If you’re not into cat videos, here’s results-focused approach that could boost your sharing as your current status and your industry allows it. The post 5 Media Types That Will Boost Your Sharing by @cognitiveSEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by jon.white SEO is changing. We can no longer rely on keyword targeting alone to optimize our content.

As confirmed by Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller, Google is removing PageRank from its Toolbar. So if you’ve been using the extension to see all the juicy PageRank data from any website you visit, I’m afraid you won’t have access anymore. @szymonslowik @methode @rustybrick Yes, it’s true.

Blab just might the perfect storm of live, visuals and conversation, which is probably why it’s one of the fastest growing social platforms. The post The Top 10 #Marketing Blab Channels by @osbennn appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

My first cell phone was the unbreakable Nokia 3310. You could run over that thing with a tank and it would still be up for a game of Snake. At the time, its green-and-black display was a technological marvel: You could play games! Look at (pixelated monochrome) pictures! What a modern marvel it was.

ClickZ has released a new podcast series called the  ClickZ Digital Marketing Podcast , featuring some of the experts who contributed to our Digital Trends 2016 report . It features interviews with Tessa Wegert, Brian Clifton, Kelvin Newman and Parry Malm, looking at key trends for 2016. Here we’ll be showcasing  Tessa Wegert’s episode on content marketing.

Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr’s SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran before he even joined the company 14 years ago. He said they ran this long term experiment from 2001 or so through 2005 where they would swap positions 2 and 4 to 0.02% of the searchers…

At SMX West last week, Google’s Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan. He said many interesting things including that Google doesn’t fully quiet understand RankBrain…

Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge graph in 2012, they decided to put entities at the forefront of their query analysis…

Posted by dohertyjf [Estimated read time: 7 minutes] As a startup founder myself, it feels weird to talk about startups through the lens of backlinks. After all, there are so many other things to worry about — how’s my cash flow? Are my employees getting paid?