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Opinion: Is SERP Bounce a Ranking Signal or a Quality Factor for SEO?
A long debate is on whether website’s bounce rate is a ranking signal for SEO. The fact is, Google does have the ability to track...
Google Aims to be Less Creepy
Yesterday afternoon, the Official Google Blog announced two new features that will increase the transparency of search advertising as well as provide Google’s users options...
Dear Internet Marketers: Stop Building Your Careers On A Single Commoditized Skill
I just finished conducting interviews for an in-house marketing position. Some of the people I interviewed had extensive backgrounds as copywriters and were looking to...
Google Business View: Street View Moves Inside
Google recently launched a new program that will allow popular businesses to add interior imagery to their Google Place page. The Business Photos program, which...
PPC Copywriting Tips You Can Use in Your SEO Copy
It’s often the case that what works for PPC works for SEO, and vice versa – at least to a degree. You’ll certainly have to...
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Apple’s iOS 5 Caught Speeding [Infographic]
New Relic, a company that measures and manages the performance of Web applications, recently released the results of a study that examined the performance differences...
SEO Recap Amazing Finds On Twitter This Week 10/28
Well, we had another great week finding links on Twitter. I also added a new category this week VS. They are two opposite opinions and...
First Facebook Data Center Outside of U.S. Will Be In…
Lulea, Sweden! The town is located about 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It will house Facebook’s first data center outside of the U.S...
Google’s Third Quarter Spending Spree: Google buys Zagat and 27 Other Companies
A recent SEC report revealed that Google has already acquired more companies this year than in any previous year. Although Google purchased 48 companies in...
Tricks with Anchor Text-Rich Links for Foreign Language Internet
Competition for domain names and search engine dominance in the English language web is stiff – for SEOs, climbing the search rankings with a new...
How to Help New Link Builders Evaluate a Link Prospect
For anyone new to SEO who will be working on link building and content marketing projects, one of the trickiest and most important things to...
Kindle Fire Burning Amazon’s Profits
On Tuesday afternoon, Amazon reported third quarter earnings of only $63 million, which is considerably less than the $231 million earned in the same quarter...
October PPC Changes Recap, 2011
Every month I like to go over all the changes in the PPC world. Here are all the changes thus far in the month of October....
Federal Agencies Take a Liking to Social Media
With many companies and individuals using social media these days to become more in-tune with the world and further business opportunities, it should not come...
PROOF You Should Make Sure Your Website Works on Tablets
Nothing irritates me more than a site not working on my iPad. I use my iPad for fun and to get away from all the...
Quit Blaming Your Suck on Panda
Is it just me or has Google’s panda update become the scapegoat for poor SEO? It seems like every day I come across an article...
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Infographic: Porn vs The Internet [NSFW]
Internet marketers owe the porn industry for being the first to adopting technologies like geo-location, videostreaming and e-commerce to name a few. So what does...
Groupon Planning IPO in Early November
Groupon has announced plans to go public the first week in November. Although the Chicago-based deal giant had initially expected the IPO to be based...
Google in Talks to Potentially Fund Yahoo Acquisition
According to recent reports, Google is exploring the possibility of financing an acquisition of Yahoo’s core products. Although Google has reportedly held early discussions with...
E-Commerce Microdata Best Practices
SEO for e-commerce sites is like playing on a teeter-totter with all the kids at the playground, and search engines are the fulcrum. Whether the...
Gmail Update: Details About the New Product Update
Yesterday, Gmail, which has over 260 million people using the free email service worldwide, accidentally released a video that details upcoming product changes. Although the...
iOS5 Takes 20% of Traffic in 5 Days
On Monday, October 17th, Apple announced that over twenty five million customers have made the iOS 5 update. For reference, iOS5 was released on October...
SEO Recap: Amazing Finds On Twitter This Week
There were some fantastic and very important articles around the web this week. Here are some of our favorites. Happy reading! SEO – 7 Technical...
Can Facebook Solve The Unemployment Problem?
Earlier today, Facebook and the U.S. Labor department announced a new program to help unemployed workers find jobs. The program, which is called The Social...
Dropbox Raises $250 Million of Series B Funding
Dropbox, which enables users to easily store and share documents, photos, videos, and other files, recently announced they closed a $250 million round of Series...
Dennis Goedegebuure’s Thoughts on Changes in Google Analytics
I contacted Dennis and asked him what he thought because after working at Ebay for nearly 10 years I know referral data had to be...
Article Recap on the Google Analytics “Secure” Change
Here are some articles we found after the big GA announcement about referral data from searches not being available from those logged in to Google....
SEO Under Attack – The Google Analytics Keyword Data Apocalypse
Google announced today they’re going to take a step toward user privacy by hiding keywords used by searchers signed into their Google accounts. We’ll leave...
Google Buzz: Did Google Get a Buzz or a Hangover?
Since the launch of Google+ in June, the new social network has grown rapidly to over 40 million users. On Friday, Google announced that they...
YouTube Merch Store Aims to Make YouTube a Musical Hub
YouTube, which has over 800 million monthly visitors and three billion daily video views, recently announced a new feature: Merch Store. The new service will...