Google Testing Ads In New Google Maps, Pushes AdWords Location Extensions

Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain

Study: Delaware Least Likely State To Use Google, While Yahoo Is More Popular In Southern & Midwest States

New Google Now Cards Include Voice-Activated Reminders

Google Zaps Another Link Network, ‘Several Thousand’ Link Sellers Hit

Google’s Matt Cutts: Black Hat & Link Spammers Less Likely To Show Up In Search Results After Summer

Google’s Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome

The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week’s Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it’s a significant leap in how we use search engines. I’m 17 years now into writing about search, and I’ve seen all types of things that have promised to revolutionize the space, especially [...]

May 22, 2013 at 4:17 am ET by Danny Sullivan | Comments (6) | Read Story

Bing Ads Launches Traffic Quality Center

Microsoft announced the launch of The Bing Ads Traffic Quality Resource Center today, a website designed to give advertisers and publishers visibility into the traffic quality protection systems of the Yahoo! Bing Network. The site includes sections that cover terminology, network protection methods, an overview of where ads on the Yahoo! Bing network will appear, [...]

May 21, 2013 at 3:15 pm ET by Ginny Marvin | Comments (2) | Read Story

Google’s Data Highlighter Now Supports Movies, TV, Articles, Products, Local Biz & Apps

Google has quietly added support for six additional data types to the data highlighter rich snippet markup tool they introduced back in December. Google initially launched a visual rich snippet markup tool in December to allow less tech-savvy webmasters to markup their event based data. The tool only worked with event data and nothing else. [...]

May 21, 2013 at 9:48 am ET by Barry Schwartz | Comments (5) | Read Story

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7 Principles From 7 Years Of Landing Pages

Search & Conversion - Scott Brinker

In preparing a presentation for last week’s Interactivity Digital conference in Miami, I was struck by a realization: I’ve been working with landing pages for seven years now. (Actually, I prefer to think of them as post-click experiences.) Seven years ago, my company launched its first prototype of a landing page management platform. At the [...]

Where Have All The Linkers Gone?

Link Week - Eric Ward

A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created today, with many implications for those of us in the content publicity/link building field. First and foremost among these factors is the “device effect.” The device effect means that a huge number of us are now consuming our content [...]

Social Signals Are So Last Week – Use Infographics to Drive Real Leads

Search & Social - Will Scott

There is a lot of talk these days about social signals affecting Google Search Results, and many SEOs are feeling the effects for their clients, who are disconnected from the social world. When it comes to infographics, you may find yourself scratching your head at the many conflicting claims out there from the marketers that [...]

Optimizing Your Digital Assets To Boost Rankings & Branding

All Things SEO - Paul Bruemmer

Let’s say you’re responsible for developing revenues from both traditional and non-traditional advertising. You work with a digital staff of talented people to create lead-generating Web-based content, or perhaps you are in e-commerce and sell products. Maybe you’re a brick and mortar with a website, or perhaps a pure-play Internet business with no physical storefronts. [...]

New Google Maps UI Calls For Shifts In SEO Tactics

Local Search - Chris Silver Smith

Last week at the Google I/O developer conference, a newly redesigned Google Maps design was introduced. While a number of online commentators have virtually gushed about the new interfacing from an end user perspective, there may be a less-than-rosy view for many local businesses. Thus far, the new version of Google Maps is pretty much [...]

Didn’t Win The Powerball Or Mega Millions Jackpot? Try Your Luck At The AdWords Jackpot!

Paid Search - Larry Kim

Chances are you didn’t win this past Friday’s $190 million Mega Millions drawing or Saturday’s $600 million Powerball jackpot. However, the great news is that if you’re an SEM account manager, you can still try your luck at winning the AdWords Jackpot! What’s An AdWords Jackpot? An AdWords Jackpot happens when all of the paid [...]

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May 20, 2013 at 11:24 am ET by Paul Bruemmer | Comments (2) | Read Story

How to Automate AdWords Ad Creation & Landing Page Checks

Automating AdWords as much as possible is every advertiser’s dream, especially when dealing with the massive accounts we see in enterprise-level SEM. This article provides a few examples of how we at Top Tier Marketing have automated some of the more laborious tasks of running AdWords. Hopefully, these examples will give you some ideas for [...]

May 16, 2013 at 9:05 am ET by Frederick Vallaeys | Comments (7) | Read Story