Despite promises no websites would be hurt, several people have reported receiving link penalties in the last few days in their Google Webmaster Tools console, well after Anglo Rank originally said they were unaffected by a public outing...
Facebook said after running tests, the new Like-Share buttons have increased likes and shares across the web by 5 percent in one month. Similarly, data from Shareaholic shows Facebook referral traffic up 47 percent in the past month.
Trade shows are one of the most effective lead generation tactics used by B2B marketers, but require a lot of time, effort, and expenses. Here are four ways B2B SEO can augment search, content, and social visibility, and link outreach ef...
Matt Cutts says be careful that the sites you guest blog on are of high quality and definitely avoid any guest blogging sites that appear low quality and spammy. He also shares four tactics that shouldn't be part of your guest blogging s...
Consumer packaged goods like toothpaste, soda, and candy are typically sold through a third-party retailer; however, that's not stopping some of the largest brands from using PPC for brand awareness campaigns, according to a new AdGooroo...
At Bing we are committed to giving you the most relevant search results possible. In addition we also strive to provide direct information about the entities that you search for, e.g., people, places, and things, based on our understandi...
General trust is moving from older big brands to new innovative companies, but Google still seems to prefer old sites. Learn which SEO ranking factors prefer new brands and which seem to have a positive effect on older, more authoritativ...
Localization helps connect your brand to a location using the words, terms, and behaviors of an audience in a particular region. While every country is different, here are some ideas for how to approach a localization strategy in a new c...
Just a few days after they ganged up on the government to ask them to curb the NSA's spying enthusiasm, tech giants are faced with another rather inconvenient truth: that the NSA is actually piggy-backing on Google cookies to gather inte...
A website that gets caught violating Google's webmaster guidelines for the first time won't be treated as harshly as those that have been penalized multiple times. Also: how the disavow tool can bring a site with bad backlinks back from ...
While Twitter users are most active during the workweek, research coming from TrackMaven shows after hours garner the most retweets in late evenings and on Sundays. Additional stats show tweets with images have a better chance of being r...
Search marketing and tech company, Acronym, announced a new way to combat the lack of keyword data resulting from Google's secure search with "Keyword Provided" - an algorithm that's been tested with a 99 percent accuracy, according to i...
YouTube has released their most watched content lists of 2013. One of the most popular trends this year has been "prankvertising" – online campaigns in which brands play jokes on supposedly unsuspecting members of the public.
Quality writing is a key ingredient in any blog post, but what do you write about when you feel like you've run out of things to say? Try one of these ten types of blog posts to get your creativity going and offer something useful for yo...
Majestic SEO has released an update to their Search Explorer Alpha tool, which now includes live rank factors and a new link prospecting methodology designed to help users surface relevant content from sites likely to be influential on a...
Google+ has launched (in beta) its own social ad called "+Post." The feature allows brands to promote their Google+ posts across the Google Display Network, in order to attract traffic back to the brand's page on Google+.
Google has added several new columns to Adwords reporting for video advertisers, to help them better understand the impact of their ads. Earned views, earned view rate, and earned subscribers are a few of the metrics now available for vi...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, we think some places are worth a thousand views. Whether it's the approach of Mount Everest, the Elgin Marbles or the exquisite detail of the forest floor, we've all been to places that cry out to ...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, we think some places are worth a thousand views. Whether it's the approach of Mount Everest, the Elgin Marbles or the exquisite detail of the forest floor, we've all been to places that cry out to ...
PPC almost always drives incremental traffic to a website and some of those visitors are likely to convert. Most assume that more visits mean more sales and that fewer visits mean fewer sales. This case study illustrates the true value o...
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