looks like Yahoo is now experimenting with their own background colors for search ads. Spotted by @tecnonetblog – Yahoo seems to be testing a green background color for their ads. Personally…
USA Today & BBC Tricking Google News With Old Stories?
It appears that some major news publications such as USA Today and the BBC are tricking Google News to rank their older stories at the top of the Google News sections.
By tricking I mean…
Pictures Of Google Panda Recovery
Every wonder what the analytics and impression charts look like when you recover from a Panda update…