The 3 Steps for Success in a Multi-device Search World
Posted on 21. May, 2013 by admin in SEOmoz
We live in a multi-device world, and if you’re still focused on improving your visibility, traffic, and conversions solely for desktop users, you’re losing a great opportunity. This gap, coupled with the fact that you’re probably staying behind your competitors and unconnected with your audience, is not great for business. Not convinced? Let’s see some [...]
Pinterest Gets New ‘Rich’ Pins by @smorgs13
Posted on 21. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Social media sites have to evolve, otherwise they decline in popularity like MySpace. Pinterest has not only climbed the ranks to the top 3 social media sites on the internet, but they have also evolved with the market and remained popular. Today, Pinterest made a new update that significantly improves the usability of the platform. Those in the [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 2013
Posted on 21. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Land
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Enhanced Campaigns: “Flexible Bid Strategies” Launching Soon Google will be rolling out “flexible bid strategies” in enhanced campaigns in the next couple of weeks. Flexible bid strategies will allow advertisers to [...]
YouTube Celebrates 8th Birthday With 100 Hours of Video Every Minute
Posted on 21. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Watch
YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years. The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single video. Bought by Google in 2006, YouTube now has more than a billion unique monthly visitors who watch more than 6 billion hours of [...]
Nofollow Your Links? How Long Until Google Notices
Posted on 20. May, 2013 by admin in SE Round Table
A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO/Webmaster asking how long will it take for Google to show him the fruits of his efforts after nofollowing a bunch of links on his site. He wanted to know how long will it take Google to notice the nofollows and see those results in the Google search results. He [...]
APIs for Data-Driven Marketers
Posted on 20. May, 2013 by admin in SEOmoz
Data is everywhere, and companies are virtually climbing over each other to give it away. If you’re a data-driven content marketer, data is opportunity, but accessing that data can take some technical know-how. This is a guide to APIs, one of the key methods for accessing 3rd-party data, and also a mini-directory of some of [...]
Simple Steps to Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy
Posted on 20. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Why is social media so important? More people are using social media through their mobile phones, computers, and tablets than talking, calling, emailing and texting. Do you find this surprising? I know I don’t. Some businesses have gone to the extent of allowing 30 minutes a day for their employees to use social media. There’s [...]
Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference
Posted on 19. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Land
Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To be launched in a few weeks [...]
5 Pillars of a Successful Modern Web Design
Posted on 19. May, 2013 by admin in Search Engine Watch
To compete successfully in today’s new media landscape, simply having an optimized website isn’t enough. You must now consider a number of new factors when designing your website. These factors include modern design and content, usability and conversion, and search and social media. Not only has the SEO technological market changed with new on- an [...]
Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted
Posted on 19. May, 2013 by admin in SE Round Table
On May 15th, Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken “action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network.” Google has done this time and time again, and we covered at least two previous cases of this. We do not know which link network – some are [...]
