Win More Links to Your Content with Paid Social Promotion

Creating great content is not enough, you need to make sure as many people as possible see it. This is where paid social promotion can come in very handy. Using paid advertising on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, you can ensure your content is seen widely and increases the chances of earning links.

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Win More Links to Your Content with Paid Social Promotion

Visual Maths: A Brief History of Lighting in VFX

Light. From even before the moment a newborn baby opens it’s eyes, we’re surrounded by it. From the way the sun shines on a clear or cloudy day, to the difference between harsh and soft lights in the home, our brains have developed an uncanny ability to understand the way light falls on a scene […]

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How Google May Transform Queries into Trigger Queries

Recently I wrote about Google’s Enriched Results Patent, where Google looked at query terms searched for, and for some of them the search engine returned special “enriched” search results that showed off things such as financial information when the query might have been something like a financial stock market term, such as “GooG” for Google. […]

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SearchCap: Bing Emoji, Google Webmaster Guidelines & Gmail Messages In Search

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Now Lets You Search By Emoji Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this. Bing…

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RCS SEO: Measuring Success

Traditionally SEO has been semi-formulaic; we know the factors that play a role in ranking. We analyze both our clients’ and their competitors’ backlinks, keyword profiles and keyword rankings, content and meta data to find opportunities and build strategies. To bolster competitive keyword rankings, we create content and prospect influencers to develop 3rd party content […]

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Gmail Messages Now Showing Up In Google Searches

Since Google released its new Gmail “Inbox” feature last week, TheAndroidSoul.com reports that Gmail users can now get to their Gmail Inbox by doing a Google Now or web search. According to TheAndroidSoul.com, the following search terms resulted in Gmail showing up in search results: my…

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Get What’s New/What Works at SMX Social Media Marketing

You’ll Learn Paid, Earned & Owned Tactics to Foster Engagement, Drive Sales & Achieve Your 2015 Marketing Objectives With over 200 million users and 55 million photos posted daily, Instagram is the fastest growing social network. Since being acquired by Yahoo in May, Tumblr has seen growth…

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Why Did Google’s Pigeon Poop All Over Big Local Brands?

Many large, multi-location brands found that their traffic dropped after Google released its Pigeon algorithm. Columnist Andrew Shotland discusses why.

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Google Testing A New Mobile Friendly Design Using Material Design Format

Google is testing a new mobile design interface, using the design principles from “material design,” that Google themselves has been heavily promoting. The new interface was first noticed by SEER Interactive and later by Android Police and Google Operating System shows how this is not a…

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Google Webmaster Guidelines Updated To Warn About Blocking CSS & JavaScript Files

Google announced they’ve updated their webmaster guidelines to specifically note that blocking your CSS or JavaScript files may have a negative impact on your indexing and search rankings in Google. Pierre Far, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, said the “new guideline specifies…

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Using The Past To Predict The Future For Local Search

What does local SEO have in store for us? Columnist Myles Anderson takes a look at how local ranking factors have changed over time.

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Google Guidelines: Blocking CSS Or JavaScript Directly Can Harm Your Rankings

Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they’ve been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google’s Pierre Far wrote, “Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings.”