For the past five to six months the search industry has been buzzing with talk around the biggest change to Google search results for quite some time – the mobile-first index .
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Mobile-First Indexing: Everything we know, and how it could affect you
Part one of our series on Why Companies Create Content we looked at changing customer perception and part two focused on making use of public opinion. This next instalment explores how companies can best construct content to respond to the frequent (and not so frequent) queries that come from their audience
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Why companies create content – part three: to answer customer questions
Customer experience analytics company Decibel Insight has announced a new report that shows Web marketers where site visitors are most likely to be affected by Javascript errors. The error reports present users with information about the actual errors experienced by visitors, exposing common “trouble-spots” – typicallt…
Content marketing without the actual act of marketing is just creating content – it’s simply contributing more noise to the Web. How can you use SEO techniques to market your content?
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Content Marketing Without Marketing Is Just Content
On August 26, Google Image Search users were shown images of a Russian car crash rather than results related to the actual search terms they used.
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Hack or Glitch? Google Image Search Only Displays Car Crash
When Google believes a site will redirect a mobile visitor to a homepage, rather than the actual page shown in search results, Google will tell searchers that clicking the link “May open the site’s homepage” with an option below it to “Try anyway.”
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Google Warns Smartphone Searchers About Homepage Redirects
AdSense publishers were given more control over what advertisements their users would encounter when visiting their websites. Google announced an improvement to its Ad Review Center that will enable publisher/affiliates to approve or reject ads to more easily monitor and make the actual ad reviews
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Google Gives Affiliates Greater Control
New generic top-level domain extension .buzz has released a list of its premium domain names that are being sold.
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The Buzz about Dot Buzz
Bacon is a jQuery plugin that I recently came across that allows designers to wrap text around a bezier curve or a line. If you were looking for the actual meat-snack/food item bacon, we are sorry to disappoint, but you should really know that it's impossible to create a bezier curve with bacon, although bacon can do almost..
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Creating Bezier Curves with Bacon
One of the reason most Internet professionals don’t engage in website testing (and optimization) is that the initial costs are simply too high for many – and those costs can be extensive.
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Website Testing: Costs & Challenges