Posted by Hannah_Smith Most frequently, the content we create at Distilled is designed to attract press coverage, social shares, and exposure (and links) on sites our clients’ target audience reads. That’s a tall order. Over the years we’ve had our hits and misses, and through this we’ve recognised the value of learning about what makes a piece of content successful

Being great on social media isn’t always intuitive.

Competition is your business catalyst only if you know how to approach competitive research properly. Here are a few tools and tricks that can help you. The post 5 Ways to Discover Alternatives & Compare Your Site to Your Competitors by @seosmarty appeared first on Search Engine Journal

We know that Google typically does not want brands in Google Answer results for generic non-branded queries. But it comes up all the time

Google announced a new ad format for searches done in the format of [nearby X], for example, [nearby auto repair]…

I assume most of you have been seeing all the buzz around Google Maps showing racists search results. We covered it a lot at Search Engine Land and Google has issued an apology last night blaming crowdsourcing and Googlebombing for it…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google Maps Apology, Matt Cutts Replaced & App Indexing Data appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article