Report: US Search Ad Spend Rises 12 Percent YoY In Q4 2013; Smartphone CPCs Drop

IgnitionOne released its fourth quarter Digital Marketing Report today, showing that the paid search market in the US continues to grow. Search ad spend rose 12 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2013. In part as a result of the later kick-off to the holiday shopping season this year,…

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Top Search Marketing Columns of 2013

This past year saw many exciting changes in the world of search. From the birth of Enhanced Campaigns and Hummingbird to the death of the Keyword Tool and keyword referral data, search marketers of all stripes have had to make quite a few adjustments to their daily routines and long-term…

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Search Engine Land’s Most-Shared Stories on Google+ for 2013: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, What’s Next, & What’s Dead

Happy New Year to you, search marketing friends! Surely you’re eager to dive head-first into 2014, weighing predictions and forecasts of what’s next in the worlds of SEO and SEM, but we’ve still got an installment or two in our Search Engine Land Year In Review series! So…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 31, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Infographic: The Biggest Changes To Google Search In 2013 What were some of the biggest changes to Google Search in 2013, in terms of how its search algorithms…

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Infographic: The Biggest Changes To Google Search In 2013

What were some of the biggest changes to Google Search in 2013, in terms of how its search algorithms ranked and displayed information? How about an infographic rundown, as we close out the year? Produced by the folks at E2M Solutions, the infographic covers a number of important updates and other…

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Year Of The Hummingbird: Our Top SEO Columns Of 2013

Our All Things SEO column covers a wide range of topics within the realm of organic search, and this past year saw no dearth of material for our columnists. Perhaps one of the most widely discussed issues within the SEO community in 2013 was the loss of keyword referral data, as Google moved to…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 30, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 2014 SEO Playbook: Off-Page Factors Are you ready for 2014? Today’s column marks the third and final entry in my annual SEO Playbook. Part 1 primarily…

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Link Building 2013: Looking Back At This Year’s Top Link Week Columns

With each passing year, search engine algorithms grow increasingly sophisticated in their ability to identify (and penalize) spammy links. Among other things, this year marked the fourth and fifth releases of Google’s spam-filtering Penguin update (Penguin 2.0 and 2.1, respectively)….

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 27, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Understand And Optimize AdWords Search Partners Data Here at Hanapin, we have a monthly training day. We shut down the office and all the account managers…

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Checking In: Our Top Local Search Columns Of 2013

As more and more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) venture into the digital marketing arena, they are quickly recognizing the importance of being visible within local search results. This past year saw the official launch of Google’s Knowledge Graph Carousel for local search results,…

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