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SEO 101: 5 Ways to Optimize Your E-Commerce Content
Onsite copy is still one of the most important ranking factors, especially for newer sites. The trick is knowing what to look for, how to...
Global Marketing: 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid
Going global can be an exciting transition for any company. It can also be fraught with potential pitfalls, with many mistakes arising from marketers failing...
Google Releases Report On Diversity Statistics Of Its Employees
How diverse is Google’s workplace? Well, Google will be the first to tell you that it’s not where it wants to be in terms of...
New Research From Conductor Concludes Google Has 85% of Search Traffic, Not 67% as comScore Reports
Conductor has written a whitepaper around research that debunks some of comScore’s regularly released search market share numbers. Their findings were definitely enlightening, to say...
Fetch As Google Is Getting Better, Now Renders Pages As Googlebot Sees Them
Google announced on their Webmaster Central blog today that they have recently updated their Fetch As Google tool, which now gives users the ability to...
JavaScript Debugging Tool Coming To Google Webmaster Tools
Google reported on their Webmaster Central Blog today that they will be launching a new tool in the next few days to help users better...
“It Was A Manual Action Against eBay, Not Panda 4.0” That Caused A Drop In Rankings, According to Re/Code
Since Panda 4.0 was rolled out early this week, there have been reports about which websites saw the greatest drop in rankings. According to the...
Why You’re Doing Digital Public Relations Wrong
As the managing editor of SEJ, which gets almost one million pageviews monthly, I find myself receiving up to ten press releases and “embargoed announcements”...
What The Experts Have to Say: Google Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0 Updates
This week, Google announced that Google Panda 4.0 and a second iteration of its Payday Loan update have both been rolled out. We reached out...
Who Was Hit Hardest By Panda 4.0? The Answer May Surprise You
The past 24 hours have been a wild time for those who either work in, or follow the field of SEO. Google confirmed the rollout...
Google Rolls Out Panda 4.0 & Payday Loan 2.0 Updates
Over the past 12 hours, we’ve had confirmation from Google that they’ve rolled out two web spam updates; Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0. Panda...
Google Introduces New PageSpeed Insights To Make Your Site More Mobile-Friendly
Google announced via their Webmaster Central blog today that they have recently updated PageSpeed Insights with mobile-specific recommendations to help site owners make their page...
SEO 101: Is a Fast Google Penalty Recovery Possible Using the Google Disavow Tool?
If your website falls prey to a Google Penalty, could you “resurrect” your website in search engine rankings within a very short period of time (such...
Larry Page Issues Annual Google Founders’ Letter
Google co-founder, Larry Page, issued his annual founders’ letter yesterday reflecting on the state of Google and advancements they’ve made in 2013. Here are some...
Google Places Bulk Location Management Tool To Be Upgraded With New Features
Jade Wang, Community Manager for Google Places, announced via Google+ yesterday that new social features and multi-admin functionality will be coming to the Google Places bulk...
Personal Branding and Guest Posting Tips From an Expert: An Interview with @SujanPatel
As you may know from my other interviews with Anne Ahola Ward of CircleClick, Eli Schwartz of SurveyMonkey, and John Doherty of HotPads, Search Engine Journal has partnered with...
Bing’s Duane Forrester Says Adding Schema Markup Is Important For Search Engines
Bing’s Senior Product Manager, Duane Forrester, published a post on the Bing Webmaster Blog today vouching for the importance of Schema markup. For those unfamiliar,...
7 Lessons in Keyword Stupidity: How Not to Mess Up Keyword Research
Note: This is Part 2 of the post These Aren’t the Keywords You’re Looking For, which is based on a presentation of that name. Check it...
Google Has Updated Its iOS Search App, Here’s What’s New
Google has recently updated it’s iOS search app to version 4.0, and with it comes several new, useful features. Users who are familiar with using Siri...
Google’s Motives Behind Secure Search: Interview with Marcus Tober of Searchmetrics
I caught up with Marcus Tober, CTO of Searchmetrics, to discuss the recent news of Google’s keyword data for paid search becoming ‘not provided’. Marcus shared his...
It’s May 2014, and Here Are Four Ways that SEO Is Drastically Changing
The only unchanging truth about SEO is that it’s always changing. I almost didn’t write that line, because it sounds so cliche. I don’t want...
7 Search Engines That Take You Beyond Simple Site Search
The Internet was born decades ago in computer science laboratories and only produced a trickle of information compared to what we see now. It has...
Bing’s Duane Forrester Debunks 10 SEO Myths
Duane Forrester, Bing’s Senior Product Manager, took to the Bing Webmaster Blog today to give his analysis on 10 of the most common SEO myths....
Searchmetrics X SEJ Interview Series: John Doherty of HotPads
As you may know from my other interviews with Anne Ahola Ward of CircleClick and Eli Schwartz of SurveyMonkey, Search Engine Journal has partnered with...
International Rank Checking: Four Ways To Get Results for Free
There are countless posts published on SEO blogs declaring search engine rank checking is dead, and ranking reports should no longer be shared as a...
It’s Not All About Ranking: Benefits of Backlinks Beyond SEO
Google’s search algorithm places such great emphasis on the accumulation of backlinks that link builders can forget the value of a link beyond search. Yes,...
Optimize Your Landing Pages For User Intent: Interview With Jonah Stein
As part of our SEJ interview series, I caught up with Jonah Stein of ItsTheROI to discuss conversion rate optimization. Jonah has 17 years of online...
New Information Leaked About Google’s Favoriting Service, Called ‘Google Stars’
New information has been leaked about a favoriting service Google is working on called Google Stars, which will let users save, share, and organize content...
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Killer Conversation Analytics: 29% of Calls Result in Conversions [Infographic]
Earlier this week, Log My Calls released our search marketing Q1 inbound call report. We analyzed millions of call segments across dozens of industries in...
The Evolution of the SEO Professional
“Build some links. Update your metadata. Optimize your site speed. Build some cool content. Have you heard about interactive infographics? They are the new thing!”...