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 industry news and search conferences. Jones is an industry leader with real-world experiences. One of the all-new chapters in the book, Optimizing for Local Search, introduces...
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. When your content is placed on Google+ it has the chance to rank higher because the content is fed into the...
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. INDUSTRY He was on CBS news yesterday (here's a recap by CNET). Google searches predict market moves – BBCAnalysis shows there is potential big profit to be made...
That's not necessarily news, but comScore data also reveals the number of unique searchers by industry category. What our advertisers often don't think about and what makes us different, is our significant, distinct audience of 47 million unique...
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...
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 has...
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...
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. INDUSTRY LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape – VentureBeatPulse, a news reader app, has 30 million users and aggregates updates...
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 industry news. Do you have multiple logins for personal and professional Google Accounts?
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...
Businesses would blog their specials, new product updates, industry news, holidays and pretty much everything that had to do with their business. On a more advanced level, if you find an industry authority site that has some great content, you can...
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 List of Email Newsletter Subscriptions – which mostly aggregate industry news and act as another backup for data and information in supporting research. A Small Set of Google Alerts – focused on blog and news resources primarily, because of...
