SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 8, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Two New Bing UI Tests Spotted The folks at Liveside.net, an independent blog that covers Microsoft’s online efforts, have posted screenshots of two new Bing user interfaces that some of their […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Two New Bing UI Tests Spotted
The folks at Liveside.net, an independent blog that covers Microsoft’s online efforts, have posted screenshots of two new Bing user interfaces that some of their readers have seen recently. In my searching this morning, I wasn’t able to see either UI while doing about 5-6 different searches. Liveside calls the first one a “Metro style” […]
- An SEO Playbook For 2012
Search Engine Optimization is growing up. I am not ready to say the Wild West SEO days are completely eradicated, but in 2011 good search engine optimization is less about trickery and more about engaging content and audience development than ever before. Over the years, quality optimizers have become more prone to avoid technical tricks […]
- Live Blogging the Twitter Event: Easier Discovery, Enhanced Profiles, More Direct Challenge To Facebook
I’m at the new Twitter HQ (not for six months) in San Francisco with the tech press corps awaiting a Twitter press conference that I will attempt to faithfully live blog. In the meantime, here are some shots from the new space, which is three floors and exceeds 200,000 square feet. The build out should […]
- Survey Says SEO The Single Most Important Marketing Channel For SMBs
SEO: one channel to rule them all? A new “merchant confidence survey” from lead-gen company MerchantCircle/Reply.com, among 2,500 US small businesses, finds that search engine optimization is the marketing channel they would choose if they could choose only one. The question asked was: “If you had to put all your marketing time and budget into […]
- Google Logo Honors Diego Rivera’s Mural Paintings
Google worldwide has a special logo for artist, Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera was born 125 years ago today in Mexico and died 70 years later on November 24, 1957. He is most well known for his mural paintings found in San Francisco, Detroit, New York City, Mexico City, Chapingo, and Cuernavaca. The Google logo shows […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Embeddable Tweets: Add Single Tweets To Any Web Page & Skip The Screenshots
- New, Enhanced Profiles A Boon To Brands On Twitter
- Twitter Updates ‘Tweet’ & ‘Follow’ Buttons
- Google’s Check-in Offers To Be Self-Service Tool
- IAB: Houston Tops List Of Mobile Shopping Cities; San Francisco Fails To Make Top 10
- Google Analytics Announces Social Data Hub, Hopes To Centralize All Social Metrics
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Testing Gmail’s new look, Official Gmail Blog
- Yahoo! Mail – Coming to a Language Near You, ycorpblog.com
- Google Launches Schemer, An Activity Recommendation Engine To ‘Discover New Things To Do’, TechCrunch
- Google’s News Reader — Now Called Currents — Finally Coming, allthingsd.com
- Take Note(s): Highlighting your Google eBooks, booksearch.blogspot.com
- Yahoo to Launch Original Comedy Channel With Bill Maher Stand-Up Performance, www.hollywoodreporter.com
Business Issues
- Alibaba seeks $4 billion in financing for Yahoo stake: sources, Reuters
- Dodd slams Google over legislation, www.variety.com
- Google investing $300M in new Hong Kong data center to keep up with Asian Internet use, Washington Post
- Google Receives Tax Notice From India Over Income Declaration, Bloomberg
- Twitter to Show Off What It’s Building, in Its New Building, AllThingsD
- Yahoo! Mail – 1, Spammers – 0, Yodel Anecdotal
Link Building
- Christmas Countdown 8th Dec: A site’s best back links, Majestic SEO Blog
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Cleanup Time for Your Google Places Page and Site, www.localvisibilitysystem.com
Paid Search & Contextual
Searching
- Bing on Xbox Team: Don’t Be Shy About Talking to the TV, www.bing.com
- Google’s Cursor Missing In Search Box For Some, Search Engine Roundtable
SEM Industry
- SearchFest 2012 Mini-Interview: Rand Fishkin, sempdx.org
- Upcoming Google Webmaster Hangouts – December 8th, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- Reasons Why PPC Marketers can be a Venture Capital Firms’ Best Friend, SEM Geek
- 10 tips for hiring an SEO company, Conversation Marketing
- 3 Proposed Solutions for Regaining Lost SEO Query Data, Rimm Kaufman
- Assessing Your Freshness Factor, Search Engine People
- E-Commerce Challenges: Indexation Issues, www.distilled.net
- Google Images Disables Frame Killers On Some Browsers, Search Engine Roundtable
- Integrated Marketing – From SEO to TV, www.stateofsearch.com
- Search Engine Algorithm Basics, SEOmoz
Social Media
- Facebook Quietly Offering Downstream Conversion Tracking To Its Favorite Advertisers – TechCrunch, TechCrunch
- Marissa Mayer at LeWeb: Google+ Was a Pleasant Surprise, SiliconFilter
Video, Music & Image Search
- Google’s Eric Schmidt sees Google TV embedded in most new TVs by summer of 2012, Engadget
- Tablet image results in new carousel view, insidesearch.blogspot.com
Web Analytics
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