70% of Agencies report client budgets to increase for SEO
Interesting data from SEMPO into the state of search and the goals and trends within agencies and their clients.
http://searchengineland.com/sempo-release-results-9th-annual-state-search-survey-183299
Maximizing Valentine’s Day Online
Shop.org releases some tidbits into proper preparation for Valentine’s day online sales. If you are in the gifting business, this holiday could very well surprise this year from a top line revenue standpoint.
http://blog.shop.org/2014/02/04/five-ways-to-prepare-for-valentines-day-2014/
Google cracking down on rich snippet spam
In another defensive move by Google and their search team, the giant is sending out messaging warning webmasters who are mis-using rich snippets and the Schema.org framework within their websites. If you received this message, its time to clean up your rich snippet deployment.
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-spammy-structured-markup-notifications-18061.html
New speed testing capabilities in the mobile space
WebPageTest now including new technologies to better diagnose speed issues within a mobile environment.
http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2014/02/android-web-performance-testing-takes.html
