Google Adds Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In
Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into the Google search results by adding automatic author attribution through Google+ signin. Google has integrated Google+ Sign-In with Google’s authorship program. Now if you sign in to WordPress.com with Google, the the articles you publish…
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Foursquare Adds Menu Items To Search Capability
Foursquare has added the ability to search for particular menu items. The underlying menu data come from partners Locu and SinglePlatform, now owned by GoDaddy and Constant Contact respectively. The company says that there are more than 500,000 places and 43 million menu items that can be searched…
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So THERE IS a (small) chance nofollow links hurt site rankings
In yet another glorious video Matt Cutts speaks about nofollow (and the affect on rankings) and you could expect a direct and straightforwar
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Nofollow Links Won’t Hurt You Unless You Are Spamming At A Huge Scale
In a video released today on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts said typically links that are nofollowed can’t hurt your rankings in Google. That being said, while most cases are that links that have the nofollow attribute on them will…
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Streamlining Link Removals – Email to Excel. Fast!
A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!
Is This The Future of Local Directory SEO?
Nick Rink of Smart Local , a UK Local SEO firm, posted a screenshot of this new Google Local SERP this morning on Google+: I can’t find another example of this, or a full SERP screenshot, but I think there is one of two things going on here: 1) Google is doing this to […]
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Future SEO: String Entity Optimization
Imagine the future of SEO — a future in which you forget about using keywords or their synonyms multiple times on a page. In the future, this will be obsolete. Search engines of the future will provide users with answers to their queries by internally verifying validated data that link to…
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Three AdWords Remarketing Features You Must Test Now!
Ally Malick and I recently co-hosted a webinar on paid search tactics & measurement for ecommerce clients with RJ Metrics. Part of that discussion involved three remarketing features in Google AdWords which they have been promoting as Remarketing 3.0. While our focus was on ecomm advertisers, not all of the features are specific to just them. […]
Network with Your Marketing Peers at SMX East – October 1-3 in NYC
We’ve already highlighted the exceptional content and highly qualified presenters at SMX East. But there’s another aspect of the show that is just as important and valuable – networking. And with over 2000 delegates expected on-site, there are lots of people to network with! Keep…
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10 Tips For Using YouTube To Kill At Local SEO
Here’s a local search optimization tactic that is a staple in the repertoire of many professional SEOs: YouTube Optimization. It’s particularly effective in local search since relatively few businesses have created and published video promotions for themselves. Before launching into the…
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Bing News Updates: Adaptive Design, Trending & Facebook & Twitter Content
Bing announced a major overhaul of the Bing News portal.
The first thing you will notice is the new look. The new design is very basic, but allows for an “adaptive design,” so that it works on all devices. Yes, tablet…
Do You Like The New Yahoo Logo?
Yahoo announced its new logo this past week and it has now been on the Yahoo properties for the past few days. You’ve had time to adjust to it and see how it blends into the site.
What do you think of it…
Google Calls DMOZ Link Unnatural By Mistake
Dave Cain posted on Google+ that his client received an unnatural link warning via Google Webmaster Tools and one of the two examples given was a link he has from DMOZ, the Open Directory Project…
Google Offering Links To Yell, Yelp, 118.com & Other Local Search Providers
I can’t remember when, but Google made a concession in the EU to provided easier access to other local search providers in their own search results. This came after a lot of pressure in the EU. But that may be live now…
SEO Best Practices: Setting Up a Blog
Blogging should be a part of any sound marketing plan. You need to create engagement and provide the ability for people to share content coming from your company. Here’s how you can set yourself up to realize positive SEO results from a blog.
New “Concessions” From Google Seek To Avoid EU Antitrust Penalties
According to Reuters the European Commission (EC) says Google has submitted a new settlement proposal with “further concessions” in its bid to end the antitrust inquiry against the company. If the parties fail to reach agreement the EC has the ability to fine Google a percentage of its…
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Bing Details Four Ways Not To Build Links
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, wrote a blog post on the Bing Webmaster Blog, detailing four ways you do not want to build links to your site. The four ways not to build links by Bing include: (1) Blind Requests: Don’t simply mass or template email web sites blindly…
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Hacking Quality Score: How One Advertiser Got A Quality Score Of 8.8/10
In previous articles, I’ve discussed why I believe that Quality Score is so critical to PPC success. To illustrate the point in a more concrete way, I want to present a detailed case study of a WordStream client that is absolutely crushing its AdWords Quality Score. In this case study,…
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The Mobile Local Opportunity, By the Numbers
One of the highest performance-driving factors will be effective location targeting. That’s not just geotargeting, but a holistic location strategy, including things like ad copy and tangible calls to action like phone calls and directions.
Google: Alright, We Will Give You One Year Worth Of Top Search Queries In Webmaster Tools
On Friday, Danny Sullivan reported at Search Engine Land that Google is planning to give webmasters a year worth of top search query data within webmaster tools.
Currently, Google only provides 90 days worth of this data…