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Google Starts Penalizing Sites for Rich Snippet Spam

Google is going after websites that misuse structured data markup. The new penalty affects websites that violate Google's rich snippets guidelines, such as including authorship on home pages…

By Jennifer Slegg · 06 Feb 2014

Local

4 Tactics to Drive Incremental Local SEO Performance

After you've covered all the local SEO basics, explore these additional opportunities to enhance the program and further improve results: Google+ verification,…

By Jon Schepke · 06 Feb 2014

Video

Google Gives More Prominence to First Playable Music Video Search Result

Searching for a music video on Google? Maybe "Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars or "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk? Now…

By Danny Goodwin · 05 Feb 2014

Local

Google Adds 1,000+ New Categories to Places Dashboard

Google is making some new changes to Google’s Places for Business in order to make it easier for users to find businesses…

By Jennifer Slegg · 05 Feb 2014

Industry

Google, Europe Near Antitrust Deal, Really This Time?

With its latest offer, Google has effectively settled the three year probe and has dodged a potential $5 billion fine. While the…

By Carly Page · 05 Feb 2014

Video

Google Vows to Reduce Fake YouTube Views

It's unclear how many "fraudulent" views YouTube videos have been racking up, but Google said that its incoming measures to monitor views…

By Carly Page · 05 Feb 2014

Social

5 Social Media Profile Optimization Tips for Brands

Optimizing a social media profile is easy and only takes a few minutes. Here are five recommendations on how to give your…

By Travis Bernard · 05 Feb 2014

Industry

Yahoo Wants Back in the Search Game

Yahoo is rumored to be planning a return to search – both organic and paid. CEO Marissa Mayer has reportedly spearheaded two…

By Jennifer Slegg · 04 Feb 2014

Content

Link Building With a Healthy Dose of Marketing: 8 Ways to Solve Problems for Free

Solving problems for free can result in links, branding opportunities, foster positive relationships, boost your authority, and even help establish your company…

By Jon Ball · 03 Feb 2014

Mobile

How the Mobile Shift Will Affect Paid Search and Social Advertising Efforts

Advertisers must seize the opportunity to capture and engage potential consumers across mobile devices. With 2014 shaping up to be a banner…

By Kelly Wrather · 03 Feb 2014

Local

Avoid SEO Hype: Why Small Businesses Should Focus on Return on Investment

If you're a small business owner, you don't have time to waste trying to wade through Google's constantly shifting guidance on SEO…

By Adam Stetzer · 02 Feb 2014

Local

Yahoo Updates Its Local Search Results

Yahoo gives its local search results a facelift with merchant snapshots that offer detailed business information, including a company overview, hours of…

By Jessica Lee · 31 Jan 2014

PPC

AdWords Patent Infringement Costs Google Big Money

The court in Virginia has ordered Google to pay a royalty for all AdWords advertising revenue to Vringo for patent infringement, for…

By Jennifer Slegg · 31 Jan 2014

SEO

Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool

Have new content that you'd like to be discovered and found in Google's search results more quickly? Within Google Webmaster Tools is…

By Matt Morgan · 31 Jan 2014

Mobile

Take Your Mobile App Marketing Campaigns to the Next Level With Deep Linking

The benefit of using deep links for mobile apps is the ability for marketers to bring users directly to a specific location…

By Jennifer Wong · 31 Jan 2014

SEO

Matt Cutts: Using Article Directories for Links? Just No

If somehow you're still using article directories as a link building tactic in 2014, just don't. In his latest webmaster help video,…

By Jennifer Slegg · 30 Jan 2014

Industry

6 Google Search Changes You May Have Missed

With Google constantly testing new features and making updates to its search product, we thought we'd round up some of the latest…

By Jessica Lee · 30 Jan 2014

SEO

Link Network Buzzea Calls Google Penalty ‘Abusive’

It's been a few weeks since Google's Matt Cutts publicly announced the demise of the link networks (remember Backlinks.com and Anglo Rank?).…

By Jennifer Slegg · 30 Jan 2014

Content

Building a CRAP SEO Content Strategy

How concepts and connections, relevance and relationships, authority and authenticity, and promotion and prominence (pardon the unfortunate acronym) provide guidelines for a…

By Grant Simmons · 30 Jan 2014

Mobile

Global Mobile Advertising Opportunities: Brazil. Russia, India & China

Mobile advertising is on the rise in Russia, India, Brazil, and China, which are all experiencing huge growth in the number of…

By Michael Bonfils · 30 Jan 2014

PPC

WordStream Enhances AdWords Grader: New Benchmarks, Monthly Reports, Mobile PPC Scores

Search marketing software and service company WordStream announced updates to its free PPC auditing tool, the AdWords Performance Grader, which include updated…

By Jessica Lee · 29 Jan 2014

Industry

2014 Industry Survey Reveals Salaries, Top SEO Tools & More

Moz has released the results of their 2014 Industry Survey, which sheds light on salaries for various roles, top marketing activities and…

By Danny Goodwin · 29 Jan 2014

Video

How Video Site NDN is Driving 500 Million+ Video Views Per Month

NDN ranks ahead of Amazon, VEVO, Microsoft, Vimeo, and Turner Digital in the latest comScore video rankings. So, it's worth knowing more…

By Greg Jarboe · 29 Jan 2014

Development

Google & Bing Agree: Past SEO Success Guarantees You Nothing Today

Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester have weighed in on the topic of why older domains that have had success in…

By Jennifer Slegg · 28 Jan 2014

Industry

Google Buys AI Company DeepMind, May Have Big Plans for Search

Google reportedly has spent $400 million to buy a London based artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. Neither firm offered up more information,…

By Dave Neal · 28 Jan 2014

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