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SEO

More Local SEOs Earning Less Than $30,000 [Study]

The BrightLocal Local SEO Industry Survey included nearly 1,800 SEOs and found more than a third of local SEOs have turnover of less than…

By Lisa Lacy · 08 Sep 2014

SEO

Google Launches Improved Sitelinks Search Box

Google announced a new way for users to search for site-specific content with an updated sitelinks search box and gave tips to developers for…

By Jessica Lee · 08 Sep 2014

PPC

Bing Ads Launches Close Variants for Broad Match Modifiers

Broad match modifiers help advertisers control the intent of users seeing ads, but Bing says advertisers may have been missing out because of grammatical…

By Lisa Lacy · 08 Sep 2014

Social

Social Customer Service Secrets to Avoid Negative Search Results

Maintaining an effective strategy for customer service on social media will help to ensure that your brand doesn't accrue any negative search results.

By Lisa Buyer · 08 Sep 2014

Content

Owned Content: Lead Generation vs. Organic Visibility

Sites often have a wealth of content on their site but are too focused on lead generation to give way to search engine optimization…

By Josh Mccoy · 08 Sep 2014

Industry

Paid Media Is the Future

Marketers are evolving away from the need to be paid search and display specialists and toward the need to be more broadly educated paid…

By Jason Tabeling · 08 Sep 2014

Video

YouTube Keyword Tool Goes Missing

Google replaced YouTube's keyword tool with Display Planner's AdWords video keyword suggestions on September 1, requiring users to access an AdWords account.

By Ashley Zeckman · 05 Sep 2014

Industry

Baidu Building Powerful Computer Cluster

Reps for the search engine reportedly say more computing power is required as search queries shift from text to voice and image.

By Lisa Lacyashley Zeckman · 05 Sep 2014

Social

Is a Proposed Twitter Algorithm the Death of “Real Time” on the Social Platform?

CFO Anthony Noto recently said Twitter could be getting a new algorithm, but the question is: Will the new feed improve or harm the…

By Jessica Lee · 05 Sep 2014

SEO

Callouts for AdWords Offer More Space for Advertisers

The new feature gives marketers more space to promote their products and separate themselves from competitors.

By Emily Alford · 05 Sep 2014

SEO

4 Things Your Competitors Are Doing This Q4 to Crush You on Google

Q4 is the ultimate game. There is no halftime show, but all the big teams are playing, and everyone is coming to the game.

By Mary Weinstein · 05 Sep 2014

SEO

Block Determination and Link Distribution

As Google gets better and better at determining what blocks within your website serve what purpose, links within your main content are becoming much…

By Peter Van Der Graaf · 05 Sep 2014

Mobile

Bing and Google Are Ready for Some Football

As the 2014 NFL season kicks off, Bing is making predictions, which it has also enabled in Cortana, and Google is launching a football-themed…

By Lisa Lacy · 04 Sep 2014

PPC

Bing Ads Offers New Bulk Editing Tools

Bing Ads announced a new way advertisers can manage up to 1 million keywords, 500,000 ads, and 250,000 ad groups - all within the…

By Jessica Lee · 04 Sep 2014

SEO

Organic Search Drives 51% of Traffic to Websites [Study]

Data from SEO platform provider BrightEdge and its Data Cube show organic traffic is the largest source of traffic over other channels like paid…

By Jessica Lee · 04 Sep 2014

Local

YP Taps Goodzer for Enhanced Local Data

YP says it will add hyper-local data about products and services to "a select portion of [its] 20 million business listings" as a result…

By Lisa Lacy · 04 Sep 2014

PPC

Brand Terms: To Bid or Not to Bid? [Bing Ads Study]

A new study from Bing Ads explores the value of including your own brand terms in paid search marketing campaigns.

By John Gagnon · 04 Sep 2014

SEO

Domain Equity Development: A Fresh Perspective on Link-Building

The old practices of link-building to boost SEO just won't cut it anymore. Here's a fresh way to look at building links: domain equity…

By Brad Miller · 04 Sep 2014

Content

The Challenge of Enterprise Link-Building in a Content Marketing World

Most scalable link acquisition should be centered on high-quality content marketing activities that produce a ROI or accomplish a core business goal regardless of…

By Catfish Comstock · 04 Sep 2014

Industry

Google Folds Blog Search Into News

Google users who want to search for content from blogs must now filter their queries in Google News instead of using the separate Blog…

By Lisa Lacy · 03 Sep 2014