How to Build an Effective Digital Marketing Team with Truman Hedding
Building an efficient digital marketing team is tough! There are all those choices: Should I hire someone with experience? Should I train in-house? What’s more affordable? What will give better results in the long run? How to hire the right people? To discuss building and managing an effective digital marketing team, Jim Boykin, founder and […]
Q&A with Barry Schwartz: How to Become the Ultimate Source by Doing What You Love
If you have been in the SEO industry for just a couple of weeks, you already know who is Barry Schwartz. Barry has been reporting on SEO for almost two decades now, and he remains the ultimate source of SEO news for all this years. Without missing a day, Barry blogs on what has happened […]
Google Rich and Featured Snippets, Structured Data and More: #IMNinjas Marketing Roundup
Google has continued to focus on rich snippets and featured rich snippets – both in terms of feature releases, spam control, and general trajectory. Over on Twitter, major discussions included the role of backlinks in ranking and page breadth vs. content depth. Over on Webmaster World members discuss the likely repeal of Net Neutrality rules […]
Twitter Testing 280 Character Limit, Apple Switches To Google and Revised Adwords T & C: Weekly Forum Update
Much of the big discussion this will was around Twitters testing a character limit that is double their existing character limit. Beyond that, there was some interesting discussion around Apples switch to from bing to Google as the search engine for spotlight and Siri. Twitter tests 280 character tweets View full discussion here Twitter announced […]
Google Shopping Proposal to EU, iOS11 Intelligent Ad Blocking, Getting Accurate Rankings: Weekly Forum Update
This week Google presents their proposal for assuging EU anti trust authorities. iOS 11 launched to users with new intelligent tracking prevention. Members discuss how to get accurate rank tracking data and what to do if you’re a well known brand but do not rank for your core short tail term. Google May Open Up […]
Facebook Skewed User Data, Google on Use of Click Data in Rankings: Weekly Forum Update
This week brings us news that Facebook Ad audience metrics may as accurate as some advertisers imagine. Additionally, an attendee at an event in Canada gets confirmation that click data does play some role in organic search rankings. Also, EU renews a possible filter as part of copyright proposal Facebook Ad Metrics Questioned by Analyst […]
Gary Illyes on Link Value, Planning for Mobile First Index and More: Weekly Roundup
This week, there was much discussion and speculation around Gary Illyes claimed that you can’t know which links are critical, and how webmasters should understand what he was saying and why. The community also talked about what they hope to gain from when Google switches to mobile first indexation. Also as study shows that up […]
New Facebook Feed Ranking Factor, New Google Quality Rater Guidelines + More: Weekly Forum Update
This week there have been some interesting news from Facebook, with announcements that they will no longer be counting accidental clicks and that load time will now be feed ranking factor. Members also discussed the state of AI and if the current AI techniques are all that they are promoted to be. In Google news, […]
AMP as a Ranking Signal, Google Search Console Refresh and More: Weekly Thread Roundup
It’s been another busy week in search with a number of interesting Google announcements including a Search Console refresh and a new badge feature in image search. In highlighted discussions, Webmasters discuss what it means to be a Webmaster, revisiting pixel width, whether AMP is a ranking factor, and more? Google Search Console Refresh & […]
July Algorithm Updates, New AdSense Rule, GSC Data Anomoly & RIP Flash: Weekly Forum Update
Over the last couple weeks there has been extensive discussion around potential algorithm updates in July. Webmasters were reporting issues with Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console reported a data anomaly in search analytics data. We also say good bye (or good riddance depending on your point of view) to Adobe Flash, and more. […]