Archive for June, 2014

SearchCap: Google Losing Mobile Ad Share, Google Sends Mobile URL Redirects Warnings & More

2014/06/05

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced Begins Next Week – Join us! SMX Advanced takes place next week, June 10-12 in Seattle.

Tags: ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Google Warns Smartphone Searchers About Homepage Redirects

2014/06/05

When Google believes a site will redirect a mobile visitor to a homepage, rather than the actual page shown in search results, Google will tell searchers that clicking the link “May open the site’s homepage” with an option below it to “Try anyway.”

Posted in SEO No Comments »

Facebook Explains Why Organic Reach Is Dropping, Says It’s Not About The Money by @mattsouthern

2014/06/05

Brian Boland, of the Ads Product Marketing team at Facebook, took to the Facebook For Business blog today to answer the questions many Page owners have been asking about organic reach. Boland acknowledges that organic reach is a pain point for many businesses on Facebook. He provides a series of answers to some frequently asked questions to help users understand the changes they have been seeing

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced Begins Next Week – Join us!

2014/06/05

SMX Advanced takes place next week, June 10-12 in Seattle. Learn actionable new tactics, find inspiration, discover solutions to your campaign challenges, & make invaluable connections.

Tags: ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Invisible Matt Cutts Explains Why It’s Important to Have a Website

2014/06/05

What is the most common SEO mistake, according to Google’s Matt Cutts?

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Disruption in Digital Marketing and Communications – Insights from 19 Major B2C and B2B Brands

2014/06/05

I recently had the pleasure of presenting at an Integrated Marketing Communications conference called INTEGRATE with an audience of Master’s Degree students and faculty at the University of West Virginia. It was an impressive conference because of the passionate and talented faculty presenting but especially the students – most of whom work full time jobs as they earn their Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing Communications

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Bing Rocks Out With New Dynamic Carousel on Music Video Searches

2014/06/05

Bing has fine-tuned their music discovery functionality. Bing will display a “dynamic carousel” on searches for an artist, band, album, or song. You can then browse the artist’s other music videos from within the carousel.

Posted in SEO No Comments »

Google AdWords Drops IE9 Support

2014/06/05

While Bing Ads dropped IE8 support, Google AdWords is dropping Internet Explorer 9. If you want to login and manage your Google AdWords account, you need to use the latest version of Internet Explorer or Safari, Chrome or Firefox

Tags:
Posted in SEO No Comments »

Matt Cutts on How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links

2014/06/05

How does Google determine that content is quality, when there aren’t many links pointing to it? Or how is it determined that the content is spammy or thin, when there are a lot of links pointing to it?

Posted in SEO No Comments »