Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything you need to know
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Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything you need to know

10y Rebecca Sentance

Google’s recent SERP changes and tests: everything...

Over the past couple of weeks, Google has been spotted introducing some interesting changes to the look and layout of its search results pages. The fi...

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Artificial intelligence the star of Google I/O
Disruptive MarTech

Artificial intelligence the star of Google I/O

10y Mike O'Brien

Artificial intelligence the star of Google I/O

Google I/O was full of announcements about upcoming products and enhancements. The most notable, such as Google Assistant and Google Home, revolved ar...

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BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?
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BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?

10y Graham Charlton

BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and wh...

Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains more than 11,000 recipes, many ta...

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How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart hub?
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How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart hub?

10y Rebecca Sentance

How will consumers react to Google's 'Chirp' smart...

Following numerous rumours that Google plans to take on Amazon’s Echo with a smart home hub of its own, sources have confirmed that a product team at ...

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How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google Search
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How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google Search

10y Christopher Ratcliff

How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google ...

Five years ago, in April 2011, Zappos’ market share in Google was more than three times as large as Nordstrom‘s.  Today, Nordstrom has twice the marke...

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Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work together
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Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work together

10y Graham Charlton

Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work toge...

Content marketing and SEO should work together to get the best from both disciplines. Here are eight ways in which they can complement each other. Rea...

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How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this
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How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this

10y Christopher Ratcliff

How Google fights webspam and what you need to lea...

Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months. Or at least how it policed the vast chunk ...

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Less effective and more expensive: the circle of digital marketing life
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Less effective and more expensive: the circle of digital marketing life

10y Jonathan Beeston

Less effective and more expensive: the circle of d...

How can your email campaigns get an 88% open rate and a 68% click-through rate? There’s only one way I know: build a time machine and send them in 200...

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Local SEO: Key challenges and tips from #ClickZChat
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Local SEO: Key challenges and tips from #ClickZChat

10y Matt Owen

Local SEO: Key challenges and tips from #ClickZCha...

In previous ClickZChat sessions we’ve largely covered content and platforms, but seeing as it’s a Twitter event held by both ClickZ AND Search Engine ...

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Three research-driven PPC tips for the automotive industry
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Three research-driven PPC tips for the automotive industry

10y Purna Virji

Three research-driven PPC tips for the automotive ...

If you’re an automaker or car dealer, 2016 should be a good year for sales. Intensive research conducted by my data scientist colleagues at Bing Ads s...

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Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with search
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Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with search

10y Benjamin Spiegel

Why ranking tools need to evolve to keep up with s...

The way consumers search online has changed dramatically, but the ranking tools have yet to adapt to the search behavior of today’s consumer. Read Mor...

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Beyond local SEO: Greg Gifford on how to win the visibility race
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Beyond local SEO: Greg Gifford on how to win the visibility race

10y Rebecca Sentance

Beyond local SEO: Greg Gifford on how to win the v...

Last Friday at a packed-out Brighton SEO conference, expert local search consultant Greg Gifford delivered a fast and furious presentation on the secr...

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How to optimise your page images to increase site speed
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How to optimise your page images to increase site speed

10y Matt Owen

How to optimise your page images to increase site ...

Google’s official slogan is “Don’t Be Evil”, but it’s long been rumoured that the company has a second, internal motto that they tend to keep under wr...

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A majority of web users don't recognise ads in search results: report
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A majority of web users don't recognise ads in search results: report

10y Graham Charlton

A majority of web users don't recognise ads in sea...

A report by Ofcom has found that just 60% of adults can realise that PPC ads in search results are in fact adverts.  The report by Ofcom, the communic...

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The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site
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The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site

10y Motoko Hunt

The dangers of 'Googlizing' your site

By optimizing your website for Google, you could be sabotaging your site for Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia and Eastern Europe. Read More...

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What are the most expensive AdWords keywords in the UK? Here's the top 100
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What are the most expensive AdWords keywords in the UK? Here's the top 100

10y Chris Lake

What are the most expensive AdWords keywords in th...

Around 2003, somebody asked me a question regarding paid search: “What is the most expensive keyword is on Google Adwords, and how much does it ...

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Nick Wilsdon on Enterprise SEO and Customer Acquisition [podcast]
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Nick Wilsdon on Enterprise SEO and Customer Acquisition [podcast]

10y Christopher Ratcliff

Nick Wilsdon on Enterprise SEO and Customer Acquis...

Welcome to the latest episode of the ClickZ Digital Marketing Podcast. In this week’s edition, we interview search expert Nick Wilsdon on the current ...

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Paid search rules for ROI on mobile: report
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Paid search rules for ROI on mobile: report

10y Christopher Ratcliff

Paid search rules for ROI on mobile: report

Lead generation and direct online sales represent the two most important objectives for mobile marketers and paid search is the key mobile channel for...

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30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses
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30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses

10y Graham Charlton

30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses

For the uninitiated, SEO can seem to be a complex and foreign landscape, but it doesn’t have to be too complicated. Indeed, there’s a lot ...

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Google Analytics: A guide to confusing terms
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Google Analytics: A guide to confusing terms

10y Rebecca Sentance

Google Analytics: A guide to confusing terms

Google Analytics is a hugely useful and in-depth tool for measuring and monitoring your website’s performance, as long as you can learn its language. ...

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Mobile marketers are missing out on hyperlocal: report
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Mobile marketers are missing out on hyperlocal: report

10y Graham Charlton

Mobile marketers are missing out on hyperlocal: re...

Despite the opportunity to target customers based on their locations, just 22% of marketers agree that they are exploiting hyperlocal advertising to i...

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Google manual action penalties due to links for freebies
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Google manual action penalties due to links for freebies

10y Graham Charlton

Google manual action penalties due to links for fr...

A month ago, we reported that Google had issued warnings to bloggers over providing links in return for free products to review.  Now it seems that th...

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2016 state of link building survey: five important takeaways
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2016 state of link building survey: five important takeaways

10y Cory Collins

2016 state of link building survey: five important...

Links are still one of the most important ranking factors in Google search. This was confirmed as recently as March, when Andrey Lipattsev, a Senior Q...

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How organic search might influence the 2016 US election
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How organic search might influence the 2016 US election

10y Tereza Litsa

How organic search might influence the 2016 US ele...

Search data has always been powerful, but it becomes even more significant when we’re able to understand what people search for in relation to t...

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How are businesses using Google Posts?
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How are businesses using Google Posts?

10y Rebecca Sentance

How are businesses using Google Posts?

Google has recently debuted a new feature giving individuals and organisations a new platform for communicating with the wider public. Dubbed ‘Google ...

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Are search engines 'semantic’?
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Are search engines 'semantic’?

10y Gerald Murphy

Are search engines 'semantic’?

Let’s get to the crux of the matter. It never fails to make me smile when people misuse the term ‘semantic search’, so really… what is sem...

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22 useful IFTTT recipes for content marketing and SEO
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22 useful IFTTT recipes for content marketing and SEO

10y Christopher Ratcliff

22 useful IFTTT recipes for content marketing and ...

Imagine a world where Heath Robinson style contraptions genuinely exist and even the most complicated tasks can be achieved without you even having to...

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