Optmyzr Launches Bid Management Solution For Google Shopping Campaigns
Google’s new Shopping Campaigns offer many benefits over traditional PLA campaigns, including granular performance benchmarks, but bid optimization can still be cumbersome. Optmyzr, the company that provides automation tools for Google AdWords management, has launched a new tool to help…
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Keylime Toolbox And Moz Analytics Debut “Not Provided” Data Recovery Solutions
Today, two companies announced new solutions to help solve the “not provided” problem that leaves SEOs in the dark about the search queries that lead users to their sites. Moz has added a new report to Moz Analytics, and Keylime Toolbox is a new company offering SEO Analytics Software…
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Google My Business – A Brand, A Portal, A Platform – Places Makes it to the Promised Land
Today, Google is rolling out Google My Business – a significant small business upgrade to Google Places and Plus. After multiple years of struggle in upgrading Places and merging local into Plus, Google is finally nearing the point where they have a solid platform addressing the needs of small businesses. My Business is currently rolling out world […]
Facebook Posts See More Engagement on Weekends and After Hours [Study]
TrackMaven studied more than 5,000 Facebook pages and about 1.6 million posts to uncover the best days and times to post status updates, as well as how to structure those updates for maximum visibility.
Pinterest Is Bringing Guided Search To Desktop Users In The Next Few Weeks
Pinterest wants to be the search engine that helps people find things that they didn’t even know they were looking for. Two months ago, the company rolled out Guided Search on mobile devices and billed it as a revolutionary way for its users to consume and browse Pinterest, which CEO Ben…
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New “Google My Business” Simplifies Local Marketing For SMBs
For quite some time since the introduction of Google+ Local, managing local listings and content across Google properties has confused many local SEOs and local business owners alike. Now Google has launched a new and more integrated approach called Go…
The Best Chrome Extensions for SEO (and Life In General)
Having grown up with the internet for most of my memorable life, I’ve seen my share of browsers come and go (and, in some cases, unfortunately not go…) But Chrome is, by far, my favorite. The best part about Chrome is its customizability. I have 13 different “users” set up on my browser (how’s that […]
Yummly Partners With DuckDuckGo To Serve Up Recipes For The Growing Search Engine
Yummly announced today it will be powering the results for recipe searches performed on DuckDuckGo, the search engine built on protecting the privacy of its users. “Yummly’s technology understands recipe search queries and we’ve worked together to create a great recipe instant…
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How To Manage Bids For AdWords Shopping Ads
Last month, I covered the basics of how Shopping campaigns in AdWords differ from Search campaigns. The key finding I had was that, with Search, you have to add keywords to target more queries. In Shopping, all queries that match your products are targ…
How to Do Awesome SEO Annotations
The benefits of doing an SEO review of early-stage wireframes or visual designs are hard to quantify, but very real. Here’s a quick guide to doing SEO annotations that will make your sites better while educating your colleagues on best practices.
Bing Sitemaps Best Practices & Large Site Sitemaps Issues
Bing has posted on the Bing Webmaster blog their best practices on how to implement XML Sitemaps files for your site. The post includes a large topic on how the best practices apply to really large web sites, with many URLs. Bing’s Six Best Practices For Sitemaps: Follow the sitemaps…
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Another New Easter Egg In Google Maps: Travel By Royal Carriage
Google announced a new easter egg in Google Maps today via Google+ where if you do driving directions from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, Google Maps will offer driving directions via Royal Carriage. This comes about a week after Google disclose…
Moz Analytics Gains Not Provided Report
Moz announced they have a new report that helps SEOs and webmasters with the [not provided] problem. Not provided is where Google is no longer reporting keyword data in Google Analytics and other analytics products. This report aims to help a bit wit…
Bing: You Can Have Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites.
Bing says they can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files…
Royal Carriage Transit Directions In Google Maps
The other week we had Google Maps directions by Loch Ness Monster and this week…
Google Glass Gets World Cup Scores, Parking Location Reminders & Package Tracking
Google announced new features for Google Glass last night on Google+. The new features include more Google Now reminders right on your Glass device.
You can see World Cup scores if you sign up via Google Now:
It will reminder you where you par…
Google AdSense Ads Without Ad URLs
Some Google AdSense publishers are reporting seeing AdSense ad units without the URL and fav icon displaying.
Folks at WebmasterWorld have reported this saying Google is testing an ad unit that removes the URL and icon…
3 Tips for Selling SEO
Successfully selling SEO requires you to wrap your head around important “pain points” and goals of a prospect, and speak to that. Here are a few tips you can use to help cut through the techno-babble, relate to a prospect, and close some business.
Lessons Learnt from Chinwag Psych
Jo Turnbull attends Chinwag Psych London and discovers how much psychology and understanding your consumers impact marketing and sales.
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