SearchCap: Bing Safety, Yandex Earnings & Bing Ads New Look
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Is Getting A Slick New Look That Will Feel Familiar Bing is unveiling a new look that will start showing up in the web interface next week. The new […]
Barry Schwartz on July 29, 2014 at 5:03 pm | Reading time: 6 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Bing Ads Is Getting A Slick New Look That Will Feel Familiar
Bing is unveiling a new look that will start showing up in the web interface next week. The new design makes trend graphs immediately visible, has simplified navigation and generally looks a lot like Google AdWords. That’s by design, of course. The Bing Ads team has been making a point of reducing friction between managing […] - Spanish Law To Force Google To Index And Pay For Local News
There’s a basic feeling among traditional news publishers throughout Europe, and among some in the U.S., that Google has benefited enormously from their content but failed to offer anything in return. Furthermore, many publishers see Google as directly responsible for the decline of their traditional advertising and circulation revenues. The counter-argument that Google sends traffic […] - Ratings Come To Google Product Listing Ads In The U.S.
Spotted in a test back in May, product ratings and reviews are officially rolling out on Google Product Listing Ads as of today — just weeks ahead of the full transition to Shopping Campaigns. Available in the U.S. only for now, consumers will begin to see the 5-star rating system appear on PLAs on Google […] - 100 Internet Marketing Experts Speaking at SMX in NYC
More than 100 of the world’s most knowledgeable internet marketers will present at Search Marketing Expo – SMX East, September 30 – October 2 in New York City. They’ll share what makes them successful, what keeps them up at night, and what you’ll need to know to succeed in the next year. You’ll hear from: […] - Run Your Established SEO Like PPC & Maximise ROI Long-Term
The biggest SEO improvements available are often a more profound shift in strategy that continues to deliver improvement day after day for the entire duration of your SEO campaign. One such strategy is taking the same weekly approach to auditing your SEO strategy using search query reports as a PPC manager would. - 8 Small Tweaks That Can Deliver Big Link Building Results
About this time every year I reflect on my progress thus far and start thinking about what I want to do differently in the second half of the year. Consider taking a good, hard look at your link building campaigns. Even if your strategy isn’t six months old, making changes to your plan multiple times […] - How To Generate Experience Reviews For SEO – Part II
In part 1, we talked about some practical tips for converting a satisfied customer to a raving fan who is willing to talk about their experience with your service-based company online. In this article, we’ll discuss how to get that fan to talk about your website in a way that benefits your search marketing efforts. Creating […] - Yandex Q2 Revs Up 32 Percent, Queries, Paid Clicks Up Too
Russia’s deteriorating relations with Europe and the U.S. don’t appear (so far) to have impacted its leading search engine Yandex, which announced second quarter results this morning. Yandex reported revenues of RUR 12.2 billion ($361.5 million), up 32 percent over last year. Income was RUR 3.6 billion ($1.08 billion), representing a 13 percent increase over […] - Bing Site Safety Page: Explains Why Sites Are Flagged In Bing’s Search Results
On the Bing Webmaster Blog they announced a new feature named the Bing Site Safety Page. The Bing Site Safety Page will show up in the search results when Bing has flagged a specific site as having a safety issue. Bing will then show the searcher what the issue is with the site, hoping the […] - Bing Maps API Improves Mapping Imagery
Bing announced on the Bing Maps Developer blog that they have rolled out better rendering and styling improvements to their map imagery. They added a new gradient coloring for land areas that adjusts the brightness to your zoom level. The new gradient helps improve the contrast, making streets and other features more visible, says Microsoft. […]
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Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- Google Sued by Max Mosley for Showing Sex Party Images, Bloomberg
- Lifting the Veil on Those Secret SEO Chats: State of the Industry, The SEM Post
Local & Maps
- Google Might Have Accidentally Leaked the Locations of Sensitive Military Bases in India, Newsweek
- Microsoft adds another feature to Cortana, Foursquare data now serves up recommendations, Neowin
- Moz Updates Local Query Set – Revised Data Show 23.4% Drop Post Pigeon Update, Mike Blumenthal
- We’re Seeing a 23.4% Drop in Local Packs, Whitespark
- Whitespark Reports a 24% Decline in Local Packs, Mike Blumenthal
Link Building
- The Disavow Tool Killed My Site In Google, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO
- Google Says Moving Your Site Properly Won’t Result In A Negative Long Term SEO Impact, Search Engine Roundtable
- Negative SEO – How to Know if You’ve Been a Victim, Vertical Measures
- Unraveling Panda Patterns, Moz
- Using CSS Media Queries to Aid Site Optimisation, Builtvisible
SEM / Paid Search
- Optimize Keywords and Make Monthly Projections In Your Entire MCC With These New AdWords Scripts!, PPC Hero
- Reminder: AdWords Migration to Search Network with Display Select, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Segmentation By Keyword Match Type: A Case Study, PPC Hero
- The Complete AdWords Audit Part 9: Ad Copy, Certified Knowledge
Search Marketing
- 5 Easy But Awesome Excel Tricks for SEO & PPC Pros, SEMrush Blog
- Money Management Key To Long Term SEO Success, Search Engine Roundtable
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