Facebook To End Sponsored Search Ads — For Now

Facebook has said that it’s getting rid of sponsored search results for the time being. It’s not walking away from “search advertising,” however. In the future, there will be ads in Graph Search. But, the company is still in the process of working all that out. Facebook told…

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Actionable Analytics: Live from #SMXAdvanced

SMX SeattleKate Morris covers the Actionable Analytics session at SMX Advanced in Seattle.

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Actionable Analytics: Live from #SMXAdvanced

Why You Should “Bing It On” In Your Online Marketing

Bing commercials have been running rampant on TV lately — they have amped up their service and definitely have something to prove. Among other things, they’re becoming increasingly integrated into Windows 8, possibly increasing public interest in Bing. For many people (online marketers…

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Unstructured Data In Display: Cut Through The Fog To Provide Insight

In my last last article, I talked about the importance of unstructured data for optimal performance in display advertising. This time, I’d like to bring that conversation full circle and explore another aspect of what unstructured data provides in spades: insight. While performance is typically the…

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Shortterm-ism – the Biggest Barrier to SEO

Google is taking link spam seriously – and if a recent tweet from Matt Cutts is anything to go by, updates such as Penguin are going to become better and better.

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Shortterm-ism – the Biggest Barrier to SEO

Off-Page SEO in 2013 and beyond

off-page SEOA decade ago, off-site SEO has been all about links. But it’s expected for search to progress, given that there’s a continuous evolution in web usage – which also has an effect on web marketing best practices.

These changes allowed search engines to accumulate far deeper understanding of how people make use of the web, and in turn a better ability for them to assess websites worth and deserving of higher rankings.

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