Every character counts: Google secures new URL shortener domain, YT.be – The Next WebGoogle might be switching from youtu.be to yt.be for shortened links soon. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
While Pinterest doesn't provide result counts, let’s just say the scrolling of results for “color block” devotee boards and pins are endless. In the digital age, it should come as no surprise that search trends follow the rise and fall of fashion...
Why content marketing is the only link building that counts – #SESNY – Brafton Marketing and advertising professionals all converged on the Big Apple last week for SES New York, the ultimate conference to get educated on the latest strategies and...
Q: When a consumer views a YouTube video while inside the Google Catalogs application (as oppose to opening the video up in the browser) is that view counted in the YouTube view counts? They are rich media repositories that you can use to extend...
It’s obvious (we see page size, text counts, etc.to us you aren’t reading all the content on the page you just clicked on, so clearly that didn’t give you what you wanted. For many years, Matt Cutts of Google has been providing a lot of helpful...
We have seen statements from Google that on links embedded in a news release and how much it counts towards rankings. As we look forward to 2013, the New Year provides limitless opportunities and the chance to nail down our SEO to-do lists.
You can tell them that conversion is what counts. In just the last two years the changes have been dramatic. Panda and Penguin top the list as the most visible game-changers, but there is another one that occurred somewhat under the radar – but has...
Social sharing icons: Include sharing icons with share counts. Including dynamic share counts gives you a means of measuring engagement and shares could be one key performance indicator (KPI) you monitor.
Although it may be common sense that those robots/crawlers that can trigger a page visit should definitely be eliminated from analytics data, when humans display similar behavior the question of what 'really counts' arises again.
However, when you’re working in the world of social and digital, every second counts. The way he just plain didn’t seem to care what the rest of the world thought played well with 20-year old me. It wasn’t much later, until I actually started...
Only the Banner Counts Auction Insights launched at the end of May this year, offering advertisers unprecedented keyword data about their competitors. Some awesome things are available, but it's not obvious exactly how to use it to improve your...
Some even used spinners or blatantly plagiarized (too bad I already knew those tricks) to meet the required word counts and keyword density and still, they just kept pumping out the content. I had the opportunity to meet a few of the folks from...
According to Biggs and Pascovici, “Webmasters can use the Structured Data Dashboard to verify that Google is picking up new markup, as well as to detect problems with existing markup, for example monitor potential changes in instance counts during...
Google Play counts every de-install as a negative signal, but so far the Apple App Store rewards you with a more permanent ranking boost. App Store Optimization (ASO) is the art of making apps rank in both popularity lists and search results within...
Counts are always totals, not the number of pages added in a particular day, Google noted in their blog post announcing the new feature. Google Webmaster Tools will now let you know how many pages of your website are currently included in Google’s...
If your day-to-day interactions with people on your SEM team are positive, this counts. But the hidden costs of vendor hopping are not well-recognized. Here are six reasons to stay with your current SEM provider, even when frustrations are high and...
You might think that this is the only number that really counts, and in some respects that’s true, but there’s a danger in relying on it exclusively: you lose the ability to intervene intelligently in the system if you’re just staring at the end...
Continuous updating of inbound link counts Blekko has announced a major improvement to their free SEO tools, by way of more comprehensive, current crawl data from their Scoutjet crawler. Blekko highlighted five of the most noteworthy upgrades:
For example, look at these example link counts: Once you have identified if bad links are pointing at your site, you need to start working to address it. If you have 10,000 or more links to your site, this can seem like an insurmountable task...
Toronto-based Syncapse is privately held and counts Disney, BlackBerry, the Coca-Cola Company, and RIM among their clients. Social performance management platform Syncapse has announced their intention to acquire Clickable, given closing conditions...
