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Reuters Social Media Editor Indicted On Hacking Charges
The US Department of Justice officially indicted Reuters Editor, Matthew Keys, late last week on 3 counts of conspiracy relating to a 2010 Anonymous hack...
Twitter’s Vine App Will Make Social SEO Campaigns More Awesome
On January 24th 2012, the world’s fastest growing social media platform, Twitter, released a new mobile application that allows for the transference of short, precise...
Essential Elements of a Successful Self Published Book
While the publishing industry is not going to die anytime soon, the ability to self publish books is quickly becoming a disruptive force that is...
How Google Makes Money From Mobile – Grading Google’s Top 20 Mobile Products
Mobile is taking the world by storm, and far be it from Google to be left behind! The search giant is tackling mobile from (almost)...
February 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal
Here’s the SEJ posts that brought in the most traffic last month. We thank our hardworking guest writers for their contributions! #1. 6 Free Google...
Facebook Redesigns Continue With Timeline: Community Managers Be Ready
Yesterday Facebook posted another major announcement to its blog. The long tested redesign of Timeline is beginning to roll out. The new look of Timeline...
Google Shopping Bests Amazon at its Own Game
Let it never be said that Google will not give every ounce of effort to beat out the competition when it comes to the field...
Your Link Building Approach Outweighs Your Link Building Tactic
Penguins and Pandas abound, and SEO has changed forever. Consultants everywhere debate just how many SEO tactics will become outdated in the years ahead, but...
Matt Cutts on What’s Needed for SEO Success in 2013 and Beyond – Live Blogging
SMX West is in its final day and it’s been a great three days of sessions. Today’s panel, What’s Needed for SEO Success in 2013 and...
Microsoft Confirms Mobile and Tablet Targeting Will Continue
We’re here live at SMX West with Microsoft’s David Pann. David is the General Manager for the Search Network at Microsoft Corporation and on stage answering...
Multitasking Will Ruin Your Link Building Campaign
We recently talked about how link building is anything but a cookie cutter process. Response was mostly positive, but a few of you have correctly...
Bloggers Get Flowers… Interflora Gets Slapped!
There is a good chance that you’ve already heard about all of the drama recently with Google slapping all the search rankings away from Interflora,...
Matt Cutts Confirms Panda Update Coming This Friday
Late last night Matt Cutts was on stage at SMX talking about Penguin and Panda updates. When asked about Panda updates and when will be...
#Pinterest Launches Analytics Tool for Business
Starting today, marketers with business accounts on Pinterest now have a tool for tracking basic web traffic between their verified website and Pinterest. Pinterest Web...
Liveblogging: Walk A Mile In Google’s Shoes with Matt Cutts
Today Matt Cutts is on stage at SMX West. We’re live blogging here as Matt Cutts teach us with dealing with tough calls in organic...
How Is Your Search Engine Handling Synonyms?
How Is Your Search Engine Handling Synonyms? I started by Googling ‘funny pets’, and Google came up with a number of highly relevant results. I...
What the Facebook News Feed Redesign Means to Your Business
Last Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg hosted another big press event at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook to introduce the new look of the News Feed....
Search Query Data Now Auto Imported Into RavenTools
Ever since Google announced that it won’t be releasing search data for people logged into Google and instead offing “not provided” we’ve been waiting for...
New Facebook News Feed May Include Content Feeds
Ever since the invitation went out from Facebook to “Come See a New Look for News Feed,” many have been speculating what that might be....
How to Run a Successful Facebook Marketing Campaign
Running a successful campaign on Facebook employs many different tools and techniques. You can read about what makes a successful campaign here, but there are...
Introducing Search Engine Journal Guest Columnist Srinivas Rao
I’m very pleased to introduce SEJ’s first weekly columnist, Srinivas Rao. Srinivas comes from the world of online publishing and specializes in audience development and...
Google Releases Location Bid Adjustments and Offer Extensions
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...
WordPress Offers New Options for Small Business
WordPress.com, the popular blog hosting site, has added another service level to their paid services. Now businesses have the option of a WordPress hosted website...
Introducing: AdWords ‘Similar Audiences’ Targeting
Are you currently advertising using Google AdWords? Looking for ways to get your ads seen by more people while still ensuring that your traffic is...
Why Link Building Isn’t a Cookie-Cutter Process
If you’ve been doing link building for a significant amount of time, you already know that it’s not a simple or linear process. Even so,...
SEO Without Borders: A Guide to International SEO
1. Domain Name 2. Structure 2.1 Domain Directories 2.2 Separate ccTLDs 2.3 Separate Subdomains 3. Translation 3.1 Professional Translation 3.2 Google Translate 4. Markup...
Own a Franchise? Top 5 Things that Make Your SEO Different (and How to Adapt)
Many people are aware that owning a franchise is different than owning your own businesses; however what many do not realize is that there are...
Facebook Set to Unveil Changes to News Feed
This Thursday Facebook will hold its second big media event of the year. In January they invited us to “see what they’ve been building.” The...
Leveraging Pinterest For Guest Post Opportunities
Everyone is looking for guest post opportunities these days, but one avenue that doesn’t get discussed about often is leveraging Pinterest for guest post opportunities....
Are Search Engine Marketers Warming up to AdWords Enhanced Campaigns?
As of the time of this writing, it’s been just over 3 weeks since the release of enhanced campaigns, the biggest upgrade to AdWords in...