Many website owners spend a great deal of time planning an effective content marketing strategy. And with good reason.

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Search engine marketers have come to rely more heavily on work-arounds in what everyone’s calling the era of “Not Provided.” The beginning of this era was like waking up “Johnny Got His Gun” style and having no arms, legs, or resources to compete in the hunger games of Google SERPS. Understandably so, Analytics keyword data was helping all of us to make actionable decisions for our companies and our clients. The keyword data was useful because we could see exactly how our clients found us and how differently users behaved when using these intent-rich words

It’s an exciting time to be in the digital marketing world, especially when there is so much opportunity to learn, be creative and achieve amazing business outcomes. I’d like to think we’re in the thick of that opportunity at our agency  TopRank Online Marketing . Not only have we been advocating the value of editorial marketing aka content marketing for many years, but we practice what we preach.

Today, Google announced something new for content publishers that will allow them to have more control over how content shows up in Google News. The newly launched Google News Publisher Center will let you make changes to Google’s record of your news site. With the Publisher Center, your potential readers can be more informed about the articles they’re clicking on and you benefit from better discovery and classification of your news content

On John Venn’s 180th birthday, Google has created an interactive Doodle to remember him and one of his most influential contributions to the world, the Venn Diagram. The Doodle let’s you take two items and overlay them…

Twitter looks to be ramping up its image search capabilities, if the acquisition of one of a rising startup in the field of image search are any indication. Image search startup Madbits recently announced that they have been acquired by Twitter. A statement posted to their website reads: “Over this past year, we’ve built visual intelligence technology that automatically understands, organizes and extracts relevant information from raw media.

EGOL, a long time SEO and webmaster, posted in the Cre8asite Forums thread saying long tail traffic from Google “ain’t what it use to be.” He said back in the day he would write an article and get more than twice the traffic he does now from a similar article…

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard In the past 2 months Google made big changes to its search results .