searchengineland — The search marketing agency, iAcquire, that was allegedly responsible for buying links for clients was just banned from Google’s search results. iAcquire was cited as the agency behind Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation’s link buy request emails. For more on that see our... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full...
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot — Webmaster level: All In December 2011 we announced annotations for sites that target users in many languages and, optionally, countries. These annotations define a cluster of equivalent pages that target users around the world, and were implemented using rel-alternate-hreflang link elements in the HTML of each page in the cluster. Based on...
searchengineland — Google's Venice update has caused surprisingly few ripples in the search engine marketing industry given the scale of its impact on search: it's easily as important as Big Daddy from 2006, itself the most significant update made by Google up to that point. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full...
seobook — Is outing & writing polarizing drivel hate baiting or a service to the community? It is all a matter of perspective, isn't it? Some people would like to claim that it is one thing when they do it & something else when somebody else does it. Unfortunately for those who want to...
searchenginejournal — < sigh >… Once again, Yahoo has yet another plan to innovate, and thus stay relevant in an ever more challenging search arena. And just as they’ve done many times over the years, it already appears they’ve got a lot to learn about messaging. Not to mention it appears they’re...
searchengineland — Google announced they have enhanced the Google Transparency Report to include the removal requests to take down individual search results from showing up in Google. In fact, Google has told us in the past month they have received 1,246,713 removal requests from 24,129 different target domains of... Please visit Search Engine...
searchengineland — Google’s Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query. In making... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
searchengineland — Imagine you own a restaurant and one day, a couple of big guys in nice suits come through your front door. One of the men introduces himself: “Good evening. My name is Gino, and this my colleague, Salvatore. We’re helping local businesses with their marketing and wanted to see if...
seomoz — Posted by Toby MurdockThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Content Marketing is hot. White hot. SEO...
searchengineland — Search launches seem to come in threes. A couple of weeks ago we had Bing Social, then came Google with Knowledge Graph and now Yahoo introduces Axis. When I met with Yahoo earlier this week to hear about it I received the now familiar speech that Yahoo is still very much in search...
searchenginejournal — I’ve heard that doctors must constantly go to school to keep updated on the latest medicines and surgical techniques available. Now, I’ve never been to medical school, but I’m willing to bet that as an online marketer there is just as much to keep up-to-date on, if not more. Here’s...
seomoz — Posted by Ashley Tate SEO strategies have gone through incredible amounts of evolution over the last year. From algorithm updates like Penguin and Panda to new search engine restrictions on overoptimization and spammy links, optimization methods for getting the best rankings in search engines all across the web have advanced. The...
searchenginejournal — “My site has been at the top of Google SERPS for very competitive phrases. It’s a high quality site offering hundreds of pages of original content. Then, overnight, my site hit the bottom for almost everything thanks to Jagger.” Back in 2005, it was one of the numerous forum threads...
searchengineland — In a world where lots of search marketers are still reluctant to use broad match type due to its lack of relevance and control, Google has released two features to have more advertisers show their ads on all those very long tail queries: The broad modifier feature was rolled out...
searchengineland — Did you know that Google spent $5 million to influence politicians just last quarter? And that was doubled from the quarter before and may double again this quarter. Facebook spent a boatload too, but not as much Google. Microsoft spent even more. Issues like the Stop Online Piracy Act, or...
searchengineland — The fact that almost no one noticed might be one reason why Bing has dropped its Visual Search feature … something that apparently happened months ago. To be clear, this isn’t traditional image search that we’re talking about; that’s still available at bing.com/images.... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full...
seomoz — Posted by randfish Do more tweets of a URL lead to higher search rankings on Google? Do longer articles get more shares on Facebook? Do emails that contain images have lower open rates? These, and hundreds of other questions marketers are constantly asking, can be answered mathematically through correlation data. Yet, it seems there's...
searchengineland — Move over JC Penney. Another brand is getting attention over buying links, this time Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation. Today’s news is less news and more a reminder of lessons that SEO companies, clients and publishers all need to keep in mind, to avoid trouble. Josh Davis drew... Please visit Search...
searchengineland — AdWords marketers’ days of regularly refreshing on all their keywords may be over — or at least that activity may not be quite so necessary. Google is releasing a new report — Auction Insights — that helps marketers understand how their ads stand, compared to others in the... Please visit Search...
searchenginejournal — Global domination. This is what appears to have been Facebook’s goal in 2012, according to the World Map of Social Networks, which is based on both Google Trends for Websites and Alexa. It would be difficult to describe differently the success of a company which holds the lead in 127...
searchengineland — I had an interesting email hit my inbox, someone showing me how a Google employee was “100%” sure there had been no Penguin Update. There was, of course, and it’s a reminder that just because someone is a Googler, that doesn’t mean they know how Google Search works. Google... Please visit...
searchengineland — Our link building tool review series continues today with Link Prospector by Citation Labs. A joint venture between Garrett French and Darren Shaw, Link Prospector is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has been online since February 2012. Garrett and Darren continue to add features to the... Please visit Search Engine...
seomoz — Posted by wrttnwrdThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. By dumping Facebook, GM’s doing it wrong GM made...
searchengineland — The need for integration between social media and SEO is steadily increasing. We have all read the articles about the way that content is +1′ed by people you follow is shown in Google results (or how content Liked by a Facebook friend is elevated in Bing results). You have also...
searchengineland — Google AdWords has seen a flurry of releases recently. Some have been good (Display Campaign Optimizer) and others bad (rotate changes) for advertisers. Many of these features are items Google wants to see as they help increase their bottom line or make it very easy to advertise. However, these new... Please...