When you've put a lot of effort in acquiring links to your website, you want to make sure these links aren't lost at any time. When multiple links are removed or changed within a short timeframe this is a strong signal to search engines that these...
Two Googlers elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – Official Google BlogCongratulations to Peter Norvig, director of research, and Arun Majumdar, vice president for energy. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade...
But not too long after the blasts in Boston, there was a blast of a different sort on Facebook from social media thought leader Peter Shankman in reference to a tweet from David Armano, managing director of Edelman Digital.
Many of you might think there is no longer any need for tools to monitor your ranking in search engines like Google. After all, just by visiting Google Webmaster Tools you get visibility, ranking and click through information for each region...
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who was involved in the vote for Pope Benedict XVI, was a novice in the event of electing the pope and cleverly relied on the all-knowing Internet to uncover more detailed information on the candidates.
Peter Meyers' analysis on SEOmoz. In August, Google began showing seven search results, rather than 10, for certain queries. SEOMoz recently published a series of insights on Google’s new 7-result SERPs, gleaned from data collected since Google...
Links that are tightly related to a keyword combination have a much stronger effect on its specific ranking. Their effect regretfully isn't very broad and your site needs links in various degrees of relevance.
Peter Kafka of AllThingsD reported last night that “YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in VEVO, according to people familiar with the deal, which hasn’t been finalized. The deal would strengthen YouTube’s top position...
An ecommerce site offering a large product range comes with various SEO challenges. Dealing with duplicate content and effectively funneling internal link value are just a few examples. Google accepts a lot of additional HTML instructions to let...
The most important week of the year for app makers is the final week of the year, between Christmas and New Year's Day," wrote Flurry's vice president of marketing Peter Farago in a blog post. Over 1.7 billion mobile apps were downloaded worldwide...
Search engine reputation management (SERM) is reaching the next level. PR firms across the globe are starting to offer elaborate services in corporation with SEO firms. A professional approach doesn't just consist of cleansing the search results...
Similarly searches for Peter Parker or Keyser Soze reveal more info about the comic book's author or the film the entire question of "who is Keyser Soze? Bing have added two new categories to their 'snapshot' search results - namely, people and...
If you see a dog on a skateboard video, the CPMs, the cost per thousand impressions, are about $2," Kamangar said during an interview with Peter Kafka of AllThingsD. YouTube has unveiled a new look to help users find their favorite channels and...
One of the most difficult choices SEO professionals face is whether to operate under one umbrella website or under multiple domains. Even if you operate in multiple countries there isn’t a clear answer on splitting up into local TLDs (top-level...
Images shown in regular search result pages are seldom clicked, but offer great marketing opportunities. So how do you get any attention for your name with such a small image and nobody clicking it? This article describes how commercial websites...
Peter then suggested to them that we try implementing rel="alternate" hreflang="country" in XML sitemaps. Therefore, SEO director Peter Handley who was in charge of the project, talked through a number of solutions with the client, such as one-site...
Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel didn't wait to dump a significant chunk of his holding in Facebook – 20 million shares on August 16 and 17. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook and had already sold some of his stake in the firm during its...
On his plans for Followerwonk, Fishkin said, “As for the months ahead - Peter and his team will be working with us to spec out a roadmap for new features, upgrades, and data inside the product. Search and social optimization software firm SEOmoz...
Answer.com's CCO, Peter Horan, is the former head of About.com, and the man who helped to engineer the sale of About.com to the New York Times from Primedia back in 2005. It was announced on Aug 8 that the New York Times is in talks to sell its...
App Store Optimization (ASO) is the art of making apps rank in both popularity lists and search results within their respective app stores. A key ingredient for a high ranking is the amount of people that have previously installed the app and the...
