May 21, 2013

The 3 Steps for Success in a Multi-device Search World

Posted on 21. May, 2013 by in SEOmoz

The 3 Steps for Success in a Multi-device Search World

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 in Search Engine Journal

Pinterest Gets New ‘Rich’ Pins by @smorgs13

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 in Search Engine Land

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 20, 2013

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 in Search Engine Watch

YouTube Celebrates 8th Birthday With 100 Hours of Video Every Minute

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 in SE Round Table

Nofollow Your Links? How Long Until Google Notices

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 in SEOmoz

APIs for Data-Driven Marketers

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 in Search Engine Journal

Simple Steps to Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy

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 in Search Engine Land

Yandex  Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference

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 in Search Engine Watch

5 Pillars of a Successful Modern Web Design

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 in SE Round Table

Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted

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 [...]