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Mobile

New Google Mobile Alert: Websites Using Flash May Not Work on Your Device

Google now warns mobile searchers when it detects pages that may not work on their devices (e.g., sites made with Flash). Google…

By Ashley Zeckman · 17 Jul 2014

SEO

New robots.txt Tester Launches in Google Webmaster Tools

The robots.txt testing tool in Google Webmaster Tools has just received an update to highlight errors causing Google not to crawl pages…

By Danny Goodwin · 16 Jul 2014

Mobile

Mobile: 34% of Organic Search, 42% of Social Traffic in Q2 [Report]

RKG released its digital marketing report for Q2 2014 and found organic traffic comprised 31 percent of all website visits in Q2,…

By Jessica Lee · 16 Jul 2014

Local

Google AdWords Express App Now Available

Google has launched a new app for AdWords Express, the product designed to simplify search advertising for small businesses. In addition, Google…

By Danny Goodwin · 16 Jul 2014

PPC

Google Shopping Adds New Tools for Merchants: Bulk Uploads, AdWords Editor

Advertisers can download product reports, edit bids, keywords, ad groups, ads, and destination URLs, and import changes using bulk uploads. Also, you…

By Mary Weinstein · 16 Jul 2014

Industry

Germany to Treat Google Like a Public Utility?

German officials are planning to clip the wings of tech giants such as Google through heavier regulation. The country's Federal Cartel Office…

By Chris Merriman · 16 Jul 2014

Local

You Can Now Link Your Google My Business & AdWords Accounts

Google has announced an update to location extensions that will let advertisers link their Google My Business and AdWords accounts to ensure…

By Ashley Zeckman · 15 Jul 2014

Local

Google Webmaster Tools Adds International Targeting Report to Show hreflang Errors

Google Webmaster Tools has added a new reporting feature to help marketers troubleshoot rel-alternate-hreflang annotations (an attribute that communicates with Google if…

By Ashley Zeckman · 14 Jul 2014

Industry

Google Search Quality Guidelines Now Reward Expertise, Authority, Trust

The latest version of Google's "human rater handbook" aka search quality evaluation guide has leaked once again, and gives us more clues…

By Jessica Lee · 14 Jul 2014

SEO

How to Sell Your SEO Plan With 5 Slides in 5 Minutes

You never really have more than five minutes to make "the sale." Here are five different people offering different common objections to…

By Eric Enge · 14 Jul 2014