Search Engine Journal
Ann Smarty tells us how to "supercharge" reloading pages in Firefox. She provides screen shots and detailed descriptions of how to optimize and enhance the task with keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Mac and Linux. Smarty also provides insight on add-ons for those who find themselves frantically pressing the reload button waiting for something in the Web page to change.
Search Engine Watch
For those wondering how to measure SEO success, Ray "Catfish" Comstock thinks he has the answer. He illustrates the differences in how mom-and pop-style businesses, small businesses, and enterprise companies use data to augment SEO campaigns. Although these companies have access to different resources, they all have similar strategic approaches to their use of data.
PPC Blog
Geordie believes many advertisers haven't yet explored the performance breakdown Google provides on content network categories, so he provides tips on viewing metrics for different site categories.
aimClear
Marty Weintraub recalls how SMX attendees seemed stunned as Google's Baris Gultekin said that the ubiquitous AdWords Keyword Tool now only provides keywords Google deems commercial. He provides an overview of what the industry lost with this change -- and how to get the data anyway. He explains, for example, Google will no longer make it easy to access the long, or mid-tail data, unless the keyword has demonstrated "commercial" characteristics historically. That's just for starters.
econ
A recent study shows the use of mobile search rising at the expense of search done on the desktop. The Tamar Mobile White Paper shows a rapid increase in mobile search use, especially among ages 18-24 and 25-34, with 14% of both searching on mobile every day, up from 5% and 8%, respectively, in the prior year.
ZDNet
Stephen Chapman shows us how to step away from SEO by shortening a URL through bit.ly, which lets marketers gather quick and potentially useful competitive metrics. He walks through the process in three easy steps. He explains that bit.ly links created by anyone point to the same URL and factor them all together into one analytical page. It reveals the number of people who tweeted the link, for example.
Econsultancy
Graham Charlton pulls together a variety of research on mobile to share some recent stats on search from Japan, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For example, 43.7% of U.S. and 38.5% of European mobile users browsed the Internet, accessed applications or downloaded content from their mobiles, according to comScore. Some of the numbers in the post are outdated, but most are current.
PPC Hero
Bryan explains how to expand into interest-based advertising and remarketing in the Google Adwords Campaign Management dashboard. For starters, click on the "Audiences" tab next to Reporting and Billing.
Holistic Search
Is it possible to rank in super-competitive sectors such as car insurance, gambling or loan category without using paid links? Peter Young polled two separate audiences on this question, and shares the results.
Search Engine Watch
Did you know your Web site has unimportant pages? Mathieu Burgerhout says it does, and tells us how to figure out which they are and then eliminate them. The result will clean up your site's content and make it a lean "online conversion machine." One hint: Nine out of 10 times, unimportant pages are the source of duplicate content.