Yoast looking for a junior dev
We’re expanding again. We’re looking for a junior / medior developer to help grow our rapidly expanding WordPress plugin & theme business, as well as support our consultancy & site review team with tools to automate frequent tasks. What we’re looking for If you’re a developer with a junior to medior level knowledge of: HTML…
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7 Ways to Attract Higher Quality Links With Better On-Page Content
With the nonstop information being published online, people have to pick and choose what they read, share, and link to. Here’s how to make sure your content is link-worthy, your site is easily searchable, and you send all the right signals to users.
Yelp’s 2013 Results and the Headlines that Weren’t
Yelp announced their 2013 “earnings” last week. I am continually shocked by the rosy headlines and the lack of due diligence often present in the reporting. Some of the more egregious examples of uncritical coverage: Yelp Pushes Through The Controversies With Big Growth And A 5-Star Quarter Yelp shares jump 17.5% on solid Q4 results Management Says Yelp Is […]
Yahoo Turns To Yelp To Beef Up Local Search
According to a report appearing today in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Yahoo will be incorporating local content and listings from Yelp into its main search results. As the article points out, Yelp has a similar deal with Microsoft-Bing and, of course…
French Privacy Agency’s Site Crashes, After Demanding Link From Google France Home Page
Be careful what you wish for. In this case, the French privacy agency CNiL demanded that Google link from the Google France home page to a privacy ruling made against it. Google complied — and now the traffic seems to have slowed and sometimes crashed the CNiL web site. Our story on Marketing…
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Google Moves Ahead Of Exxon To Become 2nd Most Valuable US Company After Apple
Bloomberg.com reported today Google has moved ahead of Exxon Mobile Corp to become the second most valuable company in America following Apple. According to Bloomberg, Google’s market capitalization totals $393.5 billion, representing less than a billion more than Exxon’s $392.6…
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Bing Teams Up With The Hollywood Reporter In Anticipation Of The Oscars
Following the launch of its awards site, Bing announced today a new partnership with The Hollywood Reporter to create the “ultimate Oscars resource guide.” According to the announcement, Bing’s awards site will offer biographical information, photos and news on this year’s…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 7, 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: YP Wants To Compete Directly With Google And Yelp In Local When one looks across the local digital landscape there …
Google Warns Local Businesses: You Have 3 Weeks to Save Your Places Listing
Google is alerting some local businesses that they must update and save their Google Place listings, or lose it. Meanwhile, Google has made a change designed to make it easier for new business owners to set up their Google+ Local listing.
YP Wants To Compete Directly With Google And Yelp In Local
When one looks across the local digital landscape there are many companies and apps but few consumer “brands.” In specific verticals, like travel or automotive, there are companies such as TripAdvisor or Cars.com. But “horizontally” on a national level there are very few top-of-mind, major players….
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Google Gay Rights Doodle Kicks Off 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games
Google’s home page today celebrates the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics and also protests Russia’s stance on gay rights in the form of a Doodle. Abandoning its usual primary colors, Google’s logo adopts rainbow colors symbolic of gay pride.
10 years of Facebook (infographic)
Facebook turned 10 years old this week. An overview of a decade which changed many lives.
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10 years of Facebook (infographic)
Suspected Paid-Link Penalty Hasn’t Hit Expedia Bottom Line — Yet
Yesterday online travel giant Expedia announced Q4 2013 and full year results. The company “beat the street,” reporting strong room night and revenue growth across all geographies. So far a suspected penalty from Google hasn’t hurt the company’s bottom line. See our earlier…
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Best Practices When Using Yelp for Business
We’re all guilty of it! At one point or another we’ve all had such a bad experience with a business that we want to tell everyone and their mother so the company doesn’t make another cent off of you and your friends. It’s well known that word of mouth can be damaging enough; however, in […]
Check Google To See If Your Name Triggers SafeSearch Before You Go With It
There is this ultra-orthodox religious Jewish magazine named Ami Magazine, I was actually profiled in it a few months ago. The interesting part is that when you Google the name, [ami magazine]…
Possible Bug May Drop Your Whole Site With Google’s URL Removal Tool
A webmaster posted an issue in the Google Webmaster Help forums with the Google URL Removal tool.
In short, the site he is working on was hacked. He is using the tool to manually remove the hacked pages from Google, one by one…
Google Boots Large German Agency & Clients For Link Schemes
Last night, the spam czar of Google, Matt Cutts tweeted the expected, that they penalized a German link network.
This time, Cutts did not call out which network, instead he said Google went after a Germany agency and their clients over their link netw…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 7, 2014
Busy week in search, where Microsoftâs new CEO is Satya Nadella, a name most in search know…
Digital Marketing Research Publications for week 6 2014
An overview of research published around the web around Digital Marketing topics. Week 6 of 2014.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Digital Marketing Research Publications for week 6 2014
