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Google Authorship: The Future of Your SEO is You!
Some of the main goals of blogging and content strategies are to drive traffic, earn links, and to rank higher on Google, right? So, with...
The Google Kit Kat & 5 Other Stange Co-Branding Deals
So, Google is back in the headlines. And, this time it’s not about Glass. Instead, it’s about the bizarre licensing deal Google unveiled surrounding its...
Matt Cutts States Sites on IPv4 & IPv6 Won’t Be Duplicate Content
In a new Google Webmaster Help YouTube video published today, Matt Cutt answers a question from a user regarding IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 is the...
150 Blog Posts in 50 Days: Why Were Marketers Mad?
Maybe you heard of our little content marketing experiment. We were unsatisfied with the results our SEO company was producing, so we decided to take...
The Truth about SEO and Call Tracking
There has been a great deal of discussion about SEO and call tracking lately. Several local marketers have written articles decrying call tracking, saying that...
Matt Cutts Tells You What To Do If Your Site Was Hit By Panda
Google has recently integrated Panda into its normal indexing process. As a result, many site owners are concerned how this will affect them. Specifically, site...
Matt Cutts Answers Whether Or Not Nofollow Links Can Hurt Your Site
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, published a video response today to a question about whether or not nofollow links can hurt a website when it...
Bing Testing Site Interior Link Display Directly in Search Box
As first spotted by Aaron Wall and mentioned on SEO Roundtable, Bing is now testing showing website previews and sitemap results directly from the instant...
Bing To Start Including Local Product Inventory Data In Search Results
In an announcement made yesterday, Microsoft and Local Corporation signed an agreement to provide location-based inventory data for Bing. Local Corporation’s Krillion shopping data platform...
Bing News Now Shows You What’s Trending On Facebook and Twitter
Bing continues to upgrade their user experience with an announcement made today about changes to Bing News. In an attempt to modernize their search experience...
Mozilla Moves to Block Cookies, What Impact Will This Have on Google Analytics?
On October 18 2011, search marketers (and all marketers) took a vital blow when Google announced the “Not Provided” keyword segment in Google Analytics. Click...
Bing Announces Completely Revamped Experience For Video Search
Today Bing made an announcement on their blog about upgrades to the user experience of their video search. The announcement promises these upgrades will provide...
Google’s Matt Cutts Further Explains Automation of Reconsideration Request Process
In the latest video from YouTube’s Google Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts explains why the Google Spam team can’t handle every individual reconsideration request with...
Matt Cutts Asks SEO’s To Report Good Sites For Better Rankings
In a tweet that went out yesterday from Matt Cutts asked users to report/let Google know about sites that you think should be doing much...
Bing Describes 7 Ways They Are Better Than Google For Image Searches
Bing recently posted an inside look from Senior Program Manager, Meenaz Merchant, describing the ways in which Bing is a better image search engine than...
Matt Cutts States Page Speed Is Not A More Important Ranking Factor On Mobile
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, stated in a video response that page load speed is not any more important as a ranking factor...
Matt Cutts Says Google +1’s Have No Direct Impact On Search Rankings
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, refuted the latest Moz study that claimed to show a correlation between Google +1’s and high search engine rankings....
Bing Announces Hardware & Ad-Free Search for Schools
Bing announced on their search blog today that they are launching Bing for Schools, a program that will partner with school districts across the country...
Don’t Be a Glasshole: 8 Situations When You Shouldn’t Wear Google Glass
We’ve got some bad news. Google Glass has been officially postponed until 2014. At least that gives us some more time to debate the privacy...
Matt Cutts Recommends NoFollowing Links On Embedded Widgets
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video answer yesterday advising website owners with a recommendation that may help from getting penalized by...
When Is It Appropriate To Use ccTLD’s? Via Matt Cutts
ccTLD is an acronym that stands for ‘country code top level domain’. In March of this year, Nick Paterman (one of our authors), mentioned that...
DuckDuckGo vs Google (Impressive New Stats)
We’ve covered the DuckDuckGo vs Google war in the past… We know it’s not the closest race in the world but DuckDuckGo released some impressive...
Cleaning Up SEJ Author Bio Links
Dear SEJ Contributors & Readers, Thank you for everything you have contributed to SEJ and your participation in our community, comments & social media. We’ve...
Google Affiliate Network’s Shut Down Leads To Mass Client Migration
One week ago the Google Affiliate Network (GAN) announced they would be shutting down their platform in the upcoming months. Since then, the affiliate industry...
SEO Bites: Ben Stiller Stars as the Algorithm
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...
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[Infographic] Search Engine Market Share November 2012
A new infographic by Chitika insights reveals the latest trends in search, with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and AOL as the main players. The results...
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#In2013YouBetterNot Disturb Sleeping Pandas [Thursday Twitter Funatron]
2013 is 25 days away. 25. The countdown is near, and we all look ahead, with hope. All industries are looking at 2012 in retrospect:...
Search Engines Are Talking Turkey!
The biggest search event for Yahoo!Search, after this year’s Presidential elections in the US, is Thanksgiving, and Yahoo!Search is already talking Turkey. Since BOSS Geo,...
Social Meme Monday: Home Objects Inspired by Social Media
You know you are completely addicted to social media when you have items at home whose designs are inspired by Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, and...
Monday Thanksgiving Humor
Thanksgiving is just 3 days away! It is a day for family and friends and at times irritation :). There is a lot of humor...