SearchCap: Google AdWords Editor, Direct Is Organic Traffic & America Movie Not Found
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: “America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “America” is not coming up properly in the Google search results […]
Barry Schwartz on July 8, 2014 at 4:57 pm | Reading time: 4 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:
- “America” Movie Filmmaker Sends Legal Demand For Google To Fix Showtime Results
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, “America” is not coming up properly in the Google search results and as a result, they are getting complaints that the movie is not available in local theaters near movie-goers. Dinesh D’Souza’s lawyers sent a letter to Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond demanding Google fix the […] - Experiment Shows Up To 60% Of “Direct” Traffic Is Actually Organic Search
Everyone knows that browsers don’t always report where visitors came from when they arrive at a website. When they don’t report where they were in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) referrer header, often the traffic is considered “Direct” — which really means, “we have no clue where they came from, maybe they typed the URL […] - Google’s New AdWords Editor Version Offers Shopping Campaigns Support, More Display Targeting Options
Roughly a month ahead of the rollover to Shopping Campaigns, Google has released a new version of AdWords Editor that supports the new campaign type. Google announced the old style of PLA campaigns will be shut down at some point in late August. Note that support is limited to editing Shopping Campaigns that are already […] - 5 Bad Link Building Habits To Break Now
For those who have been in the SEO industry for a while, you may remember the glory days of link building — you simply submitted your site/article/address/name, etc., and had 100 links within 24 hours. That sure was awesome. Unfortunately, those days are over — yet for many, bad link building habits are lingering. How […] - Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX Social Media Marketing
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Local & Maps
- Bye Google Maps: Apple brings its Maps to the web for Find my iPhone, 9to5mac.com
- Why Mobile Matters – Now, Moz
Link Building
- Link Building Tips To Amplify Your SEO, Raven Blog
Searching
- Google’s Knowledge Graph Excludes Jesus Christ But Has Other Religious Figures, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO
- 5 Powerful SEO and Content Marketing Techniques that Took My Website to 320k Visitors Per Month, The Sales Lion
SEM / Paid Search
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- Everything You Need To Know About PPC Ad Extensions, PPC Hero
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