Google Honors Jonas Salk, The Man Who Discovered The Polio Vaccine
On the 100th anniversary of Jonas Salk’s birthday, Google has a special logo, aka Doodle, to remember him. Jonas Salk was the first to discover and create a successful polio vaccine…
Yahoo Bing Network Audience Stats That Might Surprise You
The latest numbers from comScore on the Bing audience are available – and the stats just might surprise you.
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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Semantic Analytics: How to Track Performance and ROI of Structured Data
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If you’re interested in tracking the ROI of adding semantic markup to your website, while simultaneously improving your web analytics, this post is for you! Join me, friend.Semantic markup and structured data: Can I get a h…
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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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 announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that…
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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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Google Glass Loses Twitter App
News via Reddit that Twitter is no longer supporting their Google Glass app. This is a major blow to Google Glass…
Google’s DMCA Piracy Algorithm Went Live Last Week
Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update…
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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Optmyzr’s New Enhanced Scripts Tool Takes The Programming Out Of AdWords Scripts
AdWords scripts can be incredibly powerful for automating account management and reporting. The kicker for non-developers and even those mildly familiar with Javascript, is that setting up and managing AdWords scripts is often confounding. Even for pro…
Google AdSense Direct To Be Discontinued
9 month sago, Google launched AdSense Direct, a quick and easy solution for publishers to do direct ad sales within Google AdSense.
Back then, many loved the idea…
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.”