[ad_1] In a presentation at CMA’s Digital Breakfast, StoryScience founder Kohlben Vodden gave some fascinating insights into the science of what makes content shareable. What is a ‘share’? Many marketers, says Vodden, think of it as just a click. But inside the reader’s brain, there’s actually a series of very rapid decisions taking place inside…

[ad_1] A long, long time ago I was talking to Mike Grehan about search engine rankings. He used the term “the rich get richer”, to explain why sites that live at the top of Google are likely to stay there. One of the reasons is the ease of findability. A writer who is researching a…

[ad_1] If you think content strategy and content marketing are independent of each other, your content doesn’t stand a chance. Here is why: Content strategy vs. content marketing Yes, the two concepts are drastically different from each other, but understanding that you can’t successfully do one without the other is a must. Think of content…

[ad_1] Conversion tracking can be the bane of a PPC professional’s existence. And that’s because there are so many variables. Every business has a different website and CMS, a different thing they want to track, a different web development team with different proficiencies. All these different variations make this part of PPC one of the…

[ad_1] This week saw the publication of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, packed full of data and insights into the development of the internet and digital technology across the globe. Particularly of interest to us here at Search Engine Watch is a 21-page section on the evolution of voice and natural language as a…

[ad_1] It’s Friday, and time for our weekly round-up of the week’s news in search marketing.  Today we have the most expensive AdWords keywords, a new site testing tool from Google, and a look at whether Google factors in anchor text in internal links. Google’s next mobile update will factor in page speed Mobile page speed…

[ad_1] Last month, ClickZ Intelligence published its report into ‘The State of Mobile Advertising’, in partnership with Search Optics. Among the report’s findings was the revelation that mobile advertisers are missing out on hyperlocal opportunities in a big way. As our Editor in Chief Graham Charlton observed in the article linked, “With the near ubiquity…

[ad_1] Mobile design focuses, or should focus, on the user. This so-called user-centric design has generated a healthy obsession with the three Us: user experience (UX), usability and user interface (UI). These terms, and the roles associated with them, are commonly mistaken and/or used interchangeably. This is not entirely unsurprising as there are no ubiquitous…

[ad_1] Internal linking is a key SEO tactic, one which allows websites to send clear signals to Google on the relative importance of various pages. It also works from a user experience perspective, helping visitors find pages that are relevant or potentially useful to them. It’s something I place great importance on as an editor,…

[ad_1] While marketers realise the importance of mobile, many of them have yet to catch up with consumer expectations, or realise how SEO and mobile work together. Everybody knows that it’s the year of mobile (again). Everybody knows that smartphones are behind more and more internet searches. But still, not everybody connects the two. This winter, experience management platform…