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Implicit information like your location and the device you're using are playing an increasing role in search results. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Will Critchlow explains where these queries are headed, and offers some insight into our woes with "(not provided)."
As helpful as analytics can be, they simply can't give as complete a picture as usability studies. This post walks through five of the most important lessons we've learned after performing hundreds of thousands of those studies.
Social (media) listening is emerging as one of the most powerful tools in the social media block. Also, known as social media monitoring, this platform is now effectively used in business circles to monitor, analyze and then engage in customer interactions in social media networks. Studies have repeatedly shown that listening tools if used strategically can prove to be a useful resource for accessing social media information through organizations.
Gone are the days when a search query simply involved a string of words. Today's queries include all sorts of implicit data — location, device, etc. — that add to the search engines' understanding of what searchers really wanted to find. That fact has some very real implications for the way we think about keywords.
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Your web designer/developer isn’t necessarily going to remind you to put your remarketing tag on your new site, or update your destination URLs in your email marketing campaigns. Sometimes you only find out about these things weeks later, when you stumble across something broken, or when one of your customers alerts you to a problem. We’ve worked with many clients going through redesigns and have made this checklist as a resource to help you make sure your online marketing survives your site redesign.
When people click through to our sites from a SERP and aren't satisfied with what they find, they often pogo-stick back to find a different result, signaling to the search engines that the result wasn't worth it. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows us how to keep those searchers satisfied.
When expanding your web presence to include international audiences, you're faced with a new set of challenges. In this post, MozCon 2013 speaker Aleyda Solis offers 40+ tools to help your marketing reach farther than it ever has before.
The foundation for a great website is keyword research. By identifying keywords that people use in search engines that relate to your products or services will make or break your organic revenue. Since the focus shifted to quality content and high quality links, getting your keywords to rank high in search engines has become more and more difficult. But, when it comes to keywords everyone loves a number one ranking, right?
On July 19th, there was a major Google update that almost all of us missed. Overnight, the number of queries with Knowledge Graph entries jumped 50% to just over a quarter (26.7%) of the searches we track.
This year's Search Ranking Factors Study showed a very strong correlation between Google +1s and higher rankings, and there's a compelling reason why. Google+ was built for SEO, and is far better optimized for search than other platforms.
Here are some useful ways for charities and non-profits to increase their online exposure, without draining too much of their already limited resources. I include tips to increase brand awareness and donations at no cost (except for a little time and effort).
I started doing some research on the internet, both on the Google Webmaster website along with on Moz to see if anybody had written a good guide on migrating large sites from a dev to live environment. I couldn’t find anything that made it sound simple, so I’ve put together the following tutorial which I believe is fairly straight forward and should hopefully help people in the future.
One of the most common questions about this year's Search Engine Ranking Factors study is whether there are any differences in search results across queries with different search volumes and topic categories. This post dives into the data to find the answer.
Do you know how to recognize an unnatural link? Sometimes unnatural links are easy to spot. But, other times they are not. In this article we will take an in depth look at the link schemes section of the Google Quality Guidelines and discuss what this document says in regards to unnatural links. Along the way I will share some of my experiences in dealing with websites who have been given unnatural links penalties.