With Wavii, Did Google Acquire the Future of Web Search?

Google acquired the company Wavii for a little more than $ 30 Million in April. There was some speculation that Wavii was an effort to match Yahoo’s purchase of Summly, which summarizes news from the Web. A Wavii app did do just that – acquired and summarized news from the Web. When Wavii [...] The …

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Getting Granular With User Generated Content

The stock market had a flash crash today after someone hacked the AP account & made a fake announcement about bombs going off at the White House. Recently Twitter’s search functionality has grown so inundated with spam that I don’t even look at the brand related searches much anymore. While you can block individual users, …

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Banks Offer Spamming Advice

Banks Offer Spamming Advice on Martin Macdonald Tweet thisSEO is an interesting game, we know how big brands (like Interflora) sometimes get it totally wrong and buy links resulting in google penalties – and you really shouldn’t play with fire unless you’re either: a) an experienced professional SEO or… Read more › Banks Offer Spamming Advice on …

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5 Quick Ways to Build a Better Business Blog

This post has been syndicated from Powered by Search, a Toronto SEO & Inbound Marketing agency. You heard about the benefits of business blogging and decided to create one for your own company, but now you’re not seeing the results you wanted. Don’t take this as a sign that you should abandon the project altogether! …

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Search Tips of the Week: Nudge, SEO, and Market Research

This post has been syndicated from Powered by Search, a Toronto SEO & Inbound Marketing agency. This week’s search tips of the week cover the latest Google Algorithm update, the power of nudges, modern technical SEO, a guide to advanced search operators, and the relevance of market research. Penguin Spam Report - If you see a …

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Why Offline Businesses Need Online Marketing by @BrandMeAU

You have a local based brick and mortar business, so no reason to invest in online marketing, right? Location based businesses couldn’t be more wrong. Do not miss out on sales and customers by ignoring or avoiding online marketing.  One of the key principles of business is to be where your target audience is looking …

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OMG! Algorithm Update is off the Scale

Matt Cutts wasn’t wrong, the latest algorithm change was major. Algoroo was off the scale yesterday, we don’t even have a gauge that goes that high in our roo metric widget. Source: http://algoroo.com/ Even though the estimated percentage of affected queries was apparently quite low, we’re still seeing major fluctuations (both ups and downs) in the …

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Bing Updates News Search With Visual Carousel and Extended Index

“…you can search for a notable person in current events and not only see the top news results from across the web, but also a visual carousel which allows you to explore important and timely topics related to the specific person you’re searching for.”

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How Small Wins Can Help Build Trust

Gaining the trust of your clients can be very difficult, especially if the client has worked with an unethical SEO company in the past. I want to share a story on how we got the client approval process down to 5-7 days from 4-8 weeks by having some small wins and building trust with the …

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Measuring Social Media

Measuring PPC and SEO is relatively straightforward. But how do we go about credibly measuring social media campaigns, and wider public relations and audience awareness campaigns? As the hype level of social media starts to fall, then more questions are asked about return on investment. During the early days of anything, the hype of the …

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Digg banned from Google?

Digg banned from Google? on Martin Macdonald Tweet thisSomething interesting has just come across one of my networks (hat tip to datadial), just a few days after Digg have announced that they are building a replacement for the much loved Google Reader, they have (coincidentally?) disappeared from… Read more › Digg banned from Google? on …

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Plugging the link leaks, part 2 – site canonicalisation

A couple of months ago we took a look at how you can reclaim links that you are simply throwing away. For the second look at how to fix common link leaks, we’re going to look at issues around site canonicalisation, and how easy it is to lose link authority through simple duplicate URLs. As …

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Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New “Super-Specific” Search Filters

Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if… . About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing

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This Week in Search: Penguin 2.0 Video Update by @johnrampton

This week in search we talk about everything to deal with Penguin 2.0.  We cover everything you need to know to keep you and your site up to date.  If you missed, last week we talked about Bing Search. Penguin 2.0, here is everything you need to know.  Our goal with these videos is to help our …

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The Future of Article Spinning in Modern Corporate Climate

  Scenario-based, compatible, benchmarks 24/7 foster workflows. Phased and top-level accomplishments generate a decentralized relationship. Momentums synergize the community, while the benchmarkings enable the business leaders because our wide-spectrum concepts produce proven throughput increase. The stakeholders quickly improve atmospheres. Verifiable requirements adequately strengthen the Balanced Scorecard champion ahead of schedule. … The post The Future …

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 24, 2013

Very busy week with Google releasing the major next generation Penguin update, Penguin 2.0. Bing also may have made a search update a few… Search Engine Roundtable

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