Rich Snippets and Patterned Queries
Revisting the Subscribed Links Patent Five Years Later and Finding the Rich Snippets Patent I first looked at this patent five years ago, but called it the Subscribed Links Patent. At the time, Google had a Subscribed links program, where site owners could create specialized search results based upon certain patterns of queries, that would […]
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Homepage optimization
Homepage SEO does not exist. That was the statement in the post I did last week. However, a lot of the people that commented on our site, and on Twitter and Facebook, still feel that a homepage should be optimized for a keyword. Perhaps optimizing your homepage for search engines works for some of you, but ranking in…
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Penguin – What Happens Next? 10 Data-Led Predictions
What will the latest update of Penguin bring and how can webmasters prepare?
Google Continues Testing Mobile Friendly Notices In Search Results, This Time With Text Version
Two weeks ago, Google began testing mobile-friendly icons in the mobile search results, next to sites that were mobile-friendly. Maybe giving a carrot to sites that adopted good mobile-friendly web site practices? Yesterday, Google tried the opposite a…
4 Tools (And 1 E-Book) I’m Loving For Content Creation And Link Development
As a content creator and link builder, you’re likely always looking for fresh ideas and inspiration. Columnist Julie Joyce shares some new tools for ideation that have caught her eye.
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Google Revamps Change Of Address Tool Within Webmaster Tools
Google’s John Mueller announced they have made significant changes to the Change Of Address Tool they initially added to Google Webmaster Tools in 2009. The new changes help walk-through a webmaster through the process of using the tool, while validating most of the important steps are…
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Moz Local Ranking Factors 2014 Study Shows Mostly The Same Formula
Moz has announced the release of their annual local ranking factors study. The study shows that for the most part, the signals and factors according to their large panel of experts, has not changed much year over year. David Mihm from Moz said the bigg…
Android’s New Feature Paves Way for Apps Replacing Web
Google’s new App Trial technology may prove to make mobile Web browsing, and mobile search, obsolete.
Google Change Of Address Tool Adds Step-By-Step Process Walk-Through
Google has updated their change of address tool, the first major update since it launched back in 2009.
The new features make it easier for novices to go through the process of using the tool correctly.
Google’s Text Version Of Mobile-Friendly Web Pages In Search Results
Earlier this month we saw Google testing mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results. Then yesterday we saw Google testing not mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results. Now…
Google: Disavow Bad Links Early & Move On
It is now two years since Google launched their link disavow tool and the questions about it do not stop…
Google: Spam Is A Hard Problem For User Generated Content Platforms
Google’s John Mueller admitted on Twitter that for user generated content (UGC) sites, spam is a hard issue and problem.
John wrote…
My Business Locations Business Accounts – A Tool to Manage Social in Bulk
Google has just announced the availability of My Business Locations (i.e. bulk) Business Accounts. Essentially this feature allows for an easy secure way to add social managers in bulk and to transfer the ownership of the bulk account or parts of the account to another users.Business accounts provide a safe way to share management of your locations […]
Native Advertising for Small Business: The Missing Link?
A cohesive, successful search marketing campaign is contingent on its content marketing strategy. Content is still king, after all, and its reign doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon.
Silk Road Anonymous Marketplace where people buy illegal drugs online
I’m watching drugs inc and apparently there are now online market places where people are buying drugs online and it even has reviews :/
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Political Election Marketing: Display Ads Are Finite In Battleground States
So apparently ad space is finite in video, etc for usage in election…
(probably because of restrictions in volume?)
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SearchCap: Google Not Mobile Icons, Bing & Google Election Search & Amazon Google’s Competitor
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’s Eric Schmidt In Berlin: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon” The attitudes of European policy makers toward Google seem to…
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Local Search Ranking Factors 2014 TL:DR
David Mihm released the results of the 2014 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey today and per tradition, we will summarize the big headlines and then send you over to David’s post for the data. “THE USER IS THE NEW CENTROID” I think this quote from David says it all, but if you want something to cut […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Panda 4…
Google’s Eric Schmidt In Berlin: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon”
The attitudes of European policy makers toward Google seem to have hardened of late. On various regulatory fronts, Google faces vocal critics and well-organized opposition. Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a speech earlier today in Berlin seeking to change some of those hardened hearts and minds….
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