The industry is different now, but the good news is that you can still be a badass link builder in the post-Penguin era. The better news is that you only need one tool to build the best links in the world: your brain.
It talks about putting a team together and how to find resources like industrynews and search conferences. Jones is an industry leader with real-world experiences. Jones then walks you through how to create and link up your Google+ business page...
Buy a link, link gets devalued, sell a new link it was a self-perpetuating industry, but it worked! Today content is the focus of many news articles and SEO how-tos, in fact to the point where erroneously, people have been told to forgo everything...
A marketer can run a targeted ad by location, industry, title, company and other specific demographics. Twitter is where the news breaks. Feeding content to Google+ from a YouTube channel or Pinterest board is a good idea.
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...
INDUSTRY 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). Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
That advice can take you a lot further when you have news you need to get out about your business to the local media and local media can be a lot more effective to what you are trying to accomplish than national media.
That's not necessarily news, but comScore data also reveals the number of unique searchers by industry category. For example, did you know that 73 percent of the searchers on Bing and Yahoo in the Travel category are exclusive, which means you can...
The good news was Google allowed me to get a backup of them as a .json file. I'm sure you're all by now aware of Google Reader's demise; to many of you this story will have barely warranted a second glance, but for an SEO news addict like me it is...
INDUSTRY All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook):
percent of users' time spent on News Feed
million photos uploaded daily
billion Likes every day
million pages with 10+ Likes
million...
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. Glazer said that many in the affiliate marketing industry still need to...
INDUSTRY LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape – VentureBeatPulse, a news reader app, has 30 million users and aggregates updates from social networks and 750 news publications.
When you think of the travel and tourism industry, you typically don't think of the most innovative content marketers. According to David Meerman Scott, newsjacking is a “process by which you inject your ideas or angles into breaking news, in real...
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. April Fools 2012: Exclusive Interview on Search Engine Industry Issues...
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. Quick Login for Google Accounts Do you have multiple logins for personal and professional...
A lot has changed in the search engine optimization (SEO) industry during the past year. You want your content to be the editorial content that makes the news. Panda and Penguin, Google's major algorithmic updates targeting thin content and...
Google CEO Larry Page announced the news in a blog post on Wednesday, adding that Rubin will be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who presently heads the firm's Chrome and Apps division. He believed that aligning standards around an open-source operating...