Archive for January, 2012

Google’s Blocked Site Feature Missing For 13 Days

2012/01/23

In March 2011, Google enabled a blocked sites feature, allowing users to block sites they do not want to see in the search results.

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10 Form Optimization Tips For Landing Pages

2012/01/23

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of work with form optimization. In this article, I’ll cover some tried and true form optimization tips.

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How To Achieve Mobile Search Ranking Clarity

2012/01/23

Mobile search results not only produce different rankings from desktop search but can also vary based on the mobile device type that the query was performed on, as has been written about here at Search Engine from myself and Bryson Meunier among others. You can see mobile results directly from your… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Google Plus Connections Are The New Link

2012/01/23

A couple of weeks ago, Google caused a big hub-bub when it launched Search Plus Your World (“SPEW” for short), the catchy-titled deep integration of Google Plus and Google’s organic Web results. Naturally as soon as that happened, many of my clients, big and small, called to get… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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See a Breakdown of Top 10 Industries Contributing to Google’s 2011 $37.9B Revenues

2012/01/23

Did you see Google’s “disappointing” #37.9 Billion 2011 earnings announcement for their 2011 ad revenues?

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7 Tips for Landing Page Greatness

2012/01/23

Creating a great landing page is a critical step in the conversion funnel. By viewing the page as a speed bump in the conversion process rather than an information dump, you’ll find users will be inclined to move onto the next step

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Is Your Facebook Ad Image Worthy of People’s Attention?

2012/01/23

If your Facebook ads could talk, they’d probably scream “LOOK AT ME!” But they can’t, leaving it up to you to do a good job of grabbing as much attention as possible. Here are four elements to help you create visually stunning Facebook ads

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SEO Monitoring Tools and Tips

2012/01/22

Posted by willcritchlow In the real world, things go wrong. While we might all wish that everything we did was “fix once, stay fixed”, that's rarely the case. Things that were previously “not a problem”(TM) can become “a problem”(TM) rapidly for a variety of reasons: someone changes something unrelated / without realising it would impact you or just screws up (e.g.

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Google’s “Find Hotels By Travel Time” Offers Some Of That “Innovation” Google Was Talking About

2012/01/22

Before Google was formally approved to buy travel software company ITA, the company argued that the acquisition would result in “innovation” for travelers and travel search users. Beyond the appearance of flight times/routes in search results we haven’t yet much…

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