Archive for March, 2012

New 30 day challenge: No news

2012/03/15

I haven’t given an update on my 30 day challenges in, like, forever. So here goes: – In 2011, I paused my 30 day challenges to do a “six month challenge”: training to run a marathon

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6 Interview Questions For Conversion Optimization Hires

2012/03/15

So you’re looking to hire someone to do conversion optimization on your team? Here are six interview questions that you might consider asking

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Most Popular February 2012 on SEJ

2012/03/15

Our contributing authors are amazing. We wanted to share with you the articles, by contributing authors only, that got the highest traffic this month. 1)

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Post To Your Google Place Page Not Working

2012/03/15

For at least the past week, the post to your place page feature within Google Places has not worked.

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The Value of Small Business Blogging: 3 Key Questions & Answers

2012/03/15

Earlier this week Frank J. Kenny did a Skype interview with me about small business blogging and why or why not it makes sense.

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Google Replaces PPC Ads with Google Plus Content for Selected Queries

2012/03/15

Last evening, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land reported that Google is now highlighting “Latest Posts” from Google+ pages and profiles in the search results. Until this update went live, the Google+ Direct Connect feature had displayed recent Google+ posts directly below a brand’s “normal” links. Now, Google is testing a reorganized search results page Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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TheFind Joins FairSearch.org To “Restore Balance” To The Search Markeplace

2012/03/15

In this corner is Google, about to make “major changes” to its algorithm and presentation of search results according to a much-discussed article in the Wall Street Journal.

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New Panda Refresh? A Google Update Happening…

2012/03/15

There is a lot of chatter in the forums including WebmasterWorld and random Google Webmaster Help threads starting yesterday and this morning about significant changes to the Google search results. I am seeing a lot of individual complaints that sites that showed up yesterday no longer show up…

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Twitter Trends: Now Showing In Bing Results?

2012/03/15

Bing has been very upfront about the fact that people and social stats can power search results.  A new implementation of social data was spotted in the wild by techie-buzz.com who found Twitter trends making their way into the search results pages.  The query in question was for a hot topic (Pepsi..

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Interview with Deven Patel of Cyfe, All-in-One Web Dashboard

2012/03/15

With so many new online services popping up every day, it’s becoming harder and harder to monitor all your data scattered across them. The bigger your web presence is the more data you have to collect and analyze

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