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How do SEOs Develop a Content Marketing Mindset?

Today’s blog post comes from Arnie Kuenn is the president of Vertical Measures, a search, social & content marketing company helping their clients get more traffic, more leads, and more business.  More information about Arnie can be found at the bottom of this page.  Look for posts from other thought leaders and guest bloggers in the future. ——– It’s [...]

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DanBoberg

SyCara Universal Ranking Release

On behalf of the SyCara product team, I am excited to announce the updated release of SyCara Universal Ranking! This update provides users with a simplified dashboard to easily analyze multi-channel keyword targeting across multiple search categories like blogs, products (shopping), images, maps, videos, local and news. Since Google launched universal search in 2007, SEO [...]

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Jen Dorre

Another Google Update…52 Search Quality Highlights for April

Are you wondering why your favorite SEO specialist seems a bit more disgruntled than usual this week?  It might have something to do with Google’s “Search Quality Highlights” release for April, which includes 52 changes and updates. While Google is making these changes to create more high-quality sites, the company is doing so at the confusion [...]

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Dylan Downhill

Google Search quality highlights: 50 changes for March

Another 50 changes for March. Highlights for me are: lots of work on synonyms. site quality algorithm changes. +1 going international. Full list is: Autocomplete with math symbols. Improvements to handling of symbols for indexing. Better scoring of news groupings. Sitelinks data refresh. Improvements to autocomplete backends, coverage Better handling of password changes. Better indexing [...]

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Dylan Downhill

Build My Rank No More

Build My Rank was a link building company with many thousands of clients. As selling links is against Google TOS they’ve been operating outside the accepted white hat SEO methods for a long while. Well finally on March 19th Google decided to kill off the BMR network and slapped notices on (allegedly) 700,000+ websites that [...]

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Steve Sasman

SyCara’s SES NY Preview – Big Announcements in the Big Apple

Once again the team from SyCara will make the pilgrimage to the Search Engine Strategies (SES) New York Conference March 20-23. Is there a better place to interact with the smartest search and social marketers in the free world?   SyCara’s “Social Insights” Announcement Who wants to get social? Our industry leading technology platform is releasing “SyCara [...]

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Jen Dorre

How Google’s 40 Search Quality Highlights Can Impact Your SEO Strategy

It has been a week since Google announced its “Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February” and SEO’s remain relatively quiet about the last round of updates. This release marks one of the most detailed search engine updates we have seen to date.  The latest round of changes included improvements to sitelinks, autocomplete, indexing and [...]

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Dylan Downhill

SyCara Share of Voice

One of the seemingly obvious questions in SEO is ‘who is my real competition?’ As the video featured below discusses, brand competition should be obvious but can sometimes differ from online competition on SERPs. Domain competition can also vary according to the different keyword groups that are used. Traditional share of voice analysis requires researching [...]

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