Archive for May, 2014

What if Your Ugly Website is Holding Back Your Marketing Efforts? – Whiteboard Friday

2014/05/16

Posted by randfish In a way, we often treat our websites like our children. No matter how awful they might be, we rationalize their behavior and

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Google Maps Location Based Quick Facts: Knowledge Graph In Maps

2014/05/15

Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new section to the maps result for a location search named “Quick Facts.” This section looks very knowledge graph like and has some very quick information around the location you are searching for…

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SearchCap: Google Magazine Ad Format, India Investigates Google & Bing Encourages Schema Markup

2014/05/15

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: With New GDN Ad Format, Text Ads Will Compete In Display Auctions Today, Google unveiled a new ad format on the Google Display Network (GDN) called magazine ads..

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Websites Fail Page Speed Test: 4 Things You Need to Know [Study]

2014/05/15

Internet marketing company Portent recently tested 500 e-commerce sites using YSlow to gather basic performance data and found 50 percent of the websites audited had an average load time of 5+ seconds with a standard deviation of 8 seconds.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2014

2014/05/15

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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With New GDN Ad Format, Text Ads Will Compete In Display Auctions

2014/05/15

Today, Google unveiled a new ad format on the Google Display Network (GDN) called magazine ads in which text ads are converted to show as “display-like” ads on publisher sites that have opted only to show display ads in their AdSense accounts. The implication for AdWords advertisers is..

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SEO Client Retention Tips: 7 Mistakes I’ve Made That You Shouldn’t by @mchuckgreen

2014/05/15

During the past three years I have managed SEO projects for small and mid-sized businesses. My failures have taught me many valuable lessons. I am the perfect person to explain mistakes to avoid, because I’m pretty sure I have made them all

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India Opens Second Google Antitrust Investigation Over AdWords

2014/05/15

Google is in the midst of an antitrust, anti-competition investigation in India. Not long ago, the company was fined by the  Competition Commission of India (CCI) for not cooperating in that investigation: “not providing information and documents required.” Now a separate… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Yahoo Switches To SSL & hsrd.yahoo.com Referers Increase

2014/05/15

A few months ago, many publishers and webmasters began noticing a huge spike in referrers from hsrd.yahoo.com. Scanning through the Yahoo Answers and Microsoft Answers threads…

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Google Readies For Flood Of Removal Requests After EU “Right To Be Forgotten” Ruling

2014/05/15

The floodgates have opened. According to a Reuters story, following Tuesday’s European Court ruling establishing a  Europe-wide “right to be forgotten” (RTF), Google is preparing for an anticipated “flood” of removal requests across the 28 country jurisdiction. The…

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