We’re nearly two thirds of the way through 2011 and we’ve already seen major developments in search marketing that will shape the way that users, companies and search engines will interact for years to come. Here are some of the biggest changes so far in 2011: Quality Content is Now a Requirement Plagued by complaints … Continued
Yesterday, Google announced its list of the most-visited websites on the internet. Of course, at the top of this list was Facebook hitting a new high of 1 trillion page views for the month of June. This was a large feat to conquer, even for Facebook. Facebook has 750 million registered users, although during the … Continued
Slate recently published an article asking a very intriguing question: why are restaurant websites so bad? Pull up almost any eatery’s site and you’ll find it littered with huge images of (at best) featured dishes or (at worst) stock photography and a chef’s head shot. Flash that can’t be seen on iPhones is prevalent in … Continued
Businesses looking to have negative reviews removed from Rip Off Report had their wish granted when the entire site was temporarily removed from Google. All 500,000+ pages were gone and at first it was thought to be a penalty, but it was later revealed that they had sent a removal request through one of the … Continued
In July, we received many questions about Google Plus One, Google’s Panda update and PPC advertising. If you have any questions you would like answered during our Monthly Marketing Q and A sessions, leave them in the comments below or click here to email us a question. Google Plus One Does Google Analytics track +1 … Continued
97 percent of Google’s revenue comes from its advertising platform, which generated more than $209.49 billion last year, according to Statista.com. When we try to imagine the most expensive keyword groups on Google ads, we typically think of legal and financial terms. But according to a new report issued by Wordstream, the top 10 most … Continued
A new article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that one site owner has found a remedy for sites that have seen a huge loss of traffic from the Panda update: subdomains. According to the article, Hubpages.com lost 50 percent of its traffic following the algorithm change, and their management team was frustrated after tighter … Continued
In June, we received many questions about article marketing, site penalties, content development and best practices for link building. If you have any questions you would like answered during our Monthly Marketing Q&A sessions, leave them in the comments below or click here to email us a question. Article Marketing Q: What are the best … Continued
Google made a stunning yet necessary decision to de-index the entire CO.CC domain. Many people confuse the site as a TLD (top level domain) when in actuality it simply hosted millions of sub-domains, with many of those being used for nefarious purposes. Comments and email spam with links to co.cc hosted sites was a common … Continued
The impact of Google +1 can now be tracked in both Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics with special reports and plugins to monitor activity, engagement and impact. Webmaster Tools now has a +1 metrics section with three new reports in the left sidebar: Search Impact, Activity and Audience. – Search Impact: This report displays a … Continued