Google Enhanced Campaigns: What We’ve Learned So Far
At SMX East yesterday, during the Google Enhanced Campaigns: What We’ve Learned So Far a collection of the best and brightest PPC professionals came together to discuss insights and lessons learned from Google’s “new” approach to managing ad campaigns. Larry Kim from Wordstream…
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Learning How To Master The Search & Social Universe @ SMX East
By now, we all (should) know that search and social marketing are inextricably linked, and that an integrated digital strategy including both disciplines will amplify your brand, send more qualified traffic your way, and should generate greater ROI. Ki…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 2, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Authorship Launches Within Image Search Today at SMX East, Google’s Pierre Far told the audience Google launched a small update to authorship by…
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Google Authorship Launches Within Image Search
Today at SMX East, Google’s Pierre Far told the audience Google launched a small update to authorship by adding authorship rich snippets to Google Image Search. To see it, go to Google Images and search for named of people who may have authorship. Click on the image and if the image has…
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The September Google Analytics Recap
Welcome to a new series, fresh from the Analytics team here at SEER Interactive! Each month, we’ll be recapping the updates from the Google Analytics blog, complete with short summaries of what was news and why it should matter to you. October is a great time to start, so here’s what the folks over at […]
Google Gives Advice on How to Expand Your Website to More Languages
Considering expansion into different countries and languages? Google’s Maile Ohye offers some great advice and best practices for expanding into additional languages and country-based language variations, plus solutions for potential search issues.
What The Government Shutdown Means For .gov SEO
As part of the US government shut down, many .gov sites have also shut down, replaced by messages like this: “Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available. We sincerely regret this inconvenience.” But one day, the government will start up again and government…
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Matt Cutts: You Don’t Have to Nofollow Internal Links
A recent Google webmaster help video from Google’s Matt Cutts brings up an interesting question: should a webmaster nofollow internal links within their site or does it not make any difference because they are simply internal links?
Bing Adds Pinterest Boards To Image Search
If image search is important to your business, this might be another reason to be active on Pinterest: Bing has just added Pinterest boards to its image search results. The boards show up on the far right of Bing’s image search results page. The board name and image count are displayed, along…
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Bing Ads Launches Call Extensions With Skype On All Devices
Long anticipated, Bing Ads has rolled out call extensions powered by fellow Microsoft entity, Skype. The use of Skype uniquely allows Bing Ads call extensions to be delivered across all devices, including desktops. Call extensions can be set up using the web UI, Bing Ads Editor or the new Bing Ads…
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Marketing Channel Measurement for Business Owners (and Time Travelers)
It’s the beginning of fall now in Philadelphia, and as the wind takes on a bit of a chill it can mean only one thing: budget season. In a past life (waaaay back in 2006!) an old business partner and I ran a B2C company with offline conversions. Our marketing consisted of pay-per-click advertising, some real rough-and-ready […]
Dispersed Citation is PageRank for the real world via @portentint
Ian Lurie has a very interesting article on how Google may put all their efforts together to create a new smart search engine:
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Keyword Not Provided – Maybe Mobile Is To Blame?
At SMX East yesterday, during the Trends in Mobile Search session, Google announced the addition of cross-device conversion reporting in AdWords and I believe this may be related to the loss of referral keyword data in Google Analytics. The new method …
Plugin to the Future
In our previous post Joost explained why it is impossible to test compatibility of our plugin updates with other plugins. Joost showed us the enormous number of plugins our users have installed on their websites next to one of our plugins. The number of 83,000 plugins intrigued me immensely. In the past years the number…
Plugin to the Future is a post by Marieke van de Rakt on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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A leap of faith and the willingness to fail: Early adoption stories from SAP and Dell
This post comes from Lydia Laurenson who has been working with us on the forthcoming big brand industry report.
A leap of faith and the willingness to fail: Early adoption stories from SAP and Dell
This post comes from Lydia Laurenson who has been working with us on the forthcoming big brand industry report. In the upcoming Brandopolis report about the content strategies at top brands, I have a section on Early Adoption Stories — Continue reading »
Why Aren’t My Questions Being Answered This Week In The Google Forums?
This week, the people who answer most of the questions in the various Google forums, are at Google for a special event called the Top Contributor Summit…
iGoogle’s 30 Day Warning Before Closure
Over a year ago, Google announced they are closing iGoogle 16 months later on November 1, 2013. Well, November 1st is about 30 days away and to remind iGoogle users…
Google AdSense Publishers Blaming Government Shutdown For Earnings Drop
A WebmasterWorld thread has Google AdSense publishers complaining about a decline in AdSense income starting yesterday. Some are blaming the decline in the government shutdown happening right now in the United States…
Here Come The White Google Navigation Bar Complaints…
In September we predicted Google would launch a new white navigation bar and they indeed announced they would a week or so later. Very few have seen it since…