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Google Now Displays Google+ Hashtag Results in Search Queries
Google now supports hashtag searches within Google+ from the search engine’s query result pages: The box on the right hand side of the screen...
Google AdWords: 10 Account Review Tips Revealed
Make sure your Google AdWords ad is working for you! If you are just creating an ad and forgetting about it, you are wasting...
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...
Interview With Allen Gannett of TrackMaven Who Just Released The Biggest Instagram Study…Ever!
Wikipedia Commons It’s been almost three years since Instagram launched, the initial date was October 6, 2010 if you want to be specific. Since that time,...
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...
How Do Google Hangouts on Air Affect Search Traffic
Google Hangouts on Air are a tremendous tool for building connections online. However, you might not have considered how Google Hangouts on Air can also...
Is Feedly Pro Worth It?
As almost any loyal Google Reader devotee will likely inform you, July 1 was a dark day in the history of the internet. That was...
The Virtual Office: Making the World a Smaller, More Efficient Place
I’ve always believed that the most efficient office is one where everyone is there together. In most cases, communication is easier face to face. Eventually...
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...
Big Data and the New Limits of Google Analytics
Many of you may have noticed a little checkerboard in the corner of your Google Analytics screens. This fairly subtle icon has been showing up...
Has Google Gone 100% NOT PROVIDED & Secure Search?
Woke up this morning to find SEOs on Facebook and Twitter up in arms about Google changing all queries and usage to the secure https://www.google.com...
Don’t Discredit The Value of Referral Links!
Next time you poke around your Google Analytics account, take a look at the Traffic Sources Overview page, in particular at the pie chart that breaks...
17 Ways to Stand Out from Your Website’s Competitors
In a world where everyone is in search of the magic bullet that will increase both sales and website traffic, what if I told you...
Measuring Your Blogger Outreach Campaigns
Many pros say that blogger outreach campaigns can’t accurately be measured; however, we need something to take back to our boss, right? We need to be able to compare...
Organize And Retarget Your Data With Perfect Audience
In this episode of Search Engine Journal, Murray Newlands interviews Perfect Audience CEO Brad Flora about Perfect Audience’s dynamic retargeting tool and the ways in...
PubCon’s Brett Tabke and Joe Laratro Bring Out a Packed House for DFWSEM
To hear Brett Tabke tell it, were he to start a web-based business from scratch today, he’d do things quite a bit differently than what most...
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...
7 Ways to Get Content Ideas from the Client
Oh, you have probably heard this one before: writing good content is the key in today’s search marketing. Yet, there is a problem with that...
Why it’s Getting Harder and Harder for New Advertisers to Get Success with AdWords
It would be hard to say with a straight face that AdWords isn’t evolving. Lately, I’ve seen a big amount of experienced advertisers looking for...
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,...
Please Welcome Murray Newlands to the Search Engine Journal Team
I’m pleased to announce that Murray Newlands is joining Search Engine Journal as our Deputy Editor. I loved his SES San Francisco coverage for SEJ. We are...
Create Mobile Video Ad Campaigns Like A Boss
The increase in popularity and use of mobile devices is making 2013 an enormous year for digital marketers. Never before has such an opportunity existed...
Ad Copy Optimization: Have We Been Doing It Wrong?
After the most recent AdWords quality score update, many of our accounts have been impacted both positively (seeing more 9’s and 10’s) and negatively (seeing...
Content Marketing Strategies for Brands—An Interview with Marc Purtell
“Content marketing” has become a buzzword in the post-Google Penguin world, and because of its new-found importance in the digital marketing space, brands have continued...
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...
Paid and Organic Traffic in One Adwords Report
Google published a new feature which lets Adwords users analyze organic and paid traffic in one report. The reason why such a report was provided...
Google AdWords Editor:Your Powerful Campaigns Editing Tool
Quick Intro The Google AdWords Editor is a free offline tool from Google that allows you to manage your Adwords Campaigns quickly and also offers...
What Are The 15 Most Downloaded Smartphone Apps in the U.S.?
I recently spotted a nifty little chart that revealed the top 10 countries with the highest average of downloaded apps. Coming in at the top...
Facebook Introduces Larger Images For Link Share Posts
An announcement by Facebook confirms what you may have already noticed through interacting with the social network this week; larger images are now standard for...
Google and Facebook: The Keys to Data-driven Content that Truly Delivers
As TV, radio and print advertising and other traditional marketing channels become less effective; marketers and their agencies are turning to search and social as...