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Have you tried out Enhanced Campaigns? Have you converted your campaigns over to them yet? Google just announced new location-oriented features to it’s Enhanced Campaigns feature to help us all get better results. Basic wrap-up of todays releases: Improve campaign results using location bid adjustments, whether your customers buy online or offline. More easily reach customers …
In an ongoing effort to enlighten us and fight spam, Google tells all today in an infographic entitled How Search Works that was released just moments ago. They tell the story of Google Search and how they deal with everything from your clicks to scammers. They start off by telling us that Google is searching and indexing …
AMC’s The Walking Dead is back from its mid-season break, and fans—including us—are more than eager to see if Rick will be stuck “wandering the crazyland” in the midst of this zombie-infested soap opera. We are also hoping that the show will be able to redeem itself from what has been a half-season of weak, if not …
Boardwalk Empire may be a “period drama”, but it is one compelling, gripping, and bloody “period drama” that gets everyone hooked. There are lots of reasons to love the show: Steve Buscemi, mobsters, Martin Scorsese, gang wars, Al Capone … but what is so special about the show is that despite the relative number of …
As the SEO industry has slowly evolved over the past five years in response to Google’s aggressive initiatives to combat web spam (and those looking to game the system) in order to produce the most relevant results for user queries, SEO’s have recently needed to make the choice between Generation X (Black-Hat) strategies played by …
Give props to Oreo and 360i. The staple American brand and its big time creative agency just changed the way we will cover live events forever by simply creating a well-timed image ad. By telling Twitter users that you can “Still Dunk in the Dark”, Oreo did what many people never imagined. They got free …
It’s that time of the year again for what is perhaps the most important Sunday for football fans, the Super Bowl. It is that special day for fans to cheer for their favorite teams, yell obscenities at referees, and enjoy the in-between commercials and for bars to overflow with drunken fans. The Super Bowl, in …
In the ongoing effort to pass the SEJ torch, Search Engine Journal currently hiring a new Managing Editor to take over the role of running the day to day at Search Engine Journal. Love blogging, building relationships and following the world of search engines? Do you have what it takes? Search Engine Journal, a community-focused, …
There are some big games coming this weekend! The 49ers are playing the Falcons at 3:00PM Eastern on Fox and the Ravens are playing the Patriots at 6:30PM Eastern on CBS. Below are a few funny items. These are meant to be fun, so please enjoy. FYI, the video below was published on January 15, …
The mysterious announcement that Facebook promised to make is a mystery no more. During a live media event at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, Mark Zuckerberg introduced the beta version of what they are calling Graph Search. Over the years Facebook has accumulated 1 billion users, 240 billion photos, and 1 trillion connections. The …
