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Site Search Engine Swiftype Raises $1.7m; Counts Facebook & Best Buy as Clients
We all know some internal site search engines have a lot to be desired. Many website owners choose to use Google’s Custom Search Engine tool,...
Google Will Start Giving Quick Answers To Questions In Search Results
Google is going to start providing a range of personalized “quick answers” in search results by bringing more of the capabilities of Google Now to...
What To Do When You’re Experiencing A Decrease in Conversions
When I first noticed Ginny Marvin’s post on how you can check changes in your AdWords metrics my initial thought was that it was too...
11 Essential SEO and Analytics Apps in Google Play
Recently we listed the 11 Essential SEO and Analytics Apps for the iPhone. But, and this is a shocker, not everyone has an iPhone. There...
Google+ Messenger Being Dropped From Mobile Apps In Favor of Hangouts
Google’s chat service, Hangouts, is finally fulfilling its purpose of unifying messaging across all of the company’s services. An update to the Google+ mobile app...
What Does Google Checkout Dying Mean For Merchants?
Google recently announced its plans to retire Google Checkout, an online payment processing service, and transition towards a more streamlined product known as Google Wallet. While...
Smartphone Sales Outpace Phone Sales For First Time
For the first time, smartphone sales around the world have outsold traditional mobile phones, according to technology research company Gartner. In the second quarter of...
Add Reviews On Yelp Directly From The Mobile App
Not too long ago, Jeff Chiarelli, taught us how simple it is to claim a Yelp profile. Did you take his advice? Today Yelp released...
Mobile Facebook Pages Now Allow Consumers To Make Reservations
Starting today, Facebook’s mobile pages are more functional for both businesses and consumers with the added ability to make reservations through a restaurant’s Facebook Page....
Facebook Scooped Up Jibbigo, A Speech Translation App
Speech translation is a trend that’s been going on for a couple of years now. Google’s been at it, as well as Bing. Today, Facebook...
Facebook Stock Price Up, COO Sheryl Sandberg Sells And Nets $91 Million
Facebook’s stock price rose above the price of its initial public offering of $38 for the first time this past Friday, closing at $38.50. Facebook’s...
BlackBerry Possibly Putting Itself Up For Sale
BlackBerry is currently in the process of exploring “strategic alternatives” for the company, which may include putting it up for sale. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins,...
Why SEO Isn’t Taught In College (And Why It Shouldn’t Be)
If you meet someone in search engine marketing (SEM) or search engine optimization (SEO) and ask them about their background, I’m willing to bet that they...
Vine & Instagram Have A New Short Video Competitor
Two days ago Brianna Wills wrote a great post talking about how Vine videos are a great way to market your eCommerce business. Today, I’d...
Meet Real-Time Marketing Tony Wright, Speaker at SEJ Dallas Meetup
Search Engine Journal has meetup! We’ve partnered with Advice Interactive to put on the very first Local Social. If you’re in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area on August 21, 2013 please...
8 Image Based iPhone & Android Apps That You Need to Download
Is it surprising that one of the most popular apps, for both iPhones and Androids, are image apps? If you happen to be addicted to...
What I Learnt From Revoking A Google Manual Penalty
It’s every site owner’s worst nightmare. You wake up one morning to a Google Webmaster tool warning message notifying you of the detection of unnatural...
Bizo’s David Karel Discusses B2B Retargeting
In the latest installment of Search Engine Journal’s video series, SEJ’s Murray Newlands is talking with David Karel of Bizo about the importance of business...
How Vertical Search and Semantic Technology Will Change Digital Advertising
Even those of us firmly entrenched in the world of digital advertising need only to watch an episode of Mad Men to be struck yet again by...
How to Use Bid Adjustments to Get More Out Of your AdWords Enhanced Campaigns
With all this fuzz about Enhanced Campaigns I thought it was about time to start moving forward. We’ve already seen the first 100 posts about...
Top 10 Places that Have Banned Google Glass
Google Glass hasn’t even hit shelves and it’s already getting banned. But, before we get ahead of ourselves. What exactly is Google Glass? And, why...
Jordan Kasteler Joins Team Vizion As A Digital Marketing Strategist
Last year we talked about Jordan Kasteler and his book, A To Z Social Media Marketing. Did any of you get a chance to grab his...
Standing Out With The Future of Content, Big Data, Google Glass & Anticipatory Computing
In a world where billions of pieces of content are produced and shared online every day, it can be intimidating to try and stay ahead...
July 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal
#1: 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know are “Illegal” on Facebook By: Jim Belosic | @shortstacklab Business Pages on Facebook have their own set of...
Apply For Jobs Quickly & Easily Using The LinkedIn App
LinkedIn has been quite busy these past few months. In March they gave their search a face lift. How did you guys enjoy the new...
CPMEo and Gazing Time will be the Future of Web Advertising
Most of you probably know about CPM or Cost Per Thousand Impressions (where M stands for 1000 in Roman Numeric System). The numbers that you...
SEJ Downtime Update
Hey team, just wanted to let you know that we’re back up. Over the past two days we’ve been experiencing a bit of downtime. Had...
Bruce Clay Discusses Content-Centric Search
Content-centric search—what is it and how does it work? That was the topic of conversation in our most recent video interview with blogger and SEO-extraordinaire...
Manage Link Risk to Help Recover Search Rankings
Google’s growing focus on penalizing sites for “unnatural” backlinks could shine some light on what just may be the weakest link in your overall...
A Visual Guide to Using Google Properties for Content Research
Content is King! Meh. So naturally, everyone is trying to create kings of their own. With king-making now an inevitable part of digital marketers’ business,...