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Eye Tracking Study: The Importance of Using Google Authorship in Search Results
Authorship Snippets: The “Purple-Cow” of Search Engine Results? Imagine being in a class, knowing the answer to a question and desperately attempting to be the...
The Year 2003 in Search #throwbackthursday
Search Engine Journal been documenting the search marketing industry for the past 10 years. To commemorate this milestone, Loren Baker, founder of SEJ, got in the...
SEOs Halloween Assemble: The League of Extraordinary SEO
All Hallow’s Eve is a festive night full of trick-or-treating, making jack-o’-lanterns and dressing up in costumes that may not exactly be age appropriate. But,...
Tips to Enhance Mobile Search Interaction
Mobile search is becoming increasingly important for companies of all shapes and sizes. According to the latest quarterly report from RKG, more than a quarter...
5 SEO Touch-Points During Website Design & Development
My career began at a dedicated search agency, often working with third party vendors and IT teams to accomplish SEO objectives. While I experienced many...
Google Increases Locations Serving Search Requests By 600% From Last Year
Google has significantly increased the number of sites and ISPs it uses to serve search requests according to a study by researchers at the University of...
Google and 6 Other Same-Day Delivery Services
Wikipedia Commons If you live in the Bay Area, you might be relaxing at home in your pajamas ordering all sorts of goodies and waiting...
How to Take Your Brand Global with SEO
Converting a challenger brand into a market leader nationally is a difficult yet rewarding accomplishment. The dedication, expertise and investment necessary to make that happen...
Google Releases Easier Offer Builder For Local Business Targeting
Within the next week, Google will be slowly rolling out an easier Google Offers builder, which work in tandem with Map listings. This news came...
What Google AdWords’ Ad Rank Update Means for Your Business
This week, Google announced a significant AdWords update: Ad Rank, the system for ordering competing ads on search results pages, now takes into account the...
US Search Awards Winners, Nominees and Attendees Party at #Pubcon
Thanks to SEJ’s #Pubcon coverage sponsor Majestic SEO “Bigger, Better, Faster.” The first ever US Search Awards ceremony was held this past Wednesday night, October 23rd in...
A Cautionary Tale: 301 Redirects and UX
William Congreve penned the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Obviously he never knew about Google. A web designer friend of mine recently...
Jennifer Van Iderstyne, Kenny Hyder, Loren Baker, Greg Boser on Linkbuilding: #Pubcon Session Recap
SEJ’s #Pubcon event coverage is sponsored by CopyPress, “Centralize Your Content Performance.” Today’s late morning session on the last day of Pubcon “Links with Maximum...
Google Updates DoubleClick For Publishers Ad Serving Algorithm
The Search Engine Journal team received an email from a member of the Google DoubleClick team last afternoon that announced that changes to the Ad...
How a WordPress Child Theme May Save Your Business Some Day
Imagine tweaking your WordPress theme for hours, aligning those images, increasing line height so text is easier to read, setting that call-to-action button color, making...
Google Releases An Update To The AdWords Ad Rank Algorithm
Google quietly released an update to their AdWords Ad Rank algorithm yesterday with the most notable change being the inclusion of ad extensions as a...
Google Analytics Indepth Look: URL Destination Goals
Google Analytics (GA) actually has a lot more useful features than you might think. So many companies use the few tabs and just put the...
U.S. District Judge Orders Yahoo! to Add Microsoft Search to Remaining Markets
News of the ruling on the case between Yahoo! and Microsoft regarding the continual rollout of Microsoft’s search technology into Yahoo’s international markets became public...
The Times Are a-Changin’: Why Paid Search Isn’t as Easy as It Used to Be
Paid search advertising is one fastest growing and rapidly changing industries today. Theses constant changes require more effort and different strategies to improve pay-per-click ROI. The...
Why Should We Do Everything Google Says?
I have said this before, I love Google. I live and breathe Google. But the other day at dinner my husband and I were talking...
7 Tricks For Making Landing Pages Work For You And Your SEO Clients
What makes a landing page work? Why do some landing pages get people to stay, convert, and get shared socially, while others are just given...
7 Ways to Quickly Increase WordPress Speed
Everybody seems to be in a hurry these days, and online loading times matter. Studies show that speedy WordPress websites perform better in terms of:...
Android Users Can Now Manage Their Google Places Listing on the Go With New App
Marketers now have a new tool to mange their Google Places for Business listing while on the go with Google’s new Android app. The new...
Head to Head: How Fantasy Football is Kinda Like SEO
The League/Facebook Even if you’re not a sports fanatic, you know very well that a lot of people are glued to their TVs and checking...
Just Launched Google Media Tools Aims to Help Journalists
The Google+ for Media: ATL Summit brought some big news today, as Google announced its launch of Google Media Tools, a website designed to help...
*Conversion Testing Not Included
I recently had a discussion on the age-old topic of rankings vs. conversions. While the gentleman I was conversing with agreed that SEO is more...
Por Un Link Building Más “Comunicativo”
Editor’s Note: By popular request, Search Engine Journal is now publishing search marketing articles in Spanish. These are not translations of posts already published in...
Local Carousel Rankings Are Out: The Verdict
The local carousel design has been in effect since June of this year, so it’s about that time when experts try to measure its success...
5 Important Internet Marketing Lessons from Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs took a unique approach in everything he ever did. This uniqueness of his personality, his modus operandi, his products, and the entire Apple...
SEO Contest to Get The Season Started! Enter Today!!!
Calling all creative internet marketers! There’s just one week left in the Search Engine Journal and Advice Interactive Group SEO Monster Mash recipe contest. The top five...