searchengineland — Before the revamped Google Image Search design went live 9 days ago, there was a clear and quick way to report offensive images to Google. In fact, Google released the report offensive image feature just about a year ago, due to complaints. Now, that feature is no longer...
blog.traffick — In search marketing, it’s easy to get people obsessed with a particular metric: you express it on a scale of zero to 10. (Remember Toolbar PageRank?) It’s only been a few months now that a significant number of search advertisers have even figured out how to look up...
searchenginejournal — One of the things we do to help our SEO efforts is to write professional articles about our niche. We believe this is a great way to get links, and anyone can do this in their own niche. Let’s say for the sake of example that we sell wedding shoes. Our...
seroundtable — Aaron Wall posted an example of a large brand manipulating Google through an old spam technique. In short, they were buying expired domains to piggy back off of the link popularity and anchor text of those old domains. Aaron wall...
seroundtable — A WebmasterWorld thread has Zeus, someone well known in the SEO forum space as tracking the image search engines, as not speaking positively about Bing Image Search. The thread talks how Bing is slower than Google to index new content....
seomoz — Posted by randfishAs the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we've been seeing design-specific elements produce a positive impact on SEO for the sites that employ them. It's terrific news for SEOs who love design and are capable of and passionate about making it part of their...
searchengineland — One of the most unpleasant situations an in-house SEO can face is a major search engine algorithm change that results in a massive downward shift in rankings. Some webmasters have reported search engine traffic losses of up to 90% as a result of Google’s “Mayday” update, and similar catastrophes have...
blog.traffick — Well, this is bizarre. About a month ago, I posted some incoherent ramblings about number crunching… ramblings that included reflections on Paul the psychic octupus, rapidly declining Iranian fertility rates, and World Cup outcomes. I’m not saying there is a connection, but quite possibly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has his reputation management software...
searchengineland — Unlike its counterpart, the social media landing page isn’t focused getting on one action from a visitor; it has to manage four different kinds of conversion. Do your social landing pages manage all four? *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
searchenginejournal — I feel lucky enough to work from home for about 3 years now and to be able to travel wherever I want with my family. This is what I have actually been doing for the past month – traveling (and struggling with somewhat screwed schedule). However another side of this...
searchenginejournal — With the impending implosion of Yahoo’s disappointing Panama project and seeming overnight surrender of search to the big boys of Google and Microsoft it’s time we all started paying a little more attention to Bing and particularly Microsoft adCenter. Just the other day I was talking with some...
searchengineland — Did you think the search engine wars had devolved into a fight between only Google and Bing? Think again. New challenger Blekko is stepping into the fray, opening to limited beta testing today. It offers a compelling way to “slash the web” and put a particular spin on your search...
seroundtable — The RKG Blog got official word from Google, which I confirmed, that the pink ads we have been seeing for months now are now official. I personally have been seeing them since last night, and everyone will ultimately see them...
seroundtable — Sometimes web designers break up a single image into slices of images. They do this for many reasons, but the question is - can you optimize that image for image search? John from Google chimed in about that in a...
searchengineland — Google has begun rolling out a new background color for the AdWords listings on Google’s search results. The new color is a pale purple, as opposed to the current pale yellow. Google has been testing the pale purple since May of this year and last week we have...
searchenginejournal — Whenever I am working with a client that is looking to start a new business and website, I am almost always asked the question…should I purchase a domain name with keywords in it for SEO? Unfortunately there is not a clear cut answer to that question. Lets examine the...
searchengineland — Chitika, a veritable fountain of data lately, has generated some new interesting findings from activity on its search-based advertising network. The company compared ad click behavior on Google and Bing and found that Bing generated about 50% more clicks: Across the sample of nearly 15 million impressions used for this study,...
searchenginejournal — Hello ladies and gentleman, geeks and phreaks alike, it’s time for another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ ? It was a damned busy week out in the trenches last week and it was again tough to decide what to include and what not too. But hey, that’s...
seomoz — Posted by Danny Dover Well folks, this may be the biggest tool introduction since Ryan Seacrest started hosting American Idol. ;-) Today we are launching our SEO toolbar for Google's Chrome browser. This sexy beast is full to the brim with SEO insight and time-saving SEO goodness. This free...
searchenginejournal — In my latest Search Engine Journal article, Information Architecture – Rocket Science Simplified, I break down the concepts of site navigation as it relates to SEO for the purpose of strengthening sectional and page level focus. But it’s more than just about focus and I wasn’t sure if I...
searchenginejournal — I’ve been doing SEO for as long as I can remember. I rarely stop to look at the distance I’ve made since I started; more notably, the change in the SEO space and the change in my own philosophies. But when I do stop and look, I...
searchengineland — As Matt posted earlier this evening, Ask is in beta on a new approach to search, or perhaps more accurately: a return to an earlier approach but with greater experience and sophistication. The IAC-owned company is returning, conceptually, to its origins as a question & answer engine, when human editors...
searchengineland — As we (and others) hinted a couple weeks ago, Ask.com is re-launching as a cross between a traditional search engine and the question-and-answer service that it was back in the site’s heyday. The new Ask.com homepage represents a pretty dramatic change. Search is still front and center, but in order to...
searchengineland — If you're choosing domain names for your business with the intention of going global, then you have quite a lot to think about. You might want to incorporate keywords in your domain name -- but how do you handle this across multiple different languages? Or you might choose...
seroundtable — Tedster started a thread at WebmasterWorld about aged links. He said that there is a debate about if search engines, such as Google, "age" links. If they do, is aging a link a good thing or a bad thing? He...