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Choosing The Right WordPress Theme For Your Business: Interview With Ross Jones
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Ross Jones of 2 the Top Design gives some tips for choosing the right WordPress...
Affiliate Marketing Best Practices: Interview With Paul Schroader
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Paul Schroader of PS Web Solutions leads a discussion on affiliate marketing best practices. Are...
Overcoming SEO Challenges For Retailers: Interview With Stephan Spencer
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Stephan Spencer of The Science of SEO offers advice for overcoming the challenges retailers face when it...
Will Russia’s Sputnik Fail Like These 13 Defunct Search Engines?
Russia just spent $20 million to create a government-controlled search engine called Sputnik. Despite being developed by the state-owned telecommunications agency Rostelecom, Sputnik already appears...
Using SEO For Public Relations: Interview With James Crawford
In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, James Crawford of PR Agency One discusses how to use SEO for public relations. There...
Then vs. Now, The Evolution of SEO: Interview With Kris Jones
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 sponsor, Brand.com: “the #1 rated online reputation management company”. In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las...
Ensure You’re Following TCPA Compliance Regulations: Interview With Daryl Colwell
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2013 sponsor, Brand.com: “the #1 rated online reputation management company”. In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las...
Why Do 92% of Smartphone Users Utilize a Google App?
Whether you love, dread, or fear Google, there’s no denying that the search engine is one of the most dominant forces in the online world....
How To Hire An SEO Expert: Interview With Peter Leshaw At #Pubcon 2013
Sponsored by CopyPress, “Centralize Your Content Performance.” In an interview conducted at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas, Peter Leshaw of ICanOptimize explains the ins and outs of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
*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...
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...
4 Link Building Opportunities Minus the Content
Content is nearly synonymous with link building these days (or link ‘earning’, depending upon who you talk to). Even Google recently changed their user guidelines,...
September 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal
#1: 3 Ways Content Will Be Affected by Google’s Latest Hummingbird Update By: Rick Egan Google seems to be coming up with new updates sooner...
Think AdWords Doesn’t Work? Here’s What You’re Doing Wrong
It’s not uncommon to hear marketers complain that “AdWords doesn’t work.” Sometimes you’ll hear this from major enterprises that should know better (looking at you,...
Flashy vs. Simple Websites: Does One Lead to Better SEO?
It’s easy to get carried away when creating your website because A). Creating a website is fun, and B). There are tons of different options...