Yandex Posts Q3 2013 Revenue Growth Of 40 Percent
Russian search engine Yandex announced third quarter revenues this morning. The company saw strong growth for its overall business as well as for search-based advertising. Yandex said that total revenues grew roughly 40 percent vs. 2012. The vast major of the company’s revenue comes from…
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Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship
Google’s Authorship program is still a hot topic. A constant string of blog posts, conference sessions and ‘research’ projects about Authorship and the idea that it can be used as a ranking signal fill our community. Yet, the focus on the actual markup and clock-watching when AuthorRank might show up may not be the best use of […]
Authorship Is Dead, Long Live Authorship is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
The “Big” Content Promotion Tip That’ll Save You a Lot of Pain: Never Fail.
A good marketer knows when his idea sucks. Yet many marketers I come across relentlessly push their content without thought for one fundamental influencing factor of its likely success: appeal. You have all been involved, at some stage in your careers in a flawed attempt to be creative. You’ve had a “great” idea, everyone in […]
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Mastering #PPC: Leveraging Goals in Google Analytics
Since we have an Analytics division at SEER that kicks ass, I’ll leave most of that subject matter alone for them and focus on what I know most about: PPC… and a little bit of Google Analytics (GA). More specifically, we’ll be reviewing goals and how you can use these for your paid search efforts […]
FAQ: All About The Banner Ad Test In Google’s Search Results
Yesterday, Search Engine Land broke the news that Google is running a test to show banner ads on branded search results. While the search giant has introduced images to its ad formats, including product listing ads and image extensions, the introductio…
Matt Cutts on SEO, PageRank, Spam & the Future of Google Search at Pubcon Las Vegas
Google’s head of webspam gave a presentation packed with information for webmasters for his second day keynote at Pubcon Las Vegas 2013. Cutts talked Google’s spam strategy, PageRank, rich snippets, authorship, negative SEO and more.
Goodbye, Google PageRank Data: Maybe Just for Now, But More Likely Forever
Matt Cutts confirms at Pubcon what some have thought for months: Google has no plans to fix the broken pipeline that stopped the flow of PageRank data to webmasters. There will not be another PageRank update visible to the public in 2013.
Responsive E-Commerce Design – Will it Improve My Conversion Rate?
Paul Rouke from PRWD kicks off Day 2 of Conversion Conference by addressing how responsive design is imperative for ecommerce and conversions
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Responsive E-Commerce Design – Will it Improve My Conversion Rate?
Advance Your Tactics & Skills; Attend SMX Social Media Marketing – Register Now to Save $200
Social media marketing is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace. With major developments coming daily, it’s difficult to sort through the opportunities. At SMX Social Media Marketing, we won’t just tell you what’s new. We’ll give you the tactics and strategies to benefit most from paid, earned and…
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Spinning Cogs: A Video on Web Psychology
Web psychologist (and award winning speaker) Nathalie Nahai joins us for her SearchLove debut next week. Ahead of the two day conference at The (rather aptly named) Brewery, we thought it only fitting then to catch up with her about what web psychology might mean for you.
Spinning Cogs: A Video on Web Psychology
Web psychologist (and award winning speaker) Nathalie Nahai joins us for her SearchLove debut next week. Ahead of the two day conference at The (rather aptly named) Brewery, we thought it only fitting then to catch up with her about Continue reading »
The Value of Referrer Data in Link Building
How is referrer data useful in your link building strategy? Learn three simple signals to help you better understand and capitalize on your referrer data, plus, find out how to take advantage of competitor data for more diversified links.
34% Of Local SEOs Make Less Than $30,000/Year. Why?
As the local search industry evolves and becomes more complex, the role of local search consultants and agencies becomes more critical. Complexity is increasing across most areas of our fast-growing industry, which makes “local search” all the more confusing for local business owners….
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Google’s Stop Clock Fixed Again
In early August, Google launched a new feature for a Google timer, but earlier this month, that feature stop working. Google did promise to fix it and they just did…
Google Testing Huge Banner Image Ad In Search Results
@SynrgyHQ posted an image of a search result that I felt was a joke, it couldn’t be real. I immediately emailed Google and they confirmed within ten minutes that this as a small test they are running in the United States…
Yahoo, Under Mayer, Accused Of Slowing Microsoft Partnership Rollout
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said Yahoo breach of the agreement “established irreparable harm to Microsoft” and thus has to continue the rollout in Taiwan and Hong Kong…
Google Matt Cutts Hints At Upcoming SEO Changes At PubCon
One of the highlights of the year for me is Matt Cutts talk at PubCon. So me not being there, being 6,000+ miles away, was unfortunate. It was the first PubCon I’ve missed in, well, I can’t remember…
Google Penalty On WWW Revoked But Remains On Non-WWW
A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but remains on his non WWW.
The non WWW is 301 redirected to the WWW and the WWW is set as the preferred domain in Webmaster T…
Universal Analytics: Digital Intelligence Beyond the Web – Conversion Conference 2013
Read about Rob Jackson’s session at Conversion Conference 2013 on “Universal Analytics: Digital Intelligence Beyond the Web – Conversion Conference 2013”
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Universal Analytics: Digital Intelligence Beyond the Web – Conversion Conference 2013
The New SEO — It’s About People, Intent, & Meaning
There are two ways to try and understand the future. One is to gaze into the misty depths of a magic crystal ball and guess what might happen. The other is to view facts from a coldly logical standpoint and draw verifiable conclusions from them. To mak…