SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 17, 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: Google Maps iPhone App Gets 10 Million Downloads In Two Days Just about a week ago Google’s new Google Maps iPhone app was released and oh boy were people waiting for […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Just about a week ago Google’s new Google Maps iPhone app was released and oh boy were people waiting for it. Jeff Huber, Google’s Senior Vice President of Commerce & Local at Google said on Google+ that in two days they had over 10 million downloads of the app. The app has already hit the […]
Last week’s announcement by Raven tools that they would remove all ‘scraped data’ (e.g., ranking reports) from their toolkit came as an unwelcome surprise to many of their customers. This action effectively makes a big portion of their service redundant, and the reaction to this news hasn’t been all positive for Raven. This must have […]
I was ready to write a completely different column today. Then, I saw the announcement that Raven is doing away with ranking reports and any other SEO data that might ruffle Google’s feathers. I quickly went through denial/anger/bargaining/acceptance: I’m sure they’ll find another way to get this data; this won’t affect anyone else What the #$)(*!*) […]
As of today, you can count Facebook as a potentially significant new competitor in local search — on mobile devices. The company is updating the “Nearby” feature in its iOS and Android apps Nearby Becomes Local Search Tool Previously Nearby was about finding where your friends had checked-in. After the app update Nearby will still […]
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Over the last month, I’ve had two clients send me email pitches from other agencies trying to “poach” business away from us. The two pitches were from different agencies, but the message was the same: something is ominously, terribly wrong with the way your current agency is managing your account! Here’s the pitch from the […]
The holiday season is now in full swing! Google has finally added the Christmas and Kwanzaa decorations to compliment the Festivus pole and Hanukkah decorations you already get on Google. How does it work? Just search for [christmas] and you will get Christmas bells. Note, this also works for [santa] and other holiday search terms: […]
Confirming a report from the New York Post last week, the Wall Street Journal and Politico both published articles that said Google would emerge basically unscathed from the FTC’s antitrust investigation. Google will apparently agree to make voluntary changes to various practices and will thus avoid having to sign a consent degree. The voluntary actions, […]
Local search provider and online ad network YP has released its end of the year review report (.pdf). The data are drawn from a huge volume of queries on its PC destination site, its mobile site and apps, as well as its broader advertising network. YP says that 30 percent of its overall query volume […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Facebook Nearby: A New Reason For Local Businesses To Get On Facebook
- Twitter, Nielsen Will Create A New Social TV Rating Metric
- Instagram Updates Privacy Policy, Begins Sharing Data With Facebook
- Google Analytics Features For Google Display Campaigns
- Do You Have A Social Content Strategy?
- SMX West Agenda Posted – Register by Friday for Lowest Rates!
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
Business Issues
- Kurzweil joins Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing, KurzweilAI
- As Yahoo Sales Reorg Proceeds, Former Interclick CEO Katz Departs, AllThingsD
- Google partners with top Japanese writers association to let authors know their rights, The Next Web
- Google won’t include Japanese publisher’s titles in digital library, ABS-CBN News
- Is Google Abusing Its Market Power? Former Legal Allies Disagree, New York Times
Local Search & Maps
- 2013′s Top Local Search Ranking Factor: Honesty, SEO Igloo Blog
- Discover new places, make the most of your visits, and see interesting insights after every check-in, Foursquare Blog
- New Google Imagery – December 17, Google Earth Blog
Link Building
- 4 Kickass Resources for Beginner and Expert Link Builders, Search Engine People
Searching
- Social media hoaxes: Could machine learning debunk false Twitter rumors before they spread?, mobile.slate.com
SEM Industry
- 2013 SEO Predictions by Australia’s Top SEOs, Jason Mun
- blekko donates search data to Common Crawl, blekko
- PR: Joe Hall Joins Internet Marketing Ninjas, Internet Marketing Ninjas
- What has been the biggest surprise of 2012 for you and your spam team?, YouTube
SEO & SEM
- A Guide to Choosing and Using Negative Keywords, SEER Interactive
- Free Official MajesticSEO Backlink Analyzer Extension for Chrome., blog.majesticseo.com
- Search Engine Optimization Is a Negotiation But …, SEO Theory
- AdWords Express holiday offer extended for a limited time, Inside AdWords
- Estimating Google Organic Search Visits Hidden by iOS 6, RKG Blog
- Google Disavow Link Tool File Format Must Be CSV or Text, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google’s Knowledge Graph Not Too Current?, Search Engine Roundtable
- How To Gain Crucial Insights From SERP Analysis, Marketing Pilgrim
- Is Google Image Search Worth a Marketing Look?, greenlaneseo.com
- New column makes keyword management easier, Inside AdWords
- Scroogled: The SEO Benefits of Bad-Mouthing a Competitor, BruceClay.com
- SEO 101: How Your Website’s Structure Affects its SEO, Search Engine Journal
- Use Majestic SEO within Facebook, blog.majesticseo.com
- Webmaster Tools verification strategies, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Why "Optimization" is a Terrible Way to Think About SEO, moz.com
Video, Music & Image Search
- The Simpler, Yet More Powerful New YouTube Data API, YouTube API Blog
- Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch, YouTube Blog
- Major changes in the German Google Image Search, tagseoblog.com
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