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Google Webmaster Tools Now Tracks Indexed URLs For Specific Sections Of Your Website, Including HTTPS
Google announced today on their Webmaster Central blog that Webmaster Tools’ Index Status feature will now offer more precise data for different site variations. Google...
3 More Advanced Backlink Strategies Instead of Guest Blogging
Link building is about great content and finding ways to get the word out about it so that people can find it. The important thing...
Google Expands OneBox Answers, Now Able To Solve Math Questions
Google expanded their OneBox answers this month with the added ability to solve math problems. The announcement was made earlier this month, but it kind...
AdWords Keyword Diagnosis Report: Diagnosis Statuses Decoded
AdWords provides a keyword diagnosis tool inside the user interface that few people know about, and even those who do use the tool may be...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Tell Google Multiple Domains Are Related
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about linking domains together in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Google Teams Up With Makers Of Ray-Ban And Oakley To Add Style To Google Glass
Google announced this week they will be teaming up with Luxottica, makers of designer eye glass frames like Ray-Ban and Oakley, to bring some style to Google...
Airbnb SEO Meetup #Interview: Negative SEO and Its Impact on Google Search Results
Over the years we’ve seen a lot of different SEO tactics resulting from Google’s constant and unwavering algorithm updates. From link building to guest blogging,...
Google Granted A US Patent For Panda Algorithm
Three years after Google rolled out the first version of its Panda algorithm, Google has been granted a patent for it by the US Patent...
Larry Page Discusses The Future Of Google At #TED 2014
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, sat down with Charlie Rose last week at TED 2014 to give an in depth interview about what...
Matt Cutts Explains How You Can Tell If Your Website Has Been Hit By A Particular Algorithm
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answered a question about Google penalties in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
The Many Uses of Backlink Analysis
Conducting a backlink analysis is the foundation of any link building campaign. There is so much information to be gained and a wide variety of...
Google Dispels Top 10 “Myths” Associated With Google Glass
Google took to the Google+ page of Google Glass yesterday in an attempt to dispel the top 10 “myths” associated with the product. They claim...
Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest Responds To Google Penalty
Matt Cutts broke the news via Twitter early this morning that Google’s webspam team had penalized a “large guest blog network.” Today we took action...
Matt Cutts Explains If You Can Use Multiple Breadcrumbs On A Page Without Confusing Googlebot
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about site structure in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Moving Towards Local Store Marketing And Advertising For National Companies
National companies have been struggling with a significant change to branding, marketing, and advertising over the past few years. Search engines, the mobile industry, and...
Matt Cutts Explains What To Do With Pages For Products That Are No Longer Available
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about ecommerce sites in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Connecting the Customer Experience with Marketing Data: An Interview with LiveRamp
Digital marketers spend a lot of time talking about, collecting, and analyzing consumer data, but despite the massive amount and availability of this stockpiled data,...
Matt Cutts Explains How To Let Google Know When There’s A Mobile Version Of A Page
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about mobile sites in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Common Google Hummingbird Mistakes, And How To Fix Them: Interview With Marcus Tober At #SMX West
As part of our SEJ interview series, Marcus Tober of Searchmetrics joins us to discuss Google Hummingbird. Specifically, Marcus points out common mistakes he has...
SEO Expert Jason Acidre, AKA Kaiser The Sage, Takes Part In Informative Reddit AMA
Jason Acidre is the Co-founder and CEO of Xight Interactive, an online marketing agency based in the Philippines, but he’s best known for his blog...
10 Great Social and Web Analytics Tools
In a recent post, the good folks at iSpionage reviewed the importance of using analytics to guide your Internet marketing efforts and which metrics make...
SMX West Speaker Interview Series: Greg Sterling Discusses Mobile SEO
As part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media, I was given the opportunity to interview five marketing experts who will be speaking at SMX West. This was a...
The SEJ x SMX West Interview: Brian Clark of CopyBlogger
I had the opportunity to interview marketing experts who are speaking at SMX West as part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media. Be sure...
Google Is Sending Notifications About Duplicate Listings Issues In Google Places
Google has been sending notifications via email to business owners about issues related to duplicate Google Places listings. I received such an email a few...
Yahoo News: Company Acquires Vizify, Removes Facebook And Google Log-In Options
Yahoo has been in the news multiple times over the past 24 hours, which is notable considering the company doesn’t get nearly the amount of...
Google Announces New Analytics Academy Class Starting Next Week
In an effort to help digital marketers become more data savvy, Google launched the Analytics Academy in October of last year. The first course Google...
The Time Has Come: How to Actually Create a Video Rich Snippet
There has been a bit of buzz around rich snippets over the last few years, and for good reason. Rich snippets are an excellent way...
Google Has Added OneBox Restaurant Menus To Search Results Pages
Google has officially announced a new feature that was reportedly spotted in the testing stages several weeks ago, which is the addition of restaurant menus...
Google Give Tips For Identifying If Your Site Has Been Hacked, And How To Fix It
A post went up on Google’s official Webmaster Central Blog last night from a representative of the Search Quality Team providing tips for how to...
Matt Cutts Announces Tool For Reporting Scraped Content Ranking Better Than Original Content
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter today about a new tool developed to let Google know when you find...