Archive for February, 2014

Why Yahoo Wants to Move Into Contextual Search and How it Might Work For Them

2014/02/19

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, has been commenting a lot recently about how she wants to get Yahoo back into the search game, with contextual search being one of the focuses. Will Yahoo be able to topple Google when it comes to contextual search?

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The Guardian Switched Domains, So Can You

2014/02/19

The Guardian, a huge UK newspaper, posted a story named How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com. Yes, The Guardian migrated content from www.guardian.co.uk, m.guardian.co.uk or www.guardiannews.com to one domain name…

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New Google Maps Comes Out Of Preview Today

2014/02/19

Roughly last May at Google’s “I/O” developer conference the company introduced an updated version of its desktop Maps experience. Since that time it has been in “preview,” allowing users to go back and forth between the “classic” and new versions. Today..

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Matt Cutts Explains What Google Search Would Be Like Without Backlinks As A Ranking Tool by @mattsouthern

2014/02/19

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, answers a question about backlinks in his latest Webmaster Help video where a user writes in to ask: Hi Matt, does the big G have a version of the search engine that totally excludes any backlink relevance? I’m wondering what search would look like and am curious to […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional. He provides strategic digital marketing services at an agency called Bureau in Ontario, Canada.

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Backlink Relevancy Is A Big Win In Terms Of Search Quality

2014/02/19

In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam reaffirms the significance of backlinks. The video is in response to the following question: Does the big G have a version of the search engine that totally excludes any backlink relevancy? I’m wondering what search..

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Backlink Relevancy Is A Big Win In Terms Of Search Quality

2014/02/19

In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam reaffirms the significance of backlinks. The video is in response to the following question: Does the big G have a version of the search engine that totally excludes any backlink relevancy? I’m wondering what search..

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Facebook Ad Fraud: How Can Advertisers Combat Paid Likes?

2014/02/19

After making it harder for Facebook Page owners to gain followers organically, advertisers are paying Facebook to generate likes, but finding non-existent engagement. Now what? If your want legitimate likes, here are some things you can do.

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Raspberry Pi Tells Link Spammer To Stick It Up Their…

2014/02/19

Raspberry Pi is loved by computer geeks all around the world, every programming office should have at least one lying around, if not, it is a bad sign. That being said, Raspberry Pi on Twitter slammed an SEO for crying about link spam…

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Hard Proof That Content Marketing Works—A Professional Speaker Case Study by @billbelew_com

2014/02/19

At the end of the day, what we (and our clients) really want is for the phone to ring, the email inbox to fill up (with real and relevant inquiries) and/or for people to walk through the door. We don’t care about a lot of traffic.

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New Backlink Analysis Tool Available From WebMeUp Completely For Free by @mattsouthern

2014/02/19

As essential as good inbound links are to a successful SEO strategy, there are surprisingly few tools available for analyzing a site’s backlink profile. Even more uncommon are inbound link analysis tools that offer the full extent of their features completely for free. So when WebMeUp contacted me about their new, free tool I immediately […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional

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