Archive for January, 2012

Universal Search Results in PRO – Part 1: Local Results

2012/01/10

Posted by adamf Now that the holidays have passed, we’re back in full swing at SEOmoz.

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adCenter Bans Accounts By Accident

2012/01/10

On Thursday there were some reports in the Microsoft Advertising Forum that advertisers were complaining they were not able to manage their accounts. In short, they were banned from using Microsoft’s adCenter product…

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BBC Report: Google Admits Accepting Illegal AdWords In The UK

2012/01/10

Ads for illegal Olympic ticket resellers, ads for cannabis, and ads for fake identification cards and UK passports. All illegal, but all could, up until recently, be found on Google.co.uk, according to a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) investigation publicized today. Though Google shut down the…

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Links In IFrames Pass Value In Google

2012/01/10

Michael Martinez posted a thread at High Rankings Forums basically confirming earlier reports that Google will see and pass value of a link within an iframe. Michael said he ran his own independent test…

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Testing the Accuracy of Visitor Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick & Quantcast

2012/01/09

Posted by randfish SEOmoz.org had 13.8mm visits from 6.25mm unique visitors last year (2011). Those numbers are pretty exciting, but what's not exciting is the external perception created by third-parties like Compete, Alexa, Quantcast, Doubleclick and Google Trends for Websites. These sites report massively lower and wrongly trending data – and SEOmoz isn't alone in experiencing this frustration

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Testing the Accuracy of Visitor Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick & Quantcast

2012/01/09

Posted by randfish SEOmoz.org had 13.8mm visits from 6.25mm unique visitors last year (2011). Those numbers are pretty exciting, but what's not exciting is the external perception created by third-parties like Compete, Alexa, Quantcast, Doubleclick and Google Trends for Websites. These sites report massively lower and wrongly trending data – and SEOmoz isn't alone in experiencing this frustration.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 9, 2012

2012/01/09

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Large-Scale Content Optimization Tactics For Enterprise Sites For large organizations, keeping a close watch on keyword targeting and on-page optimization across… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 9, 2012

2012/01/09

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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Holiday Shoppers Hooked on Deals in 2011 [Infographic]

2012/01/09

TIPPR, a daily deals website, has compiled an infographic which summarizes consumer activity in the daily deal space for the 2011 holiday season. This past holiday season I made it a goal not to go to the store once

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Search Engine Market Share Report, December 2011

2012/01/09

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