SearchCap: Strange “Right To Be Forgotten” Requests, Ask.com CEO Refutes Arbitrage Accusation & More

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• In The EU, Lots Of People Are Asking Google To Forget Content That They Authored

  Here’s one from the “shaking my head” department: If you assumed that all of the “Right To Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests that people in the European Union are sending to Google are for unflattering or inaccurate web pages written by third parties, you’d be wrong. It turns out that Google is rejecting a lot of […]

• Will Your Business (And Your Website) Adapt & Evolve With Google?

  We’ve come a long way from the “10 blue links” search results page. Columnist Trond Lyngbø outlines how to ensure you’re keeping up as SEO develops.
• E-Commerce Link Building — The Challenge That Won’t Go Away

  Contributor Eric Ward explains how to go beyond the standard issue link building practices and adopt tactics that actually work.

• In His Own Words: Ask.com CEO Responds To Arbitrage Accusations

  Ask’s Doug Leeds also says the site’s not collecting first-party data or double-serving ads on Google.

• Last Call – SMX East Starts Next Tuesday In NYC; All Access Conference And Free Expo+ Passes Available

  Search Engine Land’s – SMX East conference begins next Tuesday in New York City. Register now to reserve your spot! The search marketing landscape changes almost daily, but your goals don’t. You strive to increase traffic, improve conversions and maximize your ROI. Invest in attending SMX East and you’ll get 3 days of cutting edge […]

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• Enterprise Local Marketing Automation Tools – New Market Intelligence Report
• Hootsuite Bringing Voice Integration To Social Customer Service
• Dear News Corp & Google: An Open Letter On Their Open Letters To Each Other Over Competition
• 3 Challenges Of Attribution Modeling: The Bad, The Bad And The Ugly
• Report: Holiday Retail Sales To Climb 5% & E-Commerce Sales Predicted To Jump 16.6%
• Mobile Web Enthusiasts Unite! A Peace Offering For Responsive Web Design Advocates
• 8 Questions To Ask Before Choosing A Tag Management System
• Gigya Survey: 77% Of Consumers Say They Have Used Social Logins
• Last Call – SMX East Starts Next Tuesday in NYC; All Access Conference and Free Expo+ Passes Available

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Bing over Google? A Q&A with Andrew Yang of Bing, IT Business
• Google’s Achilles Heel that startups are targeting, cnbc.com
• What Google’s Matt Cutts Searches For…, Search Engine Roundtable
• Hey #SMX! aimClear To Preview Highly Disruptive FB Amplification Tool, aimClear
• Pepperjam Founder Launches LSEO.com, Search Engine Journal
• The SMX East Panels You Shouldn’t Miss, Luna Metrics

Local & Maps

• We Spend Where We Live: Why Local and Mobile Search are the Same Thing, advertise.bingads.microsoft.com

Search Marketing

• Inside AdWords: The Google Best Practices Checklist for Mobile Success, adwords.blogspot.com

SEM / Paid Search

• Bing Ads is Launching Close Variants in Exact Match (US Only), advertise.bingads.microsoft.com
• Gambling and Contests Guideline Update (U.K.), advertise.bingads.microsoft.com
• The Impact of Campaign Structure on Bid Management, PPC Hero

Searching

• Mobile IE Doesn’t Show Google Suggestions, googlesystem.blogspot.com
• Updated Dictionary Card in Google Search, Google Operating System

SEO

• Getting Started with Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics, BruceClay.com
• Google Turns to Deep Learning Classification to Fight Web Spam, SEO By The Sea
• Google Webmaster Tools: Improve The Search Presence Of Your Web Site Notification, Search Engine Roundtable
• Negative SEO Works In Google For 89% Of SEOs, Search Engine Roundtable
• SEO Changes In Summer 2014: Google Algorithm Updates, BruceClay.com