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Social Signals in Search – Optimizing Google+

November 3, 2011 1 Comment

In a prior post, I discussed optimizing Facebook for search engine results. As we’ve seen, what you’ve do in social media has a direct effect on how (or if) you are found in search results. Not only does what you do in Facebook matter, Google+ also has a role in search engine results. They are [...]

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Social Signals in Search – Author Highlighting

October 3, 2011 No Comments

As part of my series on the integration social signals in search, it’s time to discuss author highlighting in Google. Last week, we started with the timeline of how social media became integrated with search engines. It’s an ever-changing set of events. In the summer of 2011, Google announced the highlighting of the authorship of [...]

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Social Signals in Search – Timeline

September 25, 2011 1 Comment

Over the next few weeks, I will be writing about “Social Signals in Search”. The fact is, what you do in Facebook, Twitter and Google+ directly affects search. How your site is found, indexed, and displayed is connected to social. I will dive into some of these specific areas moving forward. For now, I am [...]

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Being Less Creepy with Remarketing

September 14, 2011 No Comments

On Wednesday, September 14th (the date of this post) I spoke in New York City on one of my favorite topics: Remarketing. If you attended SMX East, among other places, you would have found me on a discussion panel called: ‘Will Retargeting & Remarketing Become Too Creepy?’ Retargeting is nothing new, its Google’s Remarketing, that [...]

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AdWords Changes: Bottom Ads & Top Page Bid Estimates

September 5, 2011 No Comments

Google is in the process of making some significant changes for advertisers. Two that have really intrigued me the most are: Ads showing at bottom of search results and top of page bid estimates. Ads at Bottom of Results A Search Engine Land reader recently found cases where additional ads were being displayed at the [...]

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