Archive for September, 2013

Google Glass XE9 Snagged My "How Do I" App With "How To" Video Results

2013/09/10

Google released an update to the Glass software codenamed XE9, the update is tremendous and adds a ton of search and other features…

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Google’s Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines

2013/09/10

In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt discussed a pretty obvious spam tactic that Google will take action on.

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SEJ at San Francisco Meetup Today: Airbnb, eBay, About.com, Searchmetrics on Data Driven Marketing by @murraynewlands

2013/09/10

Today in San Francisco, I will be covering Searchmetrics’ free seminar “Marketing In A Search And Data Driven World“, “the only leading digital marketing seminar that spotlights digital and search engine marketing”. This free meetup is aimed at bring the worlds of paid search, organic traffic, and social signals together. Experts from eBay, Airbnb, and About.com […] Author information Murray Newlands Murray founded of The Mail in 2013 an angel funded start up publication covering performance marketing and mobile marketing.

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Google Authorship Rich Snippets Even Easier Now With Google+ Signin

2013/09/10

Google is really encouraging people to (1) sign up for Google+ and (2) mark their pages with rich snippets and authorship for the search results. Google came out with a way to encourage publishers and webmasters to do both of these..

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August 2013: Best of Search Engine Journal by @johnrampton

2013/09/10

#1:  Top 10 Places that Have Banned Google Glass By:  Albert Costill | @albertcostill Albert Costill wrote an excellent post about Google Glass that brought in 100 comments! We learned that there are at least 10 places that have banned Google Glass. Crazy, as it isn’t even sold in stores yet.

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9 Great (and 1 Horrible) Pinterest Pages – Case Study

2013/09/10

Our compilation of the best and the worst We recently got hooked to Pinterest. What’s not to like about a social site that’s churning out beautiful images every second? Visuals always have a greater impact on the mind, as countless studies have shown how posts with images on other social networks garner more engagement.

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Changing Course In The New Linking World

2013/09/10

In the wake of the Great Google Massacre (i.e., everything that’s happened over the past couple years since Google got serious), there are many sites that survived the carnage but aren’t as successful as they used to be — and they’re looking for ways to get back to where… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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It’s Time to Update the Definition of a Website

2013/09/10

For years the website has been defined as a computer term representing pages on the World Wide Web. This outdate perception is holding brands back from embracing the website for what it really is. Here’s how a website should be defined

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SEO Reporting To Shift Your Bottom Line

2013/09/10

PPC & CRO are heavily report-driven and have excellent data visibility, and as a result are generally better understood to be a tool rather than an end in itself. SEO, however, has often fallen into the reporting-for-reporting’s-sake trap and there have been some surprising stand-out reports..

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Google Maps Drops Wikipedia Layer

2013/09/10

It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago.

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