How and why the SEO tools industry should develop technical standards

Could SEO benefit from a collaborative effort to establish industry standards for SEO software? Contributor Michael King discusses the value this would have — as well as the challenges it would present.

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Meet a Landy Award winner: Wolfgang Digital wins Best SEM Initiative after raising McElhinneys revenue 266%

Ireland’s McElhinneys Department Store turned to Wolfgang Digital to help boost their online revenue and generate more international sales.

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Meet a Landy Award winner: For its work with Scotts Miracle Gro, Acronym wins Best Overall Enterprise SEM Initiative

This year’s Best Overall Enterprise SEM Initiative Landy field was a competitive one. The winner needed to utilize best in class tactics & initiatives, various platforms & tools, and of course improve visability and/or convert new customer on major search platforms and earn a positive…

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Meet a Landy Award winner: Noble Studios drives traffic to Tahoe South to win Best SEO Initiative for Small Business

Noble Studios introduced a new approach to blogging and content creation for Tahoe South that resulted in a 134% increase in mobile site traffic.

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Meet a Landy Award Winner: For its work with Lane Bryant, Razorfish wins Best Mobile SEM & Best Retail SEM Initiatives

Razorfish didn’t miss a beat when shifting to a mobile-first, omnichannel strategy for the retail clothing chain.

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Search ads in 1H generated $16.3 billion or 50 percent of total digital revenue

Mobile was the driver of overall growth, with mobile search ad revenue approaching desktop levels.

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SMX East 2016: Satisfying The Need For Speed

Columnist Eric Enge recaps a session at SMX East on the impact of page speed on SEO, presented by former Google Search Quality team member Fili Wiese.

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Enterprise SEOs, unite! The SMX East 2016 session recap

What are some of the issues unique to enterprise SEO professionals, and how can you best approach these challenges? Columnist Eric Enge reports on a session from SMX East which covers this topic.

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Perfect Your SEM Testing: How & Why To Evaluate Everything: SMX East 2016

Looking for inspiration when it comes to designing and running tests in your PPC accounts? Columnist Aaron Levy recaps a session on this topic from SMX East 2016.

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What Google’s recent RLSA updates mean for advertisers

Columnist Andy Taylor discusses the impact of two recent changes to Remarketing List for Search Ads announced at SMX East 2016 — expanded RLSA membership duration and cross-device retargeting.

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Is “SEO” the right term anymore?

Columnist Winston Burton discusses how search engine optimization (SEO) has evolved over time and wonders whether the job title is truly representative of the work we now do.

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What’s new with markup & structured data

Contributor Eric Enge recaps a session from SMX Advanced on structured data markup in its many forms.

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SMX Advanced recap: Lies, Damn Lies, and Search Marketing Statistics

Are your marketing tests giving you valid results? Columnist Mark Traphagen summarizes insights from a presentation by Vistaprint’s Adria Kyne at SMX Advanced.

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