Archive for August, 2013

Google’s Matt Cutts: We Fight Search Spam In 40+ Countries & Internationalize Our Spam Algorithms

2013/08/05

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts announced in a video that Google fights search spam at an international level but does tend to have a stronger spam fighting sense in the Google.com, English search results. Matt Cutts explained that with most of Google’s spam fighting..

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

AdWords Time Comparison Data Rolls Out In Web UI, Includes Filter Options And Exports

2013/08/05

When Google rolled-out “compare dates” functionality in AdWords, it was welcomed, but  limited to showing changes on the graph view only. Yes, you could get comparison data out of AdWords, but it was cumbersome. Good news:  Over the next few days, Google is officially rolling out an..

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

CPMEo and Gazing Time will be the Future of Web Advertising by @seoexpertbd

2013/08/05

Most of you probably know about CPM or Cost Per Thousand Impressions (where M stands for 1000 in Roman Numeric System). The numbers that you see as impressions tell you how many times the ad was shown or digitally served; however, this does not necessarily tell you: whether the ad was really seen how much […] Author information Asif Anwar Asif Anwar is the SEM Manager for NYC-based Interactive Marketing company, Blueliner Marketing, an Internet Marketing Agency in NYC.

Tags: ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

SEJ Downtime Update by @johnrampton

2013/08/05

Hey team, just wanted to let you know that we’re back up.  Over the past two days we’ve been experiencing a bit of downtime.  Had a few server problems and upgraded a few others

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Business Blogging Ideas – What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About

2013/08/05

Business blogging with minimal resources over a long period of time can be a challenge. Heck, for SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) blogging without the experience of writing on a regular basis can be a barrier to even start. No matter how talented a writer your business blogger or contributors might be, it is inevitable that situations will occur where there is either uncertainty or a gap in what to write about

Tags: ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Having a CAPTCHA is Killing Your Conversion Rate

2013/08/05

Posted by tallen1985 SEOs can occasionally find ourselves guilty of focusing on just the following few things: Links Rankings Fun cuddly animals that Google keeps releasing from its algorithmic zoo Quite often we are heard muttering that user experience isn’t really our problem. We are all about the above three points. However, as the job of SEOs continues to become broader, requiring a greater number of skill sets , I think user experience is something we can all work on.

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Josh Waldman Discusses Using Social Media to Find a Job (Video)

2013/08/04

In this episode of Search Engine Journal TV, I caught up with Josh Waldman, the Author of Job Searching With Social Media For Dummies.  Here are just a few of the highlights from our chat:

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Can Google Authorship Really Cause a Huge Traffic Drop? [Case Study]

2013/08/04

One site owner claimed that adding Google authorship caused a drop in traffic and removing authorship triggered a Google retaliation in the form of an even more dramatic traffic drop. Is this possible, or could there be another “smoking gun”?

Posted in SEO No Comments »

Google’s Page Speed Insights Tool Updated

2013/08/03

Ilya Grigorik, Google’s Developer Advocate for Google Chrome and all things speed on the web…

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »