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In These Steps: Synergize Your Digital Marketing Team
As large organizations and agencies continue to broaden their digital capabilities, they can count on having to deal with multiple challenges. Why? Digital marketing has...
Matt Cutts Explains How Duplicate Content Affects Rankings
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about duplicate content in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: How does Google...
Google Acquires Military Robot-Maker Boston Dynamics
Google confirmed to the New York Times late last week they have acquired military robot-maker, Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics is know for producing military-grade robots...
Link Building Is A Combination Of Online And Offline Networking: Interview With Roger Montti
As part of our SEJ interview series, Roger Montti of Martinibuster discusses how he’s shaken up the world of link building and figured out how to...
Moz CEO Rand Fishkin to Swap Roles with COO Sarah Bird
Moz co-founder, Rand Fishkin, went public today on his blog with his decision to step down as CEO. Fishkin will be switching roles with current COO,...
White Paper: Murray Newlands on Mobile Marketing Strategy
Full disclosure: Murray Newlands is an associate of Search Engine Journal. We’ve received no compensation for this post, other than Murray’s love and devotion. 🙂...
How To Approach International SEO: Interview With Eli Schwartz
As part of our SEJ interview series, Eli Schwartz of Survey Monkey discusses how his company approaches international SEO. Eli goes in depth into this...
Bing Expands Their Knowledge Repository With More Interactive Content
Bing made an announcement today about an expansion to their knowledge repository, called Satori. They have added a few new features to enhance the search...
Advice For New Ecommerce Store Owners: Interview With Shirley Tan
As part of our SEJ interview series, Shirley Tan of Ecommerce Systems talks about how to set priorities when starting off with a new ecommerce...
Matt Cutts Answers Whether Guest Blogging Will Be Considered Spam In The Future
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about guest blogging in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: I predict that...
Majestic SEO Launches Live Ranking Factors In Search Explorer
This past October, Majestic SEO launched a new search tool called Search Explorer, which is a search engine that allows you to find sites based...
Google Is Testing Embedded Images In Search Results Snippets
SEJ reader Samuel Edwards, from Tenthwave Digital, gave us a heads up about something he recently spotted while doing a Google search. Google appears to be...
How To Set Yourself Apart When Applying For A Digital Marketing Job
A recent job post for a social content specialist at my company drew more than 110 applicants in less than a month, underscoring the interest...
Google Toolbar PageRank Has Been Updated, First Update In Over 10 Months
Just a couple months ago Matt Cutts said he would be surprised to see an update to Google Toolbar PageRank by the end of this...
10 Horrendous Mobile Websites
You don’t have to be in the biz to realize how important mobile usage has become. Almost everyone – 91% of adults to be exact...
How Important Is Responsive Design: Interview With Michael David
As part of our SEJ interview series, Michael David of Tasty Placement discusses an issue that’s on every website owner’s mind these days. Just how important...
Matt Cutts: Not A Good Practice To Create Articles By Combining Content From Other Sites
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about content in his latest video where a user writes in to ask: Can a site still...
Removing Backlinks That Lead To Negative SEO: Interview With Jacob Bohall
As part of our SEJ interview series, Jacob Bohall of Virante discusses removing harmful backlinks that can lead to negative SEO. Jacob starts with an...
Smartphone Specific Crawl Errors Now Reported In Google Webmaster Tools
In an announcement made this morning on the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, starting today Google Webmaster Tools will now help you identify pages on your...
Google Promises More Accurate Results With New Google Trends Topic Reports
An announcement was made on the official Google Search blog today about a new addition to Google Trends being rolled out that promises to deliver more...
11 Awesome Features That Make The Android 4.4 KitKat Incredibly Sweet
Have you gotten your hands on the LG-made Nexus 5 yet? You haven’t? That’s a shame, because you’re missing out on Google’s latest Android 4.4...
Making the Switch from In-House to Consultant SEO
Author’s note: Since I don’t have any agency experience, this post primarily compares in-house and consultant based SEO roles. I started out as a copywriter...
Avoiding Penalties From Google’s Penguin Update: Interview With Russ Jones
As part of our SEJ interview series, Russ Jones of Virante discusses how to avoid penalties from Google’s Penguin algorithm update. After Penguin 2.1 came...
What the Greatest Battles & Wars in History Can Teach You about Marketing
Campaigns, tactics, strategy – sometimes it’s hard to know whether we’re talking about marketing and war. And sometimes, it really is a fine line. We’re...
Google Adds Reviews Tab To Google Places For Business, See All Reviews In One Place
Google announced today that they will be adding a Reviews tab in Google Places that allows business owners to see all their customer reviews in one...
Tips for Multilingual Video SEO
It’s a much quoted internet ‘fact’ that YouTube is the second most popular search engine. But using the standard definition of a search engine as...
Local Marketing How-to: Mobile Search is Crucial for Gas Stations and Convenience Stores
Editor’s Note: This article explains local marketing strategies for a particular niche, but these techniques can be applied to any local business or franchise that...
11 Things You Should Know About Those Mysterious Google Barges
When you happen to be one of the biggest companies in the world, do you think that people wouldn’t notice when you have a couple...
How To Optimize Your Website For Google Glass: Interview With Rob Garner
As part of our SEJ interview series, Rob Garner from Advice Interactive discusses how to optimize your website for Google Glass. This new technology clearly...
Matt Cutts Wants To Know How You Would Improve Google Webmaster Tools
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, published a post on his personal blog today asking for feedback about how Google can improve Webmaster Tools...