We are super excited to announce that Alpha Brand Media, Search Engine Journal’s publisher, has a new CTO. Slobodan Manic is responsible for all things technical across the ABM network, including infrastructure solutions and custom development. Slobodan is taking over from Kevin Henrikson, co-founder of ABM, who has stepped aside in order to focus on his new role in …
Up until this moment, youtube users have only ever had one way to make money, and that was through Adsense. As many of you may already know, YouTube plans to be somewhat of the next TV. Reason being is that individuals between the ages of 18 and 34 watch more content on YouTube than they …
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It’s not uncommon in today’s SEO landscape to wake up and find a sudden drop of organic search traffic and/or keyword rankings. When such a disaster occurs, most large brands have access to a qualified SEO agency or robust in-house team to identify and rectify any issues that led to the drops. For smaller brands …
SEOs rely on traditional HTML optimization as a standard tool in their fight to improve search rankings. Just as the bayonet has evolved since the 17th century, HTML is set to receive a major upgrade in the form of HTML5. The update contains a collection of new tags and APIs. Five stand out as major SE0 innovations. …
A month ago LinkedIn improved the search, have you enjoyed the changes? Today they just rolled out all kinds of new features that I think you’re going to enjoy. They really want you to hang out longer on their social network. In order to reach this goal, they’d decided to become ‘more social’, if you …
As you know may or may not know, Google’s advertising platform contains the GDN (global display network). Within that network, Google gave us the ability to take the insights from paid search clicks and remarket to them. This was through the DoubleClick bid manager. It was in beta and is now available to all DoubleClick Search …
So we’ve decided to start doing a weekly video series on SEJ about things that are happening in the search marketing industry. We’ll be trying to relevant things that are happening and hot topics this past week. Let us know your thoughts on this in the comments below. If you’d like us to talk about …
Everyone in search engine marketing knows that Quality Score is important. But you may not realize that Quality Score is more important now than ever. That’s because as average Quality Scores have fallen over the last 4 years, the benefits you get from having an above-average score is far greater in 2013 than it was …
Shopping cart abandonment has become one of the major concerns for many online business owners. In accordance with various reputable industry researches, like those by Internet Retailer, Baymard, Forrester, etc., the average shopping cart abandonment rate has risen to almost 70% for the last 3-4 years. The most crucial consequences of this negative tendency are …
