When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many results Google was able to find. For example, a site command for [site:www.google.com] returns “About 71,000…

Here are five interesting insights for marketers from a new study that examines how consumers are engaging with Fortune 500 brands on Instagram. The post 5 Lessons You Can Learn From The Top Brands On Instagram by @DannyNMIGoodwin appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Great advertising starts when a brand delivers a service to the consumer – rather than an ad, says Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, Brian Wong.

Google is now testing dropping the estimated number of results from the top of the search results. The post Google tries dropping the estimated number of results in the search results appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

During this SMX Advanced session, panelists discussed what SEOs need to know about Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines, created for the human beings who double-check that the Google algorithm is performing as designed. Columnist Joy Hawkins recaps.

Alien invasions have had their costs calculated by finance companies.

Columnist Frederick Vallaeys shares a handy AdWords script that generates a spreadsheet of your base bids with the actual min and max possible values based on your various bid modifiers. The post Do you really know how much you’re bidding?

According to Campaigner’s latest survey, online retailers are aware of the slowing economy; and are looking to email marketing for customer acquisition. The post Email Marketing Tips for Lasting First Impression by @AkiLiboon appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The way that search marketing has evolved over the last few years has brought content marketing and SEO ever closer together .  Content creation and SEO used to be very separate disciplines in the past, but now it’s hard to see how either can be practiced effectively without at least some knowledge of the other. Which brings me to the question: what do content marketers need to know about SEO (and vice versa) to achieve the best results

This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had were two possible Google updates to their ranking algorithm that went unconfirmed…