You can't access Facebook in China. Twitter is unheard of. And Google … well, Google has left China, and China isn't exactly writing a Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend song about the world's largest search engine.
Guest Post Search engine optimization isn’t just a buzzword anymore. Businesses are increasingly turning to SEO strategies to ensure they rank well in search engines.
Guest Post If you’ve ever thought about paying for inauthentic endorsements like this, you better pump the breaks because third party review sites are now making it as obvious as Snooki’s spray tan that you’ve invested in fake reviews.
Guest Post The purpose of this article is to expose the lies that business owners are told by low-quality SEO firms.
Google Webmaster Tools, the Google site that helps website owners manage how their site appears in Google, diagnose problems, and optimize traffic, is currently experiencing a major security breach.
I kind of feel like Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me as he's laying back on a couch, shirtless, displaying his abdominal pulchritude, saying "I'm dead sexy!"
Most people think web marketing is Google Ads, promoted tweets, and sponsored stories. That's after all, where tens of billions of dollars are being spent. But to Rand Fishkin, that's the stupid money.
"Being an ad-buyer does not make you a marketer," Fishkin said today in his talk at GROW 2012. "There are two huge problems with this."
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is big business. Big enough to get a mention on close to 900 million websites, and to be the focus of 164,000 YouTube videos.
Spain-based internet marketing company BlueCaribu recently did a review of SEO …
What’s happening to Google? The search engine that famously barely tolerated paid links has transformed into a high-powered advertising engine that, in some cases, leaves just 15 percent of page space for regular, non-paid, organic listings.
Online marketing company Wordstream …
SEOmoz, a company that tackles search engine optimization for businesses, has raised $18 million in funding.
Every website that wants attention on Google uses search engine optimization. It’s an ever-evolving set of tactics to get search engines, such as Google …
Head of Google’s Web Spam team Matt Cutts spoke on a panel at SXSW about search engine optimization and revealed a new strategy from Google that could send fear into the heart of any website manager. Google’s planning to punish …
Well, it’s finally happened. Google web search has been Google-Plus-ified.
Today, Google is bringing some specific new features to Google web search, its flagship and most widely used product. In addition to the usual assortment of links, pictures, news items …
UPDATED: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that SEOmoz had secured a second round of funding. We regret the error.
Search engine optimization software company SEOmoz is close to raising a $25 million second round of funding, sources …
HubSpot, an online marketing and content management suite, announced today that it has raised $32 million from Salesforce, Sequoia Capital and Google’s investing arm, Google Ventures, in its fourth round of funding.
The service “grades” websites and determines how often …
BrightEdge, a search engine optimization management (SEO) platform, said today it has become the first such platform to become fully social in a bid to help marketers optimize their social media activity, Jim Yu, founder and chief executive, told VentureBeat.…
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It’s a popular notion these days Google has lost its “mojo” due to failed products like Google Wave, Google Buzz, and Google TV. But Google’s core business — Web search — has come under fire recently for being the ultimate …
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Joe Devine is the chief executive officer of The Search Engine Guys, a full-service search engine optimization and website design firm based in Austin, Texas.
There’s a new trend in search engines: Searches tailored to the individual and his or …
While big brands and agencies have the luxury of resources and money, local businesses don’t. What they need is a social-media dashboard — an all-in-one, Web-based monitoring tool for Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites where customers hang out — …
G5, a developer of local marketing software, today announced it has secured a $15 million first round of funding. The company said the money will be used for software development and marketing to target customers such as multifamily housing, self …
Some large e-commerce sites with product pages created from manufacturer’s databases are seeing less traffic to those pages.
Google’s spokesman for page rankings has confirmed that the company made a major, permanent change seeking to return “higher quality” pages for …
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