18 industry experts to descend on Boston in just 3 weeks
There’s just under three weeks left until 18 industry experts will be descending on Boston for the annual SearchLove Boston conference. For two days, SEO’s from across the US and beyond will be joining them to learn the latest key advancements in the Continue reading »
This Year’s Doodle 4 Google Winner To Receive $30,000 College Scholarship
Beginning today and lasting through May 10, Google is asking users to vote for the best Doodle submitted by elementary and secondary school students from across the country. According to Google’s announcement, more than 130,000 submissions were received with fifty state winners selected as…
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Five Ways To Flip Your Copywriting For Higher Conversion Rates
When faced with creating a conversion-focused SEO landing page, what should our copy focus on? There are so many things we can do — so many directions we can go — that it becomes hard to know what to choose. Do I go with statistics or stories? Facts or feelings? Data or discounts? If…
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Data: The Digital Common Denominator
In April 2013, the IAB released a report that revealed double-digit growth for both search and display. Additionally, within digital, video was named the fastest-growing sector, reaching $2.3 billion. I spoke with three industry experts in display, sea…
Google Showing Sitelinks to Nearest Locations on Brand Searches
Last week Bill Slawski wrote about Google’s categorization of web pages for use in local search. The patent he writes about is one in a long line of related works that discuss this sort of web page categorization. That or something very similar to it appears to be occurring that allows Google to include multiple […]
7 Takeaways From The Local Search Association Annual Conference
Earlier this month, local search marketing leaders from the U.S., Canada and 12 other countries gathered in Las Vegas for the Local Search Association’s 2013 annual conference, “Search Starts Here.” Over several days, attendees engaged in informative discussions about the numerous…
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Why Is My Site Not Ranking?
If you are a small business owner on a small budget the chances are you are learning about everything you can to set-up and promote your business. You are the CEO, the CMO, the bookeeper and the post room and chances are you make a cracking cuppa. Not every startup is VC funded, not every read more »
Post from Nichola Stott on State of Search
Why Is My Site Not Ranking?
Book Review: Webs of Influence
A review of the book ‘Webs of Influence’ by Nathalie Nahai. A short overview and why you should read and who it is for
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Book Review: Webs of Influence
Which Finds The First-Ever Website Better, Google Or Bing?
For the 20th anniversary of CERN making Web technology available to anyone royalty-free, the European science lab has restored the very first website to its original location. Could today’s search engines of Google and Bing, which didn’t exist when the site was first posted, find it…
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The Mysterious Case of @DannySullivan, Dana Point Jet Ski & Google+ Local
Danny Sullivan just tweeted that Google is screwing up royally when it comes to searches for “dana point jet ski”: Good job, Google. You ignore HTML title tag, make up your own title instead. Result: misname a harbor as business twitter.com/dannysullivan/… — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 30, 2013 I thought it would be interesting to […]
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When Google Gets It Wrong By Changing The Titles Of Web Pages
Google doesn’t always use the HTML title tag of a web page, choosing instead to make its own title for a page, if it thinks it can do a better job. Here’s an example of it getting this completely wrong. I was searching for Dana Point Jet Ski, which is a real business in Dana […]
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Breaking Down the Silos Event – Thursday, May 16th
Five cross-industry thought leaders will be speaking at the Search Church on how they’ve bridged silos to build marketing synergies, like using social media to amplify SEO efforts or paid search to jumpstart content strategy. Whether you or your company is active in online marketing/advertising or is interested in learning to better manage your online […]
Places Link Removed From Google More Menu
Update from Darren Shaw of Whitespark: You can still access Places through a URL parameter: “tbm=plcs”. Not sure how long that will last though. For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=chicago%20pizza&tbm=plcs&near=chicago This came to me from Andy Kuiper of Calgary and Vancouver: the Places search menu option has been removed from Google. Google has been cleaning up and removing links […]
Ask Google’s Matt Cutts Your Webmaster Questions
Google’s Matt Cutts has published over 500 videos in the past four years – most of them answering questions related to SEO or webmaster topics. The questions aren’t made up out of the blue, they come from SEOs and Webmasters asking Matt these question…
Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Re-Evaluation & Geo-Targeting
Bing announced two new features added to Bing Webmaster Tools.
(1) A Malware Re-Evaluation Tool
(2) Geo-Targeting Options
Bing Malware Re-Evaluation Tool
As you may know…
Google: Stop Repeating The Same Keyword Over & Over Again
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why Google isn’t ranking his seven year old web site.
Google’s John Mueller said that he is over doing it with the web site…
Google Now Available For iPhone/iPad
Google announced that Google Now, the predictive search feature from Google, is now available on iOS devices. You can download it by just downloading or upgrading the Google Search App via iTunes App Store.
Once you do, to activate it, you need to load…
Link Removal Fees Feel Like Ransom Deal
As you know, I have not been a fan of link removal fees, even from link directories.
I spotted this WebmasterWorld thread where
Are You Making These 5 Basic SEO Mistakes?
Not getting the search traffic you were hoping for? In a new Webmaster Help video, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five of the biggest basic SEO mistakes webmasters make, and suggests a few ways to improve your website.
Google News Sources Grow 15% In 2012 & Continue To Climb With Patch.com In The Lead
After seeing a 15 percent increase in Google News sources last year, a recent study conducted by SearchMetrics discovered that a majority of the News integrations displayed in Google Universal Search results are coming from AOL-owned Patch.com. After a…