Reports Claim Google May Ban Cookies on Chrome and Android
In the wake of the release of NSA (National Security Administration) reports that the government office is using Google and other Internet data to spy on...
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Kelsey Jones is a marketing consultant, writer, and owner of SixStories.com and StoryShoutNews.com. Kelsey has been in digital marketing since 2007 and journalism since 2004. During her career, she served as a US Search Awards judge for three years, was managing/executive editor of SEJ from 2014 to 2017, and has spoken at State of Search, Pubcon, SEJ Summit, and others.
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Google Makes Image Ads Easier With Ready Creatives
Google announced via their AdWords blog today that they have released a new free tool for advertisers called Ready Creatives. The set, which includes Ready...
What Can Performance Marketing for Professionals Teach You About Sales Funnels?
Successful marketing is the centrifuge to business success. It’s how you maintain relationships with your customers, build your brand and make sales. People like John...
Google+ Now Used in YouTube Comments
The official YouTube blog announced today that it is now utilizing Google+ to better moderate all comments on videos. YouTube said this change was to...
BlackBerry To Go Private: Reaches $4.7B Deal with Fairfax Financial
Just announced today by the New York Times, BlackBerry is reporting that it has reached a deal with a partial owner, Fairfax Financial Services, to...
Facebook Developing AI Team to Better Understand Users
According to MIT’s Technology Review, Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, claims that a need for better understanding the type of content users are searching for...
University Researchers Have Developed a More Personalized Search Engine
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a search engine that is better at personalizing results for users, according to Phys.org. The researchers first wanted...
StumbleUpon Now Profitable; Predicted Revenues Up 33% Since 2012
Even though StumbleUpon has had its ups and downs since it came out in 2001, Bloomberg is reporting that the bookmarking service is now profitable,...
Study Determines Google+ Shares Have Little Impact on Search Rankings
Eric Enge, co-author of The Art of SEO and a speaker at SES SF 2013 last week (here’s a recap of his AuthorRank session) just released...
Matt Cutts States Sites on IPv4 & IPv6 Won’t Be Duplicate Content
In a new Google Webmaster Help YouTube video published today, Matt Cutt answers a question from a user regarding IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 is the...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Author Rank Session Recap #SESSF
The last Earned track of the day was Author Rank: Getting the Credit You Deserve, presented by Eric Enge, CEO, Stone Temple Consulting, and Shari Thurow, Founder &...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: SCHEMA: The Silver Bullet Session Recap #SESSF
The second Owned track session of the day was SCHEMA: The Silver Bullet, with Daniel Schulman, Director of Search Marketing, Donordigital and Kent Yunk, VP of SEO, 3 Q...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Content Campaigns to Drive Engagement Session Recap #SESSF
Dave McMullen, Partner/Strategic Planning at redpepper, and Ranvir Gujral, Co-Founder of Chute, presented the first Earned track session of the last day of SES SF...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Beyond the Like: Social Media Tracking, Testing & Targeting Session Recap #SESSF
In the last Business Intelligence track session of the day, Keith Messick, VP of Marketing at Topsy, and Jon Morris, Founder and CEO of Rise Interactive,...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Mining Search Keywords & Social for Revenue Session Recap #SESSF
In the second to last Owned track session of Day Two, Bill Hunt, SES Advisory Board member and President of Back Azimuth Consulting, presented targeted strategies...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Link Building That Makes Sense Session Recap #SESSF
The first Owned track session of Day Two of SES San Francisco was with Jon Ball of conference sponsor Page One Power, titled Link Building That...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: The Future of Local Search Session Recap #SESSF
The last Earned track session of the day, The Future of Local Search: 5 Layers of Local, with presenters Howard Lerman, CEO & Co-Founder, Yext, and Gregg...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Badass Blogging Best Practices Session Recap #SESSF
The first Owned track of the afternoon today was Badass Blogging: Best Practices to Enhance Your Customer Reach, by Jennifer Evans Cario. The thirty minute presentation...
SEJ at SES San Francisco: Cutting-Edge Link Building Tactics Session Recap #SESSF
Bill Hunt and Lee Moore lead the first session the day in the Earned track of SES San Francisco this year: Driving Targeted Traffic to Your...
Facebook Rolling Out Social Search Conversation Tools
The New York Times, CNN, and others announced yesterday that a handful of online news organizations will be among the first to try out a...
Google Joins Udacity, Others to Create Open Education Alliance
As announced at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event today, Udacity has joined with Google, AT&T, Georgia Tech, and others to create the Open Education...
Bing Testing Site Interior Link Display Directly in Search Box
As first spotted by Aaron Wall and mentioned on SEO Roundtable, Bing is now testing showing website previews and sitemap results directly from the instant...
Yahoo Finally Unveils New Logo
After a thirty day wait that came with unveiling a new potential logo every day, Yahoo finally posted their pick at midnight last night. The...
Social Search Engine Topsy Has Indexed All Tweets in Existence
It’s hard to believe that Twitter has only been around since 2006, especially because it is now such a huge part of many of our...
Study Reports 90% of Business Owners Trust Yelp Reviews to Make Purchasing Decisions
A recent study from Merchant Warehouse reports that business owners (and consumers in general) are putting more of their trust into online reviews sites, specifically Yelp. As...
Google’s Matt Cutts Further Explains Automation of Reconsideration Request Process
In the latest video from YouTube’s Google Webmaster Help channel, Matt Cutts explains why the Google Spam team can’t handle every individual reconsideration request with...
YouTube Retiring Video Responses on September 12
YouTube announced Tuesday via its Creator Blog that it will be retiring video responses as of September 12, 2013. The Google-owned video giant cites an...
The Watercooler of the Web: Twitter Acquires Trenderr; Updates Conversation View
From the look of it, Twitter is focusing on continuing to improve its interface through acquisitions and interface updates. Today, it was announced that Twitter...
Yahoo Gives Logo and 7 Websites New Facelift
Throughout the month of August, Yahoo has released an updated variation of its new logo, as part of the 30 Days of Change. The final...
Instagram Now Bans Users From Certain Hashtag Searches
Instagram now bans users from searching for certain hashtags that may be considered profane or explicit. This discovery, by Nick Drewe of The Data Pack,...