After running in beta in the US since last June, Bing Ads Editor is now available globally. The Mac version of the desktop editing tool for Bing Ads campaigns has been at the top of advertisers’ feature requests lists for years. The Mac version has parity with the Windows desktop editor, …
Read More »Retirement Tax Planning 2017: Tips for This Year and Beyond
Tis the season… tax season that is. And, as you transition into retirement and live in leisure, a lot changes and continues to change, especially in the realm of taxes. Retirement tax planning 2017 is critical whether you are retired already or just thinking about it. While you will probably …
Read More »The MLB reportedly wants stickier baseballs
Sports, MLB has commissioned Rawlings to manufacturer a baseball with natural tact on the leather. This would eliminate the need for pitchers to use a foreign substance, like pine tar or sun screen, to improve their grip. MLB has commissioned Rawlings, its official manufacturer, to produce a ball with natural …
Read More »Google gives SEO tips on how to handle day-long site closures
John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, wrote a blog post explaining how SEOs and webmasters can handle site outages or closures that last for a day or longer. This is when a webmaster intentionally takes down the site for maintenance, site moves, religious reasons or other reasons. John …
Read More »After rare Google confirmation of on-site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s index
In a rare move, Google confirmed that a publisher named Natural News was penalized and deindexed by the major search engine over Google webmaster guidelines violations. In fact, Google’s John Mueller specifically said the site was using sneaky mobile redirect, and once that is “cleaned up, the site can submit …
Read More »Abdul Sattar Edhi Google doodle celebrates Pakistani humanitarian who founded Edhi Foundation
Today’s Google doodle honors Abdul Sattar Edhi, a man who dedicated his life to providing social services for those in need. Crediting Edhi with being a “global-reaching philanthropist and humanitarian,” Google says Edhi was born in India but moved to Pakistan soon after it became a nation, founding the Edhi …
Read More »Link free or die
Why are we so afraid of links? Back in the old days of SEO, we loved any link if it was free, even if it was from a spammy scraper site or the lowest-quality directory you’ve ever seen. If we did nothing to get that link, it was a great …
Read More »Sharing is caring: Click share and post-holiday shopping success
Click share is a key way to gauge the success of your Shopping campaigns. The metric shows you the percentage of total possible clicks you are receiving with your Shopping ads. If you aren’t reviewing this metric on a regular basis, 2017 is officially the time to start the habit. …
Read More »SearchCap: Google site closed, penalty recovery & shopping ads
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: After rare Google confirmation of on-site penalty, Natural News is back in Google’s indexFeb 28, 2017 by Barry Schwartz HealthNews.com confirms being reincluded in the Google …
Read More »Intro to Agile Marketing: Work faster and smarter by changing how you work
Are you struggling to keep pace with rapidly changing customer needs and market demands? Are you slowed down by organizational silos, hierarchies and processes? It may be time to get agile. More than 90 percent of marketers who have adopted agile marketing say it has improved their speed to market …
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