Quick facts about Russia 143+ mln country population, 65+ mln. Internet users (only 45,4% penetration) €8 bln. e-commerce annual turnover 30% year over year growth of internet users The association between overseas products and higher quality still holds from the times of the Soviet Union.

As promised, I wanted to share my traffic changes after I’ve nofollowed my paid links. I already shared with you the interesting reconsideration request submission, response and analysis…

Twitter’s keyword targeting in timelines means advertisers will be able to specify the keywords they wish to initiate a promoted tweet, as well as specifying the geographic location, gender, and client being used, to reach their audience.

Pop Quiz:  What is the first thing a searcher sees when they type your name into the Google search bar? If your answer was related webpages found in SERPs, you’re wrong — that would be the second thing. The first thing they see are the Autocomplete suggestions that drop down from the..

Users are being conditioned to check (and click) the area of Google’s SERP design that prominently displays information pulled via Knowledge Graph, Maps, and (conveniently for revenue) product listing ads, depending on the intent of a search query.

Posted by Marie Haynes This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Are you confused about the difference between Penguin and an Unnatural Links penalty?

At SMX Advanced, everyone is a master of the technical basics — 301 redirects, canonicalization, HTTP status codes.

Everyone in SEO is talking about it…a new Penguin update is on the way and it is rumored that it will make last April’s ruthless Penguin update look like child’s play.  People are running scared, wondering if their site, and business, will be slammed like so many others were last year. In this article I Author information Marcela De Vivo CEO at Gryffin Media Marcela De Vivo has been an SEO since 1999, promoting thousands of sites including large corporate sites and small mom and pop businesses.

On Wednesday evening in downtown Minneapolis, marketers gathered to hear the answer to a burning question: #whatthefoc?