Archive for August, 2012

Announcing the 2012 SEO Industry Survey

2012/08/20

Posted by randfish Back in March of this year, SEOmoz ran an industry survey that saw 6,491 respondents provide detailed answers to 53 unique questions. The survey formally ran from March 21st to May18th. From independent consultants to agency SEOs to in-house marketers, we got to see responses from a wide swath of the industry's demographics.

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SEOmoz Acquires Twitter Analytics Company Followerwonk

2012/08/20

Search and social optimization software firm SEOmoz has made its first acquisition, buying Twitter analytics company Followerwonk for $1-4 million. It is now fully integrated with the Moz Pro account, a process that took two months to complete.

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Average American Viewer Watched Over 200 Videos for Almost 22.3 Hours in July 2012

2012/08/20

There are several important trends hidden in plain sight in comScore’s U.S. Online Video Rankings.

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SERP Crowding & Shrinkage: It’s Not Your Imagination

2012/08/20

Posted by Dr. Pete Back in June, I wrote about what I called the “Bigfoot” Update , a major Google ranking fluctuation that seemed to be tied to SERP crowding

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Want A Google Penalty? Listen To Google AdSense

2012/08/18

A WebmasterWorld thread has several Google AdSense publishers reporting they received a message from Google to place ads at the top left of their content in order to increase ad exposure, clicks and obviously earnings…

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Google FAQ On Upgrading To New Local Google+ Pages

2012/08/17

Jade from Google posted a nice FAQ style in the Google Business Help forums on if you should verify to the new social Google+ local business page or not…

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Google Trounces Other Local Search Providers In UK — Study

2012/08/17

Google has the most complete and accurate local search database in the UK, according to data and analytics firm Implied Intelligence. Previously we’ve published comparable US reports by the company: Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data Accuracy Test Bing Ties Yellow Pages Sites For…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2012

2012/08/17

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: Domo At GooglePlex, Google Subway Bench & Google Fiber Van In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2012

2012/08/17

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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