State of Digital conference session: How to become an SEO Rockstar
The inaugural State of Digital conference is taking place today in London. Here is Polly’s recap of one of the sessions with Bas van den Beld and Dave Naylor.
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Guide to the top marketing automation platforms
Which marketing automation software is right for your business?
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Annelieke’s Analytics: Sequence segments in Google Analytics
I love segments! And for those of you wondering why I love them, or for those of you wondering what the heck segments are: I’ve written a post about segments in Google Analytics, that I invite you to read. In short: using segments makes your Google Analytics life a whole lot more interesting because it specifies your […]
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3 reasons why Google My Business search queries don’t match Search Console
If you work in local search, are you regularly checking the Search Query report in Google My Business Insights? Here’s why you should be.
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Google: Other Sites Outranking You For Your Content While Sourcing You
Google’s John Mueller talked about the frustration some may feel when you write a breaking story about a topic no one has covered yet other web sites are outranking you for that story, even though these other web sites link to you as the source. John …
Bing Not Listening To Submit URL Webmaster Tools Feature
I am hearing some reports that even the submit URL tool within Bing Webmaster Tools is not working. We know Bing killed off the anonymous submit URL tool and told us to use the one within Bing Webmaster Tools. But if you try to use it and check your s…
Dragonfly: What we know about Google’s possible plans to re-enter China’s search market
Separating facts from speculation on recent reports of Google re-entering China’s search market. What do we know, and what can we reasonably expect from Google in China over the short and long term?
Google Ads URL Anchors Shouldn’t Impact Campaign Performance
Google responded on Twitter to a question about using anchors in your destination URLs within your Google Ads campaigns. In short, anchors should not impact your campaign performance in a negative or positive manner. Google said “Using anchored links…
Google’s John Mueller Defends His Making Links Against Guidelines Statement
Last week we reported that Google’s John Mueller said that the concept of making quality links is by definition against Google’s guidelines because you are making those links and they are not links that were naturally given by the party. Since then th…
Google Cache 404 Hack & Workaround
For months and months I get complaints that the Google Cache is serving up a 404 error for their web sites. They are nervous and worried that this means there is an issue with their site and their web site rankings in Google will dive. It won’t dive …
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Google My Business Agency Account Migration Tool
Google’s Allyson Wright, a Community Manager for Google My Business, shared in the Google Business Help forums that they are currently doing a limited rollout of a new agency account migration tool. Allyson said the tool will help “improve the process…
Old Google Ads Interface Shutting Down October 4th or October 18, 2018
After over two years of testing, Google is going to be shutting down the old Google Ads interface and the new Google Ads interface will be the exclusive way to manage your Google Ads (formerly AdWords) campaigns. Google sent two dates to advertisers on…
Google Tests Minimalist Local Pack Again
We’ve seen it before, a more subtle and more minimalistic layout and design for the Google local pack in the mobile search results. Here is another screen shot of it, this time from Mike Blumenthal.
Google Assistant Gets Redesign & Enables Money Transactions
This week, Google announced that the Google Assistant has received a redesign or makeover. This makes it easier for you to get things done over voice or using your hands. Google also announced you can now make money using the Google Assistant.
Google Search Algorithm Ranking Shuffling On October 4th
The Google search results don’t seem to be settling down at all, at least not over the past five weeks or so. I am seeing more chatter and signals that there was another search ranking algorithm update, probably a smaller one, yesterday. Many of the a…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Birthday Updates, Dynamic Rendering, Google Assistant, Discover & Lens
September 27th update – so I am naming it the Google Birthday Update. Google also said to make your sites better if you were impacted by it. Google may have made more tweaks to that Google Birthday update on October 4th…
SearchCap: Bing political ads & Google Search Console issues
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Remkus’ Roundup: Are you ready for WordPress 5.0?
Welcome to the first of my weekly Remkus’ Roundup post. This is the beginning of a series where I’ll share what’s happening in the WordPress community. Let’s start with this week! The road to WordPress 5.0 The most important news of this week revolves around two blog posts over at the Make WordPress Core blog. […]
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Bing votes ‘no’ on political candidate and ballot measure ads
The policy will not likely impact Bing’s ad revenue as the search engine reports political ads make up a small portion of its advertising volume.
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