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Understanding Dynamic Google SEO
Learn how Google rankings change based on location, how Google Knowledge Graph impacts rankings, and how to optimize your business.
Delivering Experiences Through Growth Hacking With @morganb
I recently had the opportunity to interview Morgan Brown, the Head of Growth at TrueVault and Qualaroo and a speaker at the upcoming SEJ Summit in Santa Monica on February 24th. The...
Google Provides Tips And Case Studies On How To Fix Hacked Sites
Today Google provided some tips, complete with case studies, on how to fix hacked sites. After speaking with two webmasters who resolved some complicated hacked...
What Does It Take To Win A Search Award? An Interview With EU Search Awards Judge
Since the European Search Awards is quickly approach, I sought out the expertise of returning judge Gianluca Fiorelli to learn more about the judging process and to discuss...
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Which Sites Have The Most Valuable Search Engine Traffic? [INFOGRAPHIC]
If you’ve ever used the tool SEMRush before, you’ve likely noticed how it assigns a dollar amount to your organic traffic. This value is based...
Stop Making These 8 Stupid Press Outreach Mistakes
When done correctly, press outrearch can reward you with referral traffic, leads, sales, revenue and earned links.
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Everything You Need to Know About Online Reviews [INFOGRAPHIC]
As many e-commerce, local, and even enterprise companies know, online reviews can make or break a business. The infographic below describes some of the trends...
Site Audits: Evaluating the SEO, UX, Content & Load Time of 4 Websites
Our expert panel evaluates the SEO, UX, content, and load time of sites submitted from our audience.
Forget Conversions! High SERP Rankings Maybe a Strong Brand Booster
Brands are like people: both have a physical structure, a name, a personality, and a reputation. Both can be respected or even loved, liked, and...
New on #MarketingNerds: Joe Hall on How To Switch Your E-Commerce Site to a New URL
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! Joe Hall, Founder of JoeHall.me, is the featured guest on Marketing Nerds this week. Joe...
A 2015 Process to Removing a Google Link Penalty
If at one point you’ve bought links, hired an SEO agency, or received a sudden decrease in website traffic, then this blog post is for...
The 6 Key Steps to Improve Your Website’s Loading Speed
Throughout 2014 (and the decade prior), Google hasn’t been shy about telling people what its algorithms are looking for. Initially, algorithms targeted spammy backlinks, keyword...
Is Your SEO Killing It or Getting Killed?
“Movement is life.” In the movie World War Z, those were the words Brad Pitt’s character spoke to a family who opted to barricade themselves...
New on #MarketingNerds: JP Sherman on Optimizing Internal Site Search
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! JP Sherman from RedHat is the featured guest on Marketing Nerds this week. JP started off...
The Many “Deaths” of #SEO Before 2015
While you are reading these lines, SEO’s death is probably chronicled in hundreds of articles all over the internet. A simple search on Google for “SEO...
The (Technical) Future of #SEO
This is part 1 of 2 in a series of articles where I will layout a vision to bring more objectivity to SEO by applying...
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Outtakes from Pubcon Las Vegas 2014 [VIDEO]
While digging through our archive of Pubcon 2014 footage, we found some interesting clips that didn’t make it into the final cut. Please enjoy. #Bloopers #Pubcon #Outtakes
This Could Be Why Your Local Listing Isn’t Ranking
Google’s search algorithm is always being improved. That being said, Google only releases updates and changes to their algorithm every so often. Last year, they released...
Google Releases New Update To Structured Data Site Testing Tool
Structured data can give you that edge you need when it comes to getting content discovered and clicked on in search results, and other Google...
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MTV Increased Mobile Traffic By 92% With A Responsive Redesign [REPORT]
Not every major brand has jumped on the responsive design bandwagon yet — take MTV for example. MTV recently redesigned several of its web properties...
Geo-Targeting and SEO 101: How to Rank Content in Multiple Regions and Languages
The day has finally come – you have decided it is time to take your business international. Prospects and potential customers are searching all over the world for...
#MarketingNerds Podcast: Talking Technical #SEO with Prashant Puri
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this podcast, I had the chance to discuss many aspects of technical SEO...
10 Ways to Beat The Panda and Penguin In Your Content Strategy
Change might not always be fun, but sometimes it is necessary to get ahead in the game of Google. Over the last several months, Google...
SEO for E-Commerce: Why You Need Structured Data
Marking up product information using structured data to enhance search results with rich snippets has long provided a nice SEO benefit to a company’s product...
Google’s Local Search Algorithm Is Rolling Out To UK, Canada, And Australia
Earlier this summer Google introduced an algorithm specifically designed to improve local search results. At first it was only rolled out in the US, but...
5 Sources of Online Traffic You’ve Never Heard Of
Online traffic is one of the key performance indicators for online businesses, as it directly affects the number of leads your business acquires. Most online...
WordPress 4.1 is Now Available: Here’s What’s New
WordPress announced the release of version 4.1 of it’s software today, which is now available to either download or update directly from your WordPress dashboard....
Google Blocks Thousands Of WordPress Sites Following Malware Attack
Security firm Sucuri reports that Google has blacklisted over 11,000 malware-infected WordPress domains, and over 100,000 sites in total have been affected by a new...
10 Fixes to Keep You Popping Up in Competitive Local Queries
Anyone who owns a business today knows the importance of search engines to their bottom line. This importance gets magnified exponentially when you start looking...
A Serious Talk About The Unified Search Marketing Code of Ethics
Editor Note: This “pro” post is part of a two-part series about the proposed Search Marketing Code of Ethics, as presented by SEMPO at SearchCongress.org....