Archive for April, 2013

Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Be The Sucker That Buys The Spammy Domain

2013/04/10

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer to the question “Can I buy a domain that used to have spam on it and still rank?” Matt explains that there can be two penalties here, one on the manual side and one on the algorithmic side. If this was a manual… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Keyword Planner, Flexible Bid Strategies Coming to AdWords Ahead of Enhanced Campaigns

2013/04/10

Paul Feng from Google AdWords made a few key announcements during Hero Conf this week in Austin, Texas. In addition to Google’s news, leaders in pay-per-click marketing shared top tips on topics from retargeting, to product ads, to PPC abroad.

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Tip: Don’t Ignore Google Webmaster Tools Notifications

2013/04/10

Want a tip from me? If you get a notification via Google Webmaster Tools about an increase in server errors, an outage, increase in not found errors, GoogleBot not being able to access your site or any of those types of errors – do not ignore them.

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Facebook Launches A New Way To Target More Categories of People

2013/04/10

Facebook advertising is my favorite medium of PPC. Not only is it more robust than AdWords, but it’s also easier for the new guy to pick up. Facebook just introduced new partner categories which will give the advertiser much more control over targeting and reach. The partners Facebook added are: Acxiom, Datalogix, and Epsilon. This launch brings over Author information Adam Morgan Adam Morgan is a PPC expert, entrepreneur, blogger, and amiable guy.

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Live @ SMX London: Facebook’s New Graph Search & Its Marketing Implications

2013/04/10

In January, Facebook unveiled it’s first major move into the search space: Facebook Graph Search. Graph Search is not just another index of the web, however. Rather, it’s powered by what people are liking and sharing, leading to vastly different results than you’d see on Google…

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Tread Carefully If You Hear Any Of These From An SEO Agency

2013/04/10

Most of the clients we meet with have had a bad or horrible experience with a previous SEO Agency. This makes our job harder because we have to prove to the prospective client that we are honest and that we will engage in the right techniques to help increase their online presence.

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Scroogled Rises: Microsoft Back on Attack as Google Faces New Antitrust Complaint

2013/04/10

Microsoft is on the attack again, this time slamming Google Play for the information it shares when users buy apps. The attack ads coincide with another European antitrust complaint orchestrated by Microsoft relating to Google’s Android software.

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Unstructured Data: Turning Chaos Into Performance

2013/04/10

As advertisers, we’re bombarded daily with new ways to work with our data, many of which promise  to streamline and maximize our efforts. Yet, while all of the tools and possibilities for digital advertising can lend significant potency to our marketing strategies, they can also result in frenetic…

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Gossip: A Google Cat Fight On Hacker News

2013/04/10

Watching people fighting online is part of covering search topics via discussion forums.

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Report: Tablets Yield 15% Lower RPC Than PCs; (Another) Rebuttal To AdWords Tablet/PC Combo

2013/04/10

The proliferation of tablet devices has begun to lower the value of the tablet segment overall for paid search marketers, even as competition heats up. That’s according to the Q1 Digital Marketing Report by RKG, which finds that tablets generated 15% lower revenue per click than traditional… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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