Yesterday’s acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo could spell out some interesting new directions for both companies, especially where marketing, advertising and search is concerned and depending on just what Yahoo plans to do with their new toy. Read more →
Posts by Ryan Miller
High Profile News Org Twitter Hacks Remind Users to Stay Vigilant
Over the last few months a rash of social account hacks of major media outlets have been generating headlines across the industry. In just the month of April alone, the accounts of the Associated Press, NPR, The Guardian and CBS were all breached, with the AP incident causing the biggest stir. The hackers of the AP’s Twitter account posted a fake Read more →
Google Local Listings Revamp in Universal Results
While Google has been hinting at publicly revealing a massive revamp to maps section at the upcoming I/O Conference this week in San Francisco, it appears that a local listings makeover in Google universal results is already starting to get rolled out, or at least tested to gauge reaction.
Doing searches specifically in Google Chrome now yields Read more →
Headline Character Count for SEO: Is Gawker Media’s Nick Denton Right?
Yesterday, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton sent out a memo to all staff notifying them that they must limit their headline character count to 70 or less in direct relation to the site’s ability to rank in Google. The memo Read more →
Google’s Panda Algorithm Evolves and Penguin Update Planned for 2013
During SMX West this week, Google and their head of the webspam team Matt Cutts announced several changes to their two current major algorithm initiatives Panda and Penguin.
The Panda algorithm update, which was initially launched in early 2011, has the core purpose of eliminating low quality, duplicate and overall spammy content from having a high search Read more →
Authorship Confirmed as Influence on Search Rankings by Google’s Schmidt
The idea of tying content published online to a verified author and applying a trust factor to that author’s expertise as a way of identifying trusted – commonly referred to as Authorship and AuthorRank – has long been discussed as a potential algorithm game changer within the search engine optimization industry. Until now though, this has been purely Read more →
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