Ever wondered exactly what keywords in a searcher's query resulted in your ad being triggered? Google has added a feature in AdWords to give advertisers that information, allowing them to adjust their keywords and bids accordingly. Meanwhile, the company has made other interface changes -- including account diagnostics and new impression share reporting. The new keyword column is available in the search terms report. To add the column, click the "Columns" drop-down and click "Customize columns." Then click "Attributes" and click "Add" on "Keyword." The new feature got positive reactions [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Important Trends Affecting The Local, Social & Mobile IndustryOn Tuesday last week, London hosted the Local Social Summit 2012, the fourth year this great (and growing) summit has been put on. As a UK-based local SEO, I am envious of the plethora of local and social events that run regularly in the US; sadly, I don’t get across to many of them. So, [...] Groupon Makes Bid To Become Local (Deals) Search EngineLate last week Groupon announ [...]

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Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and drill into the Search Engine Land members library to find other stories in that area. Because some stories are listed in more than one category, you may see them repeated. Top News Google Offers Tips For A Search Engine Friendly Tablet Experience (Not Recommenda [...]

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Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and drill into the Search Engine Land members library to find other stories in that area. Because some stories are listed in more than one category, you may see them repeated. Top News "Google Now" Moving Well Beyond Search, Becoming Mobile Assistant Why Google "Per [...]

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On Tuesday last week, London hosted the Local Social Summit 2012, the fourth year this great (and growing) summit has been put on. As a UK-based local SEO, I am envious of the plethora of local and social events that run regularly in the US; sadly, I don’t get across to many of them. So, it’s great to see an event of this caliber thriving in the UK, and even better to see the array of talented speakers and panelists who attended from the UK, Canada & US. I am constantly impressed by the level of professionalism, innovation and entrepreneurship which abounds in the local/social indus [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Local | Local Search

Late last week Groupon announced that it was going to make a growing inventory of less perishable deals accessible to consumers. Calling this the Groupon "Local Marketplace" the new functionality is live in Chicago and New York, soon to be available across Groupon cities: In the last year, we’ve increased our North American selection of active deals by nearly 13 times, to more than 27,000 at the end of Q3. As of today, we’ve opened the doors so you can search and browse that inventory of deals, both daily deals and real-time Now! deals. Yes, you can actually type in a search (“pizza,” [...]

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It sounds really attractive: 9-5 hours. You get to focus on a single product. You can win over a single IT department. The grass is way greener over there. But the truth is, in the SEO world, the large enterprise is in trouble. I know about brand favoritism. And I know large enterprises have massive resources at their disposal. All marketers have if only moments: after a particularly grueling client meeting or a day of fighting one fire after another, we think ‘If only I was an in-house SEO at a big, big company.’ The problem? They can never seem to use those resources. And except [...]

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Google's Matt Cutts said on a Hacker News comment that those who are interested in switching their whole web site from http to https should go ahead and do that. I spotted this comment in response to Facebook going HTTPS by default, where someone mentioned that Google may have an issue indexing HTTPS content. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, said no - they index it fine and you can "feel free to go HTTPS" at this time. This is interesting in that we know since Google switched to HTTPS on Google search by default, that the [not provided] statistic in analytics packages have caus [...]

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I recently had an AdWords client get blacklisted by Google for policy reasons. Anyone who has worked on AdWords accounts for more than a couple of years has no doubt had this happen to them as well. In this case, I had just launched the client’s account and had bought a total of maybe 20 innocuous terms. To be clear, there was *absolutely* no reason for this client to be banned (the client offers free online classes, is VC-funded, and 100% legit in every way). Here’s the initial email we got from Google notifying us that we had been blacklisted: From: <adwords-noreply@google.com [...]

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Get proven tactics for leveraging Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social media platforms to drive traffic, boost conversions and improve customer service. Attend SMX Social Media Marketing for the insight and ideas to hit your 2013 goals. Here’s why you need to join us December 5-6 in Las Vegas: The agenda is 100% focused on social media marketing. Sessions on owned, earned and paid tactics for driving engagement and reach, turning followers into customers and optimizing your campaigns. Over 40 social media experts from respected brands and specialty agencies will share the i [...]

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BrowserFame reports the latest "nightly channel" of the Firefox browser, version 19, is warning browser users when it appears someone is hijacking the search engine results. This is to warn users when they may be "falling victim" to "search hijacking" according to the feature page. The page goes on to explain how the feature works in more detail: Some of these cases are triggered by aggressive malware that wants to steal search referrals, but other cases can be resolved by us simply resetting the pref to its default value once: - poorly written add-ons that legitimately change t [...]

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The world, it seems, just cannot wait for Facebook to come along and start its own search engine and knock Google off the top of search mountain. The rumors and expectations of this go back for years. Now the latest twist: Yahoo and Facebook will team up together. If you're banking on that potential alliance taking out Google, much less Bing, let me offer up a reality check. Report: Yahoo & Facebook Talking Search Let's start with the current news that has various tech blogs lighting up over the possibilities. The Telegraph, citing anonymous sources, reports that Yahoo CEO Marissa May [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Social | Facebook | Features: Analysis | Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal | Top News | Yahoo: Business Issues | Yahoo: Search

Google and Bing both hit all-time highs in U.S. search market share in October, while overall desktop search activity was up eight percent from the month before. All of that's according to comScore's October 2012 search activity/rankings report. Google's market share rose two-tenths of a point, from 66.7 percent in September to 66.9 percent in October. Bing gained a tenth of a point and reached 16 percent in October. Both of those numbers represent all-time highs using comScore's estimates. Yahoo was static for the month and Ask's share was down. Desktop search activity was up sig [...]

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Bing has published its first set of webmaster guidelines, offering website owners general guidance on best practices related to SEO for Bing's search engine. They're accessible in the Help section of Bing's Webmaster Tools as a new entry under the "Content Guidelines" section. The direct link is www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a. Bing's Webmaster Guidelines touch on things like links and social media in very general terms, and go into a bit more depth on SEO and technical website topics. But they aren't nearly as detailed nor comprehensive as what Google offers, a [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Gather Evidence To Help Determine If It’s Time For A Mobile WebsiteIs t time for a mobile website? I was talking to some clients a few weeks ago and in separate conversations, both asked me if it was time for a mobile website. Their current websites rendered okay on a smartphone, but they noticed a lack of conversions for mobile users, as well as a high bounce [...] Search In Pics: Google Corkscrew Set, Google Privacy Policy & Tor [...]

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Is t time for a mobile website? I was talking to some clients a few weeks ago and in separate conversations, both asked me if it was time for a mobile website. Their current websites rendered okay on a smartphone, but they noticed a lack of conversions for mobile users, as well as a high bounce rate. Generally, a page that can be enlarged can be read on a mobile device. What you run into for the user is a lack of functionality and interaction with the site. Dropdown or slide out navigation is nearly impossible to click on; if you're using video or Ajax functionality it can be lost or not n [...]

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In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. A Google Corkscrew Set: Source: Twitter Google Platforms 5-Year T-Shirt: Source: Google+ Google's New Toronto Office: Source: Google+ Google's Privacy Principles Guide: Source: Google+ Real Google Rube Goldberg Doodle: Source: Google+ [...]

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When Apple announced, in June, that it was introducing its own maps and ousting Google from its default position on the iPhone, that was perhaps the best thing that could have happened to Mountain View. Apple subsequently introduced an elegant-looking but flawed mapping app as part of iOS 6. While Apple and its mapping mistakes have helped to open up the market somewhat, and brought new attention to third party mapping apps such as Waze, Scout and others, they have also created an opening for Google to fully monetize local search on the iPhone in ways that were not equally possible before. [...]

Related Topics: Apple | Apple: Maps | Channel: Mobile | Google: Maps & Local | Google: Mobile | Top News

Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new "Top Photos" section above matching tweets. "Top Videos" may also appear. Twitter will also begin automatically showing tweeted pictures for those searching on the iPhone or with Android devices. Top Photos & Videos Twitter already shows top photos and images for a search, but these have been placed off to the side of the main search results, like this: With the change, top pictures and videos will come above the matching tweets: The change above will happen for both desktop and mobile searchers, Twitter [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Social | Top News | Twitter | Twitter: Search

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Introduces Targeting Improvements To Help More Marketers “Get Local” For HolidaysWhile this will be a true multi-channel holiday, the overwhelming number of actual purchases (north of 90 percent) will still be made in stores. Yet those purchases will be highly influenced by PC, tablet and smartphone usage. More than 80 – 90 percent of online consumers do research before buying offline. This has been documented [...] 6 Hol [...]

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