Common Search: The open source project bringing back PageRank

Columnist JR Oakes explains Common Search, a great open source tool for understanding how search engines work, which has a hidden gem for those of us who miss checking our PageRank score.

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Will Digital Assistants Replace Search?

Last week the latest digital assistant,Viv, was demonstrated to the public. Viv was created by the same team that developed Siri and can be solely controlled by voice. During it’s unveiling, a pizza was ordered, toppings added, paid for and delivered all through Viv. This was done without the user ever needing to use search, […]

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Everything You Need To Know About The Google-Twitter Partnership

Google and Twitter recently reached a deal that once again gave Google access to Twitter’s firehose. Columnist Neil Patel summarizes what we know so far and offers predictions and advice for search marketers.

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Who’s Really Winning The Search War?

Ask any search marketer what Google’s market share is, and they’ll likely say around 66%. That’s the stat comScore has long supplied. Contributor Eli Schwartz asks whether it’s really accurate, and conducts research to prove it.

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SEO Smackdown: Download Time – Machine Speed Vs. Human Speed

Perceived download time is more important to searchers than actual download time. So why do SEOs focus on technocentric optimization strategies?

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The War On Links

In case you didn’t notice, we are waging a war over links. Some would say that SEOs are at war with search engines, but I disagree. Search engines and SEOs have a symbiotic relationship; and without meaning to, we’ve killed the value of the link. The link, once a simple connector from…

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How 90s HTML Coding Will Save The SEO World In 2014

A surprising blast from the coding past has been making a comeback via SEO, and is frequently making its way into the core of advanced responsive design thinking: the humble sprite.

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