Archive for April, 2013

The Importance of Quality Score in 2013

2013/04/25

Everyone in search engine marketing knows that Quality Score is important. But you may not realize that Quality Score is more important now than ever

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Rise of the New School SEO Professional

2013/04/25

There’s a gold rush under way as brands allocate big budgets to build and optimize their presence in emerging search and discovery channels. How can SEOs stake their claim in this new mobile, local, social, and content marketing territory?

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Brands Gone Wild: Social Media Marketing Fails & Lessons Learned

2013/04/25

So you want your campaign to go viral… Let’s keep in mind your business objectives, shall we? As these social marketing fails will show, campaigns may take off but go seriously sideways if companies place popularity above purpose.

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5 Principles of Effective Outreach

2013/04/25

Outreach is hard work, sometimes so damn hard that we wish it were true that great content really did promote itself. Those of us who live in reality know better: great content only promotes itself if you’ve got an audience to start with.

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10 Vital Steps to Building Social Influence

2013/04/25

Most seek to build influence; measure influence; and yes, some will even attempt to sell influence. Yet, few will achieve action-inspiring influence without planning and effort.

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International Expansion: Break Down Barriers With Google+ Hangouts

2013/04/25

Expanding internationally is extremely challenging.you have to deal with different time zones, languages, and cultures. Google+ Hangouts can help break down the barriers separating you from your clients, customers, or your own staff

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Google: Searches Don’t Use The Related Searches Option

2013/04/25

The other week, AJ Kohn noticed that Google dropped the related searches search option from the options in the search tools

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Google To Mozilla: You Had 12 Megabytes Of User Generated Spam On One Page

2013/04/25

Yesterday we broke the news that Google has penalized Mozilla for user generated spam and we did say it was a granular penalty but we didn’t know how granular until today. It turns out, the penalty was on one specific page…

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Phone Numbers In Google AdWords Display URLs?

2013/04/25

A WebmasterWorld thread has search advertisers discussing the ability and feasibility of using the display URL to show your phone number. Supposedly…

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Bing: More Than 50% Of Searchers Click The First Result; 75% Click On Deep Links Result

2013/04/24

The value of ranking first on a search results page is no secret, but today Bing is putting some hard numbers on it: More than 50 percent of Bing users click the first result, and more than 75 percent click there if the first result includes Bing’s deep links. In a blog post today, Dr.

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