From Foursquare to Swarm: Mayor 2.0, Insights, Stickers & Goodbye Badges
The time has come to say goodbye to Foursquare mayorships, as we know them. Foursquare has revealed some new details about what users can expect when Swarm launches this week, including the future of mayorships, badges, and new features.
Dorothy Hodgkin Google Doodle Celebrates Biochemist
A Google Doodle today celebrates the 104th birthday of British scientist Dorothy Hodgkin. The special logo features an X-ray crystallography of 3-D biomolecules, the method used by scientists to determine the 3-D structure of biological molecules.
Dorothy Hodgkins Google Doodle Celebrates Biochemist
A Google Doodle today celebrates the 104th birthday of British scientist Dorothy Hodgkins. The special logo features and X-ray crystallography of 3D biomolecules, the method used by scientists to determine the 3D structure of biological molecules.
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You deliver results daily, but keeping up is a challenge. And you know staying successful means identifying opportunities, implementing new technologies and processes, developing great people, and preparing for the next big thing. Agree? Then Search En…
The Top Marijuana Directories & Citation Sources
You’ve got a marijuana dispensary or related business. You want to build awareness, rank well in Google for local cannabis-related queries and you want more customers. A good place to start is making sure your business is listed on the following sites: Top U.S. Local Directories That Allow Marijuana-Related Businesses Top U.S. Local Directories That Display […]
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Official Google Advice On Internationalizing Your Home Page
Google has published their official advice on the Google Webmaster Central blog on how to handle your home page when your web site serves multiple languages and countries. Zineb Ait Bahajji and Gary Illyes, Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, wrote the p…
Predicting the Future with CRO: Excuses and Assumptions #HEROCONF
Jasmine Aye recollects Bryan Massey’s presentation of case studies from HeroConf, discussing roadblocks prior to asking to test new elements on a site.
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Predicting the Future with CRO: Excuses and Assumptions #HEROCONF
Bing Launches On Firefox OS, Does It Matter?
Bing has launched an app for the Firefox Marketplace. As pointed out by The Next Web, Google doesn’t yet have an official app there. Firefox OS is a mobile operating system “built entirely using open web standards” (HTML5). It’s both an effort to reinvigorate the mobile web…
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Wayback Machine Adds 160 Billion Indexed Pages In A Year, Surpasses 400 Billion Indexed Pages
The Internet Archive announced that the Wayback Machine, a huge internet archive of web pages dating back to 1996, has surpassed 400 billion pages indexed. In January 2013, a little over a year ago, the Wayback Machine said they had 240 billion URLs in…
Google’s Official Advice On Home Page Handling For International Users
Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji posted on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Google’s official advice on how to handle home pages for sites with internationalized content.
In short…
Google: Short Content Is Not Low Quality Content
You see it all the time, SEOs requiring content to be a certain length or else be penalized by Panda…
Google Logo For Dorothy Hodgkin, British Scientist
Today on most of the Google home pages is a logo for a female biochemist named Dorothy Mary Hodgkin. It would be here 104th birthday today, born on May 12, 1910 in Egypt and passing at the age of 84 on July 29, 1994 in England…
Bing: Unnatural Links = Advanced Knowledge Of Links
On Friday, Duane Forrester from Bing posted his 10 SEO Myths and honestly, most of it was basic stuff, so much so that I missed a wowzer in there that Mat McGee caught and told me to cover at Search Engine Land, which I did immediately…
Google’s Update From Last Week Reversing Itself?
On Friday I reported about a lot of chatter and signals of a possible update from Google coming down the pipe.
Well, as of this morning, it seems some are saying their rankings are back to where they were…
How To Get A Medical Marijuana Dispensary Into Google Places
I was stoked when Chris Silver Smith turned us all on to the potential issues with marijuana and local search last month. As an early dabbler in helping marijuana dispensaries figure out local SEO, I, too, think it’s high time to help marketers recognize the challenges and opportunities in…
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6 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Search Marketing Agency
You’ve hired experts to handle your search marketing. Good for you! Now how do you make sure they have what they need to succeed, are earning their keep, and not just phoning it in? Let’s look at a few ways to get the most from your search agency.
The Marketer Identity Crisis. Where Are The SEOs?
Online marketing is dazed and confused. Not in the “dry herbs” style, but in the deer-in-the-headlights style. Or maybe both… to each his own. To begin with, I must state that I am an old curmudgeon by online marketing standards, having been in the field for over 14 years. I identify myself…
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How Brands Can Encourage Social Sharing
So what are the brands doing that are role models when it comes to social sharing? In order to answer this question we need to understand that the secret to the social web is to combine sharing with self-interest.The challenge though is how to make your audience want to share this on the social web.
Post from Clarissa Sajbl on State of Digital
How Brands Can Encourage Social Sharing
The Snippet Preview: what it means and how to use it.
Our WordPress SEO plugin has come with a snippet preview from day 1. This snippet preview mimics what the current page would look like in the search results, by our best “guesstimation”. In this post I’ll explain what the different sections are made up of, and what you can do to optimize those. I’ll also explain why the…
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Dorothy Hodgkin Google Logo Marks The Nobel Prize Winning Biochemist’s 104th Birthday
Adding another woman to the list Google logo honorees, today’s Google homepage recognizes the accomplishments of British biochemist Dorothy Hodgkin. The logo depicts an illustration of penicillin’s molecular structure, a discovery made by Hodgkin in 1945. While it had already been…
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