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Find more big, beautiful images on Google Starting this week we’re making it easier to quickly find great images right in your Google search results. Drawing from last year’s broader update to Google Images, we’ve integrated many of the features we introduced at that time into our main search results. Images will now appear in a tiled layout, with hover previews that give you a larger thumbnail and more information about a particular image: Additionally, if we detect that your query has “high image intent” (meaning, we’re pretty sure you’re looking for images) we’ll start showing more images on the page.
5 mistakes every community manager makes I took our community manager, Jade, out for a sushi lunch to gain some insight into what she's doing wrong. It's not because I don't love Jade (I do, as anyone in our office will be happy to tell you), and it's not because she doesn't do an excellent job managing our social media community. It's because she just had her first anniversary here at Simply Measured, and we've been chatting about what she wished she'd known when she started out as our community manager—the mistakes she's made along the way, what she's learned, and how she's gotten where is she is today. Hopefully, her openness about the most common mistakes she's made will help you avoid these very same pitfalls as you manage the social media sphere for your own brand.
Restricting Robot Access for Improved SEO The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Left to their own devices, search engine spiders will often perceive important pages as junk, index content that shouldn’t serve as a user entry point, generate duplicate content, along with a slew of other issues. Are you doing everything you can to guide bots through your website and make the most of each visit from search engine spiders? It is a little like child-proofing a home. We use child safety gates to block access to certain rooms, add inserts to electrical outlets to ensure nobody gets electrocuted, and place dangerous items out of reach. At the same time we provide educational, entertaining, and safe items within easy access.
11 Leading Tools for Free Website Analytics Every website owner or marketer needs to know what is going on with their website and visitors in order to know how to improve and get better results. Website analytics tools can provide data and show trends that will help you to know what to do to see the results improve over time. When it comes to analytics you have a lot of options from which to chose. In this post we’ll show 11 of the leading free options (of course, there are other options that are not free) and give a brief description of each. Google Analytics Google Analytics is leader among free analytics tools, and with good reason. 10 Ways to Create Social Media Content That Succeeds Working in social media is a blast but what's even more exciting is sharing my passion for content marketing. At Dreamforce 2012, Dave Thomas and I teamed up at the Advanced Content Strategies session to share these 10 ways to create successful content. They succeed, you succeed, right? Tell a customer story in a way that makes them look like they saved the day, came up with a solution, and reaped the reward. It's not about you.
An update to Google Social Search Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. That’s why we introduced Google Social Search in 2009, and why we’ve made a number of improvements since then. Today we’re taking another step forward—enabling you to get even more information from the people that matter to you, whether they’re publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website. First, social search results will now be mixed throughout your results based on their relevance (in the past they only appeared at the bottom).
Five New Tools to Help You Add a Game to Your Website Play up your company's website with rewards and motivate visitors to keep coming back. Few activities are more engaging than a well-designed game. By their nature, games encourage and facilitate exploration of virtual space and reward players when they perform tasks, achieve goals or acquire skills. When you think about it, this is precisely what your business needs to do for your customers. By encouraging your website visitors to engage in certain activities and rewarding them for doing so, you transform the conversion process into something more akin to an interactive game. Think of it as rewarding customers for swiping a credit or debit card, staying at a particular hotel or flying a certain airline.