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The Private Blog Network Purge – Are You at Risk?

What are PBNs exactly, and do you need to worry about being hit by Google's PBN penalty?

By Eric Enge · 07 Oct 2014

SEO

Google Panda 4.1 Update Will Affect 3 to 5% of Queries

The newest Google Panda update proves yet again that there is no replacement for quality content.

By Ashley Zeckman · 03 Oct 2014

PPC

2 Mistakes That Cause Advertisers to Quit AdWords Just When They’re on the Verge of a Breakthrough

AdWords isn’t an appropriate advertising medium for every business, but the truth is that many advertisers give up on AdWords way too…

By Howard Jacobson · 03 Oct 2014

Industry

Internet Marketing for 2020

A look at what the future might hold for search marketers, created with clues from Google's algorithms and patents.

By Dave Davies · 03 Oct 2014

PPC

There’s a Good Chance Google Is Rejecting Some of Your Products Right Now

A simple guide for how to prevent your products from getting rejected on Google.

By Mary Weinstein · 02 Oct 2014

Industry

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen Yahoo Directory

Yahoo will be shutting down Yahoo Directory as well as Yahoo Education and Qwiki. The Directory will officially shutter on December 31,…

By Ashley Zeckman · 01 Oct 2014

SEO

Privacy-Savvy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Blocked in China

Search engine users in China got a rude awakening when they realized last week that DuckDuckGo had been blocked or was temporarily…

By Ashley Zeckman · 30 Sep 2014

Mobile

Mobile Site Migration Planning: Rolling Your M-Dot Into Your .Com

The mobile mind shift has created a paradigm in which the understanding is that each individual expects more out of each interaction,…

By Jori Ford · 29 Sep 2014

PPC

Google AdWords Offers Ad Creative at Scale for PPC

Google AdWords has introduced a new way for large-scale advertisers to manage the ad creative for "thousands, or even millions of products"…

By Jessica Lee · 26 Sep 2014

PPC

Improved Targeting Available for Bing

As Google continues to take more and more flexibility and targeting options away from its users, Bing has taken the opposite approach,…

By Justin Freid · 26 Sep 2014

SEO

Chasing Google Changes to Authors and HTTPS

In our haste to leverage the newest way to make ourselves just a little better looking than the next guy, do we…

By Jennifer Van Iderstyne · 25 Sep 2014

SEO

Accidents Are Great for Link-Building

Link-building is often the result of a deliberate action and seldom something accidental. However, accidents and deliberate accidents have proven to attract…

By Peter Van Der Graaf · 25 Sep 2014

SEO

Google’s New Structured Snippets Pull Facts Into a Page’s Search Results

This week Google introduced "structured snippets," which demonstrate yet another way Google is extracting Web page information and displaying that in its…

By Jessica Lee · 24 Sep 2014

SEO

Recover From Panda? Follow These 5 Steps to Avoid Future Panda Hits

After recovering from Panda, it’s easy to quickly celebrate and move on. But instead of dancing in the streets, you should perform…

By Glenn Gabe · 24 Sep 2014

PPC

Maximize Your Holiday Prep for Google Shopping

By understanding and internalizing the new features in Google Shopping, leading retailers can leapfrog their competition in PLA this holiday season.

By Dave Schwartz · 24 Sep 2014

Mobile

Responding to Device Changes in Google and Bing

Recently, both Bing and Google announced some changes to mobile advertising that you need to be aware of and react to within…

By Melissa Mackey · 23 Sep 2014

SEO

Links, FUD, and Webmaster Guidelines

There’s a lot of bad information floating around the Web pertaining to link-building. Even on the official Google webmaster forums. You owe…

By Chuck Price · 23 Sep 2014

PPC

Bing Ads Reveals Dynamic Sitelinks

Bing Ads has revealed a new feature dubbed "dynamic sitelinks" which creates annotations for ads that haven't specifically set up sitelink extensions.

By Jessica Lee · 22 Sep 2014

Local

Centralizing Location Data: 3 Steps to Local SEO Success

National-local businesses with locations opening, closing or moving should take inventory of local business data and put processes in place to ensure…

By Adam Dorfman · 22 Sep 2014

Local

Google’s My Maps Upgrade Presents Opportunities for Local Search

Google's My Maps feature could help businesses drive in-person traffic by giving them a new tool to better market themselves to consumers…

By Ashley Zeckman · 18 Sep 2014

SEO

Amazon and Google: Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?

Reports show Amazon is Google's biggest search advertiser, but the online retailer is reportedly developing its own ad program to rival Google…

By Yuyu Chen · 18 Sep 2014

SEO

Why Nofollow Links Could Become the Redheaded Stepchildren of SEO

Nofollow links can be great for traffic, but are they leading us down a dangerous path where we can't trust anything we…

By Julie Joyce · 18 Sep 2014

SEO

Six Crucial Link Building Strategies to Drive Quality Traffic

Here are the six most important factors that will guide your link-building strategy and help you choose the perfect immediate tactics to…

By Pratik Dholakiya · 18 Sep 2014

SEO

Google Patent Aims to Use TV as a Signal in its Search Algorithm

A new patent granted to Google will use signals related to TV shows that are "currently being displayed in proximity to an…

By Jessica Lee · 17 Sep 2014

PPC

How New gTLDs Fare in Search Marketing [Research]

Globe Runner released findings of an experiment to discover how new generic top-level domains fared in paid search in impressions, click-through rate,…

By Jessica Lee · 17 Sep 2014

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