7 Ways to Get More Out of Your Conversion Confirmation Page
Improving your conversion rate is one of the most important tactics in your SEM toolkit. Yet, the purchase/lead confirmation page is often overlooked. Here’s a short list of ways to get more out of your confirmation page – and grow your business.
70% of Customers Pay Under $1,000 for SEO Per Month [Local SEO Survey]
SEO isn’t the big money maker many people believe, with many SEOs serving a small number of clients most earning smaller revenue. Bright Local has done a refresh of their 2011 Local SEO Industry Survey and there are some surprising results.
The importance of a link clean up before it’s too late
Using LinkRisk and LinkDetox, Agnete Tøien Pedersen takes a look at the importance of a link clean up before it’s too late.
Post from Agnete Tøien Pedersen on State of Search
The importance of a link clean up before it’s too late
Google Starts Treating More Country-Code Top-Level Domains as Generic TLDs
Google has just updated their list of ccTLDs (Country Coded Top Level Domains) they will treat as a generic TLD. This means that Google will consider these ccTLDs as generic for geotargeting, similarly to how .com domains are treated as generic.
Fundamentals of SEO – Webinar
Recently the Printing Industries Association of Australia in conjunction with the Graphic Arts Association of Australia asked for us to hold a webinar for their members on SEO.
The aim of the webinar was to give a general overview of what seo is, what are some of the key elements involved in an effective online solution and greater considerations for further discussion.
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With Wavii, Did Google Acquire the Future of Web Search?
Google acquired the company Wavii for a little more than $ 30 Million in April. There was some speculation that Wavii was an effort to match Yahoo’s purchase of Summly, which summarizes news from the Web.
A Wavii app did do just that – acquired and summarized news from the Web. When Wavii […]
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Google Palestine: Is Google Taking Sides?
Google says it’s merely following the lead of the United Nations and other organizations. The Palestinian National Authority is praising Google’s decision, while Israel states Google’s move is causing more harm than good in the geopolitical battle.
May 2013: A Massive Algorithm Update at Google?
It started in Australia as many webmasters and SEOs noticed a Venice-like update and now it looks like we’re looking at a global algorithm change.
Mozcast shows a very turbulent 5th of May.
Jim Stewart was one of the first Australian SEOs to spot the change saying “ They’ve replaced places for organic…”.
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AdWords Campaigns That Don’t Use Advanced Settings Will Be Migrated To Standard Type Campaigns
Over the next few weeks, Google will be migrating AdWords campaigns that don’t use any advanced features from “All Features” to “Standard” type campaigns. The change applies only to “Search Network Only” and “Search and Display Networks”…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Bing Asking Users To Break Their Google Habit In Latest Bing It On Challenge
Bing announced today a new version of their Bing It On Challenge, an online campaign launched last September that offers users a side-by-side comparison of Bing and Google search results. In the latest Bing It On Challenge, Bing asks users to perform f…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 6, 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 Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed…
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Watch Out For Google Rich Snippet Hacking
There are two reports in the Google Webmaster Help of webmasters noticing that the schema aka rich snippet details show third-party data and links in the rich snippet testing tool…
May 30th, Google AdWords Spreadsheet Edit Shutting Down
Google announced they are sunsetting, removing the option for AdWords advertisers to modify their campaigns through the spreadsheet edit option.
The spreadsheet edit option is going away May 30, 2013…
Google AdSense Changes Reports To Remove Invalid Clicks & Impressions
Google announced on the AdSense blog that effective now, Google is removing not just the earnings associated with invalid clicks but also the clicks and impressions associated with those invalid clicks.
Google: Our Business Places Analytics Is A Bit Fickle
It should be of no surprise to our reader or anyone who has a business listing on Google Maps/Places/Local that the Google Places Dashboard has issues and bugs.
It is one of the most consistent complaints from business owners who interact with Googl…
Structure Your Google AdWords Account For Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is a week from Sunday and most children probably still have not bought their mother’s a gift.
So that means you still have time to create your campaigns to target searchers looking to buy your goods and services on AdWords…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 3, 2013
This week I reported on a scary possible Google Rich Snippet hacking issue, I hope it is just a display bug. Bing Webmaster Tools added a malware…
Google Maps Images: Can I Use Them?
One of the more common topics I see come up is the question of, can I use images from Google Maps or Google Earth on my web site, on a t-shirt, in the news paper…
Google’s Cutts Say Search Flux Not Meant To Trick SEOs?
Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…
Google: Don’t Hide URLs In Search Results. We Don’t Like It.
@tecnonetblog, a man who spots probably 2 – 5 Google experiments per week, noticed a new one where Google is not displaying the search results URL in the search results interface…