SEO News from Around the Web Nov 21st

With 89% of consumers planning to use the internet to help with holiday shopping this year, our elves have been hard at work improving Google Shopping to help them discover your products and connect with your store. A new shopping experience on desktop, tablet and mobile It’s easier than ever for users to browse and hone in on items they want to buy like cameras , ski jackets , and ice cream makers …

Google is known to run hundreds of experiments a year and often we pick up on some of those experiments and report back on them over here. Many of those experiments have to do with the user interface and how Google makes small tweaks to the layout, design, fonts and colors to see what type […]Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

Posted by ZoompfThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.Back in August the team at Zoompf published a joint research study with Moz analyzing How Website Speed Actually Impacts Search Ranking…

The majority of Raven’s 30+ tools are available to all our customers as often and as much as they’d like to use them – for example, we offer unlimited websites and profiles, unlimited white labeling and management of as many social media accounts as you want.
But there are a few tools that have specific usage limitations, and it’s helpful to know about them ahead of time so there are no surprises…

A few years ago, I asked on my blog what people would like from Google’s free webmaster tools. It’s pretty cool to re-read that post now, because we’ve delivered on a lot of peoples’ requests.
At this point, our webmaster console will alert you to manual webspam actions that will directly affect your site…

A recent New York Times article really shook things up for the owners of mugshot websites. In a remarkable piece of investigative journalism, the reporter started asking some hard questions, including: How do mugshot sites, which contain only copied documents, rank so high on Google, when they should fall to the bottom of the pile? Why do […]Author informationJean DionSenior Journalist at InternetReputation…

The following post originally appeared on the DoubleClick Advertiser Blog.Search marketers managing multiple campaigns across multiple accounts have to visualize their data in many different ways and tailor reporting for each group of stakeholders. Often, this means spending time pulling and aggregating reports, building macro-enabled spreadsheets, and wrangling your data into a specific format for a specific presentation — only to do it all over again in a slightly different way the next time around…

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Virtual pin-up board Pinterest has added a new mapping feature to enable Web and mobile users to plan trips or make wishlists of future destinations.
‘Place Pins’ is a tool that enables users to find new places on-the-go, see the address and phone number of a particular destination and even offers directions on how to get there…

If you work in marketing, you’ve undoubtedly seen some pretty good reputation management trainwrecks.
At Raven, we’re no exception. We’ve watched people sabotage their brand’s reputation with our mouths agape, just waiting for what dumb thing comes next.
When it comes to online drama, we’ve totally done this…