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July typically means a new fiscal year for colleges and universities, bringing with it new marketing plans and goals for the upcoming educational year. Where does SEO fit into your higher education marketing plan this year? Hopefully, right at the top. Earlier this year, Chegg Enrollment Services and the National …

Google is celebrating today’s Fourth of July holiday with a doodle inspired by the US’s first National Parks Service Director and noted conservationist Stephen Mather. The red, white and blue logo leads to a search for “Fourth of July,” and includes images of deer, bears, moose and other animals you …

You need more traffic. More visitors on your site means more impressions, more signups, more purchases — more revenue. But how do you capture more traffic from search results that are becoming more crowded, more diverse, and evolving in the way they are delivered? With SEO, of course! Today, I …

If you’ve ever been frustrated at the amount of time you spend creating PPC reports, you’re not alone. Today, I’ll do my best to help you with a new AdWords script I just finished. The severity of the reporting problem became very clear to me at a conference I recently attended. Attendees were …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: This script automates adding any AdWords data to a Google spreadsheetJul 5, 2017 by Frederick Vallaeys Feeling bogged down by all the reports you need to …

The agenda for our upcoming SMX East show is live and we’ve opened up our “speaking pitch” form for select sessions for the show, taking place on October 24 – 26 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. To increase the odds of being selected, be sure …

Dex Media has announced its acquisition of YP holdings in a deal that brings together two rival marketing companies that focus on the local and small business space. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Wall Street Journal reported before the announcement that Dex is spending $600 million. The …

At the end of last year, I shared the results from three of our projects showcasing how we had increased traffic by reducing a website’s overall page count. Simply put, many of our clients had way too much content — pages and pages of content that not only didn’t generate …

One of my small business clients forwarded an email to me with the question, “Do I want this no-obligation audit?” I stand behind the work I do, so I have no qualms if a client wants to use tools, or even reports, from other agencies to see how their websites …

In 2016, mobile drove the nearly $6 billion year-over-year increase in search spend and and surpassed desktop for the first time, according to the IAB. Now that mobile is a given and we no longer have to wonder if this is its year, let’s look at the big trends, launches and …