Google’s Search About Number Of Results Easter Egg
This is not new, I actually covered it at Search Engine Land a year ago but never here and I think some of my more geekier readers will enjoy it if they have not seen it. Search Google for [hex], [binary]…
Matt Cutts As Moses In SEO’s Ten Commandments
I am not sure that Matt Cutts will enjoy this too much but hey, if you ever see him at an SEO convention, it may appear as if he is a god…
Google’s Cutts: Dropping ~ Operator Gives Us More Space To Index More Pages
Tuesday we reported that Google quietly dropped the ~tilde operator due to lack of use.
The operator helped searches find synonymous, a form of expanding your query. It was primarily used by librarians and also SEMs looking for keyword research ideas…
MozCast Shows Huge Google Update But SEOs Don’t Agree
Yesterday, MozCast, Moz’s Google ranking volatility tool, reported the highest level of change in Google’s search results in the history of MozCast. 113 degrees hot. Typically…
Content Creation & Organizational Empowerment Key To Search Success
The SEO industry has undergone significant changes in the last 12+ months. Search has gained greater legitimacy as a marketing channel as budget holders increase head count and invest in advanced technology. And, the SERPs themselves have undergone cha…
It’s Frickin Hard to Build Links if Your Site Sucks
If you’re going to work hard to increase your site’s visibility, make sure it’s worth sharing. It doesn’t make any sense to dump time, energy, money, and general resources into it if the site’s underdeveloped, lacks content, or is simply outdated.
2013 Google Ranking Factors From Netmark
Yesterday we covered the 2013 ranking factors from SearchMetrics, now let us share with you the Google ranking factors from a different company named Netmark. You can learn about Netmark’s methodology for determining these ranking factors over here and you can see all the ranking factors over…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Enhanced Campaigns
It’s time to stop whining and start winning! If you haven’t migrated already, or you have migrated but aren’t doing anything differently, here are some good reasons to adopt Google AdWords enhanced campaigns functionality as soon as possible.
5 things I’ve learned from recent digital conferences
James Murray shares 5 pearls of wisdom from the collective minds of speakers at digital conferences.
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5 things I’ve learned from recent digital conferences
KitchMe Launches Recipe Search Engine For Google Glass
KitchMe, a recipe and meal-planning website recently acquired by Coupons.com, has launched what appears to be the first recipe search engine and cooking assistant app for Google Glass. The app is free and currently available at kitchme.com/googleglass….
Next LocalU Advanced – NYC September 30
We just finished up a LocalU Advanced in Seattle and the feedback was great. It seems to early too be talking about the next one but here I am talking about the next one because the early, early bird special is ending in less than a month. Hope to see you there. September 30th Local University […]
My Top 5 Most Used Custom Reports in Google Analytics
Looking to add some awesome custom reports to your Google Analytics arsenal? Get these highly recommended reports now: unique visitors by page, conversion by time of day, customer behavior, top converting landing pages, and long tail convertors.
Introducing website satisfaction by Google Consumer Surveys
Webmaster level: all
We’re now offering webmasters an easy and free way to collect feedback from your website visitors with website satisfaction surveys. All you have to do is paste a small snippet of code in the HTML for your website and this will load a discreet satisfaction survey in the lower right hand corner of your website. Google automatically aggregates and analyzes responses, providing the data back to you through a simple online interface.
Users will be asked to complete a four-question satisfaction survey. Surveys will run until they have received 500 responses and will start again after 30 days so you can track responses over time. This is currently limited to US English visitors on non-mobile devices. The default questions are free and you can customize questions for just $0.01 per response or $5.00 for 500 responses.
Survey Setup and Code Placement Tips
To set up the survey code, you’ll need to have access to the source code for your website.
- Sign into Google Consumer Surveys for website satisfaction to find the code snippet.
- You have the option to enter the website name and URL, survey timing, and survey frequency.
- Click on the “Activate survey” button when ready.
- Once you find the code snippet on top of the setup page, copy and paste it into your web page, just before the closing </head> tag. If your website uses templates to generate pages, enter it just before the closing </head> tag in the file that contains the <head> section.
If you have any questions, please read our Help Center article to learn more.
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The Rise and Fall of Citadel-Insurance.co.uk
In a well-documented haze of online search engine manipulation it became apparent that the competitive nature of the ‘car insurance’ organic search results was simply too much for one company to ignore after it came to light that one site had mysteriously appeared on the first page of Google search results in an alarming period […]
The Google Dichotomy – Authorship
I don’t blog much. Mainly because I believe in not regurgitating things that have already been said better by someone else. An approach that means (due to my very talented network of colleagues past & present) I’m usually the last one to turn up whenever anything exciting happens in the industry. However, sometimes I can […]
Google Plus as Tomorrow’s Social Ebay?
Will Google Plus morph into a social version of eBay, where people can post things for sale, write reviews of their belongings and show them off to their circles?
A few days ago, the Google File System Blog reported upon a new application from Google, which it referred to by the name Google Mine (as […]
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Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Link?
In the months behind us more and more blogs closed their doors to guest posting. More and more clients ask about safety of links, will they get penalised? All of that is understandable; however, in light of these questions and happenings I’ve seen certain SEO’s promote safe links on their website.
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Want To Speak @ SMX Milan? Here’s How
The agenda is live, and we’re now accepting submissions to speak at Search Marketing Expo – SMX Milan, November 7-8, 2013, at the MiCo – Milan Congress Center. We’re looking for both Italian and English speakers – all conference sessions will be translated in real-time. To…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 26, 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: Study: Google Local Carousel Results Win 48% Of Clicks, While Only 14.5% Of Clicks Were On The Map When using heatm…