SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 14, 2012
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-hoo Search Down 4 Percent In Past Year, Hitwise Says June and July haven’t been very kind months for Bing and Yahoo. What Hitwise calls “Bing-powered search” had about 28.1 percent […]
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-hoo Search Down 4 Percent In Past Year, Hitwise Says
June and July haven’t been very kind months for Bing and Yahoo. What Hitwise calls “Bing-powered search” had about 28.1 percent of all U.S. searches in May, but that dropped to less than 27 percent for July. And what was a five percent year-over-year gain back in May, has now become a four percent Y-o-Y […]
- Google Updates New Orleans Street View Imagery
The history of Google’s Street View is rife with cities and towns that are less than thrilled at the sight of those little cars driving down the street (remember when a Street View driver ran into an angry mob of UK villagers?), but the reaction today is quite different in New Orleans. Seven years after […]
- 10 Ways To Create Engaging Content For Action
Many organizations rely on a website to be their #1 sales tool. They pour thousands of dollars into building just the right website with a great design, robust shopping cart and plenty of bells and whistles. At some point in the website building process, they might think about the content that goes on the website. […]
- The Unbearable Torture Of Linking
It’s been a long, painful Spring and Summer for a lot of websites and link builders. I took a month away from it all for personal reasons, but I did conduct a couple linking strategy training sessions, and kept on top of things via my iPad. In this time, I read a few hundred posts […]
- I’m Feeling Doodly, Playful, Artistic: Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Gains New Choices
Google’s famous “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on its home page has been changed to add new options such as “I’m Feeling Playful” or “I’m Feeling Trendy.” The long-standing ”I’m Feeling Lucky” button, when selected (if Google Instant is off), will automatically take someone to the first page that appears in Google’s results for a particular search, […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Study: Mobile And Video Are Key Drivers Of Apparel Purchases
- Yelp Launching New Home Page Design
- Klout Transforms Into “Social Media Resume” With New Design
- Report: 80 Percent Of SMB Mobile Sites Offer Click-To-Call
- Are You Boring Yourself With Your Search Marketing?
- India Begins Formal Antitrust Investigation Against Google
- Social Media Metrics: Measuring Business Value When Sales Take Place Offline
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Yahoo! News Offers Socially-Enhanced Experience During 2012 Elections, Yahoo Press Releases
Business Issues
- Tycoon sues Google on defamation claim, ZDNet
- Google can appeal class certification in Books case, paidContent.org
Local, Maps & Mobile
- 6 Things to Know About the Yelp-Bing Local Data Partnership, Small Business SEM
- Apple’s Share of Media Tablet Market Hits More than One-Year High in Q2, isuppli.com
- Bing How to: the Bing Get Me There App for iOS, Bing Maps Blog
- Google Acquires Frommer’s, Watch Out For Google City Pages, orourkehospitality.com
- How To Get Reviews And Improve Local Ranking With Google+ Local, Search Engine People
- Opening Your Doors to Google Maps, Branded3
Link Building
- How to: Mine server logs for broken links, Portent
- Do Natural Links Exist?, Search Engine People
- Survey: Pinterest a Great Source of Links for Publishers. What Types of Sites Get the Most Pinterest Links?, Adam Sherk
Searching
- Google’s New Favicon, Google Operating System
- Google Apple Safari 5.0 Bug: Blind Searching, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Definitions Says Only Men Can Rape, Search Engine Roundtable
- Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder, Inside Search
- Internet search: What makes it simple, difficult or impossible?, SearchReSearch
SEO & SEM
- Come on PRs, get a grip on SEO, Econsultancy
- Opting In All Your Products to Product Listing Ads, Google Commerce
- Customer creation, conversion, & SEO: an interview with Brian Massey, SEO Copywriting
- Why you Should be Blogging as an SEO, State of Search
- AdWords Sitelinks Policy Changes – What You Need to Know, PPC Associates Blog
- Configuring URL Parameters in Webmaster Tools, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Google Testing Lead Generation System for New Car Sales, Mike Blumenthal
- Majestic SEO integrates into RIO SEO, blog.majesticseo.com
- Page Speed and SEO, seo-positive.co.uk
- SEO vs. PPC: The Benefits of Going Organic, TextLinkBrokers Blog
- Using Pareto Analysis for SEO and Keyword Targeting, Search News Central
- Yelp SEO Campaign Highlights 8 Local SEO Best Practices, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
- A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter, TechDirt
- Target social media content by using social technographics, Vertical Measures
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