That's unless you're The Walking Dead. On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious search engine. I'm glad Facebook launched Graph Search, since I often joked that the previous...
On the West Coast, the new "True Blood" Season 6 trailer was tops, followed by a "Walking Dead" lip reading parody. Ever wonder if that funny video you shared on Facebook is popular in other parts of the county?
Since then Panda iterations have had SEO practitioners reinforcing similar "content is king" mantras, and have had SEO doomsayers laughing maniacally at how SEO is dead (once again! A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing" book fame...
You have to take all of these things into consideration, because if your app starts crashing or giving the user a bad experience you're dead in the water. Increasingly, your audience is spending time interacting with your brand on mobile devices...
Storm knocked down a tree that has been dead for seven years An old joke that I first heard from my friend and colleague Ann Convery: An elderly gentleman is rocking on the porch in the evening, next to his dog, who's lying down beside him and...
This led to countless occurrences of people repeatedly clicking the submit button, clogging up the order processing functionality, and causing the shopping cart to stop dead in its tracks. The idea of spilt testing and conversion rate optimization...
Mobile is dead. Getting the mobile experience wrong can be deadly to your bottom line. You don't turn off customers with a bad mobile site and lose them to a competitor. These tips, tools, and code tricks to enhance the mobile user experience and...
By scrubbing the dust off our business and looking at our audience with new eyes, we're able to spot assumptions that are no longer true (and maybe never were), identify new opportunities, drop dead weight and find new areas for business that didn...
However, that doesn't mean these tactics are dead. A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying: getting a link from a high PR page used to always be valuable, today it's more the relevance of the site's theme in...
Create Dead Time Another great lifestyle tip is to get rid of variables within your life: choices which are redundant and simply create dead time. I love this approach even though it involves acknowledging when dead time occurs in your life (and...
SEW: Link building: dead or evolving? Link building is far from dead. Eight Meetup groups of marketing professionals from the New York area plan to attend the SES New York networking reception on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, for a collaborative get...
as many who rely on the soon to be dead product and are now scrambling to find Google Reader alternatives. Citing declining usage and a focus on fewer products, Google today gave notice to its loyal (but apparently too few in number) users that its...
If you’re working with a site that relies on this type of tactic trickery in order to survive, then perhaps you need to reevaluate why you’re working with that site, because quite frankly it’s a short term strategy, as you’re constantly wondering...
As Slawski's "The Traditional News Agency is Dead (On Google News)" points out: Editor's Note: See Update/Correction below. What is the secret of ranking well in Google News? A recent ComputerWorld article has revealed new insights into Google’s...
Each year SEO experts profess that SEO, as we knew it, is dead. They describe how the old tactics don't work and introduce new concepts formed from the latest Google algorithm update. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.
But, trust me, TV is not dead yet. According to Mike Proulx, the Internet has become TV’s best friend. Proulx will be the opening keynote speaker at SES New York 2013. The leading event for experienced marketing and advertising professionals will...
In our post Penguin world, the right and wrong approaches to backlinking strategies should be clear, yet I continue to hear SEOs talk about how backlinking is dead, where the best place is to buy backlinks, and whether backlinking even matters...
Go visit your Google Analytics Content section and search for Landing Pages of your 404 URL or by Landing Page with the filter set to the title element of your 404 page and take a look at how many people encountered a dead page on your site in the...
A good “magnet” can bring in oodles of qualified prospects, while a poorly conceived or described offer can stop your lead flow dead in its tracks. If there’s a set-up process, provide a tutorial that makes it drop-dead simple.
Unless I'm on a tablet where I can easily control the stop points with my fingers or hand the movement of my fingers on my laptop pad or mouse move me past the stop point to awkward “dead spaces”. Everyone is doing it you should try it too!
