This Month in #ContentMarketing: January 2015
These articles cover a wide range of topics – from how to reach the largest audience possible to how to tell your content strategy is...
Social Media Fails: How Not to Ruin Your Campaign
It seems like everyone’s into social media marketing these days. Social marketing budgets are set to double over the next five years, although there continues...
Google Improves Crawling and Indexing of Location-Adaptive Pages
Pages can be designed to adapt to a user’s specific location, showing different content to users in different parts of the world. While these types...
Google Agrees To Change Privacy Policy In UK
Google has agreed to change its privacy policy in the UK with respect to how it gathers personal data, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office announced...
New on #MarketingNerds: Joe Hall on How To Switch Your E-Commerce Site to a New URL
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! Joe Hall, Founder of JoeHall.me, is the featured guest on Marketing Nerds this week. Joe...
Facebook To Show Location-Based Place Tips In Your News Feed
Facebook introduced a brand new feature for its iPhone app today which should help people learn more about the places and attractions they’re visiting. Taking...
Study Reveals Top Performing Retailers On Facebook During 2014 Holiday Season
Disclosure: Searchmetrics is a Search Engine Journal partner, but this coverage has not been sponsored or paid for in any way. A new study by...
Acompli is Now Microsoft #Outlook for Mobile: An Interview with Peter Farago, Former Acompli CMO
Microsoft announced today that Acompli, the email management app it acquired last month, will become Outlook for Android and iOS.
15 Incredible Features That Make Android 5.0 “Lollipop” The Sweetest Yet
Originally codenamed “Android L” Android Lollipop made its debut during the Google I/O developers’ conference on June 25, 2014, and was officially released on November 3,...
12 Tweaks to Increase Customer Conversion Rates
Directing people to your site is one thing, but getting them to actually take action is much more difficult. Business owners only have so much...
Final Speakers Announced For #SEJSummit Dallas (Part 3)
The SEJ team has been working hard to bring you the absolute best speakers for for 2015’s second SEJ Summit, hosted by Searchmetrics, to be held at...
Facebook Reaches 1.39B Monthly Active Users, Half A Billion Are Mobile-Only
Facebook announced its Q4 2014 earnings today, revealing that 1.39 billion users now use the social network every month, which marks a 13% year over...
A 2015 Process to Removing a Google Link Penalty
If at one point you’ve bought links, hired an SEO agency, or received a sudden decrease in website traffic, then this blog post is for...
Snapchat To Deliver Bite-Sized Pieces Of News And Entertainment From Media Publishers
Snapchat announced today that it will now be giving media publishers the ability to distribute short, edited clips of news and information. Content distributed via...
Facebook Introduces New Tool To Measure Sales Driven By Ads
It has always been easy to measure how well Facebook ads are performing when it comes to clicks and views, but what about sales? Measuring...
5 Actionable Steps to Get Your Site in Shape for 2015
This is a sponsored post. The new year inspires many people to take action and get in shape, including upgrading their online presence and website. SEO PowerSuite...
The 6 Key Steps to Improve Your Website’s Loading Speed
Throughout 2014 (and the decade prior), Google hasn’t been shy about telling people what its algorithms are looking for. Initially, algorithms targeted spammy backlinks, keyword...
More Speakers For #SEJSummit Dallas (Part 2)
The SEJ team has been working diligently behind the scenes to assemble A-list speakers for 2015’s second SEJ Summit, hosted by Searchmetrics, to be held at the InterContinental Hotel...
Pinterest Search Gets Smarter, Delivers Results Based on Gender
There’s nothing worse than searching for a new pair of kicks on Pinterest, and having to sift through pins of high heels when you really...
Social Media Makes Up Nearly A Third Of All Referral Traffic, + More Stats
Social software company Shareaholic argues that the shift from search to social is here with the release of a new set of data that reveals...
4 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Business Blogging Efforts
There are plenty of reasons why businesses blog. Business blogging is one of the fundamental aspects of inbound strategy and if you are not doing...
Here Are The Speakers For #SEJSummit Dallas! (Part 1)
The SEJ team has been hard at work behind the scenes to secure the best speakers for 2015’s second SEJ Summit, hosted by Searchmetrics, to...
Who Leads The Digital PR Discussion on Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Curious about what the top influencers in digital PR are saying? Using 10 keywords, Fractl partnered with BuzzStream to analyze nearly 5,000 tweets to uncover more...
Matt Cutts Speaks On Lessons Learned From Early Days Of Google: Full Highlights
You may remember a post a couple of weeks ago announcing that Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, would be giving a speech at...
Is Your SEO Killing It or Getting Killed?
“Movement is life.” In the movie World War Z, those were the words Brad Pitt’s character spoke to a family who opted to barricade themselves...
New on #MarketingNerds: JP Sherman on Optimizing Internal Site Search
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! JP Sherman from RedHat is the featured guest on Marketing Nerds this week. JP started off...
Twitter Teams Up With Bing To Offer Translated Tweets
Twitter announced today it is bringing back project it terminated in 2013, which is the ability for users to view tweets in multiple languages. Now...
Google Campaigns To Get Firefox Users To Change Default Search Provider
Is Google threatened by Yahoo’s recent gains in search market share? A report was released just yesterday detailing how Yahoo is slowing eroding Google’s search...
The Many “Deaths” of #SEO Before 2015
While you are reading these lines, SEO’s death is probably chronicled in hundreds of articles all over the internet. A simple search on Google for “SEO...
Twitter To Show Tweets You Missed ‘While You Were Away’
Twitter announced today that its introducing a new feature on everyone’s home timeline where you’ll be shown an overview of popular tweets you may have...