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Assessing Hummingbird’s Impact On Search — 10 Months Later

Published on 2014/07/21 By admin

On September 26, 2013, Google let slip that it had updated its overall search platform, which they referred to as “Hummingbird.” In this post, I am going to take a look back at the past year to see what impact Hummingbird may have had. One of my goals with this post is to help dispel… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

“America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results

Published on 2014/07/08 By admin

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “America” is not coming up properly in the Google search results and as a result, they are getting complaints that the movie is not available in local theaters near movie-goers. Dinesh D’Souza’s lawyers sent a letter..

Learnings From SMX London: The Impact Of Social On Search

Published on 2014/06/06 By admin

SEOs and Social Marketers speculate on the impact that Social Media marketing has on how well their websites perform in search results. There has been much conjecture with many people interpreting an array of correlations as causation. Both Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester…

Quantifying Brand Bias In Search Results With Rand Fishkin of Moz

Published on 2014/05/09 By admin

Like many, I enjoyed Rand Fishkin‘s keynote, The SEO Revolution Will Not Be Televised, at SMX West this past March. Rand is a dynamic speaker and a smart marketer; and in my estimation, he deserves most of the attention he gets. That being said, I was taken aback by his claim during the..

Does Google’s Review Count Inflation Give Them An Unfair Advantage In Local Search?

Published on 2014/04/28 By admin

We all know that monitoring online reviews is important for online marketing; but lately, it seems that not all reviews are created equal.

Google App Indexing Adds 24 Android Apps & Expands To All English Content Worldwide

Published on 2014/04/04 By admin

On October 31st, Google announced they are now supporting a new feature named app indexing, which allows publishers to create links from Google’s search results directly into the deep content within their Android apps. So if you search for something on your Android device and happen to see a..

The Knowledge Graph: Should Your Content & Business Strategy Change?

Published on 2014/03/20 By admin

Many articles have been written on the Google Knowledge Graph and its impact on SEO, but have you given thought to how the Knowledge Graph potentially impacts your content strategy — or even your entire revenue model? For many publishers, it’s time to take stock of how to work with the…

The Secret To Staying Relevant With Authorship

Published on 2014/02/25 By admin

At PubCon last year, Google’s Matt Cutts discussed big changes to the search results, many of which we’ve seen played out over the past several months. In his talk, he mentioned upcoming improvements to authorship results. A couple months later in December, Google confirmed it had…

Google Is Not Broken

Published on 2014/02/03 By admin

In spite of what many think, Google is not broken. But wait, naysayers will say, Look at this search result, it stinks! This spammer is succeeding in ranking high, they emerged from nowhere and are now in the top three results! It’s true — there are many such examples that you can point… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Study: 34% Of Google Search Results Have Rich Media, 9 Organic Links & 9 Search Ads

Published on 2014/01/24 By admin

Conductor released a study that analyzed the ten blue links at Google showing 34% show rich media, nine organic listings and nine search ads. 34% Of Search Snippets Have Rich Media The Conductor study showed that there was rich media on the search results page 34% of the time. The breakdown of rich…