SearchCap: Breaking Glass Ceiling Of Search, Google’s New Year Logo & Top 10 Columns Of 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Breaking The Glass Ceiling Of Search Through Acquisition When you’re working on an SEO campaign within a particularly competitive niche, it can sometimes…
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Happy New Year From Google and Other Search Engines
Here are some New Year’s Day logos and themes from the search engine industry.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 2, 2015
Happy New Years all! This week I covered a possible Bing search update. I also discussed why my site may have been hit by the Google Panda…
Breaking The Glass Ceiling Of Search Through Acquisition
When you’re working on an SEO campaign within a particularly competitive niche, it can sometimes feel that for every step forward you take, your competitors are taking an extra two. This is particularly relevant when you come into a niche where there have been a select number of really…
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Search In Pics: Google Winter Vacation, Boot Loops Cereal & Penguin Appetizers
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
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Google’s Sorry Captcha Lives At sorry.google.com
We know sometimes, when you do something on Google, Google wants to verify you are a human and not a robot. So they serve up a captcha for you to prove you are someone typing with real fingers…
Bing Search Algorithm Update On New Years Day?
A Black Hat World thread has one webmaster noticing his rankings significantly shifted within the Bing search results over New Years.
Truth is, very few people would take notice of this being it is (a) Bing and (b) New Years day…
Google Quality Algorithms Don’t Bring On Deeper Web Crawls
Often you’ll see the SEO forums light up a bit before an algorithm shift, where SEOs say, wow – GoogleBot activity on my web site is unusually high. This leads people to think an algorithm update may be coming soon. Sometimes they are right, but ofte…
Google: Your HTTPS Site Has Canonicals Pointing To HTTP
Since Google gives a tiny ranking boost for HTTPS sites, many sites have begun switching over.
But if done incorrectly…
3 Advanced AdWords Features for a Smarter Keyword Bidding Strategy
Here are three advanced Google AdWords features you can use to find the lowest cost per click with the highest conversions.
An Important Lesson All Marketers Should Remember: Start Simple
Marketers put themselves under a lot of pressure to impress. Who has the best idea? The most complex, exciting and innovative concept? What’s going to sound like we know our stuff in the next conference presentation? What will make our potential client choose our pitch? Will the client like the sound of my idea the […]
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Discussion: Can You Disavow out of Penguin? – Whiteboard Friday
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Penguin is back at the forefront of many marketers’ minds now that the third iteration of the algorithm update has been released, and a rumor has begun circulating that you can weasel your way out of a Penguin penalty by simpl…
Happy New Year 2015 From Google & The Search Engines
Happy New Year 2015 everyone! Today some of the search engines have special logos celebrating the first day of 2015, New Years Day.
Yesterday, we posted some of the…
#1 Most Read Article of 2014: Escape Google With These 12 Search Engine Alternatives
Google isn’t the only game in town and isn’t even the best alternative for many specific search tasks and needs. Here’s how to escape Google’s grip with Bing, Blekko, BuzzSumo, DuckDuckGo, SocialMention, Quantcast, Topsy, Wolfram…
#2 Most Read Article of 2014: The 10 Best Shopping Engines
A new study analyzes the best comparison shopping engines based on traffic, revenue, conversion rate, return on spend, average CPC, quality of merchant tools, and merchant response ratings to help guide marketing spend for online…
New Year 2015 Google Logo Says Hello To The New Year With A Bang
Today’s Google doodle offers up fireworks to celebrate the first day of 2015.
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Case Study: Negative SEO with NO Backlinks
More ways competitors can drive sites down in the serps: https://goralewicz.co/blog/negative-seo-with-no-backlinks-a-case-study/
China Cuts Access To Google Search & Other Google Properties
Chinese users report they are no longer able to use Google for search. Google’s transparency report confirms this.
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Social Stats Are Worthless
On my 10 Things I Learned About Local SEO in 2014 post on SearchEngineLand, I forgot to include #11: Social Sharing Stats Are Worthless. I use to obsess about social share numbers on each of my SEL posts. It drove me slightly crazy to see that Greg Gifford’s and Chris Silver Smith’s posts would always […]
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Did Comments Cause This Site To Get Hit By Google Panda 4.1?
Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the conten…