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Analytics

Search Marketing Reporting: 8 Metrics Clients Actually Care About

Many agencies and Internet marketers deliver a summary of performance for PPC and SEO on a weekly or monthly basis, but who decides what…

By Jamie Smith · 19 Nov 2014

Industry

Target Adds Product Search to App in Time for Black Friday

Target looks to make Black Friday easier for shoppers with the release of new search features on its mobile app.

By Ashley Zeckman · 18 Nov 2014

Mobile

Google Officially Debuts “Mobile-Friendly” Labels

After much testing, Google has finally introduced user notifications within search results for mobile-friendly websites.

By Yuyu Chen · 18 Nov 2014

PPC

Supercharge Your PPC Workflow

Supercharge your PPC workflow with these daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly tasks.

By Melissa Mackey · 18 Nov 2014

Content

How to Avoid Contributing to Content Bloat

Content bloat is not only horrible for Google, but it's also horrible for users and trust.

By Julie Joyce · 18 Nov 2014

Industry

Google Discontinues Carousel for Local Search Results

For local categories such as restaurants, hotels, and nightlife, the horizontal Carousel at the top of the page has been replaced by drop-down ads.

By Mike Obrien · 17 Nov 2014

SEO

A Quick Start Guide to Schema – Your Competitive Edge

Rich snippets can make your search results stand out, improving click-through rate and traffic to your site.

By Chuck Price · 17 Nov 2014

Content

3 Basic Principles of Journalism to Consider When Writing Content for Google

Writing copy doesn’t always come naturally, but there are some basic principles of journalism we can apply to all the content we create to…

By Stephen Kenwright · 17 Nov 2014

Content

Ad Copy – 7 Key Steps for Adding Holiday Sparkle

If you haven't yet put together your holiday ad copy for paid search, or are still working on those final touches, here are seven…

By Diane Pease · 14 Nov 2014

Social

Facebook Quietly Debuts New Local Search and Discovery Tool

The social media platform has made its Places Discovery more useful as a local search and discovery tool.

By Yuyu Chen · 13 Nov 2014

SEO

Panda Audit 101: The Roadmap to Complete Panda Recovery

If you've seen a noticeable decrease in your site's traffic, had your site fail to recover from a Penguin update, or have lots of…

By Marcela De Vivo · 13 Nov 2014

Content

10 Quick Paid Search Copy Tips to Improve Your Click-Through Rates

Optimizing your paid search ad copy is arguably the most effective tool at your disposal to increase click-through rates, raise your Quality Score, and…

By Richard Stokes · 13 Nov 2014

Industry

Bing Adds Auction Insights to Web Interface

Auction Insights, the recently launched feature that allows marketers to monitor their campaigns and keywords, as well as those of their competitors, is now…

By Mike Obrien · 12 Nov 2014

Industry

Mozilla Celebrates a Decade With New Feature Release

Mozilla's Firefox used its 10th anniversary as an opportunity to release new features that its audience asked for.

By Ashley Zeckman · 12 Nov 2014

Industry

Amazon Steps Further Into Search With Amazon Echo

If you have a solid liberty of experiential content on your site, it will be many decades before Siri, Cortina, Google Now, or Amazon's…

By Dan Cristo · 12 Nov 2014

Local

How Location Data Can Change Search

Search could be further improved if search engines leveraged location data from our mobile devices to personalize and target results.

By Justin Freid · 12 Nov 2014

Content

8 Essential Steps for SEOs in Planning Online PR

In order to reap the true benefits (read: links) of online PR, you need to build your credibility with the media and your clients.

By Ken Mcgaffin · 12 Nov 2014

SEO News

Custody Risk European Awards 2014 winners announced

Industry achievements over past year rewarded The winners of the Custody Risk European Awards 2014 were unveiled at an awards ceremony in central London…

By Sew Staff · 12 Nov 2014

SEO News

Softer NSFR may not save repo, banks warn

Final rule slashes funding requirement for reverse repo, but applies it more widely Dealers are warning repo businesses will struggle to comply with new…

By Sew Staff · 12 Nov 2014

Social

Instagram Upgrades Search, Editing, and Explore Features

Instagram listened to its users and determined that it was time to evolve its system to meet the needs of consumers.

By Ashley Zeckman · 11 Nov 2014