Ray Kurzweil Brings Poetry to Google
Earlier this week, I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in a panel presentation on the future of SEO, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event was the first Digital Marketing for Business Conference (and it was filled with some great sessions). The presentation wasn’t a PowerPoint and pitter-patter type talk.
Instead, I […]
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International Search Summit Keynote: Yandex Co-Founder & CTO Ilya Segalovich
Yandex is Russia’s leading search engine, besting even mighty Google in numbers of unique visitors in its home country. But did you know comScore also ranks it as the world’s fourth largest overall search engine, ahead of Bing in number of search requests processed? In part,…
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Time To Long Click
The internal metric Google uses to determine search success is time to long click. Understanding this metric is important for search marketers in assessing changes to the search landscape and developing better optimization strategies. Short Clicks vs Long Clicks Back in 2009 I wrote about the difference between short clicks and long clicks. A long […]
Time To Long Click is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Google Affiliate Network Shuts Down Again
Google announced last night that they are closing their Google Affiliate Network.
Just so you know…
Does Google Want SEOs To Overreact?
An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…
Google Quick View Badge Confirmed
In December we reported some signs of a new test of something called Quick View within the Google mobile search results.
Well, Google has confirmed that this is a test yesterday on their search blog and on Google+…
Google Apps & Gmail Down For Many
Since about 8am EDT, Wednesday, April 17th, Google Apps and many of the products within it, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and so forth are down for many – including me.
There are tons of complaints on Twitter…
Pictures Of The First People To Buy Google Glass
As we reported, Google Glass Explorers (the first non Googlers to be able to buy Google Glass) are now able to start picking up their pair of Google Glass, in order of who signed up first. I am part of the second batch, so I do not know exactly when I…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2013
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…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Tokyo Court Orders Google To Alter Search Suggestions & Pay Fines AFP reports a Japan court has ruled Google to alter the search suggestions and fined Google…
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Tokyo Court Orders Google To Alter Search Suggestions & Pay Fines
AFP reports a Japan court has ruled Google to alter the search suggestions and fined Google 300,000 yen ($3,100). The Tokyo District Court ruled that Google has to change the auto-completions for a search on a particular man’s name – the name was undisclosed – because Google…
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Why we moved to all email support
When we started doing premium WordPress plugins, we also added a support forum to yoast.com. Many people liked this but I was, to be honest, skeptic. My experience with the WordPress.org forums are … Poor, at best. I just don’t think forums work very well, in large part because there is an ever continuing tendency…
Why we moved to all email support is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
Google Shopping: Product Listing Ad & Feed Optimization Tips & Best Practices [Videos]
Need help getting started with Google Shopping? This series of six videos explains Google Shopping data feed best practices, reasons why you might not want to list on Google Shopping, and how to troubleshoot issues with your PLAs, and more.
RCS for RPS: Relationship Building with Results
We SEOs have spent a lot of time lately talking about creating communities, developing content that people want, and building relationships. We talk about these concepts, but we falter in execution. Our outreach doesn’t reflect our grand strategies. If we truly care about building relationships and fulfilling people’s needs, we have to start letting go. […]
Google: Adding Too Many Pages Too Quickly May Flag A Site To Be Reviewed Manually
Google’s Matt Cutts answered a question submitted by another Googler, John Mueller, on YouTube asking, “Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages?” The question is, if you build out a new section of your website with tons of content –…
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Live @ SMX London: From Authorship To Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters
While “content is king,” many marketers overlook the all-important factor of authority, and the process required to establish and maintain it. Google underscored the importance of authority when it introduced “author rank” as an important factor in its ranking algorithm. To…
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Google Fined $3,100 For Slanderous Search Suggestion in Japan
A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for an autocomplete suggestion that linked an innocent man to criminal acts. Google has been asked to change its autocomplete feature, but Google isn’t based in Japan, so the court can’t enforce a change.
What Google’s EU Settlement Means For Search
Google and the EU are about to reach an antitrust settlement. What will this mean for search in Europe, and how will European businesses be affected?
Post from Barry Adams on State of Search
What Google’s EU Settlement Means For Search
4 SEO Recommendations For Dealing With B2B Lengthening Sales Cycles
Many of our clients face sales cycles in a six- to twelve-month duration. In a recent client interview, one of the sales directors revealed that they were on the verge of closing a multi-million dollar deal that took nearly three years of nurturing alo…
Facebook Photo Sizes Cheat Sheet for Marketers: Apps, Ads, Albums & More
Vibrant, colorful photos drive more engagement. Use this guide to find the right dimensions, resolution, and file size for Facebook images to market your business with albums, cover images, apps, timeline photos, highlighted images, and more.