Why Google Wants to Know About Small Websites That Aren’t Ranking Well
Do you have a small website that isn’t performing as well in Google’s search results as you think it should? Google’s Matt Cutts is asking small website owners to submit sites and explain why they deserve to outrank other websites on Google.
10 Features Unique To Bing Ads That You Might Not Know About
On the Bing Ads blog this week Marta Turek from Mediative spotlighted several features offered in Bing Ads that are not available in Google AdWords. Most PPC practitioners spend more time in AdWords than Bing Ads, soit can be hard to keep up with the different features offered in Bing Ads. AdWords…
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Ding Dong PageRank Is Dead! Or is it?
Barry Schwartz points out that PageRank hasn’t been updated in about 6 m
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New on Twitter: Lead Generation Cards for All Advertisers; Conversation View
Twitter was busy this week with two announcements. First, Twitter announced that it has made Lead Generation Cards available to all advertisers. Meanwhile, Twitter made conversations easier to follow by putting tweets in chronological order.
Using Wistia’s customisable embed settings to build links with your video content
Yesterday, our friends at Wistia launched a small, but significant new feature yesterday which helps to ensure you’re able to get link attribution any time someone chooses to embed one of your videos on their site. The new functionality, termed Continue reading »
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 30, 2013
This week in search, I cover that Google has finally killed off their old external keyword tool. Google has not updated their PageRank in the Toolbar for over six months…
Search In Pics: Google Glass Sign, Google Cargo Truck & Yahoo’s 30 Days Of Logos
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Dice: Source: Google+ Google Glass Neon Sign: Source: Flickr Google…
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Friday Talk: Justin Cutroni: “Rethinking Digital Analytics”
Justin Cutroni from Google presents “Rethinking Digital Analytics: Measuring the Multi-Device, User-Centric World”
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Friday Talk: Justin Cutroni: “Rethinking Digital Analytics”
SEO Ambiguity & Pattern Recognition
As search marketers, we constantly have to deal with ambiguity — whether trying to reverse engineer a Google algorithm or simply prioritize and forecast the impact of the SEO recommendations we’re making. In this article, we’re going to explore what drives SEO ambiguity. Spoiler…
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Link Building 101: How to Conduct a Backlink Analysis
Being able to perform a thorough backlink analysis is a fundamental element to any link building campaign. What’s more, running backlink analyses can help develop your fundamental knowledge of links, link building strategies, and link quality.
Google AdWords In-Search Campaigns Bug Really A Feature
Earlier this month, we reported on a In-Search Video Google AdWords issue where advertisers were claiming in-search ads stopped working after upgrading to enhanced campaigns.
After some time, Google’s Zuzana Stierankova Moran (aka Zee)…
Google AdSense Adds 5 New Font Types
Google AdSense has announced the addition of five new font types to the font family, which brings the total font types or styles to eight.
The new fonts include Open Sans, Open Sans Light, Roboto Light, Ubuntu Light and Lora. The previous font styles…
What Are Slow, Gradual Declines In Google Referrals?
I see a lot of different web sites, with a lot of different problems. From manual actions, to huge drops after a major algorithm update, to hacked sites…
Google’s Matt Cutts Issues Subtle Warning To Ghost Networks
Last night, Matt Cutts tweeted that he is working up several “ghost-related puns for a spam network.”
I suspect they are working on targeting more and more link and spam networks and it is thus on his mind…
Is PageRank Finally Dead? It Seems To Be, At Least In The Google Toolbar
Want to know what the PageRank of a page is? The ability to easily do this using the Google Toolbar has gotten harder over the years, with the latest blow being no update in values for the past six months. The Google Toolbar is how non-tech savvy peopl…
Bing Ads Sneak Peeks Editor Updates, Acknowledges Burning Mac Version Question
Microsoft’s Ping Jen has posted a look at upcoming changes to Bing Ads Editor, the desktop tool for managing Bing Ads campaigns. The changes include an updated user interface (UI) and faster data uploading. The UI updates are designed to make the editor align with “what you’re…
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Keyword Mining: An Interview With SES San Francisco Speaker Bill Hunt
At SES San Francisco, Bill Hunt will show you how to mine your search keywords and social data for new revenue opportunities. Here, Hunt shares some insights on where to find data and some tips and tricks for getting started with keyword research.
Why Google Won’t Respond to the 5,000 Reconsideration Requests They Get Every Week
Don’t expect any personalized responses from Google, considering there are 250 million domain names, and Google took manual action on 400,000 websites just in January 2013. They also receive about 5,000 reconsideration requests every week.
Twitter Now Shows Protected Tweets In Its Search Results, But Not All Can See Them
Twitter has made a small change in how it handles protected tweets in its search results. The company tweeted the news that some protected tweets will now be visible in search results — but they’ll only be visible to the user who has the protected account, and to that user’s…
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Silicon Valley: Preaching to the Choir?
The criticism amongst those not in Silicon Valley is that people within Silicon Valley only look at each other. But are they really?
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Silicon Valley: Preaching to the Choir?