A data analysis of the search results for queries containing 500 of the world's top tech writers' names using Conductor's Searchlight enterprise SEO platform (disclosure: I work for Conductor) – shows that Google is surfacing Google+ accounts for...
The true pace of mobile and local search can be seen when the market withstands an entire column's worth of updates and announcements in just one month. Since looking at Facebook's moves in local search last month, much more has come to light.
In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights. The ruling states that if suggestions in autocomplete are untrue, it violates personal rights, and therefore...
There's no longer any need to ensure that no PII (personal identity information) is stored. The Justice Department certainly hasn't been bashful about asking various search engines and social media platforms to share privileged data before – even...
When your content is placed on Google+ it has the chance to rank higher because the content is fed into the personal search results of your Google+ circles. The obvious opportunities in using LinkedIn as a marketing tool include personal branding...
Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple's iOS. The company is bringing the platform to Apple's mobile operating system as a feature on the new version of Google's Search application for the iPhone and iPad.
Pay-per-click search marketing may have been invented in the second Clinton administration, but it's a modern iteration of a hundred-year-old tradition of direct marketing: Find people who have a problem, get their attention with a small...
Suppose I have a site that covers fishing overall (A) – Search Engine RoundtableOnly one page penalized due to 12 megabytes of spam from 21,169 comments. Link – Search Engine Roundtable Bing Offers– Discover Deals from Across the Web in One Place...
You may be reading this because, like me, you usually spend a few minutes each day making sure you've trawled the main SEO news publications for new, useful thought pieces on organic search, analytics, or other aspects of online marketing.
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis "wrong". All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social...
On the web analytics side the web measurement model is really centered around things like pageviews referrals, search, visits, etc.whereas, on the mobile side the measurement model is less about referrals and more about engagement and loyalty.
Now Microsoft has posted a scathing blog post, "Don't Get Scroogled by Google's App Store", to details how Google Play sends personal information (e.g.users' full names, email addresses and locations) – to developers each time an app is downloaded.
Google authorship has made it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to get their brands in front of prospective customers, because they can now have their brand represented alongside their content within Google’s search results.
Also, make sure these personal goals are specific and measurable. Prospecting: what it is and ways to do it, such as using advanced search queries or tools Outreach is a very personal learning process – it is impossible to prepare someone for every...
Over lunch and at sponsored networking events, it seemed as if no moment was spared as industry leaders compared notes and connected with peers on professional and personal levels. It is the premiere event for them to showcase their “paid search...
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 regards to yours, relevance is the new PR.
She took over Search London in October 2010 when the organizer stepped down. Not only did she expand her network by meeting various other experts in her industry in Europe and the U.S.but she was also invited to attend the UK Search Awards.
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?
To block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google. Remember Google's search feature that let you block websites? The Blocked Sites feature was basically killed at the same time...
Even prior to the commencement of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy, one of the Cardinals used Google to search for more about the candidates, so the Vatican is no stranger, nor are its counterparts. The Vatican reinstated their use of Twitter to announce...
