Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
Updated: 2012-01-31 21:11:53
. Home Members Only All News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here All E-Solutions Spotlights : Featured Member Login Be A Member Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt . Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot Jan 31, 2012 at 4:11pm ET by Matt McGee Tweet Matt Cutts , international diplomat That might be the more appropriate title for Google’s chief spam . cop According to the Wall Street Journal Cutts is in South Korea this week and , in a presentation Monday night for about 80 government officials , webmasters , lawyers and journalists , managed to singlehandedly convince some government reps to let Googlebot crawl and index their . websites One of those in the audience was Kang Min-koo , a senior judge in the Seoul High Court . When he saw the
Search Engine Journal Home About Us Contribute News SEO Tools Social Link Building PPC Advertise You are here : Home News Zendesk Announces Availability in Google Chrome Web Store Zendesk Announces Availability in Google Chrome Web Store January 31, 2012 By Melissa Fach Leave a Comment Tweet Zendesk , the cloud-based help desk technology behind Groupon and Zappos , announced today its availability in the Google Chrome Web Store Zendesk has two offerings on the Google Chrome Web Store . The first is the Zendesk Activity Stream that displays recent customer service activity on the computer desktop when new inquiries come in . Agents never have to miss customer service requests even if they are not working in their browser and this feature is available in multiple languages . The second
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, Home Members Only All News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here All E-Solutions Spotlights : Featured Member Login Be A Member Column : Search Social Google+ Growing Your Social Network : Quantity vs . Quality Jan 31, 2012 at 12:02pm ET by Aaron Friedman Tweet There is an ongoing discussion trying to better understand what Google+ brings to the table . Recently , the stats were released that Google+ now has 90M users and about 60 log in every day Will Google+ ever be that Facebook killer” that everyone keeps speculating That has yet to be demonstrated . My hunch is that it won’t . Not because it can’t , but because I am not convinced that was ever the goal of . Google+ Recent algorithm changes , namely Google your world support what I am
Home Members Only All News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here All E-Solutions Spotlights : Featured Member Login Be A Member Column : Keywords Content 12 Steps To Optimize A Webpage For Organic Keywords Jan 31, 2012 at 11:27am ET by George Aspland Tweet In this article , I’ll outline the steps I take to optimize a webpage to try to improve organic search results both increase rankings and improve click-throughs from the search . listings If you’ve been following along in this series , we covered the first steps in the previous two . articles 1. Choose The Keywords To Focus On In Organic Keywords : The First Step In Search Engine Optimization I covered how to use Google analytics to choose the organic keyword phrases to focus on first in your
: Home Members Only All News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here All E-Solutions Spotlights : Featured Member Login Be A Member Column : Link Week Link Building Tool Review : WordTracker Link Builder Jan 31, 2012 at 10:58am ET by Debra Mastaler Tweet This week’s tool review focuses on the Link Builder toolset from Wordtracker Wordtracker has been around since 1998 and is most widely known as a keyword research . tool In 2010, they added Link Builder in response to consumer demand and to help their keyword customers with their link building efforts . Based in London , the Wordtracker staff is an international bunch , hailing from England , France , Italy , India , Australia and Ireland . To prove this , CMO Ken McGaffin jokingly pointed : out I’m
: Home Members Only All News Features Columns SEM SEO PPC Social Media How To Google Search First Time Here All E-Solutions Spotlights : Featured Member Login Be A Member Column : Multinational Search 3 Essential Features For Multinational Content Delivery Jan 31, 2012 at 10:41am ET by Chris Liversidge Tweet Most multinational sites will serve content via a Content Delivery Network CDN But not all CDNs are equal : what should you look for to get the best bang for your buck in Search Engine Result Pages SERPs across the globe Since Google’s Caffeine update to its server infrastructure back in June 2010, Google has stepped up the importance of page load speed to its core algorithm . But page load speed has always been important to Google in providing a good searcher experience for Google .
Search Engine Journal Home About Us Contribute News SEO Tools Social Link Building PPC Advertise You are here : Home News BlueGlass Aquires Voltier Digital BlueGlass Aquires Voltier Digital January 31, 2012 By Melissa Fach Leave a Comment Tweet When asked about this acquisition Chris Winfield said , I have known and worked with the team at Voltier for about 4 years that’s actually 28 in Internet time and I have always been so impressed by what they come up with . They are some of the most creative and inventive people I have ever known . They fit the BlueGlass mold’ perfectly and we really wanted them to become a part of our team . With a little persistence , we were able to make it happen . 8221 BlueGlass which formed in 2010, has been acquiring several key people that may play into the
, Search Engine Journal Home About Us Contribute News SEO Tools Social Link Building PPC Advertise You are here : Home PPC AdWords , Plus Your World 7 Examples of How SPYW Could Impact SEM AdWords , Plus Your World 7 Examples of How SPYW Could Impact SEM January 30, 2012 By Glenn Gabe 5 Comments Tweet When Google+ first hit the scene this past summer , I couldn’t help but think about how the fledgling social network could eventually be monetized by Google . I do a lot of SEM work and know how powerful Google’s AdWords platform is , as well as how much revenue it generates for Google . The AdWords platform generates approximately 97 of Google’s revenue each year . Therefore , you knew it was only a matter of time before Google began to leverage Google+ to drive more paid search . revenue
Search Engine Journal Home About Us Contribute News SEO Tools Social Link Building PPC Advertise You are here : Home SEO Why These 3 Ranking Factors Matter but Nobody Seems to Care About Why These 3 Ranking Factors Matter but Nobody Seems to Care About January 30, 2012 By Neil Patel 10 Comments Tweet While factors like local relevance , link building and trust seem to get all the attention these days , there are some ranking factors that you need to learn how to use effectively if you want to become a top-notch . SEO The following ranking factors have proven to be equally important to the other factors . In fact , learn how to leverage these factors with the other factors and you will become one powerful SEO building sites that generate lots of hard search traffic for you and your .
SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home SEO How to Harmonize Google+ With Your Other Social Platforms by Guillaume Bouchard January 30, 2012 Comments Image Credit : Venture Beat Google's Search Plus Your World is the most recent and arguably most significant change the search engine behemoth has made to search yet . In the old days old a couple of weeks ago search results could be based on say , keyword relevancy , page authority , and social signals With Search Plus , the nature of search , relevancy and ranking is transforming Search Plus essentially aggregates data from your Google+ network when you're signed in and delivers personalized results from your Google+ network which get bumped up to the top of your search
: SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home SEO Reach and Frequency : SEO Secret to Brand Building on Google by Mark Jackson January 29, 2012 Comments For those of us who have been in search engine optimization SEO for a number of years , we can recall the days when SEO efforts were measured by a ranking report , alone . That is to say , you might pick your top 50 keywords , dump these into a rank checker , run a report monthly , and determine whether these 50 keywords moved up successfully or fell in the search . rankings SEO Evolution We evolved . : We Incorporated reports on link building . efforts Started to incorporate increases in natural organic search traffic from our web analytics . reports Started breaking out
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SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home Mobile QR Marketing Evolving Rapidly Study by ClickZ January 28, 2012 Comments Rapid adoption of QR codes and other action codes is only part of the story in a new study . More important is the way that marketers are learning to use them more . effectively Nellymoser Inc . released a study of all 2011 issues of the top 100 U.S . magazines . It found that advertising drove the 439 percent increase in action codes from January through December . In January , there were seven advertising codes for each editorial code . By September , the ratio was nearly 25:1. In the beginning of the year , it was really very much an experiment , says Roger Matus , Nellymoser executive vice president 
SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home Social Twitter Buys Startup Dasient to Fight Malicious Advertising by ClickZ January 28, 2012 Comments Twitter has acquired security startup Dasient , which describes itself as an anti-malware vendor for large enterprises in the financial services , media , and online sectors . Its technology will be housed within Twitter's revenue engineering team , which suggests its primary purpose will be to identify malicious ads submitted through the company's nascent self-serve ad platform before they go . live In 2010, the company released a service that scanned for malicious ads for instance the kind that forced downloads on unsuspecting users . The buyers of these ads often present
, SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home Mobile Tablet , E-Reader Ownership Doubled Over Holidays by ClickZ January 28, 2012 Comments When it comes to tablets and e-readers , American adults apparently feel it is better to receive than to shell out their own . cash After a slowdown in the fall of 2011, the share of adults who owned tablet computers or e-readers nearly doubled over the holidays , according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project . The findings strongly suggest last year's slowdown was caused at least in part by people who anticipated receiving one of the devices as holiday . gifts The percentage of adults in the United States who own tablets reached 19 percent in early January ,
SEO News Search Industry SEO PPC Analytics Social Local Mobile Video Companies Technology You are here : Home PPC Con Artist Shares Inside Story of Google Pharmacy Ad Sting by Miranda Miller January 27, 2012 Comments David Whitaker used his Rhode Island electronics equipment company , MixITforME.com , to scam customers and a credit card processing company out of up to 20 million in 2005. After accepting millions of dollars in orders for iPods and failing to fulfill many , Whitaker did what any reasonable person would do . he hired a private security detail , rented a private jet , and skipped . town It wasn't his first time at the rodeo . Whitaker had stolen his mother's credit card at 16 years old , to rent a private jet and take his girlfriend on a shopping spree . When he started
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