Biznology

JUNE 23, 2017

Google and Facebook accounted for almost 100% of all the growth in U.S. Google and Facebook are predicted to make $106 billion from advertising this year—almost half the world’s digital ad spend. These facts state that if you do any digital advertising, you likely to be using Facebook ads or Google AdWords. billion. (

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Biznology

APRIL 3, 2018

But the truth is, you cannot afford to let another day pass without sending in your social media and search insurance premium. There is no armor available to protect you besides the active armor that is your own version of yourself online in the form of your biography, personal history and content, content and more content.

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Biznology

JUNE 9, 2015

It’s a little known fact, but something I try to remind everyone all the time, that Google Search has a lot of common with Dustin Hoffman ‘s character in Rain Man, Raymond Babbitt. Google Search has a lot of eccentricities. You make all of this explicit on Google Webmaster Tools.

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Biznology

APRIL 4, 2019

While most of the conversation focused around our new product thesis: effective visitor journeys and customer experience powered by behavior-based personalized content recommendation, people couldn’t help but talk about search failure. Site Search. So we don’t always talk about the positive effect our product has on search.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may sound counterintuitive at first, but less content can actually improve your website’s content marketing effectiveness. That’s true for content marketing, as well. Why Content Audits are Critical. Google and the other search engines seek to give their users relevant, up-to-date content.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2015

Search methods can vary and, depending on your site content and the makeup of your audience, the underlying technology can be a challenge to pull off well. Beyond the technology, there are considerations about how search functionality serves your marketing goals. It will help you learn more about your audience’s search habits.).

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

You won’t confuse your visitors or p**s off Google Search if you start posting historical newsletters, news items, press releases , product launches, and blog posts — as long as you’re honest. Google recognizes datestamps at an architectural level. Google Webmaster Tools Data Highlighter.

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Biznology

MAY 25, 2016

I had the good fortune to deliver a keynote address at the Search Insider Summit (SIS) in Key Largo, Florida on May 6th. The venues can’t be beat and your access to experts is unmatched in the world of search marketing conferences. This leads to impoverished investment in content marketing, and other problems. Voice search.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 29, 2013

It’s a great time to be passionate about social media, the Internet , online community, and the Google suite of products and services: Google’s about to reward you big-time just as Google pulls the rug out from under the feet of traditional SEO link strategies. What is Google Authorship?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

There’s one thing that everyone who comes to my door has in common, whether it was for NMS, Abraham Harrison, Reputation, Gerris , or now for Status Labs : too little content online! Google abhors a vacuum. Actually control. There’s the rub.

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Biznology

AUGUST 27, 2013

It’s the same thing with search engine optimization (SEO) and Google. . The entire SEO industry has been almost entirely fueled by exploiting shortcuts, loopholes, link syndicates, link conspiracies, strategic linking, shadow linking, and shadow content. Even Google’s human ninja reviewers often get fooled.

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2015

Search will never be the same as it was as recently as a few years ago. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. In addition to editorial “blog” content, it’s always worth developing content on the maddafella.com domain in addition to producing content only for social media.

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Biznology

JUNE 1, 2012

You’ve probably heard about the various black-and-white animals that Google has named its new search ranking algorithms for. Panda used human raters and machine learning to assign a quality rating to every Web site for every search. To me the true pursuit if quality content is like betting on mutual funds.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 21, 2020

No matter the industry and niche you operate in, ranking high on Google is not only important but necessary if you are to grow your company online and offline. The online world is becoming a more nefarious place by the day, and Google is doing everything it can to protect the digital audience. Here’s what you should know.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Content is obviously going to be a key piece to supporting that digital strategy. Search is a critical piece. Whenever we start to review Google keyword data, one of the most common questions I get is: “How do you know our target audience is actually searching for that keyword?”. Who is buying paid ads?

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

In this case, Restoration Hardware was throwing buckets of cash at Google AdWords by bidding on 3,200 keywords , none of which were converting save those 22 misspellings. As a direct result of the waste, Restoration Hardware’s CEO, Gary Friedman , dumped his entire Google AdWords campaign. Like this post?

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Biznology

DECEMBER 4, 2015

How well does Search serve us? Something I believe we all take for granted, or overlook entirely, is the nature of search. When we think of searching for something, most of us invariably look to Google. This almost reflex reaction gives Google incredible power and effectiveness. could provide biased results.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I just discovered that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) isn’t just a rebrand of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a marketing discipline that is almost universally damned as being shifty, black-hat, and more than just a little shady. How do I suddenly know all of this?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Some of you follow the news every day, watching Google like a hawk every time it makes a move. This post is for everyone else that has vaguely noticed that Google has made lots of changes over the last couple of years, but they aren’t sure about what all of them mean for search marketers. Will Google keep innovating?

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Biznology

MARCH 8, 2018

I recently commented on a LinkedIn post about the power of LinkedIn as a content marketing platform. The gist of the post was that it is rapidly becoming the go-to platform for branded content marketing. My problem with LinkedIn is I can’t find content in the platform. And I’m a power user of Google.

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Biznology

MARCH 11, 2016

Google has a new head of its search division–who used to run its artificial intelligence group! So, obviously that means that Google is going to radically change direction to inject way more AI into search right? Here are just a few reasons that this might not mean anything: Google is already doing it.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I presented our latest webinar about website search. You all spend time and money ensuring your content is optimized for Google to find you to send qualified visitors to your website. Many of you also pay Google for paid search ads to do the same thing. Learn how to improve the ROI of your website search.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2015

This news directly from Google is old news for those of us in the SEO game. It seems to me that Google’s tired of our draft work. Google seems to want us to revise our first drafts of the web. Be sure to remember that Google trades in pages. What counts as a high-quality site according to Google?

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Biznology

JANUARY 28, 2014

Google has a goal in mind and it has more to do with visitor identification as it relates to targeted advertising than it has to do with improving the quality, speed, or usefulness of searching or finding. Google wants to triangulate real name with as much online behavior as possible. Google’s conflicted.

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Biznology

APRIL 21, 2017

I had the great fortune to speak twice at the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas on March 30. Other common words included “outside-in” “big data” and “content marketing.” Data-driven content marketing is the future. Data-driven content marketing is the future.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Not so typically, I also do a lot of website search projects. One reason is that IT people typically run website search while marketers typically manage SEO. But the few clients I work with that do SEO and website search together have discovered the secret I am about to share with you. Like this post?

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Biznology

APRIL 21, 2015

If your site isn’t mobile-native today, April 21, 2015, you might lose a little under 50% of all of your search traffic. You’re in luck if you’re on the East Coast: Google’s on PST. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Google announced in September that their most recent Penguin release will be their last. For the uninitiated, Penguin is a four-year-old initiative that Google introduced to directly reduce spammy websites in the search results. So, does this final release mean that there is no more for Google to do to curb spamming?

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Biznology

JUNE 25, 2010

I am knee deep in a project for a client that is designed to take their national presence and represent it locally (in Google primarily) through making sure their 28 local branches are found in local searches. Search engine results pages (SERPs) for local search have become increasingly competitive. Why unique content?

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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2018

Accelerated mobile pages are flat HTML web pages that follow Google ‘s guidelines and are hosted by Google to boost page load performance on mobile devices. The three reasons to avoid AMPs boil down to one: you need JavaScript to track and measure marketing effectiveness, and to build more personalized content experiences.

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Biznology

JUNE 23, 2015

Twitter and Google have made amends. Before then, Google built its real-time-web on the immediacy of Twitter, drinking deeply from the nowness of its river of news. Then Twitter cut Google completely off, blocking direct access to the pulse of the Internet. In the past, this was not the case. And not only Twitter, either.

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Biznology

MARCH 31, 2015

Last week I shared a couple Google Webmaster Tools tips and tricks with you. If you have been obsessing on your Google Analytics numbers, cruising the SEO boards, and picking through MOZ and Woorank , wondering what Google wants and needs from you while scratching your head, then let me enlighten you!

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Biznology

MAY 5, 2014

So, which of these three categories contains search? Most casual observers would place paid search in paid media, SEO in earned (link building and PageRank, for instance), and social in either owned — or if you were using such things as Facebook’s Promoted Posts or Twitter’s Promoted Tweets features — paid. And with Panda.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 27, 2013

And, while looking through some year-end reports, I had a chilling thought: What if Google really sticks it to us next year? Now, before we go too far down this path, let’s be clear: I’m not asking whether Google is evil. Growth of Google Now and Conversational Search may further reduce your opportunity to be seen.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Search has been around a long time–since 1995–and even Google has been around since 1998. You would think that by now that we would all be doing every kind of search marketing there is. I am sure that you are working on organic search, which most folks like to call Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.

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Biznology

APRIL 12, 2017

It’s not often that you’ll hear a content marketing guy tell you that a big investment in SEO isn’t for everyone. But if your marketing focus doesn’t include creating a steady stream of content for your website, for example, it may not make sense to commit resources to an on-going SEO campaign. The importance of keywords.

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Biznology

MAY 29, 2018

Most modern content management (CMS) sites support plugins and modules. There are a variety of 3rd party modules that can automatically optimize site content and site images in the background after setting up these plug-ins and integrating them into Google and Bing Webmaster tools, etc. Writing Copy for Search.

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