YP Joins Google’s Premier SMB Partner Program

YP is the largest of the major US yellow pages publishers (and local search providers), with roughly 4,000 sales and support reps and 575,000 (mostly small business) advertisers. The company has now joined the ranks of the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Program. Also on the list are fellow…

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Google Removes Author Photos From Search: Why And What Does It Mean?

The search world was rocked by yesterday’s announcement by Google’s Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller that Google will be removing all author photos and Google+ view counts from search results on both desktop and mobile. This change will roll out to all users over the next few days….

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MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference – Special Rates Expire in 2 Weeks!

Search Engine Land parent company, Third Door Media, Inc., introduces MarTech, a conference for people pioneering the field of technology-powered marketing. View the agenda for session descriptions & the speaker roster. Join us August 19-20 in Boston to learn how technology can transform your…

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(More) Enterprise Link Building Strategies

brandingMany people already argue that links, as ranking signals, are getting less valuable. Google’s search algorithm is still based on the link graph.

Most of their actions (such as Penguin update, and the successive batches of manual unnatural linking penalties) to win against web spamming may perhaps just prove the real importance of links to the search technology. Seeing that links are still one of the best signals they can use in determining the relevance, authority, popularity and the credibility of a web page or an entity.

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PR Newswire’s Answer To Their Google Panda Troubles: Taking Action On Press Release Spammers

When Google released its most recent modification to the Panda algorithm, Panda 4.0, on May 20th, one of the sites reportedly hit hard by the update was the large press release distribution company, PR Newswire. The company’s answer to recover from the algorithmic penalty is to “take…

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Want To Speak @ SMX East? Here’s How

The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at Search Marketing Expo – SMX East 2014, Oct. 30 – Sept. 1, at the Javitz Convention Center in New York City. To increase the odds of being selected, be sure to read the agenda. Understand what the sessions are about. Ensure…

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Why Buzzstream is an Outreach Swiss Army Knife

Outreach is an essential component of any linkbuilding campaign, but it can also be a super time consuming one. This is especially true if you approach outreach and linkbuilding as relationship building. So as someone who spends a lot of time on outreach campaigns, I’m a fan of anything that help me be more efficient or […]

Remarketing Lists For Search Ads Can Now Use Conversion-Based Automated Bid Strategies In AdWords

Now when you enable AdWords conversion-based automated bid strategies in your Remarketing Lists For Search Ads campaigns, the predicted conversion performance of those remarketing lists will influence the bidding. Google announced on its Google+ page t…

Android TV Shows Knowledge Graph Search Results

Google’s just announced Android TV is a significant improvement over the original Google TV. It doesn’t require a game controller or bulky remote to work (though a game controller can be used for Google Play Games). And you can search for content with your voice. The UI is simple and…

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