A New Easter Egg In Google Maps: Travel By Loch Ness Monster
There is a new easter egg on Google Maps, one that gives you travel and transit directions by Loch Ness Monster. If you get directions from Fort Augustus to Urquhart Castle when in Google Maps, Google will show the option of traveling via Loch Ness Mon…
Apple Adds DuckDuckGo as Search Option to Safari in OS X Yosemite
Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo received a huge boost yesterday from Apple when it was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that the startup search engine will be included in Safari in the new OS X Yosemite, coming this fall.
Right To Be Forgotten Requests Keep Coming, Now 41,000
As of the end of last week there were roughly 12,000 requests that had been officially submitted to Google under Europe’s judicially created “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) rule. Google launched an online form last week to field the requests. According to the Wall Street Journal…
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China Engaged In Total Censorship Campaign Against Google
The cat and mouse game between China, Google and the internet continues. Today and tomorrow are the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Fearing another anti-government uprising, every year at this time China cracks down on its citizens’ ability to access information about the…
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Visually direct and captivate your visitors
In the last month I’ve been speaking at a few conferences with a talk I’ve dubbed “The Psychology behind Conversion”. In this talk I’m trying to explain why everyone who maintains a website should be interested in psychology and how it can help them. Being interested in psychology, especially when applied to the web, is…
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Discover Who’s Eating Your SEO Lunch… And How To Beat Them
The combination of web analytics and a thoughtful SEO strategy is a winner. Here’s one of my favourite strategies to ensure you’re beating your competition at SEO linkbuilding.
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Preparing for CRO with Goal Definition and Tracking
This post comes from Kate Morris, a former Distilled consultant who has recently upped-sticks in search of new adventures in Austin, Texas.
Scoping New Projects: A Research Process for Sales
If you’ve done sales for a digital marketing agency, you know how difficult and time consuming it can be. It’s up to you to figure out if the client is a fit for your agency, scope the entire project and work out a schedule and price point that’s a fit for both parties. For the past […]
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7 Things I Wish Execs Knew About Link Building
Whether it’s your CMO, your client or your client’s boss, we’ve all worked with someone who just doesn’t quite get search. And that’s OK. We can’t expect everyone to understand the intricacies behind what goes into that No. 1 ranking. SEO is easy in theory, but…
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Update Your All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin Now
The Sucuri Blog issued a notice that a popular SEO plugin for WordPress web sites had a major security vulnerability. The plugin name is the “All in One SEO Pack” and the fix is easy, just make sure to update the plugin immediately. The vulnerability opened up WordPress blogs that used…
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Bing Celebrates Its 5th Birthday With A Walk Down Memory Lane & Extra Search Reward Credits
To celebrate its 5th birthday today, Bing has posted a retrospective of the last five years and is offering Bing Reward credit perks for any users who search on the site between now and June 9. Going all the way back to 2009, Microsoft’s search engine outlined its initial goals of leveraging…
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DuckDuckGo Coming To A Safari Browser Near You
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC, Apple announced quietly (actually, I don’t even think they said it…
Bing Is Five Years Old
Today is Bing’s fifth birthday and as you can see, we dressed up our site to celebrate the big day. Five years old…
Important: Patch Your All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
Personally, I am not a fan of WordPress or software products that are completely open to anyone who can read their code – but that is me…
Google’s Cutts On Content Without Links
Google’s Matt Cutts answered a question on video on how Google handles content with little or no links…
Apple Sticks It To Google By Adding Bing In Spotlight Search
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC event, which you can watch over here if you missed it, Apple showcased the new Spotlight feature in their preview of OSX…
The Best and Worst Things About Twitter Ads
There’s much to like about Twitter ads – good targeting, message amplification, innovations, and campaign control. However, we also have to deal with the bad – date ranges, display of active promoted tweets, campaign editing, and navigation.
Check Out the New MarTech Sessions and Speakers from Adobe, HubSpot, IBM & Marketo – Lowest Rate Expires Friday
Keeping pace with emerging marketing technologies, determining the best fit, and getting the most from your investment are daunting challenges. At MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference, industry leaders will help you understand marketing technology an…
Community Management Basics: 7 Tips for Marketers
An effective community manager will engage your followers/customers, amplify the visibility of your content, drive more traffic to that content, and send the right social signals to search engines. Here are the key elements of community management.
Do You Have the Right To Be Forgotten?
The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ brings up Privacy Issues – do want to have the right to remember?
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Do You Have the Right To Be Forgotten?