AdWords Smartphone CPCs Drop Sharply After Enhanced Campaigns Transition [RKG Report]
With two months of enhanced campaigns behind us, RKG’s Q3 Digital Marketing Report offers a look at the near-term impact of the roll-out on its client set, which includes 40 of the top 500 online retailers. Most metrics remained relatively stable, however the effects were seen in smartphones…
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Google Hummingbird: When Evolutionary Becomes Revolutionary
The announcement of Google’s Hummingbird algorithm last month made quite a stir in the tech and SEO communities. In a blog post released the same day as the Hummingbird announcement, Google revealed some new features and ended the post with this: We’ll keep improving Google Search so it…
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The Top 7 Milestones Of Google Search
I think that I can confidently say that anyone reading this post has an intimate relationship with Google. After all, it’s one of the most important companies in the world and has helped to spearhead the Internet revolution — which is up there with invention of the wheel, the discovery…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: User Redirection Based On Location Is Not Spam
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video yesterday clearly stating the geo-location or redirecting users based on their location is not spam. Google will not consider a site that uses geo-location techniques as spam. What Google does consider spam is when you redirect…
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Hummingbird’s Impact On B2B Sites
The new Hummingbird algorithm will revolutionize the way B2B companies market their sites in search. Many larger B2B companies tend to invest marketing dollars in more traditional forms of marketing rather than SEM because the B2B space is usually not …
Penguin 2.1 Rolls Out As Website Owners Report Further SERPs Pain
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Google Adds TV Listings, But The Results Aren’t Ready For Prime Time
Hurray. Google Search has gained TV listings, the company announced today. What’s not to like? Perhaps that they don’t work as well as they could and are disappointing compared to what Google’s TV listings are like within Google TV. You remember Google TV, right? Google shared the…
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How Will Google Hummingbird Impact Links? Here Are 6 Ways
So you have a question you would like answered, and that question is: “How Will Google Hummingbird Impact Links?” It’s still way too early in Hummingbird season to fully understand the impact of the new algorithm, but I’ve spotted a few clues, and the title of this column is…
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Patience Prevails in PPC
When we take over management of existing PPC accounts here at SEER, we generally let the existing AdWords and Bing Ads campaigns run until we are able to build out new campaigns that align with SEER’s best practices. Recently, I was monitoring campaign performance for a new e-commerce client shortly after launching the new SEER […]
Local Google Shopping PLAs And Local Storefronts Roll Out To Limited Set Of Retailers
Today, Google is making public what several speakers at SMX East alluded to last week: local availability for Product Listing Ads. The latest iteration of Google’s wildly successful Product Listing Ads, which will be referred to simply “Local PLAs” in this article, are currently…
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Google Are Not Human. Stop Treating Them Like One
Google’s moves are met with it’s fair share of advocates & enemies. It’s us who are at fault for treating a monumental company like a human. Just stop.
Post from Ned Poulter on State of Digital
Google Are Not Human. Stop Treating Them Like One
Google’s Matt Cutts: No More PageRank Updates This Year
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said on Twitter yesterday that Google won’t be pushing out a new Google Toolbar PageRank update this year. Niels Bosch asked on Twitter if we should expect an update to PageRank before 2014. In response to that, Matt Cutts said, “I would…
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Google Launches Fix To Stop Mugshot Sites From Ranking: Google’s MugShot Algorithm
On Thursday, Google released yet another algorithm update, no – not the Penguin update, but an algorithm to combat mugshot web sites from showing up highly in their search results. In February, Jonathan Hochman wrote a story here named Why Google Should Crack Down Harder On The Mugshot…
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Future SEO: Understanding Entity Search
Last month, I asked you to imagine the future of SEO with a focus on Entity Optimization as I interviewed veteran semantic strategist Barbara Starr. We discussed an “answer engine” that uses relevant, machine-recognizable “entities” on Web pages to answer specific,…
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Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live
The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. But since this Penguin update is using a slightly improved version of Google’s “Penguin 2″ second-generation technology, Google itself is…
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Google Makes Mobile Search Faster With Ping Attribute
Ilya Grigorik, a Google developer advocate, announced last night a small tweak Google made to the mobile search experience that will speed up the mobile search experience on mobile Safari and Chrome by 200-400 milliseconds. By implementing a attribute named <a ping>, Google is able to…
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Mastering PPC: Easy Ways to Find Value on Twitter
Twitter has filed for an IPO, which will likely make some early investors and employees very wealthy. You too can profit from Twitter, except more likely as an advertiser rather than an investor. There are four ways to advertise on Twitter. I’ve already dived into the mechanics of these in earlier posts, but to […]
Google AdWords Gets Copy And Paste Functionality In The Web UI
AdWords Editor is great for editing and building out campaigns and ad groups, but sometimes it would just be nice to break up an ad group, clone a campaign, or copy keywords on the fly right in the web UI. Now you can. This week, Google added copy and paste functionality to the web UI. […]
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Google Authorship Launches Within Image Search
Today at SMX East, Google’s Pierre Far told the audience Google launched a small update to authorship by adding authorship rich snippets to Google Image Search. To see it, go to Google Images and search for named of people who may have authorship. Click on the image and if the image has…
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Study Disputes “Bing It On” Claim That 2:1 Prefer Bing To Google
A new study appearing on the”Freakonomics” blog aggressively disputes the claim that people prefer Bing to Google and especially the statistical contention that they prefer the search engine over Google 2:1. In an article explaining the study, law and economics professor Ian…
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