Archive for June, 2014

The Art of Peripheral Persuasion: Visuals in Web Design by @shanejones15

2014/06/24

They say that content is king, and that’s true. Quality, keyword-rich content will go a long way for your SEO and conversion rates. But people are visual in nature, and long blocks of text don’t do your site any justice

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Are You Worried About Negative SEO? Here Is How To Take Action.

2014/06/24

Not only have webmasters claimed negative SEO works, they are saying it is much easier to implement these days than in the past. Now, if you are worried about negative SEO, which apparently many of you are

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Diane Von Furstenberg Introduces High Fashion Frames For Google Glass by @mattsouthern

2014/06/24

First, Google introduced the Google Glass Titanium Collection.

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Facebook To Improve Rankings Of Videos That Are Uploaded Directly by @mattsouthern

2014/06/24

Twice as many watch videos on Facebook now compared to six months ago, Facebook executives said in an announcement today, which is why there’s about to be an improvement to how videos are ranked in the News Feed. More specifically, there will be an improvement to the rankings of videos that people and Pages upload directly to Facebook. Facebook wants to better understand what videos people are interested in watching, and ensure that relevant videos appear more prominently in the News Feed.

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Is Your Content Credible Enough to Share?

2014/06/24

Posted by Carson-Ward Insufficient credibility undermines digital marketing, particularly among SEOs who now produce or promote content as part of their job. People won’t share content that isn’t credible; they know the things they share reflect on them and impacts their own credibility. While the importance of credibility gets mentioned in passing, little has been said about how to actually build it, until now.

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Google Adds Rounded Borders To AdSense Ads Arrows

2014/06/23

Google this weekend pushed out a new design for the arrows, also known as nessie, in their AdSense ads. The AdSense ads arrows now have rounded borders

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2014

2014/06/23

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

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Google Panda 4.0 Hit Sites Blocking CSS & JavaScript

2014/06/23

Joost published a blog post showing how some of the sites he hit by Google Panda 4.0 and in one case, unblocking the CSS & JavaScript resulted in the site returning to its normal rankings.

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German Publishers Try to Force Google to Pay for Links, News Snippets

2014/06/23

German publishers say Google and other search engines like Bing and Yahoo are in violation of the country’s ancillary copyright lawand want them to pay 11 percent of revenues generated from linking to and publishing snippets of their content.

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