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Top 4 backlink API vendors compared (1 million domain study)

Who has the largest backlink index? We’ve run four million checks with Ahrefs, Majestic, SEO PowerSuite, and Semrush and documented the results. For a couple of years, SEO PowerSuite has been working on enhancing its backlink index, used by the SEO PowerSuite backlink API an...
Posted On 04 Apr 2022
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Makes you miss the ‘Don’t be evil’ days; Tuesday’s daily brief

Plus, Facebook’s aging user base and what it means for advertisers. George Nguyen on October 26, 2021 at 10:00 am Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this...
Posted On 02 Apr 2022
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Microsoft Advertising auto-apply recommendations out of beta, advertisers opted in by default

While opting in doesn’t increase your budgets, advertisers should opt out if they don’t want recommendations to apply automatically. Auto-apply recommendations in Microsoft Advertising are now out of beta and generally available, the company announced Monday. By default,...
Posted On 01 Apr 2022
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Three ways to use a domain name for business today

Registering a domain name is one of the first steps to starting a new business. That’s because whatever name is chosen will represent the business’s space on the internet — and, possibly, a customer’s first impression of the company. But once you have that domain name, what do...
Posted On 31 Mar 2022
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Bing Continues Growth, Ad Impressions & Clicks Way Up: Report

Ad impressions and ad clicks are rising steadily on Bing, while remaining flat or declining on both Google and Yahoo. That’s according to the latest quarterly report (available tomorrow) from search marketing agency Efficient Frontier. The report, which covers Q2 of 2010, also...
Posted On 30 Mar 2022
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Google business profile reviews posting bugs should be resolved soon

Google has confirmed there was an issue with some reviews not posting and those reviews should be processed the end of this week. Over the past several days there has been an issue with reviews being posted to Google business profiles. A Google spokesperson confirmed that the...
Posted On 29 Mar 2022
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How to compare paid search and organic search without sounding foolish

Which search channel is better: paid or organic? Columnist Andy Taylor argues that there is no simple answer to this question, despite what some practitioners may want to believe. Last week, I had the misfortune of encountering perhaps the most misguided thread on digital...
Posted On 28 Mar 2022
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How E-A-T content and link building can drive YMYL SEO success

E-A-T is an important concept for YMYL sites. In a recent webinar, Kevin Rowe shared how marketers can create and share expert-worthy content. Google’s principle of E-A-T — which stands for expertise, authority, and trustworthiness — is the search engine’s way of determining the...
Posted On 26 Mar 2022
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Why consumer privacy is Google’s ace in the hole

Google’s ad business changes mean that advertisers should prepare and tap into their first-party data to stay ahead. The latest earnings announcements from Alphabet and Facebook have made it abundantly clear that the consumer privacy movement is creating a competitive...
Posted On 25 Mar 2022
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British Bank HSBC Buys Land in the Metaverse

British bank HSBC is following JPMorgan’s example, claiming its stake on the metaverse with a land purchase. Companies are racing to stake their claim on the metaverse, the confluence of virtual, augmented, and in-person reality. According to Reuters, HSBC has purchased a virtual...
Posted On 24 Mar 2022
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