In most cases, SEO projects take place after a website is created. People think of improving the web design, the usability, and even some content strategy, but they rarely think of SEO at the beginning of the website design process. There are usually 3 primary reasons for site owners to not implement your detailed SEO […]
Archives for 2014
HTTPS as Ranking Signal Affects Content Sites Too
With Google now giving secured sites a slight boost in the search algorithm – and with the potential for that boost to be turned up even more – there have been plenty of webmasters who own content sites who are confident that this doesn’t apply to them. But in actuality, content sites can definitely benefit […]
Google Gives Search Algorithm Boost to Secure Sites
We all knew it would only be a matter of time before Google began weighting sites that were using HTTPS a bit higher than non-secure sites. Matt Cutts had hinted about it and Google has been stressing the importance of the secured web for quite some time, so many webmasters were being proactive about the […]
Tycoon Can Sue Google Over Autocomplete Suggestions for His Name
We have all seen funny autocomplete suggestions given when we are searching for something. However it is those autocompletes that has opened up Google to a lawsuit by a tycoon who is unhappy with the particular suggestions that appear when searching for his name. The suggestions for “triad,”, a Chinese organized crime syndicate, occurred in […]
Twitter Hints at eCommerce, Adds New Payments & Shipping Options
Twitter has just dropped a huge hint about where they plan to go for commercial Twitter users, with a brand new “Payment and Shipping” setting that has showed up on some mobile user’s Twitter accounts. Twiter hints at ecommerce future with new “Payments & Shipping” option in settings. Click To Tweet Here is what the […]
Sites Blocking Third Party Link Tools Ahrefs & Majestic
Many SEOs rely pretty heavily on link tools such as Ahrefs and Majestic in order to audit links or simply watch for newly linking sites. But some websites are either tired of receiving link removal requests or are selling backlinks and don’t want them to show up as a low quality link under analysis, and […]
Your Twitter Stream Could Be Filled With Brands Your Friends Follow
Regardless of what you think of ads on Twitter, there are some people unhappy with a new test Twitter is running which seems to be disguising sponsored tweets as regular tweets. These tweets appear to be from highly-followed accounts, but they show up in the stream with a notation about “<name> follows” along with a […]
Does Your SEM Company Fail at Mobile Marketing?
Mobile Marketing has been urgently knocking on search agencies’ doors for years now, begging to be integrated effectively into their offerings, but the plea remains largely unanswered. Early this year, 2014, Acquisio surveyed a group of SEM agencies to learn their top digital advertising objectives for the year. When we asked the agencies about the […]
Bing Ads Launches Brand New Interface & Features
Bing Ads has launched their promised update of Bing Ads for advertisers, revamping the user interface and adding additional functionality and features that have been requested by the community. This new look has been beta tested by Bing Ads advertisers for feedback prior to being released to more advertisers. The new look, which has started […]
Should Yelp Flag or Remove Listings Where Owners Fine for Bad Reviews?
A story broke about a hotel that caters to wedding parties would fine the bridal couple a $500 fee for every bad review left by a wedding guest on Yelp or another review site. This fine would be taken from the deposit the Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York collects when a couple […]