Memorial Day: Google’s Ribbon vs. Bing’s Home Page
Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America, a very important day to show your American patriotism and thank our soliders for protecting the country.
To celebrate the day, some of the search engines place logos…
Was the Penguin 2.0 the Biggest Storm in a Teacup in SEO circles yet?
Penguin 2.0 rolled out last week and it seems to be a remarkably underwhelming update for one with so much hype.
Post from Louis Venter on State of Search
Was the Penguin 2.0 the Biggest Storm in a Teacup in SEO circles yet?
3 Strategies to Succeed in Today’s Mobile Marketplace
Instead of holding mobile performance to the same standards as desktop and tablets, you should adopt an altered and more realistic set of KPIs. Here are three strategies to succeed in today’s mobile marketplace.
Cheating Penguin is Easy
TL;DR: Google’s latest Penguin update doesn’t seem to detect unnatural link surges or anchor text abuse from expired domain link networks.
After Venice-like update in Australia, we had a rather uneventful week. Google started warming things up again on May 21 hitting orange alert on Algoroo on the 22nd of May.
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Yelp Successfully Sued in Small Claims Court
According to the Wall Street Journal, a bankruptcy lawyer took Yelp to small claims court in San Diego and won a judgement of $2700. ….the judge describing Yelp’s advertising contract as “the modern-day version of the mafia going to stores and saying, “You wanna not be bothered?” The case will be taken to a higher […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 24, 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 Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the…
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How Small Wins Can Help Build Trust
Gaining the trust of your clients can be very difficult, especially if the client has worked with an unethical SEO company in the past. I want to share a story on how we got the client approval process down to 5-7 days from 4-8 weeks by having some small wins and building trust with the […]
Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first glimpse at what Google had in mind for Glass. Even though Google described it as “an early concept video,” you can clearly see that local search and navigation was a key…
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Search In Pics: Google Robots With Lightsabers, Bloomberg Cutting Google Cake & The Simpsons Street View
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. Android Bathroom Signs: Source: Google+ Bike To Work Day At Google Germany:…
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Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update
Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming to Chrome for iOS “soon”. Android Updates With the Android update, the long search URL box is gone and search queries in Chrome display in the…
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Google Penguin 2.0 Goes Deep – But What Does That Mean?
As you know, Penguin 2.0 #4 is live and webmasters and SEOs are buzzing about that. The thing is, some misconceptions about Penguin 2.0 are driving me absolutely crazy.
Matt Cutts, in his video about this update, talks about how Penguin 2…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 24, 2013
Very busy week with Google releasing the major next generation Penguin update, Penguin 2.0. Bing also may have made a search update a few…
The Future of Article Spinning in a Modern Corporate Climate
- Scenario-based, compatible, benchmarks 24/7 foster workflows.
- Phased and top-level accomplishments generate a decentralized relationship. Momentums synergize the community, while the benchmarkings enable the business leaders because our wide-spectrum concepts produce proven throughput increase. The stakeholders quickly improve atmospheres. Verifiable requirements adequately strengthen the Balanced Scorecard champion ahead of schedule.
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Understanding the “Why” in SEO
One of my favorite TED talks is “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” by Simon Sinek. In the presentation he describes the concept of the Golden Circle which consists of three rings: What, How, and Why. Sinek explains that conventional thought works from the outside in. People and organizations think about What they want to do […]
Friday Talk: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen About “The New Digital Age”
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen visit Google LA for a conversation about their new book, “The New Digital Age”
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Friday Talk: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen About “The New Digital Age”
5 Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Know
One question I get asked a lot is this: what Excel skills are most important for marketers to learn? I have whittled that interminable list down to five skills that I believe are absolutely essential for marketers to know, presented below in order of i…
Ecommerce Title Tags: Top 5 Ways to Increase Clicks
The first steps of commerce take place within the search results. Give consumers a better sense of offers and pricing with your title tags. By exposing more information up front, sites can better align with the right consumer and get more clicks.
Bing Officially Releases Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0
After releasing a preview of the Bing sitemap plugin a few months ago, Bing is ready to officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0 to the public. This sitemap plugin allows webmasters to easily create XML sitemap files for their web sites that c…
Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New “Super-Specific” Search Filters
Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if…
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Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Spends One Hour Trying To Contact A Hacked Site
Gary Illyes, a former webmaster and SEO, converted Webmaster Trends Analyst working at Google Switzerland…