Today for our last installment top stories from the past year, we feature the most-shared stories on Facebook. Our little Panda friend made it in the headline nine times ("Nine times? Nine times."- Quick, name the movie!)* Meanwhile, Google stories are  popular with our Facebook crowd, appearing in seventeen out of the top 20 headlines, same as the top shared stories on Google+. As with our other top social stories of 2012, this list was generated by Social Crawlytics, a social analytics tool that crawls and provides social activity for each URL on a website. The tool only tracks Facebo [...]

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We already shared the news that Jordan Kasteler took home the top prize and had a second entry in our overall list of most read columns for the year, both of which appeared here in the Search & Social column, alongside several other worthy reads. In 2012, "social signals" became one of the most talked about topics among SEO's and social media marketers, as the prevalence of Google+ and Bing/Facebook social results have captured our attention. Yet many feel we're still very much in the early stages of social signals having a major impact in general search engine results. That sh [...]

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There's no question, the Search Engine Land Twitterverse likes to talk about the Panda updates. We took a look at the top tweeted stories of 2012 using Social Crawlytics, and without a doubt, Google and Panda-related stories trumped much of the Twitter activity in the past year. Mark Zuckerberg did make an appearance in one of our top-tweeted headlines, but in the context of search. So here they are, the top tweeted Search Engine Land posts of 2012! 1. Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More (1,931 tweets) 2. [...]

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As an industry news publication, the majority of our visitor traffic comes to our site to read daily news updates, in-depth coverage of search engine technologies and ever-evolving search engine algorithms. On top of the hardest working full- and part-time editorial staff in search, we have over 100 guest columnists who dedicate a significant amount of time and energy to share their experience and expertise with the rest of the search marketing industry. Collectively, these contributors round out our daily news coverage by sharing thoughtful observations, successful strategies and tactic [...]

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What were our most popular stories on Search Engine Land over the past year? Below, the news stories that were published in 2012 that were read the most: Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search (May) Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome (January) Google’s Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World” (January) How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse (January) The Top Heavy Update: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google’s “Page Layout” Algorithm (J [...]

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It's started, the top lists of 2012! Over the next few days, we'll be posting a series of these, including the most read Search Engine Land stories, the most tweeted ones and the ones most liked on Facebook. But to kick it off, the stories with the most +1's on Google+. How did we collect this data? Search Engine Land columnist Annie Cushing suggested we use Social Crawlytics, a tool that easily crawls the site and reports on the social activity for each URL. If you haven't checked it out, go do so. It's free to get started. A few observations while aggregating list: Seventeen of t [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from February 2011: Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results New York Times Exposes J.C. Penney Link Scheme That Causes Plummeting Rankings in Google Google Forecloses On Content Farms With "Farmer" Algorithm Update Google Logo Honors Constantin Brancusi’s 135th Birthday Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations Obama’s Silicon Valley "Tech Supper" – Who Sat Where? Why Was He There? 5 Social Sites You May Not Have Heard About (Yet) What Time Does the 2011 Super Bowl Start? A (Continuing) Lesson in [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from January 2011: Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine The New York Times, Demand Media Edition Confirmed: Google Readies "Google Offers" Groupon Clone Internet-To-TV Players Compared: Roku, Apple TV, Boxee & Google TV A To Do List For Google’s New CEO Larry Page The Big List: 168 Marketing Trends, Predictions & Resolutions For 2011 Google Testing Display Ads In Gmail A Tale Of Three Android Phones: Droid 2, Samsung Fascinate & Google Nexus S Blekko Launches Spam Clock To Keep Pre [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from December 2010: 1) Where Is Santa Claus? The 2010 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Google Earth 2) 10 Alternatives To Delicious.com Bookmarking 3) NORAD Santa Claus Tracker 2010 Now Open! 4) First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook 5) What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count? 6) The Google Rosa Parks Logo 7) DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings 8) Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked 9) Google Lets You Dumb Down Your Search Results [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from November 2010: 1) Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps - A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border between his country and Costa Rica. The troops are accused of setting up camp there, taking down a Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag, doing work to clean up a nearby river, and dumping the sediment in Costa Rican territory. 2) Google’s "Gold Standard" Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story - The New York Times [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from September 2010: 1) What’s Up With The Google Balls Logo On The Google Homepage Today? - Visiting the Google homepage today may make you go "wow." It has one of the most wild and explosive special Google logos I have ever seen. There are dozens of balls that make up the Google logo, and they bounce around the screen all to come together to form "Google." The balls in the logo will bounce off your cursor, so if you move your cursor off the browser window, the logo will come together. 2) Google Announces Can’t Be Missed [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from December 2008: Top 10 Most Popular Stories: December 2008 1) Santa Tracker 2008: Google & NORAD Team Up Again - My favorite Christmas activity is tracking Santa's route around the world. Once again, NORAD and Google are making it easy. The NORAD Tracks Santa 2008 site is now up, and a countdown for your iGoogle home page can now be downloaded. Google just blogged the news today. Below, what to expect. 2) 8 Santa Trackers For Christmas Eve 2008, From NORAD Santa To Twitter - It's Christmas Eve, and that means Sant [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from November 2008: 1) Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition - Fires are burning in Southern California once again. Here's an update on how to find maps of where the blazes are. 2) Are Our Brains Becoming "Googlized?" - Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way. As somebody interested in how the mind works, I read with interest the results of a recent study at UCLA that used the sexiest research tool around today, fMRI scanning. fMRI allows researcher [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from October 2008: 1) Los Angeles & Southern California Fire Maps: October 2008 Edition - Southern California is ablaze with wildfires once again, including one I can see out my window in the Newport Beach foothills. Trying to keep track of where they are. Here's a guide to maps of current fires and place you can expect future ones to be posted. =================== 2) Google’s iPhone Ad Units, G1 Pre-Sells 1.5 Million? - On Friday, AdWeek reported that Google was creating and testing specialized ad unit [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from September 2008: 1) Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox - Now that Google Chrome is live, I spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see -- as I did recently with Internet Explorer 8 -- whether Google was going to try to stack the deck in its own favor. Like Microsoft, Google's playing it straight. As for search features, I'm mixed on whether I like the new "Omnibox" feature that combines a browser's address bar and search box into one single area. =================== 2) On Android [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from August 2008: 1) Google's Email, Gmail, Having Major Issues - It is not uncommon for Gmail (Google Email) users to complain about outages and issues with sending and receiving email. But right now, there are hundreds of Gmail users complaining that Gmail is down or simply not sending or receiving emails. A current search at Twitter on Gmail will return hundreds of messages with Gmail complaints. I am personally receiving a "Temporary Error (502)" and was receiving other weird errors when trying the Gmail interface. Some ar [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from July 2008: 1) Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? - Can any start-up search engine "be the next Google?" Many have wondered this, and today's launch of Cuil (pronounced "cool") may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, offers a unique display presentation, and emerges at a time when people might be ready to embrace a quality "underdog" service. The big question [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from June 2008: 1) June 2008 California Fire Maps - Wildfires, again, in my home state of California. People are looking for maps of where they are at, so here are some resources. =================== 2) Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality - As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, let me be the contrarian about her future. I admit, I find it as hard to believe as anyone that Yahoo has much life left in it after all the executive departures this week, plus the latest news of Delicious founder Joshua Schacter going. But since [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from May 2008: 1) Playing With Live Search Cashback - Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback, and this takes you through the experience of using Cashback as a searcher. It has been a rainy week here in New York, and I figured I would start my search and shopping experience looking to buy an umbrella using Cashback. =================== 2) Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope Application Blasts Onto The Desktop - Microsoft has launched (an appropriate metaphor this time) its Worldwide Telescope desktop application. You must download the softw [...]

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Below are Search Engine Land's 10 most popular stories from April 2008: ======================================== Top 10 Most Popular Stories: April 2008 ======================================== 1) Twitter Wrote This Column For Me - By now you have probably seen a bunch of talk about Twitter. And after all of this talk you might be still thinking: OK, so what the heck is Twitter really and why should I care? How is it going to help my business at the end of the day? Rather than writing this column myself, I decided to let Twitter (or more specifically, my extended Twitter network) write [...]

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