11 SEO Tactics You Need to Know in 2015
As search engines continue to evolve, marketers must improve their skills to keep up. These 11 tips will help you excel in SEO in the coming year.
SEO Reporting – A Simple Yet Powerful Approach
A look at how to simply use data available in Google Webmaster Tools and put it next to a URL-level analytics report to obtain keyword-level insights.
Friday Commentary: Are you the Right Shape for Your Agency?
The size of an agency matters less than the level of expertise it is able to offer. That observation remains important and true to every senior level marketer
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Google’s New Hacked Classifier Misclassifies Some Web Sites As Hacked
Many web sites this morning noticed Google labeled their sites as being hacked and dangerous in the search results. The issue was not with their web sites but rather the Google hacked sites classifier.
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Driving Traffic from Facebook – Whiteboard Friday
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Facebook sends a remarkable amount of traffic, but there’s a lot of confusion around both just how much and (perhaps more importantly for our work) how we can optimize our work to take advantage of it. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, …
Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed
Google published a foreign patent at WIPO today that has an interesting perspective to it. When someone performs a search that involves a specific entity, their search may be influenced by the search engine’s knowledge of their past interactions with content involving that entity. For example, someone searches for “Justin Timberlake” and the search system … Continue reading Google Media Consumption History Patent Filed →
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SearchCap: Google Mobile Carousel Update, Bing Online Ordering & AdWords Android App
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Google Mobile Search Put Publishers’ Content In Carousels
Now users can quickly scan topic-based content from single sources on mobile devices.
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Bing Offers Link To Order Food Online From Your Favorite Restaurants
Now you can order your food online with Bing search. Just search for a restaurant that offers online ordering and click the order online button.
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Google Offers Guidebook for AdWords Updates
Google AdWords has added two new features to its Help section: a how-to guide for paid search best practices and a timeline for keeping track of new updates.
Lunar New Year Google Logo Shows A Sheep, Ram Or Goat?
The Google logo on many of the Google home pages is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It is the first day of a secular, sacred or other year whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon. It is also the Chinese New Year…
Google “This Site May Be Hacked” Mass Warnings This Morning
As I visited the Google Webmaster Help forums, like I do a few times a day…
Google Added Over 200 Features To AdWords In Past Year, Keep Track Of Them Here
Google has launched a new page in the AdWords help center that helps advertisers keep track of what has changed, feature-wise, with the AdWords platform. The new page can be found over here…
Google News Trending Topics Feature Disappears
The image on the right shows how Google News would typically show “trending topics” on the left hand news filter bar. But that no longer shows up on the left bar, instead you just see the general categories of news such as World, U.S…
Google Tests A Search Algorithm Update Yesterday Morning & Revert Back?
It seems Google may have tested a search algorithm update yesterday late morning and then may have pulled it back.
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has chatter from the SEO community around the update but the chatter soon died down after things settl…
HTTP sees its 1st update in 16 years!
HTTP is updating to HTTP/2! According to this article in Gizmodo, benefits include:
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Google News Bug Drops Trending Topics From Side Bar Navigation
A Google bug breaks the Trending Topics feature in Google News. A fix is coming soon, says Google’s Stacie Chan.
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5 Reasons to Ignore SEO
With the dramatic growth of the social Web, and the new ways we can now analyze our traffic and results, should we still be focusing on SEO as a primary marketing avenue?
Google AdWords Launches An Android App For Advertisers But Currently Only For Canadians
Canadian Google AdWords advertisers can now download an Android app for free, to manage their AdWords campaign on the go. Google promises to expand support to other countries soon.
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When a Bad Review is a Good Thing for your Business.
In a world of user-generated content, a bad review can be a serious blow to your reputation. Wayne Denner explains how to handle negative customer reviews and how it can actually be a good thing for your business.
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