Tag Archives: google

5 Things You’re Doing Wrong with Social Media (And Life)

By jeff loquist | Published: May 11, 2013

There are a LOT of blogs out there telling you what you need to be doing on social media to “build your presence” or “build your fan-base”, There are even way too many out there telling you what you you’re doing wrong, and how you should better interact with people to not offend them or whatever… And [...]

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The Impermanence of Search (& Our Attachment to It)

By jeff loquist | Published: March 6, 2013

On February  6, 2013 Google announced their plans to unroll Enhanced Campaigns inside of the AdWords platform. This was by no means the first time the search giant has announced major…erm…upgrades to one of their products, but it is – by far – the biggest changes to their paid platform. And of course there was [...]

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SEOs Will Ruin Content Marketing (Just Like Everything Else…)

By jeff loquist | Published: August 26, 2012

Let’s say someone found out you liked puppies and gave you one. That would make you happy, right? Now let’s say they went out and told everyone else you liked puppies and they all decided in order to make you happy they would get you a puppy too. Now you have a million puppies. You [...]

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Google Really Does Hate SEO (And This Shouldn’t Matter to You)

By jeff loquist | Published: August 18, 2012

When I was a kid I had a friend. His name doesn’t really matter to this story, so we will call him Gary. Gary was one of those kids that would always come over to the house to play with toys or on the Atari and would be very pleasant while he was at the [...]

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Google adWords Set to Nix Demographic Bidding Option on March 21, 2012

By jeff loquist | Published: March 7, 2012

For one reason or another Google has decided to remove the demographic bidding option on March 21, 2012. This may not be big news for many people, being that the option was pretty elusive and most people didn’t even know about  it, but it does leave me wondering why? Instead of nixing the whole thing, [...]

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A Year After the Google Panda Update: How Bloggers Can Avoid Penalties

By jeff loquist | Published: February 25, 2012

Earlier today Search Engine Land released a great infographic on the Panda Update and its effects one year later: This got me thinking about how bloggers were effected by the Panda Updates (they could have picked a better name, the Google Panda isn’t nearly as nice as its fuzzy counterpart) and how they can best [...]

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Getting More from Google Analytics: Exporting More than 500 Rows

By jeff loquist | Published: January 28, 2012

There are a lot of analytics programs out there;many of which come with a pretty hefty price tag. While many SEOs and business owners tout the power of platforms such as Omniture, WebTrends, and VisiStat, the truth is that for 95% of website owners (probably more) Google Analytics offers everything needed to understand the who, [...]

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Roll With It: The Ever-Changing Landscape of Search

By jeff loquist | Published: January 13, 2012

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao-tzu  There has been a lot of complaining over the past few months about Google and the constant state of change they seem to be in.  From search marketers griping about the Panda updates and how it has made life more difficult for [...]

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