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Did Google just hint at an authority profile?

A recent blog post from Google points to defining a paradigm on the SERP with what we now know as a core update. Occasionally, Google hits the keyboard and churns out a new post that explains what goes on behind the scenes. At times, these posts are meant to serve as general...
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Facebook “Frictionless Sharing” Creating Friction With Privacy Advocates, Regulators

Mark Zuckerberg at F8, the Facebook developer conference held last week, exhorted people to “tell their life story” on Facebook via its new Timeline feature. Facebook also promoted new Open Graph apps integration and so-called “frictionless sharing.” But frictionless sharing is...
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Ahrefs, SEO toolset provider, to build their own search engine to compete with Google

Can it be done? Can a new player compete with Google and Bing after many have tried and failed? Ahrefs, a popular SEO toolset provider platform, announced this morning on Twitter that they want to compete with Google by building their own search engine. I know April Fools Day is...
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What the ROAS? A practical guide to improving return on ad spend

Contributor Jacob Baadsgaard shows how ROAS, or return on ad spend, can be used to show the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and whether they are worth the money spent on them. Do you want to improve your paid search campaigns? There are a lot of paid search metrics, but...
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Rescale and Hyundai Join Forces On Multi-Cloud High Performance Computing

Rescale and Hyundai have announced they are collaborating on a multi-cloud, high performance computing (HPC) environment for the mobility industry. As with many industries, the mobility industry is turning to the cloud to help with research and development. Relying on cloud-based...
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DuckDuckGo Experiences Major Growth

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search engine, is experiencing record growth as customers become more concerned about protecting their privacy. According to a company tweet, the search engine touted “a record breaking August,” with some two billion searches, 4 million app/extension...
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Bing Boasts Continuous Updates To Their Search Engine Daily

Bing deploys multiple updates per day in an effort to constantly improve the search results and features. Dr. Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist, Bing and Information Platform R&D, wrote this morning on the Bing blog that Bing is continuously updating their search engine “multiple...
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GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2

While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this chage. Google announced it will soon begin crawling some sites over HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the next generation of HTTP, the protocol the internet primarily uses for transferring data. It...
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Instagram Accused of Spying on Users Via Phone Cameras

Facebook is being sued over allegations Instagram is spying on users via their phone cameras. The lawsuit was filed against Facebook on behalf of Brittany Conditi, a New Jersey Instagram users. The lawsuit alleges that Instagram is accessing the camera even when the app is not...
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Building and scaling global SEO Centers of Excellence

Before you can involve your company’s executives in SEO advocacy, you need a set of best practices and clear goals to share. Here’s how you do it. Wider spread internet adoption and mobile use worldwide are opening up lucrative new markets in Latin America, China and the...