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YouTube May Launch a Commercial-Free Music Subscription Service by End of Year
Reports are out that YouTube may be planning a music video subscription service that would allow users to access videos on demand without advertising…
Facebook on Graph Search Posts Index: 700 TB of Data & 100+ Ranking Factors
Facebook search quality and ranking engineer Ashoat Tevosyan shared a look under the Graph Search hood in a post this week on the Facebook…
Link Building 101: Local Link Building
Local link building is a commonly untapped resource, which can lead to quick yet quality links and net local customers. Here are some great…
Stop Obsessing Over AdWords Quality Score
Quality score is complicated, but that doesn't mean it's all that useful. Alistair Dent pulls back the curtain to show advertisers what's behind the…
Matt Cutts on SEO, PageRank, Spam & the Future of Google Search at Pubcon Las Vegas
Google's head of webspam gave a presentation packed with information for webmasters for his second day keynote at Pubcon Las Vegas 2013. Cutts talked…
Goodbye, Google PageRank Data: Maybe Just for Now, But More Likely Forever
Matt Cutts confirms at Pubcon what some have thought for months: Google has no plans to fix the broken pipeline that stopped the flow…
The Value of Referrer Data in Link Building
How is referrer data useful in your link building strategy? Learn three simple signals to help you better understand and capitalize on your referrer…
Halloween Inspired SEO Tricks to Keep Spiders at Bay
This Halloween, learn how to keep those pesky spiders from crawling around your website with a variety of spooky (and scary) tricks and treats.…
Leap Motion and the Future of Gestural Search
When the Leap Motion Controller debuted, response was lukewarm at best. But there's little doubt that once the functionality is there, the developer community…
Google Says: Use AdWords Ad Extensions, Or Else
Google announced this week that they’d rolled out an update to their AdWords Ad Rank algorithm, factoring the use of ad extensions into their…
Google Rolls Out AdWords Ad Rank Algorithm Update
Yesterday, Google quietly rolled out an update to their AdWords Ad Rank algorithm, adding ad extensions as a factor in their ad positioning decisions…
Yahoo Remains Top Web Property: comScore
Yahoo sites remain in the top position for unique visitors in September, continuing to dominate over Google. This marks the third month in a…
Brands Account for 40% of Top 1,000 Most Shared Instagram Videos
New data from Unruly shows that 40 percent of the thousands most shared Instagram videos last month came from brands. MTV had the most…
The Impact of Penguin 2.1: Recovery, Knockout Punches & Fresh Hits
The October 4th Penguin 2.1 Google update had significant consequences for some businesses. See how three different websites were impacted by 2.1, including a…
9 Ways to Prepare for a Future Without Cookie Tracking
With tighter privacy controls on tracking and personalization on the horizon, educating visitors on how digital information is collected and shared is becoming more…
Become a Leading SEO Mechanic with Both Google & Bing Webmaster Tools
Internet Marketing Ninjas COO Chris Boggs and Grant Simmons, director of SEO and social product at The Search Agency, shared their advice on better…
Instagram Coming to Windows Phone 8 After Nokia’s ‘Screaming About It’ for 18 Months
Nokia announced Tuesday that Instagram is coming to Windows Phone 8 after a lot of begging by the phone company. A Nokia executive admits,…
Google’s Misogynistic Autocomplete Suggestions: Who’s Responsible?
A recent campaign by UN Women highlights misogyny in Google Autocomplete search suggestions. Is it realistic to think Google can play a significant part…
Searcher Personas: A Case for User-Centric SEO
Today's SEO is about understanding the user and how they explore search queries. User-centricity is a must for successful SEO and persona building is…
Demographics and Interests: Coming to a Google Analytics Profile Near You
Learn how to access and activate interest, age and geo audience reporting in Google Analytics. Columnist Carrie Hill guides marketers through set-up and reporting…