Best Ways to Exclude Internal Traffic in Google Analytics
Do you know the simplest mistake most companies, agencies, and individuals overlook when it comes to reporting monthly numbers? Have you ever stopped and thought about how many times you visit your clients’ websites in an hour, in a day, in a month? If you aren’t excluding your traffic to your clients’ websites yet, you […]
Love-Hate Relationship? Zagat Brand Gets Increasing Visibility in 5-Star Carousel
I did not notice this before but as the new Local Carousel takes on the 5-Star treatment, it appears that the Zagat brand is taking on a higher profile or at least its Z is. This seems odd to me given Google’s move away from the Zagat rating system and having laid off all of their temporary […]
Korea’s FTC Acquits Google of Antitrust Charges
The Korean FTC stated Google was not demonstrating an unfair advantage by preloading its search engine on Android mobile phones. While this is one small battle won by Google, it still has its hands full with an ongoing antitrust battle in Europe.
Google’s 5-(orange) Stars Spreading Internationally, to Adwords & Rich Snippets
More folks are reporting the visibility of the 5-Star system on the main search results that Google has been rolling out. I am seeing them at work in Chrome on my Mac but not in Safari or Firefox and I am still not seeing them at home. There were also reports of them being seen […]
Bing Autosuggest Expands to Take on Instant Search, Knowledge Graph In One Fell Swoop
Bing initially provided info directly in the search box for a celebrity, politician, athlete or a connection on LinkedIn with a public profile. This has now expanded to include brands, movies, albums, places, software, sport teams, animals, and more.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 19, 2013
This week’s search video recap is sponsored by EliteFlyers.com and you can win a free t-shirt by watching this video.Google has finally released that softer version of their Panda update…
Search In Pics: Glass Jeopardy, Yahoo Blimps & Matt Cutts With Stormtrooper
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Jeopardy: What Is Google Glass: Source: Twitter Google Row Boat: Source:…
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Does Google favor sites they fund through Google Ventures?
About a month ago Jacob King wrote an interesting post on his blog about how RetailMeNot.com ranks so well in the search results.
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Top 25 SEO Agencies Affected by Panda in the UK According to Searchmetrics
Similar to Branded3′s post last week about the most visible SEO agencies according to Searchmetrics I decided to take the lead and update the spreadsheet to see which SEO companies have good onsite content, due to the fact that Google rolled out a new Panda update recently : I was shocked to see Branded3 coming […]
Friday Talk: David Meerman Scott About Getting Attention
We are all trying to get attention. And the way we get that attention is changing. Successful author David Meerman Scott talks about that in this Friday Talk.
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Friday Talk: David Meerman Scott About Getting Attention
Sick to Death of Content Marketing
SEO isn’t content marketing and content marketing isn’t SEO. There’s some potentially great crossover, but one is not a replacement for the other. Rather than trying to rebrand yourself, here’s why you should be proud to be an SEO professional!
Google Product Listing Expander Shows 16 Products In Results
RKG spotted a new Google test with the Product Listing Ads, where Google will show an option to expand the products listing ads in the web search results to show up to 16 products in total…
Yahoo Tests Green, Instead Of Blue, Search Ads
Looks like Yahoo is now experimenting with their own background colors for search ads. Spotted by @tecnonetblog – Yahoo seems to be testing a green background color for their ads. Personally…
Poll: SEO Clients Not Paying? What Do You Do?
A BlackHat Forum thread has a topic that comes up every now and then – what do you do if your client is not paying you for SEO work you’ve done…
USA Today & BBC Tricking Google News With Old Stories?
It appears that some major news publications such as USA Today and the BBC are tricking Google News to rank their older stories at the top of the Google News sections.
By tricking I mean…
Pictures Of Google Panda Recovery
Every wonder what the analytics and impression charts look like when you recover from a Panda update…
Leveraging Search Algorithms In A Semantic Search World
Innovation velocity in the search world is causing knowledge graphs to become increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous. In light of that, it is imperative that semantic Web groups and SEO groups maintain a frequent and open communication. The SEO of the future will need to have a strong…
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Build B2B Brand Awareness, Not Links
Given the ample warning and increased transparency Google provided in advance of Penguin 2.0, it surprises me that B2B search marketers still blew up the forums about being penalized for link spam after it hit. There’s no reason webmasters should not have cleaned up their act before the…
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Link Building Campaign Design: How To Scale Outreach Today
“Scaling link building” is a buzzword that died a slow but well-deserved death over the course of the last several years. Panda, Penguin and common sense were nails in the coffin for many wild link building schemes advertised as “cheap and scalable.” But, if you’re…
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5 Google Dynamic Remarketing Ads Best Practices
Google transformed the face of retargeting for online businesses this June with the release of Google Dynamic Remarketing, making retargeting specific to user search available to retailers of all sizes. Here are five best practices for retailers.