7 Principles From 7 Years Of Landing Pages
In preparing a presentation for last week’s Interactivity Digital conference in Miami, I was struck by a realization: I’ve been working with landing pages for seven years now. (Actually, I prefer to think of them as post-click experiences.) Seven years ago, my company launched its first…
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Marketing Automation & Search – 3 Strategies for Mutual Success
Marketing automation can have a huge impact on your conversions and new business. It can improve the way your organization handles prospects and help improve activities and performance from initiatives like SEO, SEM, social, and content marketing.
Social Strategy for Regulated Industries
Brands in financial services, insurance, health care and other highly regulated industries must adopt compliant social media strategy and processes or risk big losses in search visibility. Here’s how brands can harness the power of social signals.
How to Prepare for Speaking at a Major Search Conference
Find out how you can prepare for one of the major search conferences in the world without speaking at the smaller conferences.
Post from Jo Turnbull on State of Search
How to Prepare for Speaking at a Major Search Conference
Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all…
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10 Ways to Screw Up in Google and 10 Ways to Fix It
Session: 10 Ways to Screw Up in Google & 10 Ways to Fix It
Presenter: Dan Petrovic
Event: WordCamp Melbourne 2013
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 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: Where Have All The Linkers Gone? A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for…
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How to cloak your affiliate links
We regularly review sites that monetize, in part, with affiliate links. I’ve always said and will continue to say that affiliate links should be redirected through a redirect script, but when we tried to help a client by linking to a proper explanation and example script, we couldn’t find one. So, in true Yoast style, I wrote…
How to cloak your affiliate links is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Google Analytics Lets Analytics Premium Users Join Big Data in Google Cloud
At Google I/O, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that’s quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users the ability to use Google BigQuery to crunch their analytics data and other offline data sets.
How To Use Google’s Local Business Data Highlighter…So Far
Google’s new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings. I have found it to be a bit buggy and it’s a new tool, so proceed with caution. Here are some basics on how to use it along with some tricks I have figured out […]
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Where Have All The Linkers Gone?
A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for those of us in the content publicity/link building field. First and foremost among these factors is the “device effect.” The device effect means…
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Bing Ads Launches Traffic Quality Center
Microsoft announced the launch of The Bing Ads Traffic Quality Resource Center today, a website designed to give advertisers and publishers visibility into the traffic quality protection systems of the Yahoo! Bing Network. The site includes sections th…
SPONSOR MESSAGE: A Marketing Analytics Framework for CMOs
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Google Starting to Convert Existing Dashboards to the New Places for Business Dashboard
Google just announced in the forums that they were starting the process of converting existing Dashboard users to the new Placed for Business Dashboard. Here is the post: As of May 21, some existing Places users will begin to see the new Google Places for Business dashboard. The transition will happen automatically, and all existing […]
With Rich Pins, Pinterest Begins Working Better With Brands
Pinterest has detailed several types of pins that have added information on them, including product pins, recipe pins, and movie pins. But this move is really seen as Pinterest working better with brands who get their products pinned frequently.
Google Removes Links To Documentary In Response To Invalid Takedown Requests By Hollywood Studios
The recently released TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboad, a documentary that sympathizes with the founders of the infamous file sharing website The Pirate Bay, has become the target of fraudulent link takedown requests from major Hollywood Studios, including Viacom, Paramount, Fox…
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Google’s Search Market Share Drops as Bing Passes 17%
Google’s search market share dropped slightly once again (from March’s 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent), with Bing and Yahoo slightly edging up. Microsoft’s Bing saw the biggest increase with a total search market share of 17.3 percent.
New AdWords Editor Update For Enhanced Campaigns
Google rolled out a new version of Adwords Editor today. The latest version features more ways to make bulk changes to enhanced campaigns. New capabilities include: Bid adjustments for placements, topics, and audiences Mobile bid adjustments at the ad …
Google AdWords Launched Keyword Ad Planner
Google announced a new keyword tool named the Keyword Planner.
The tool can be found under the Tools & Analysis tab when you are logged into your Google AdWords account. The tool combines the benefits of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator into an integrated workflow…
SearchLove Boston 2013 – Day One Recap
It’s that time of year again! Flowers are budding, kids are counting down the days to the end of the school year, and SEOs are flocking to Boston for Distilled’s Spring SearchLove conference. Like years past, we had a killer Continue reading »