Google said they received 130,000 submissions for this year's competition from grades K-12, up from 114,000 in 2012. Today's Google Doodle may be the most moving logo Google has ever posted. The Doodle was created by a 12th grade Wisconsin student...
As a result, the program received 2x the number of expected video submissions. Can they engage consumers? And can they drive brand lift? Intel hosted 21 contests on their MyIntelEdge brand channel and has just shared the answers to these questions...
Ultimately, we (SES Conference) do see lots more submissions from male speakers but our number of submissions from women are starting to increase," Roth said. At SES New York in March, I organized the first Girls' Night Out for some of the female...
External link building including press release optimization training, directory submissions (high quality, paid directories only) and partner links with whom the company has a valid business relationship.
Article Submissions I'm proud to say that I've never been responsible for a site that has been punished by any of the Google Panda/Penguin updates. I've seen my fair share of Google fallout though, usually brought forth by someone after they've...
If you’re in ecommerce, online sales will probably be your number one conversion; but you might also be interested in email signups, contact form submissions, phone calls, and other actions. Maybe you’ve decided to hire a PPC agency, or maybe you...
Form submissions, page viewed, and campaign tagging could be used to replace keyword data in your personalization efforts. What follows are some thoughts and tips on how to handle the growing lack of data you receive from your organic visits.
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Success Metric: Conversion rate as measured by the number of form submissions over the number of visits to each page. A recent A/B test I ran examined how a preview image on a landing page affects the page’s conversion rate.
Once you get past a few directory submissions and some other low-hanging fruit, there is really no one size fits all methodology to acquire links. I've seen what works and what doesn't, especially at the enterprise level.
Perhaps we will see further guidelines in place to prevent fallout from misuse of the link disavow tool if it does end up impacting webmasters negatively, or perhaps Google will end up evaluating the data from all disavow submissions and determine...
Whether it’s social media submissions, social sharing, blog coverage/roundups – they’ve all been linked to because the post has got the attention of a person, who has liked this content and then linked to it.
Based on the new algorithm changes, old school link development tactics like blog commenting, free directory submissions, article submission to generic article sites, and a number of other low value tactics no longer work as they once did and can...
Too few and you don't get a big enough sample size; too many and it takes too long to sift through submissions. So you need to have some strict screening rules in place to help vet and manage the flow of submissions quickly.
Measure the number of job application form submissions. How many? Many organizations only measure toward one goal. Retail businesses that sell online typically measure completed sales transactions. Service businesses typically measure the...
Keep in mind that Google limits you to ten index submissions per month, and that's per account. Maybe you've cleaned up a malware attack that damaged your organic visibility and want a clean bill of health so rankings recover faster; or maybe you...
Example: cross-link these assets on confirmation pages of completed form submissions. Last week, Altimeter Group published its report "The Converged Media Imperative," which explores how paid, owned, and earned media can join together to become a...
You are allowed 500 fetches / submissions a week, and 10 linked page submissions per week (submitting a page and all pages linked from it at the same time). For the princely sum of $0 per month you get to see information directly from Google for...
It's interesting to note the consistency with which folks link out to other sites to demonstrate their "cultural" contributions or submissions. At the prompting of a colleague I recently began experimenting with the "inanchor" advanced search...
Hudgens notes that several other changes may have contributed to the site’s recovery, including an overall SEO clean-up, Penguin review form submissions, and more. Late Friday, heading into the long weekend, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts...