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Matt Cutts Answers If Content Ranks Better When It’s Easy To Read
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content writing in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Be Matt Cutts in this Donkey Kong-inspired SEO Video Game
Have you ever wanted to be Google’s Matt Cutts in an old school version of Donkey Kong? If so, NetVoucherCodes has you covered. Their new...
Matt Cutts Answers If Google Uses EXIF Data From Pictures As A Ranking Factor
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about image search in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
How to Find and Build Powerful EDU Backlinks
Backlinks from edus can be very powerful and valuable to your SEO efforts. However, it is important to remember that their value doesn’t come from...
Brands vs. Retailers – How Is the Attractiveness of a Market Reflected in Search?
When you work within the search intelligence sector and conduct daily industry analyses, you can’t help but to spot patterns. For me, one of those...
Bing Takes A Stance Against Poor Spelling and Grammar, Saying It Will Hurt Rankings
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Bing, has been publishing a lot of useful blog posts recently with his latest one being how poor spelling...
Google Suggests What Users Should, And Should Not Do, With Google Glass
Google has released an official list of suggestions for what Glass Explorers (early adopters) should and should not do with their Google Glass device. Many have...
How Two Top European Clothing Giants Overpowered the Search Marketing Competition
Editor’s Note: The comments at the end of this article have indicated one of the companies mentioned in this post may not be as “white...
Matt Cutts Explains What Google Search Would Be Like Without Backlinks As A Ranking Tool
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about backlinks in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask:...
Google Makes Change To Webmaster Guidelines: Don’t Block Ads With Robots.txt
An update has been made to the technical guidelines section of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines that specifically states site owners should not block the Google ads destination...
Google Offers SEO Recommendations For Pages With Infinite Scroll
Pages with infinite scroll are often appreciated by users but not so much by Googlebot, as Google themselves points out in a post published this...
Matt Cutts Explains What A Day In The Life Of A Spam Fighter At Google Is Like
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about what it’s like to fight webspam in his latest Webmaster Help video where a...
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The 2014 Mobile Landscape: 25 Statistics That Will Drive The Future of Mobile Marketing [Infographic]
The mobile landscape certainly continues to grow as we head into 2014. More than half of the U.S. population owns a smartphone (57%, according to...
Google To Launch New Content Recommendation System For Publishers
Google has plans to launch a new content recommendation system for publishers’ websites as early as next month. Google has already begun pitching this new...
Matt Cutts Explains How Comments With Bad Spelling and Grammar Affect A Page’s Ability to Rank
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about spelling and grammar in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in...
Yahoo Improving Local Search Through Partnership With Yelp
In a report published over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo looks to be improving their local search efforts through a partnership with...
The SEJ x SMX West Speaker Interview Series: Rand Fishkin
I had the opportunity to interview five marketing experts who are speaking at SMX West as part of SEJ’s partnership with Third Door Media. Be sure to attend...
US Health Insurance: A Case of Impressive Search Visibility
Let me tell you the story of a man, whose personal problems with health insurance led him to create a website, for which the volume...
What I Learnt From Beating Google’s First Update of 2014
For those of us who track our own websites, you may have noticed a Google update roll out on the 8th of January that’s been...
Bing Getting Into Olympic Spirit With Winter Olympics Search Features And Medal Tracker
If you had to guess which search engine would provide the best experience when searching for information related to the 2014 Winter Olympics, very few...
Google Sending Warnings To Business Owners: 3 Weeks To Save Their Google Places Listing
Business owners have reported on the Google Business Help forums that they are getting emails from Google with the subject line: “Action Required: You have 3...
Google is Now Showing Large Embedded Videos in Search Results
Next time you do a search for video content, instead of the YouTube results you’re used to seeing you may get a large embedded video...
A 101 Guide to Deep Links: Why They Matter, and How to Get Them
Many novice link builders focus solely on linking to a site’s home page. It’s a rookie mistake to be sure, one I’ve seen committed numerous...
Google Places Adds Over 1,000 New Categories For International Business Listings
In an announcement made in a discussion forum thread by Google Business Community Manager, Jade Wang, Google has added a substantial amount of new business...
What Internet Marketers can Learn from Nelson Mandela
Though Nelson Mandela has left the mortal world, his life – a true legend – has many immortal messages to teach us. You don’t have...
Matt Cutts Explains Why You Should Not Use Article Directories To Build Links
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about link building in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to...
Google Crushes Yet Another Link Network For Violating Quality Guidelines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made an announcement on Twitter early this morning that action has been taken on another link network: Today...
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Google: A Digital History [Infographic]
Google has done a lot in its 16 year history. From its first known algorithm update in early 2000 to its approximate 24 Panda updates...
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind For a Reported $400 Million
An artificial intelligence company based in London, England called DeepMind has been acquired by Google for a reported sum of $400 million. The deal was...
Mobile Marketing Taking Over: 65% of Marketing Emails Opened on Mobile Devices in the US
It’s official: Americans are ditching desktops and viewing marketing emails on their smartphones and tablets more than ever, according to new research from Movable Ink. The US Consumer Device...