Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Worry About Bad Links, Just Disavow Them
In one of his shortest video responses, Matt Cutts, the head of search spam at Google, answered the question: Should I be worried if a couple of sites that I don’t want to be associated with are...
View ArticleYahoo’s Logo Is Changing, As The Company Changes
Yahoo announced they are changing their logo on September 4th at 9pm PT or midnight of September 5th. The change is a result of Marissa Mayer taking over the company and making huge changes throughout...
View ArticleStick ‘Em Up! Baby Panda!
The AFP snapped a picture of a new baby Panda in the Taipei City Zoo and posted it as their photo of the day on their Twitter account. @rameshnair shared it with me and I agree, it makes a great...
View ArticleGoogle AdWords Geo-Targeting: Have We All Been Doing It Wrong?
It’s rare that a true challenge to a best practice (and a seemingly straight forward one at that) arises. But, when Marta Turek, Group Manager, Performance Media at Mediative presented case studies...
View ArticleGoogle AdWords Testing New Drop-Down Navigation Ad Extension
Have you seen this new ad extension keenly spotted by Kim Clinkunbroomer of Philly Marketing Labs? As Clinkunbroomer pointed out, the “I am Looking For” ad extension gives users a drop-down navigation...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Said Webmaster...
View ArticleThe 5-Minute-A-Day Instagram Marketing Plan
Instagram can be an impressive platform for directly marketing to a target audience – especially if it is a visual product that you are offering. Like most social media, Instagram’s system encourages...
View ArticleGoogle’s DooglePlex – Dog Park
Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of product on Google+, posted a picture on Google+ of a sign at one of the Google offices that reads “DooglePlex”. Or replace the Os with paws. I guess at this...
View ArticleAll Of Google’s Manual Actions For Search Spam
As I mentioned a few minutes ago in my story about Google’s new manual spam action viewer – Google has documented all of the manual actions a site may receive for spamming their search results. Here...
View ArticleGoogle Webmaster Tools Shows Your Manual Spam Actions
Google announced the introduction of a new awesome feature in Google Webmaster Tools named manual action viewer. The manual action viewer let’s you see if your site currently has any manual actions...
View ArticleGoogle Guidelines: Make Your Mobile Pages Rendered Incredibly Fast
Earlier this month we covered Google’s revamp of their pagespeed insights tool, where they greatly improve the usability and details within the tool itself. Last night, Google announced this new tool...
View ArticleGoogle Maps App Revised Ads & Charges On Swipe But Not Click Through
Yesterday, Google announced a new form of ads on the Google Maps app. The new ads now show on the bottom for a keyword search for local places. The ad can be tapped on or swiped up to get more details...
View ArticleVideo Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 9, 2013
Very busy week in search, so my video is about eleven and a half minutes long – I apologize but I think I sound good in this video. Google launched a new Webmaster Tools feature for viewing your manual...
View ArticleMeet Real-Time Marketing Tony Wright, Speaker at SEJ Dallas Meetup by...
Search Engine Journal has meetup! We’ve partnered with Advice Interactive to put on the very first Local Social. If you’re in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area on August 21, 2013 please join us for dinner,...
View ArticleSearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Webmaster...
View ArticleContent Marketing Crossing the Chasm to TV and Radio by @johnrampton
James P. Mahon is a CBS affiliate news reporter based in Tennessee. He has previously worked in Knoxville, New York City, Los Angeles, the UK, and Ireland, both in broadcast and web journalism. His...
View ArticleVine & Instagram Have A New Short Video Competitor by @smorgs13
Two days ago Brianna Wills wrote a great post talking about how Vine videos are a great way to market your eCommerce business. Today, I’d like to add an additional tool to your tool belt. Once Vine...
View ArticleDaily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Skip Redirects...
View ArticleFacebook Scooped Up Jibbigo, A Speech Translation App by @smorgs13
Speech translation is a trend that’s been going on for a couple of years now. Google’s been at it, as well as Bing. Today, Facebook entered the game as well. They made a very strategic move by...
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