Without formal training, Jacobs established herself as a renowned urban activist dedicated to protecting New York City’s urban landscape. The post Jane Jacobs’ Google Doodle marks 100th birthday of famous NYC community organizer appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The bounce rate debate continues… Bounce rates and how they affect a website’s ranking on Google has been discussed, dissected, and dismembered over and over again. As fully transcribed on this site, a conversation between Rand Fishkin, CEO of Moz, and Andrey Lipattsev, Google’s search quality senior strategist, led to a surprising discussion on click and bounce rates affecting search rankings.

Need to get rid of problematic or unnatural backlinks and not sure where to begin? In this helpful how-to, columnist Dave Davies outlines his process for performing a manual backlink audit

Some of the folks over at WebmasterWorld are noticing a new referrer coming from Google that comes from the string com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox. Interestingly, that is the name of the Android app APK for the Google Search app on Android…

What’s on the horizon for brand bidding in PPC? Columnist Lori Weiman wraps up her 8-part series on brand bidding by looking to the near future and discussing trends that search marketers can capitalize on

Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months.

Sometimes marketing in challenging industries are seen as unmarketable, but following these steps should make that task a bit easier. The post How to Market in Challenging Industries by @nowsourcing appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by gmehrguth [Estimated read time: 5 minutes] Every small business owner needs tools to get their marketing campaigns off the ground.

Humans are visual creatures by nature. In fact, research shows that 90% of the information that comes to our brains is visual.