Category: Search Engine Watch

As an authority, with great visibility, and publishing great content, you will get links. If you’ve been guest posting solely to obtain links, without regard to any other benefit, here’s how to shift into a high value content marketing campaign.

Google has added goal conversions to its real-time reports. The Conversions report shows a list of the most recent goals, sorted by the number of conversions (highest to lowest). The report shows the goal number, then the name you gave your goal.

The application describes a device that would be placed on a wristband and would include one or more touch displays. The watch would include both clock hardware and a data line, suggesting the device will be capable of connecting to the internet.

Yahoo’s front-page news stream now displays personalized ads alongside news articles and other features. Stream Ads will have a similar look and feel to the news articles that will share space with the ads on Yahoo’s home page.

Facebook has confirmed that it will remove videos of people having their heads cut off. “We will remove instances of these videos that are reported to us while we evaluate our policy and approach to this type of content,” Facebook says.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual Who Has Your Back? report lauds a number of major companies for their efforts to help preserve user privacy and report to the public the extent of their cooperation with government groups.

LinkedIn reports that affluents use social media primarily for professional reasons. One out of every two surveyed use social media to connect with other professionals, while one in three use social media to engage with professional content.

With 1 billion people visiting YouTube worldwide every month, virtually any audience that content creators or advertisers want to reach is on YouTube. But, according to Google, the audience that most marketers want to reach is called Generation C.

Consistently creating great content is challenging. Rather than constantly churning out new content, you can promote the same or similar content on different media channels. Use these tactics and tools to reach a larger audience with less effort.

The people who pay your bills put a lot of trust in you. They need your direction, guidance and expertise. Take pride in your work or don’t do it. Always remember there are real people behind the numbers you put into your spreadsheet.

Demonstrating ROI is a critical element of marketing performance when faced with reporting obstacles. Here are five recommendations for providing greater performance measurement on B2B SEO programs impacted by “not provided” traffic percentages.

“Just because a patent issues that has somebody’s name on it or someone who works at search quality or someone who works at Google, that doesn’t necessarily mean we are using that patent at that moment,” says Google’s distinguished engineer.

Facebook’s Promoted Page Likes advertising are now available globally, offering businesses worldwide a simplified way to get more Likes to their Facebook pages. Here’s everything you need to know about getting started with Promoted Page Likes ads.

As part of Snickers’ “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign, an ad agency teamed up with Google to target users who made common spelling errors on Google searches. The result: more than 500,000 people saw the ads over three days.

Pinterest use by brands in the fashion retail and automotive industries is lacking. Only 18 percent of fashion retail brands pin items on Pinterest, and more than 75 percent of Pinterest engagement for the automotive industry is driven by users.

Facebook’s ad products delivered $1.25 billion, or 85 percent, of total revenue during the quarter while payments carried the remainder, lifting the company’s net income to $219 million. Total advertising revenue grew 43 percent year-over-year.

Developing a program that involves multiple channels can be complicated. When approaching your ultimate outcome of generating links, taking an engineer’s approach can help you create a link building campaign that will yield optimal results.

When thinking about how to manage PLA programs, retailers often have a tricky personnel decision to make. Should you hire someone with deep SEO know-how or an expert at managing SEM campaigns? Actually, you need both skill sets. Here’s why.

Most journalists operate under a strict code of ethics that forbid them to participate in product reviews. As such, if you are a search marketer turning to reviews for mass media coverage, you may be looking in the wrong place.

Facebook ads aren’t all the same. Marketplace ads (Like Ads, Sponsored Stories, etc.) and Facebook Exchange ads (FBX) offer a different approach to buying, data, and intent. These are the three most important differences you need to understand.