The industry is different now, but the good news is that you can still be a badass link builder in the post-Penguin era. Putting careful thought and hard work into each link ensures happy blog owners, happy audiences, high quality links, and long...
A marketer can run a targeted ad by location, industry, title, company and other specific demographics. A microblogging tool that forces copy-like conversations, Twitter enables quick information to link backs to important web pages of conversion...
However, not only does asking or requiring links for the review come off as confrontational and like you are trying to influence the news, it also is against Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests...
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. He was on CBS news yesterday (here's a recap by CNET). If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say, you’re not just creating words and synonyms.
End result: I was faced with the task of cleaning and formatting the data in the .json file if I wanted to still be able to access my 4 year-old collection of useful blog posts and news items. The good news was Google allowed me to get a backup of...
Bringing Google+ Comments to Blogger – Official Google BlogNew integration brings together comments made on Blogger blog posts, Google+ comments, and shared content that links to your blog post. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app...
But Google's exit is good news for competitive affiliate networks and affiliate program management companies, which have leapt to snap up the business dropped by Googliath. Says Tricia Meyer, who operates 12 affiliate sites including...
Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others – TechCrunchGoogle plan for http://search/: to use it as a "redirect service" that will "enable users to easily conduct searches with firms that...
After slamming Google AdWords for taking control away from customers, Bing says "…we do not believe bundling together mobile, desktop and tablet advertising in an opaque manner is in the best interest of our customer base or the industry at large.
So any links you acquire are largely on-topic because the award vertical is aligned with your industry and often gets picked up by industry pubs and news outlets, and the winners and nominees promote and link to it.
Much like in 2012, the April Fools' Day pranks arrived early from Google – and it brought the shocking news that YouTube is shutting down to prepare to pick the Best Video ever. Created in partnership with legendary improv comedians from Chicago's...
It’s important to stay up to date when you work in search and every SEO should be spending some time each day learning or keeping up with industrynews. WriteMonkey is a word processor with a totally stripped back user experience that can help with...
Businesses would blog their specials, new product updates, industrynews, holidays and pretty much everything that had to do with their business. When you're blogging for your current visitors (i.e.visitors that entered outside your blog or who...
With that in mind, Google's effort to continuously improve search quality is good news for SEO professionals already using strong content strategies. As the industry buzzes about changes afoot with Author Rank, it has become impossible to ignore...
A Small Set of Google Alerts – focused on blog and news resources primarily, because of their time-sensitive nature. A Small List of Email Newsletter Subscriptions – which mostly aggregate industrynews and act as another backup for data and...
We really do have a lot of very nice people in our industry. On a break, I caught up on local news and was hearing about some local tow truck companies volunteering their time to help people who are stranded on the roads.
They also influence GoogleNewssearch results if you’re logged in. However, he said that the cumulative number of all relevant keyword rankings for your market or industry will show you important trends – especially after updates, re-launches, and...
That being said, for professional purposes like networking and keeping up with industrynews, it's quite nice. While Facebook sent my news site the most referrals, Twitter tends to be the biggest social referrer for both my agency site and most of...
The bad news is that it takes time to generate a substantial amount of great content. The good news is that they could get started right away with building new content. In the second phase, they could start building a strong content generation...
Short industry-related articles and news information. Blog post development. In addition to a greater percentage of users searching while logged into their Google account, software vendors are making the conscious choice to move to a more secured...