Early this Monday morning news broke about hackers accessing Zappos and their affiliate site servers. User data and other sensitive information was compromised and emails were sent out to those that were effected. “We are writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account [...]
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Last month we posted an alert that Google Plus is now open for businesses and since then thousands of pages have been created on Google’s new social network. With the huge interest in the new social network Google has been cranking out some updates to the Pages interface and last week they posted a blog [...]
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social media
As the year draws to a close, Google has posted the most popular search results of 2011. Sorting through the billions of searches there were 10 fastest rising global queries. In addition to providing the data, Google also presents the top rising searches in this beautiful YouTube video. To give you some perspective on the [...]
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organic search results,
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In a blog post about a month ago Google announced changes to its search algorithm that the company says will impact 35% of web searches. In areas where the “freshness” of the search results matter, like recent events, hot topics, current events, and breaking news items, the results will be weighted more heavily towards newer [...]
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In a blog post last week Google announced changes to its search algorithm that the company says will impact 35% of web searches. In areas where the “freshness” of the search results matter, like recent events, hot topics, current events, and breaking news items, the results will be weighted more heavily towards newer content. A [...]
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google search,
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search engine optimization,
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How’s your website performing on a day-to-day basis? Using these three groups of metrics you can measure the success of your website, track content consumption, and visitor engagement. First let’s review four key metrics that will help you track the overall success of your website. Basically, these are the key factors that determine if you [...]
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Social media sites like YouTube might have started out as simply a way to share different forms of pictures, video, and text, but in the past few years social sites have been great platforms for gathering information about your customers and visitors. In this blog we’ll discuss the value of using the free YouTube Insights [...]
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google,
online marketing,
search engine optimization,
seo,
seo services,
video marketing,
youtube
How do you know when a particular strategy, theory, or idea has gone from a good idea to something that’s widely accepted as a standard or fact? Well, how about a major news source devoting an entire discussion to the topic and giving advice on how it is done properly. Well, that’s exactly what telegraph.co.uk [...]
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search rank,
seo
In a recent article posted on seomoz.org, an SEO company set out to answer the question, “How many visitors can we expect, if we rank [x] for [y] keyword?” Using an extensive data gathering process (documented in the article) they were able to determine an estimated click-through rate based on a website’s ranking on a [...]
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search rank,
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Big brands like JCPenny and Overstock know it’s something to be concerned about, but do you know why Google penalizes websites? We spend a lot of time discussing ways to get your website ranked higher on Google, but for this week’s blog post we’ll focus on why some websites are slapped by the big hand [...]
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google search,
organic ranking,
search engine optimization,
seo