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Google to launch 6-city tour in Indy for improving digital skills | 2017-10-12 | Indianapolis Business Journal

Google announced Thursday that it is kicking off in Indianapolis next month a six-city initiative to help job seekers, students, teachers, entrepreneurs and business owners improve their digital skills. The “Grow with Google” tour—which also will stop in Louisville; Oklahoma City; Lansing, Michigan; Savannah, Georgia; and Columbia, South Carolina—will include free in-person training programs on […]

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Google Opinion Rewards Comes to iOS: Get Paid for Taking Surveys

Google is bringing Opinion Rewards to iOS, which is a program that pays users to take surveys from companies. Companies, including Google itself, pose questions via Opinion Rewards in an effort to learn more about customers. Surveys include a maximum of 10 questions and can be completed in roughly 30 seconds. In exchange for users’

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Here Are 19 Ways Google Search Makes Life Easier

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Google is Ending First Click Free, What Does it Mean for Publishers?

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Google is removing a controversial search feature called First Click Free, which let users view content that would otherwise be behind a paywall. First Click Free actually required publishers to provide a minimum of three free articles, forcing some websites to give up more free content than they may have liked. That’s going to change.

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Google AdWords interface, Google Home listens & Apple Search Ads expands

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Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and

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Investors anxious about Google traffic acquisition costs, which regulation could further increase

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Google’s traffic acquisition costs (TAC) have been climbing. As Google’s ad revenues grow, so does the money it pays to partners and distributors. Investors are particularly sensitive to this issue. In response to investor questions, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat explained recently that Google’s increasing traffic costs are partly about mobile and programmatic growth, which have

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Google Search App to Suggest Related Content

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Google Will Soon Let Anyone Add to Street View

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Google doodle honors Norwegian explorer and champion skier Fridtjof Nansen

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Google is honoring Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and also a champion skier and ice skater on his 156th birthday with an animated Google doodle. The doodle, a special Google logo, has a lot going on to show off his adventures, explorations, his attempt to reach the

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How to Calculate Google Analytics Goal Values

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While we might not always realize it, every website has a purpose for existing. Some websites are created to sell products and services, while others focus on providing content and information to site visitors. Many websites have more than one goal such as increasing sales leads and creating valuable content – like our Seer website.

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