Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors Updated
Search engine land have just update the SEO Periodic table for 2013.What has changed since 2011:read more
3 Ways Attribution Modeling Can Help You Work Smarter, More Effectively
Rather than optimizing in a vacuum and giving all the credit to the last click, you should start incorporating some form of attribution modeling into your daily routine. Here’s how attribution modeling can help you work smarter and more effectively.
The Link Building Approach Triangle: Create, Align & Optimize
How to establish an effective link building action plan for any site: make the most out of already existing assets: Create, Align & Optimize
Post from Aleyda Solis on State of Search
The Link Building Approach Triangle: Create, Align & Optimize
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You Don’t Need a HR Department to Conduct Great Performance Reviews
Performance Reviews are quintessential to the successful operation of any business, but having an official review process in place is sometimes easier said than done. At Dejan SEO, we’ve introduced formal half-yearly performance review process a while ago. Since we don’t have a HR department, I was always double-guessing if we’re doing it right.
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Why Analyzing Competitor Websites Wastes Your Money
After link building (even in the poorly disguised form of “content marketing”) the most popular search marketing passtime appears to be “competitive analysis”, focusing primarily on two areas: Backlink Profiles and Rankings. Both of these forms of competitive analysis are time-and-money wasters for SEOs and their clients/employers. Let’s take a look at some hard facts. Competitive Analysis Only Works When You Compete Directly Virtually every company I have ever spoken to or worked for has handed me a list of “competitor Websites” to look at. These lists are always wrong. You typically compile a competitor list by deciding which keywords you should be ranking for and looking at who ranks above you. Someone once told me that this is comparable to CVS Pharmacy looking across the street and figuring out whether they are competing against a Walgreens Pharmacy store or a local pharmacist. However, that is not the case. In a brick-and-mortar situation the customers come to the store. The store doesn’t move around the community and chase customers. In an online situation the Website comes to the customers. The customers just happen to find competing Websites in their search results or link lists or online discussions or through ads […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 10, 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: Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri One of the things that you might have missed if you weren’t paying really close attention…
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Google Doodle Celebrates ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Author Maurice Sendak
Today’s Google Doodle takes visitors on an animated journey through Sendak’s alternate storybook worlds, and ends with a gathering of the creatures from his tales. But the celebrated children’s book author and illustrator wasn’t always well received.
Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri
One of the things that you might have missed if you weren’t paying really close attention to the live blogs of the Apple WWDC keynote is that when iOS 7 comes out Siri will be able to directly search Twitter, Wikipedia — and Bing. From a search perspective that’s potentially huge…
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What it’s like to work at SEOgadget in San Francisco, and why you should join us.
You know when you get that ear-to-ear grin, a little bounce in your seat and an uncontrollable maniacal giggle about really great marketing ideas, new ways to maneuver code or amazingly cool clients that are interested in you? That’s what the past 6 months has been like at SEOgadget in San Francisco since we first opened […]
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Google Under Fire Again for Providing Easy Access to Prescription Drugs
An Attorney General claims Google is making it too easy to find sites that sell drugs without a prescription. Meanwhile the Digital Citizens Alliance released reports of Google profiting from ads on content focused on illegal topics in YouTube.
Google Analytics Finally Gives Developers Content Experiments API
The same tool that allows users to use A/B content tests on their site is now available through an API. The new content experiments API allows developers to pick and choose from all the features and create a custom solution that fits their needs.
Facebook Simplifies Advertising Options
Marketers spoke up about Facebook ads and what they wanted; Facebook listened, and made a decision to simplify its advertising options. Over the next six months, Facebook will reduce its ad units from 27 to less than half of that number.
Will Google’s Expected $1.3 Billion Waze Acquisition Be Allowed?
Early yesterday, Israeli business website Globes.co.il said that Google will acquire social mapping app Waze for $1.3 billion. That report has subsequently been all-but-confirmed by others, including the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which said the announcement could come this week. The WSJ said that…
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LinkRisk Goes out of Beta – (includes a special offer)
LinkRisk, a new tool to audit if the links pointing at your site are ‘dangerous’ or not, is going out of beta. Everybody can sign up now.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
LinkRisk Goes out of Beta – (includes a special offer)
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Google AdSense Now Showing Similar Sized Display Ads
Google announced a new change to ad serving with in Google AdSense. Now, if Google finds a better performing ad type, even if it is smaller than the ad slot you currently set up, Google will place the ad in that ad slot and place white space around i…
Google In-Depth Rich Snippets Articles?
Google has confirmed that they are testing a new type of search result, maybe a rich snippet, named “in-depth” articles. Peter Meyers (@petermeyers) from Moz emailed me screen shots…
How to Use Google Webmaster Tools to Maximize Your SEO Campaign
When developing an SEO strategy, you can turn insights from Google Webmaster Tools into SEO tactical gold. Diving into the data provides new opportunities to understand how your site is performing and improve your overall campaign performance.
Confessions Of A $100/Month SEO Client
Are you an agency trying to sell super cheap search marketing services to SMBs? If so, here’s some free market research! Last week, I got my kitchen counters resurfaced. Inevitably the service guy asked me what I did for a living. When I told him I did SEO, the conversation quickly turned to…
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Google Doodles Where The Wild Things Are For Maurice Sendak’s 85th Birthday
Beloved children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak is being celebrated today on Google’s home page with an animated Doodle showcasing the author’s work. Users can click the play icon to view an animated wheel of Sendak’s characters. Born June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn,…
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Should You Create Ad Group Sitelinks in Enhanced Campaigns?
One of the nicest things about AdWords Enhanced Campaigns is that you can now control sitelinks at the campaign or the ad group level. From a feature standpoint, this sounds great. However, when you start considering the execution phase of creating sitelinks for every single ad group, the task can…
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