Microsoft will be introducing its Siri and Google Now/Voice competitor Cortana with Windows 8.1 in April. The new “intelligent assistant” will eventually be available cross-platform, although launching on Lumia Phones. The name Cortana comes from a character in the game Halo

Many movie-related sites recently saw their organic search traffic cut in half. Was it a Panda refresh

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ShopVisible released a report highlighting the mobile benchmarks of 2013, and found 30 percent of site traffic came from something other than a traditional desktop/laptop.

According to eMarketer, the digital video advertising industry raked in almost $5.8 billion in 2013, up 40 percent from the previous year. What’s the cause behind this massive increase? The best websites appeal to the major senses – sight (photos, text) and sound (music, dialogue) – while telling a story that can erase the constraints of […] Author information Blake Boldt Blake Jonathan Boldt is a content strategist for Reputation Advocate.

As more and more Google penalties become more transparent, recovering from them seems to get harder.

When it comes to helping you out with Social Media, we often like to categorize things. For example, we’d write about the optimal timing of your posts, or how to come up with the best headlines, and the like. What happened over the last few weeks though is that we collected a number of awesome tips to […] Author information Belle Beth Cooper Content Crafter at Buffer.

A month ago, Microsoft started testing a new search feature named Bing Saves. This feature enabled searchers to save URLs and searches to their personal Bing/Microsoft account, in order to build an index of their own saved searches. That feature seems to now be available as public beta for anyone..

You need to track not just mentions of your brand or specific product(s), but also noise around your industry so you can attempt to add value yourself in the right places. How? Use this process to exploit opportunities from natural conversation.

Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a detailed video trying to define how Google’s manual spam fighters determines what is a paid link versus what is not. Now, 99% of the time…