Our primary focus on the blog is to educate, assist, offer new ideas and tips, analyze industry trends, etc. Today, I want to take a time out to highlight some great news in our world. Return On Now was originally founded in 2009. Yes, this means our 10th anniversary is later this year. We’re almost […]
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This week, it seems like a great time to do an edition of Return On News. We haven’t done one in at least a month or two, and there have been a ton of great articles that I’ve come across in the past few weeks. Of course, it has been a very busy time in
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As one of the more intriguing internet marketing stories of the past week, Google has announced that they have partnered with Twitter again. If you recall, Google had access to the Twitter “fire hose” a few years ago, but that agreement expired in mid-2011. Since that time, tweets have gone mostly unindexed (some sources have
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It’s hard to believe that 2014 is nearly a wrap. And what a year it has been! From the sunsetting of Google Authorship and PageRank, to the digital war on Sony about their new movie The Interview, we have certainly had tons to talk about. With the year winding to a close and a short week
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In an unexpected development, Google’s John Mueller announced on Thursday August 28, 2014 via Google+ that the much discussed Google Authorship program was coming to an abrupt ending. This was a huge announcement for the SEO community. Over the past few years, we have been beating the Authorship drum. After all, it’s vision was to
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What a busy week it has been in the search marketing industry. After several months of little noise surrounding new updates, with Google having decided many months ago not to share information about each and every tweak they make to their algorithm, we had two big ones roll out in the past week. First Update:
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In the wake of several iterations of the Google Penguin penalties and a recent assault on guest blogging, marketers and webmasters worldwide express confusion and concern over the state of link building in 2014. Link building is no longer a simple volume focused activity. Now, a range of factors impact success, as well as risk
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This week, we saw an announcement of some new SEM features that are about to be rolled out for Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns. The last major update to Google’s flagship SEM platform was back in July, when they forced all advertisers to upgrade their AdWords to enhanced campaigns. Of course, there was some pushback at
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I spend a ton of time online educating myself about the latest SEO trends, reading materials from the thought leaders, and running experiments myself to figure out whether or not the discourse is on point or not. Curiously enough, I happened upon two brand new items today focused on SEO Myths. Let’s take a moment
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Update as of December 13, 2017 Google has decided to deprecate the Google Webmaster Academy effective today (12/13/17). In its place, however, they have created a new resource, their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide. It provides an updated version of the Webmaster Academy, to better align with the large number of changes and updates
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