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Mobile Search Spend To Surpass Desktop Next Year, iOS Still King Of Mobile Web Traffic
A report published today by research firm eMarketer reveals projections for mobile search spending over the next four years. As of 2015, mobile search spending...
New #MarketingNerds Podcast: Ways Content Can Help A Business SEO Presence with Julia McCoy
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this podcast recorded at Pubcon Las Vegas 2014, I had the chance to...
How To Maintain Your Rankings After A Site Redesign: An Interview With Joe Hall
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2014 sponsor, LinkResearchTools, your off-page SEO toolkit. Link Detox: Recover – Protect – Build. At Pubcon 2014 in Las...
Save the Date for #SEJSummit Santa Monica: February 24, 2015
I’m thrilled to announce the date and venue for our first event in the conference series SEJ Summit: 3 Takeaways, presented by Searchmetrics. The inaugural one-day conference for enterprise marketers...
SEO 101: The Importance of Adding Structured Snippets
A rich snippet, also known as a structured snippet, is the extra text that can be found underneath search results used to provide additional information to...
New #MarketingNerds Podcast: What It Takes To Get Your Business Ranked Locally with Bernadette Coleman
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this weeks Marketing Nerds, we had the chance to sit down with local SEO...
Top Local And Mobile Search Engine Ranking Factors: An Interview With Marcus Tober
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Marcus Tober, CTO at Searchmetrics, about what’s new in...
WordPress Releases Critical Security Update, Immediate Update Recommended
WordPress announced today that it has released a critical security update for all previous version, and encourages everyone to update their sites immediately. If your...
And a drum roll please…Introducing SEJ Summit 2015
We’ve been keeping something from you. We’ve been working on it in stealth mode for a couple of months. It’s SEJ’s biggest initiative to date, by far....
Wil Reynolds, Reddit, Content Over-Creation, and More: #StateofSearch 2014 Day Two Recap
Day Two at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Search Engine Marketing Association‘s State of Search conference was just as great as Day One: Sessions on social media, SEO, marketing,...
User Behavior, SEO Audits, Social Media: #StateofSearch 2014 Day One Recap
Day one at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Search Engine Marketing Association‘s State of Search conference was a full day: ten sessions plus a morning keynote by...
Why SEO Still (And Always) Matters
Even though blogging is one of the best ways to boost an online reputation and increase market share at the same time, now is an...
Step-By-Step SEO Strategy Development: An Interview With Steve Wiideman
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas I was able to sit down and talk to Steve Wiideman of Wiideman Consulting to discuss SEO strategy development. Steve...
3 HARO Requests You Should Avoid
So, the title sounds a little “click baity”, but it is what it is. Everyone knows HARO can be a great way to some great...
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Without Mobile Optimization Your Website Is At Risk Of Losing Search Discovery [REPORT]
A study released by Searchmetrics reveals that over a third of mobile web search results vary from desktop results when comparing identical search queries across...
How Smartphones Have Transformed Retail
Smartphones continue to increase their importance in our daily lives, as this infographic from ifbyphone clearly states. This infographic illustrates the importance of mobile e-commerce....
The Psychological Benefits of Simple Design: Why Less Really is More
It’s a question that marketers and designers ask themselves every day: What is the key to a conversion-based design? And the answer: As little design as possible....
New #MarketingNerds Podcast: #SEO for User Interface Design with Kristine Schachinger
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this week’s episode of Marketing Nerds, we had the chance to sit down...
Tracking User Behavior Leads To Better Conversions: Interview With Two Leading Experts
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas my colleagues John Rampton (Editor-at-large) and Loren Baker (SEJ Founder) had the opportunity to interview two experts about how...
4 Smartwatch Predictions for Local Search
How cool would it be to get your hands on one of those spiffy new smartwatches? Sure, while they’re not exactly a household item just...
6 Link Removal Request Techniques That Actually Work
Link removal requests are a huge deal. If you’re a webmaster or SEO trying to clean up harmful links, then you have probably sent dozens...
How To Scale Link Acquisition And Outreach: An Interview With Stephan Spencer
A big thanks to our Pubcon 2014 sponsor, LinkResearchTools, your off-page SEO toolkit. Link Detox: Recover – Protect – Build. At Pubcon 2014 in Las...
Battle Link Penalties in ‘Chuckie Links,’ The SEO Video Game Sequel to Donkey Cutts
We had a blast playing Donkey Cutts, a Donkey Kong-inspired game about earning social media cred and avoiding panda and penguin updates that I wrote...
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The State of SEO Agencies 2014: An In-Depth Study by linkbird [Infographic]
During the period of August and September 2014, my company linkbird conducted an in-depth study on the international SEO services industry. In this post I’m...
3 Techniques to Boost Customer Loyalty Through Facebook
What could be better than having more customers? How about having loyal customers who constantly buy from you! As business owners, most of us understand customer...
How To Rank Well In Local Search: 3 Leading Experts Weigh In
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas the SEJ team was able to catch up with three experts on the subject of local search. Below you...
Danny Goodwin on Tired Marketing Trends, Leaving Search Engine Watch
Danny Goodwin has had an illustrious career in marketing, editing, and search. After leaving his role as editor of Search Engine Watch in August 2014,...
New #MarketingNerds Podcast: Ranking Metrics With Searchmetrics’ CTO & Founder Marcus Tober
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this podcast recorded at Pubcon Las Vegas 2014, I had the chance to...
Rethinking E-Commerce Taboos: Don’t Go With the UX Flow
Ken Olson, Chairman and founder of DEC once famously said, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” I bet he...
How Link Building Has Changed In 2014: Interview With Prashant Puri
As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I caught up with...