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Airbnb SEO Meetup #Interview: Negative SEO and Its Impact on Google Search Results
Over the years we’ve seen a lot of different SEO tactics resulting from Google’s constant and unwavering algorithm updates. From link building to guest blogging,...
The Many Uses of Backlink Analysis
Conducting a backlink analysis is the foundation of any link building campaign. There is so much information to be gained and a wide variety of...
#SMX West 2014 Recap: Day 1
The Search Marketing Expo started March 11, 2014 and I was there front and center, alongside SEJ’s John Rampton, to get the inside scoop on...
Data Feed Syndicators Are Only the Beginning for Local Marketing
Why do companies have the perception their local marketing for stores ends with submitting a data feed through a syndicator? In reality, local marketing is...
Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest Responds To Google Penalty
Matt Cutts broke the news via Twitter early this morning that Google’s webspam team had penalized a “large guest blog network.” Today we took action...
Moving Towards Local Store Marketing And Advertising For National Companies
National companies have been struggling with a significant change to branding, marketing, and advertising over the past few years. Search engines, the mobile industry, and...
7 Free & Paid Comparison Shopping Engines to Fuel Your Store’s Sales
Consumer Futures research shows over half (52%) of users use comparison search engines (CSEs) on a regular basis for their on-line shopping and 80% use it...
Converting the New Mobile Consumer
5.1 billion human beings owned a smart phone as of early 2012. 4.2 billion human beings own a toothbrush. We live in the technology era,...
#SMX West 2014 Recap: Meet the Search Engines
Danny Sullivan (Founding Editor, Search Engine Land), Matt Cutts (Distinguished Engineer, aka Head of Web Spam, Google), and Duane Forrester (Senior Project Manager, Bing) held...
Connecting the Customer Experience with Marketing Data: An Interview with LiveRamp
Digital marketers spend a lot of time talking about, collecting, and analyzing consumer data, but despite the massive amount and availability of this stockpiled data,...
SEO Expert Jason Acidre, AKA Kaiser The Sage, Takes Part In Informative Reddit AMA
Jason Acidre is the Co-founder and CEO of Xight Interactive, an online marketing agency based in the Philippines, but he’s best known for his blog...
10 Great Social and Web Analytics Tools
In a recent post, the good folks at iSpionage reviewed the importance of using analytics to guide your Internet marketing efforts and which metrics make...
SMX West Speaker Interview Series: Greg Sterling Discusses Mobile SEO
As part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media, I was given the opportunity to interview five marketing experts who will be speaking at SMX West. This was a...
The SEJ x SMX West Interview: Brian Clark of CopyBlogger
I had the opportunity to interview marketing experts who are speaking at SMX West as part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media. Be sure...
How to Capitalize on Semantic Time Savings for Online Advertising
Semantic technology is a term we have all heard, but does anyone really know what it means? It’s heralded by the likes of Google and...
Yahoo News: Company Acquires Vizify, Removes Facebook And Google Log-In Options
Yahoo has been in the news multiple times over the past 24 hours, which is notable considering the company doesn’t get nearly the amount of...
Google Announces New Analytics Academy Class Starting Next Week
In an effort to help digital marketers become more data savvy, Google launched the Analytics Academy in October of last year. The first course Google...
Improving Online Sales: What Leads to Checkout Abandonment? #Infographic
Setting up an online business used to be considerably cheaper than setting up a brick and mortar business establishment. This has significantly altered in the past...
The Time Has Come: How to Actually Create a Video Rich Snippet
There has been a bit of buzz around rich snippets over the last few years, and for good reason. Rich snippets are an excellent way...
Matt Cutts Answers If Content Ranks Better When It’s Easy To Read
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content writing in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Driving Landing Page Conversions: SEO Tells You Where, But CRO Tells You How
A lot of marketing experts will tell you that SEO is the driving force behind conversions. I’m here to tell you it’s not. SEO can...
How to Find and Build Powerful EDU Backlinks
Backlinks from edus can be very powerful and valuable to your SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that their value doesn’t come from...
Brands vs. Retailers – How Is the Attractiveness of a Market Reflected in Search?
When you work within the search intelligence sector and conduct daily industry analyses, you can’t help but to spot patterns. For me, one of those...
How Two Top European Clothing Giants Overpowered the Search Marketing Competition
Editor’s Note: The comments at the end of this article have indicated one of the companies mentioned in this post may not be as “white...
Increasing Local Reviews: Integrating Offline Marketing Tactics
When we discuss local SEO, most conversations revolve around online marketing strategies and recommendations – fix title tags, include keywords, claim g+ locations, citations, link...
What Are SEOs Even Good At Anymore?
We used to be magicians; we used to be tech-savvy entrepreneurs that challenged the might of Google’s algorithm, and for a long time we were...
Google Makes Change To Webmaster Guidelines: Don’t Block Ads With Robots.txt
An update has been made to the technical guidelines section of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines that specifically states site owners should not block the Google ads destination...
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The 2014 Mobile Landscape: 25 Statistics That Will Drive The Future of Mobile Marketing [Infographic]
The mobile landscape certainly continues to grow as we head into 2014. More than half of the U.S. population owns a smartphone (57%, according to...
Yahoo Improving Local Search Through Partnership With Yelp
In a report published over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo looks to be improving their local search efforts through a partnership with...
The SEJ x SMX West Speaker Interview Series: Rand Fishkin
I had the opportunity to interview five marketing experts who are speaking at SMX West as part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media. Be sure to attend...