Bing “Re-Imagined” For Windows 8.1: More Beautiful, Comprehensive And Integrated – searchengineland.com Windows 8.1 is intended to “fix” many of the perceived problems of Windows 8. However for the Bing team the release of Windows 8.1 offered a new opportunity to more deeply integrate Bing into the OS and provide a richer experience for users. With the new release Bing becomes something… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » How To Use Social Media to Engage Effectively With Customers Offline – searchenginepeople.com/blog Social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Foursquare, etc.) is your link...
New: AdWords Report Scheduling For Any Day Of The Week – searchengineland.com A new change in AdWords allows marketers to schedule reports to run any day of the week. Up to now, reports could be scheduled for the first of the month, daily or weekly on Monday. So, if you report Friday through Thursday, for example, scheduled reports weren’t very helpful. Now, you can… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 6 Easy Ways to Generate World Class Content For Your Blog – searchenginepeople.com/blog When you are writing for the web, you aren't...
GoogleMart – seobook.com/blog It was hard to spot, at first. It started with one store on the outskirts of town. It was big. Monolithic. It amalgamated a lot of cheap, largely imported stuff and sold the stuff on. The workers were paid very little. The suppliers were squeezed tight on their margins. And so it grew. And as it grew, it hollowed out the high street… Continue Reading On seobook.com/blog » Is Facebook Becoming Skynet? – searchenginepeople.com/blog Much has been written about the amount of information Facebook collects and how they use it. Mark Zuckerberg flat out apologized for Facebook...
Learning How To Be A Manager – seomoz.org/blog Posted by caitlin.krumdieck Introduction from Will Critchlow: I want to introduce the post that follows for two reasons. First, it’s a little different to the majority of posts we write for the SEOmoz blog, and second, it’s Caitlin’s first post here. Caitlin Krumdieck is our Director of Client Development at Distilled… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/blog »
What Chris Hadfield Did Right (And You Can Too!) – searchenginepeople.com/blog As television was to the man walking on the moon in 1969, Social Media is to Commander Chris Hadfield's 5-month stint on the International Space Station (ISS). Evan and Kyle Hadfield, Chris' sons, began preaching the merits of Social Media at a family gathering in 2009 and again when it was announced that Dad would be on the 5-month mission to the ISS… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Ecommerce Title Tags: Top 5 Ways to Increase Clicks – searchenginewatch.com/seo The first steps of commerce take place within the search...
Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down? – searchengineland.com According to a just-published Bloomberg report Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may now also be interested in the social mapping… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » How to Build Links to Your Blog – A Case Study – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Matthew Barby I recently took some time out to do a bit of...
Mozscape in the Wild: How The API is (and Could be) Used – seomoz.org/blog Posted by Ryan_Watson Did you know that there are over 90 billion URLs are packed into our Mozscape API? That’s a lot of links. So many links, in fact, that it can be daunting to dream up all of the many ways that you could put those links to good use. When we originally built Linkscape (the predecessor to Mozscape), we mainly had one thing in mind… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/blog » How To Really Use Twitter Hashtags – searchenginepeople.com/blog Twitter users originally used hashtags to...
Designing a Content Strategy to Destroy Your SEO Nemesis – searchenginewatch.com/seo Want to build market share at the expense of your SEO enemy? Use this template to compare and contrast your content strategy and SEO performance with that of your dreaded SEO foe and come up with a way to vanquish them once and for all! Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome – searchengineland.com The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we...
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Enhanced Campaigns: “Flexible Bid Strategies” Launching Soon Google will be rolling out “flexible bid strategies” in enhanced campaigns in…. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 3 Examples of Great Content Marketing in Competitive Verticals – seogadget.com/blog Let’s get right to it. Great content marketing is more than just plopping an infographic on your site. Great content marketing is knowing what an audience wants, what stirs up emotion,...
5 Pillars of a Successful Modern Web Design – searchenginewatch.com/seo The SEO practices you implement in site design that optimize for search engines should be invisible. Modern day web design success requires a multi-function, multi-skilled approached to ensure maximum impact for your business. Balance is key. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo »
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO & Usability – searchenginewatch.com/seo Looking to increase your WordPress performance? These top 10 plugins (most of them free) will help you...
How to Move Rankings Up On Older, Existing Content – Whiteboard Friday – seomoz.org/blog Posted by randfish Many owners of established, older pages are facing a similar issue: they've been ranking decently for a keyword for some time, but they want to move into the coveted number one spot. However, older pages don't drive a ton of new press, new social signals, or awareness. If you want to boost your rankings for the same keyword you've been targeting for awhile, how can you move up to move the needle on your business? Adjusting your existing, quality content can be used...
Qapla'! The Bing Klingon Translator (and get $400.00 off at SES Toronto) – searchenginepeople.com/blog In conjunction with Bing Ads product updates and Yahoo! Bing Network research that encompass my day to day job, it is with great pleasure I get to announce something that veers a little off the search path. In anticipation of the upcoming release of Star Trek Into Darkness, Microsoft has teamed with Paramount Pictures to help you get excited about joining the crew of the Enterprise… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Company Logos Come To Google Search Through “Organization Markup” – searchengineland.com Want to have your...
Why the Yahoo! Search Revenue Gap Won't Close – seobook.com/blog In spite of Yahoo! accepting revenue guarantees for another year from Microsoft, recently there has been speculation that Yahoo! might want to get out of their search ad deal with Microsoft. I am uncertain if the back channeled story is used as leverage to secure ongoing minimum revenue agreements, or if Yahoo! is trying to set the pretext narrative to later be able to push through a Google deal that might otherwise get blocked by regulators… Continue Reading On seobook.com/blog » Building a Freelance Link Building Team – seomoz.org/ugc Posted...
The Google Mother’s Day Logo Offers 27 Art Variations – searchengineland.com Today on the Google home page is a special Mother’s Day logo for all moms out there. This logo, or Google Doodle, as Google calls them, has a little more detail than the previous years. The logo is completely interactive allowing users to create up to 27 different pieces of art with 3 border….. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » The Clients I Can't Afford To Take – seomoz.org/blog Posted by Bill SebaldThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value...
Web Analytics Software Comparison: Identifying The Right Web Analytics Tools For Your Business – searchengineland.com If you’re considering using an analytics platform other than, or in addition to, Google Analytics, it can be a bit difficult to determine what the best alternative will be. Search Engine Land compiled a great buyers guide to enterprise web analytics tools, but what if you’re in the market for a…. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » The Clients I Can't Afford To Take – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Bill Sebald Creating demand where none currently exists is the expertise of a bullshit artist. Some in sales...
Google & Time Inc. Launch Timelapse: See How Any Part Of The World Has Changed Over Time – searchengineland.com The new Timelapse site, created by Time Inc. and Google, is a pretty amazing way to see how any part of the world has changed since 1984 through 2012. The site offers amazing animations such as the growth of Las Vegas and the shrinking of the Columbia Glacier, and you can point it at any […] Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » Content Strategy beyond Top 10s – SEOgadget Webinar – seogadget.com/blog We’ve...
Attention Merchants: New Changes To Google Shopping Feed Specifications – searchengineland.com Google announced changes to the Google Shopping Feed Specification today. Here is a review of the updates and deadlines to be aware of: Products Without Unique Identifiers In the biggest change, Google has added the ’identifier exists’ attribute for merchants selling custom goods and… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » How Guest Bloggers are Sleepwalking Their Way into Penalties – seomoz.org/blog Posted by James FinlaysonThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or...
The Secret Recipe for Viral Content Marketing Success – seomoz.org/blog Posted by KelseyLibertThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Let's assume you know the basics: content marketing is one of the best ways to engage with audiences and potential customers online… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/blog » The Ultimate Guide to Multilingual and Multiregional SEO – searchengineland.com When you begin to get into multilingual and multiregional SEO,...
Google Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage – searchengineland.com Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed place names or borders on maps. A new controversy, however, has arisen about one of Google’s international homepages: Google.ps. That’s the page previously dedicated to the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » How to Create Compelling Content Based on Learning Styles – searchenginewatch.com/seo People learn in different ways. Some people learn by doing, others by watching, while others learn best by listening or in another way. Here’s how to understand learning styles and align...
Google Search App With Google Now Breaks Into iTunes Top 10 – searchengineland.com When Google first released its updated Google Search app last October, it never made the iTunes top ten and, last week, wasn’t even in the top 100. But the addition of Google Now helped the app make the top ten in less than a week. Google relaunched its app last October with Siri-like voice… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 5 Tips to Consider Before Starting an Online Business – searchenginepeople.com/blog In today's tough economy, more people are turning...
Moving Forward With a Broken Compass: A Plea to SEOs – searchenginewatch.com/seo The people who pay your bills put a lot of trust in you. They need your direction, guidance and expertise. Take pride in your work or don’t do it. Always remember there are real people behind the numbers you put into your spreadsheet. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Study: PLAs Buck Post-Holiday Trends For Google Shopping, Traffic Nearly Doubles in Q1 – searchengineland.com The momentum of Google’s PLA program didn’t slow after the holidays. After seeing Google Product Listing Ad traffic jump 82% in Q1 over Q4, CPC...
How To Ensure You Consistently Produce High Quality Content – searchenginepeople.com/blog The internet is a funny place. An SEO concept that "works" comes to light and those adopting online marketing strategies jump onto it like a trampoline. Some SEO strategies phase out; posting on article directories for instance. The majority of strategies will work just as well now, as they will in 5 years… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Measuring Social Media – seobook.com/blog Measuring PPC and SEO is relatively straightforward. But how do we go about credibly measuring social media campaigns, and wider public relations and audience awareness campaigns?...
5 Ways to Ensure that Your Email Marketing Campaign Doesn't Look Like Spam – searchenginepeople.com/blog Avoid the agitation of having your email be considered spam by following these simple tips Email marketing is an important aspect of any comprehensive marketing campaign. But there are many ways to execute your email marketing campaign that wind up raising red flags with spam filters. Here, we look at several strategies you can employ to help ensure that your email marketing campaign doesnt look like spam and ultimately get you placed on a black list… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Awesome Frickin' Content –...
How To Get 100% Fool Proof Pretty HTML Email Newsletters Without Any Coding – searchenginepeople.com/blog Mailrox makes HTML email something any small business owner can leverage to help them save money on their email marketing efforts. The benefits of a strong email marketing campaign for small businesses are many. They reduce the time, effort and overhead costs associated with typical B2B or direct-to-consumer marketing campaigns… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Why SEO Is Like An RTS Game (and why you should care) – seomoz.org/blog Posted by Jayson DeMersThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog...
