Link Building in 2014 is All About Building Your Brand & Reputation
Many of those who pursue link building have had a tough year. Google’s verbal and physical assault on link building practices has been unrelenting. Here’s a comprehensive review of all that goes into deciding what to do in link building these days.
Google Index – Content Keyword Issue
Crawling errors effecting keyword rankings
Everything’s Not Awesome: Google News Hacked With Pitch To Watch “The Lego Movie” For Free
It’s definitely not what you expect to make the top of a Google News section, a crappy article promising that you can watch The Lego Movie online for free, not when the film is still in theaters. But that’s what Google is delivering up. The screenshot above shows the situation, which…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 21, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Says (Some) Missing Features Will Be Added To New Google Maps Google took its new Maps site out of beta this…
Google Says (Some) Missing Features Will Be Added To New Google Maps
Google took its new Maps site out of beta this week, but many users noticed that some of their favorite features from Classic Maps were missing. Not to worry, Google says. It’s aware of that and plans to bring at least some of those missing over to the new Maps site in the near future….
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Google Places Updates Quality Guidelines to Include Business Descriptor
Google Places for Business recently announced an update to its quality guidelines that allows businesses to add a descriptor to its business name that clarifies what the business is about. Some worry this opens listings up to major spam.
Bing’s Satori Adds Timeline Data For About 500k Famous People
Satori, Bing’s knowledge index, is expanding with the addition of timeline-style facts about important individuals. The new “Timeline” section is now showing up in the right-side search results for famous people such as Abraham Lincoln and Isaac Asimov (shown above), along with…
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Facebook Gives Advertisers More Targeting Options
Facebook is making some changes to the way advertisers can target their ads to Facebook users. They are introducing multiple new targeting features, which will help advertisers drill down by location, demographic, interests, and behavior.
Making a Difference: SEER Gives Back
If you’ve been following SEER for a little while now, browse our Twitter page or spent five minutes with a team member, you probably know how important it is to us to give back to the community. Our team spent over 1,000 hours volunteering in 2013 and we have a blast doing it. The SEER […]
Survey: Does Google Local Do Enough About Spam?
With the rollout of the new Google Guidelines and the @maptavists exploits, there has been a very lively discussion about Google and whether they are active enough in removing spam and in creating an even playing field. Dan Austin made the point with this comment. Please read his comment below prior to taking the poll. […]
Social Media and Customer Service: Not as Easy as it Looks
For many brands Social Media seems to be the place where they can ‘fix’ what’s wrong with their customer service. It’s not as easy as it looks though.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Social Media and Customer Service: Not as Easy as it Looks
AdWords Top Movers Report Update: Now With Conversion Stats, Device-Level Segmentation
The Top Movers report debuted in AdWords last June to help advertisers quickly see performance changes in their accounts. It was helpful, but somewhat rudimentary with reporting on just clicks and cost changes. Today, Google announced that conversion d…
The 2013 AdWords Top Contributor Badge Awards
For the past few years, Google has been awarding their top top contributors…
Business Names Google Places Quality Guidelines Updated
Google has updated their Google Places quality guidelines once again this time to clarify how you can name your business within Google Places/Google Local/Google Maps.
Jade Wang from Google pulled out the changes and posted them in the Google Places H…
Google Analytics Now Within Google+ Local Dashboards
Daniel Waisberg, the Analytics Advocate at Google, posted on his Google+ page a new feature that rolled out within the Google+ Local Admin Dashboard screens…
Google’s Matt Cutts Stops By WebmasterWorld After Three Years Of Silence
The last time Matt Cutts of Google posted something at WebmasterWorld was over three years ago on January 4…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 21, 2014
I apologize in advance for the technical issues during the video but I think I covered everything well considering. First, we talk that Bing is no longer allowing keyword stuffing…
How to Find Keyword Conversions by URL Using Google Webmaster Tools
Use this walk-through to learn how to get keyword to landing page data by using the Google Webmaster Tools Top Pages report as a template, then consolidating analytics conversions and trending over time in a very basic way.
Evolving Google Search Algorithms
When I’m looking for something at a search engine, I will often start out with a particular query and then depending upon the kinds of results I see I often change the query terms I use. It appears that Google has been paying attention to this kind of search behavior from people who search like […]
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Search In Pics: Steve Jobs Pre Google+, Nest Fire Truck & Google Fiber Bunny
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. Android Status Booty Light Dance: Source: Google+ Google Stuffed Fiber…
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