“We are currently testing the change to use SSL for built-in Google searches in our Firefox nightly channel. If no issues are uncovered, it will move through our Aurora and Beta release channels before eventually shipping to all our Firefox users. This will include migrating the chang...
Today's an exciting day! We're thrilled to announce the launch of the 2012 SEOmoz Industry Survey . It's been 2 long years since our last survey , which had more than 10,000 respondents from around the world and produced some of the most detailed public information ever assembled abou...
This article is all about the lies we tell. I know everyone loves when a post starts this way, but SEO is not dead, or dying for that matter. At least I certainly hope that’s not the case, considering I and many others reading this make a livelihood working in it. But SEO is certainly...
Since the Panda update, more and more people are trying to control their Google index and prune out low-quality pages. I’m a firm believer in aggressively managing your own index, but it’s not always easy, and I’m seeing a couple of common mistakes pop up. One mistake is thinking that...
Most local search professionals will tell you that citations and site relevance to the target geo are the keys to ranking in local search engine results pages (SERPs). Testing and retesting old methods is part of maintaining SEO strategies so it seemed a smart choice to take a closer ...
Microsoft’s adCenter Improvements Rolling Out Fast And Furiously Mar 21, 2012 at 8:00pm ET by Pamela Parker Tweet Pin It A year and a half ago, changes to Microsoft’s adCenter interface appeared maybe once or twice a quarter. This year, stay tuned for monthly updates bringing everythi...
Google says it’s tired of squeezing display advertising into an interface made for search, so it’s giving display its own tab within the AdWords interface . Given that display was launched almost as an afterthought to AdWords’ core search ads business, it makes sense to start from scr...
SEOmoz has announced the SEOmoz Industry Survey is now open and ready for you to take. You can take the survey online over here . The last time SEOmoz ran this survey was two years ago, you can see the results of that survey over here . The survey has 54 questions and should take you ...
Once you've established a relationship with someone, its kinda rude to use form letters. You don't form letter your mum, so don't form letter your link prospects. We live in a world where authenticity rules. It cuts through the noise and clutter. Caring about people and relationships ...
Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow The popular Firefox browser is on track to use a secure method of searching Google by default, a change that will help prevent potential “eavesdropping” of what people are searching for. It w...
Point out the fact that SM will be around for some time to come – Even though items like New Coke and Beanie Babies have come and gone, social media isn’t disappearing in the near future from all accounts. What social media gives business leaders that nothing else can is real-time int...
Following up Day 1, SES New York attendees learned more of the latest tools, trends, and strategies in sessions covering search engine optimization (SEO), paid search, landing page optimization, mobile, social, local, and more. Here's a roundup of Day 2 live blogging and coverage of S...
This change in the Google Algorithm should be one that business owners are happy about and embrace. In the past it was sometimes difficult to merge the business message and the desires on how a business owner wanted to present their content and implement the necessary SEO strategy wit...
Is it better to use a single tag for your videos or to use a lot of tags and litter the tag field with as many keywords as you can that are relevant to your video? One of our readers asked us that question in a comment on a previous video and so I posed it to Nalts for his official an...
One of the main features analytics junkies have been waiting for in the new Google Analytics interface was the ability to schedule out PDF formatted analytics reports. That feature seems to have been quietly added recently. A Google Analytics Help thread has an update from one Analyti...
Christopher Soghoian noticed that the developer trunk of Firefox added as a default to use Google's HTTPS search. Danny Sullivan did some information seeking and confirmed Firefox has intentions to release this as the default Google search behavior in the near future, as long as the t...
According to the Irish analytics firm StatCounter, Google’s Chrome browser recently became the world’s most popular PC browser for one day. The StatCounter data, which is based on visitor information from 3 million websites and 15 billion page views each month, indicates that on March...
It has been about a year and a half since we last reported on Google's view of HTML5 where John Mueller of Google said "our crawlers are used to not being able to parse all HTML markup," adding "HTML5 is still very much a work in progress." But now, the same John Mueller 1.5 years lat...
Welcome back to aimClear’s coverage of #SESNY 2012! “ Automate Social Media.” To some community managers, that’s the same as saying, “Kill Puppy Dogs” or “French Kiss a Circuit Board.” Uh, something like that, anyway. Point is – social media is typically regarded as the more humanisti...
Not Provided To Spike When Firefox Adds Google SSL As Default ristopher Soghoian noticed that the developer trunk of Firefox added as a default to use Google's HTTPS search. Danny Sullivan did some information seeking and confirmed Firefox has intentions to release this as the default...
How come these people recognize me? They only know my nickname, my avatar or even less, they only remember an article of mine. That’s sometimes enough to build a real life link. An article that has changed their approach to SEO might be powerful enough to be remembered ten years from ...
Winning Links for New Websites (Page 1 of 2 ) An established website with regular visitors and a blog with a following face fewer difficulties building links than a brand-new site that no one knows exists. If you own a new site, chances are you need to build links. So how do you get s...
This is what I most commonly use in my accounts. It requires analysis as opposed to recognition (as in the case of exact match negatives). I tend to use phrase match when there is an irrelevant token (or more than one) contained within a query. For example, if I were a divorce lawyer ...
There are various components an organization must account for when trying to get any type of success from the online environment. Whether your company is a Mom and Pop establishment or a major chain of stores, neglecting such parts could only serve to harm your capability to get succe...
Personally, I have been in the SEO game for 8 years. In my short time in this field I have come across very few people that inspire my SEO theory and challenge the way I practice. A little under 6 months ago I met Jeff at a Seattle SEO Network event . Quickly I understood that Jeff wa...
I am not sure why you are suggesting that accountability and transparency are equivalents. Its not clear to me that a Wikileaks doesn’t make public officials more transparent but less able to do their jobs. In a sense, then, the transparency is making officials less able to be held ac...
SEOmoz’s industry survey collects a lot of data about we fabulous search marketers. The infographic below contains data from last year’s survey that over 10,000 people participated in. You can be a part of 2012′s survey and help SEOmoz collect useful data that can be helpful to all ou...
Whenever a new social media channel comes out, there's always this period of waiting with baited breath while we see how marketers are going to utilize it. It's almost like the first really big campaign both gives the site legitimacy and helps remind us of the full potential. While we...
Any guesses on what many views or how much time? Well, AccuStream took all the guesswork out of the equation with their latest research as they totaled up views and time spent watching profession and user-generated video content for all of last year. The numbers, are pretty large thou...
Google's Blogger has added several new "search preferences" settings to the Blogger administration controls. You can now configure your robots.txt file, meta descriptions, meta tags, set up redirects, customize your error pages, add alt and title attributes to links and even add the n...
