As a webmaster, sometimes you just want a quick answer from Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts, and sorting through hundreds of Webmaster Help YouTube videos can take a while. That is where The Short Cutts comes in!
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Google is hiring a new product marketing manager for search with one of the key goals being to find ways to get people to sign-in while they search. As you can imagine, the “not provided” search query data will likely only increase.
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A Nielsen, xAd and Telmetrics study found that half of the mobile automotive search audience were doing longer term research, 49% of were “looking to make a purchase within the day,” and 36% of this group converted “within the hour.”
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Yes it’s here, a list of the most expensive keywords in Google. This is only a partial list, but you can check out the full list here.
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If you create great content, can you get your site ranked? Or will we allow authorship, canonicals, schema, and manipulation of keywords to become the new normal?
Jenny Halasz, talking about how the average small business can’t afford to keep up, especially when the average retainer fee for an SEO agency is $2500-$5000.
Read more about the issues of ranking solely on content in her latest article: Have Keywords Stopped Being A Proxy To The Customer?
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Second day of #smx, morning keynote conversation with @sullivandanny (on Instagram, @dannysullivan on twitter) and John Borthwick, founder and CEO of Betaworks. (Taken with Instagram)
Infographic: The Death Of SEO, Failed Predictions Over The Years
SEO has been declared “dead” almost from when it first began, as our post from a few years ago, Is SEO Dead? 1997 Prediction, Meet 2009 Reality, covers. Now, a new infographic is out looking at how SEO has been “dying” over the years.
The infographic is from SEO Book and is interesting in that rather than taking a timeline approach, it instead shows examples of various types of people who’ve declared that SEO is dead and why they are, as the infographic puts it, “deluded.”
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It’s “Search Week” here in NYC. Mayor Bloomberg says so.
Do you remember the “Google Dance?” It was when Google’s rankings went through a change each month, sometimes dramatically, when a new algorithm was launched. And while the Google Dance is back and happening in various ways, remember, you don’t have to go out on the dance floor.
