
The Fatal Mistake Content Marketers Are Making With Nofollow
RIP, content marketing. Thanks to Google’s algorithm updates and quality guidelines that require paid links to include a nofollow tag,...

The Slipperiest Search Campaign Ever
There are a lot slick opportunities out there in search marketing. The wheels of progress have never been greasier. Yep, since people...

Beyond SEM: When You’ve Maxed Your Search Ads, What’s Next?
Advertisers frequently tell me, “If you can hit my CPA target, my SEM budget is unlimited!” This is great in theory but often limited in...

For Product Brands, Paid Search On Retailers’ Sites Pays Off
Last year, Google made what was to some a surprising announcement: its previously free Google Product Search would become Google...

7 Ways Google Glass Will Change Search, And How It Should Change Your Marketing
It’s official. Google Glass will be openly available for purchase later this year. That means two things: Expect to see a lot of new...

Growth Hacking Is Bull, Part 2
“Accounting is a department. Marketing isn’t. Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.”Fried, Jason, and David...

Say No To Commercial Creep In Search Results
You’ve read all the guidelines. You’ve hired experts to determine the morally correct and righteous path. You’ve watched the endless...

Growth Hacking Is Bull
Doing SEO, SEM or social media marketing isn’t “growth hacking.” It’s just marketing. Problem is some marketers & start-ups don’t get...

All I Want For Christmas…Is Bing Ads?
As of November, Google garners just under 67% of the market for search. One would expect the distribution of budgets within a PPC...

Facebook’s Flawed News Feed Bumping & The Rebirth Of Bad Content
Personally speaking, I have no problem that Facebook is making changes to the news feed. I also have no problem that it has started story...

Client, Agency, And Vendor Wishlists For Santa
And, is there really anything more fun than sitting on our high horses — granted to us by the writing gods — and picking on other people?...

Not Who, But What, Is Driving Google?
With the depth of attention given to Google’s broken promises lately, the natural-language-processing, sometimes-sponsored-content-identi...

How To Use Paid Search To Aid Your SEO
A lot has changed in the world of search marketing over the last year. From Enhanced Campaigns to Hummingbird and not provided, search...

Google’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine?
In the past, Google might have explained such shifts in an attempt to maintain user trust. Now, Google either assumes it has so much user...

The Ultimate Holiday Prep List: 28 Things Every Marketer Should Do
All right, so maybe that title is a little arrogant. After all, there are a million holiday list articles this time of year, ranging from...

3 Paid Search Tips For A Successful Holiday Season
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, it is high time search marketers got their paid search program ready to scale up...

The Brain Pick: Marketing Geniuses, Don’t Give It Away For Free!
Ever get those emails asking to “pick your brain” for some ideas? The good-hearted person in you says, “I can do that!” But favors like...

Search. Browse. Abandon? How Automation Converts Browsers Into Buyers
Image via Shutterstock Any marketer (at least one who hasn’t been living in a cave without Wi-Fi) knows the potential of search traffic...

The Growing Divide Between Paid Search & Marketing
Like most people, I hate being wrong. Let me correct myself: I hate being wrong. There is nothing worse than that sinking feeling when...
























