SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 7, 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: Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest? Over the past couple of days, numerous stats and figures have been published about how Super Bowl advertisers took advantage (or not) […]

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

From Search Engine Land:

  • Did Super Bowl Advertisers Take Advantage of Search Interest?

    Over the past couple of days, numerous stats and figures have been published about how Super Bowl advertisers took advantage (or not) of social media this year. But commercials also drive people to search engines, which in turn (when things go right) can lead potential customers to advertiser web sites where rather than talk about […]

  • Volunia, A Social Search Engine, Says The Web Has Come Alive

    Google might be synonymous with the word search in most of the world, but that hasn’t dissuaded others from bringing new search engines to the market, usually aiming to innovate in an area where Google has somehow let up its guard. Volunia, launched this week, promises to help searchers with three distinguishing features: High level site […]

  • Guide To Finding Linkbuilding Targets With Social Media

    There’s been a lot of debate in the SEO community lately regarding social media versus traditional linkbuilding methods. While some SEOs argue that social media links are the wave of the SEO future, traditionalists staunchly maintain traditional, authoritative links from quality sources are still the best way to go. Whatever your stance, I think it’s […]

  • Do I Change My Site In The UK To Comply With New Cookie Laws?

    People are generally vaguely aware that debates have been taking place in Europe over new legislation which principally affects the use of “Cookies”. European legislation is inevitably more complex than elsewhere because of the way it is drafted by the European Commission and then individually interpreted, translated and re-drafted by each country. Today, I’m focusing […]

  • 9 Free Tools For Link Discovery & Content Creation

    Every day it seems that there’s a new tool out there to monitor, measure, track, and suggest what we should be doing. Many of these are free or offer free trials, which I love, but finding the time to test out a new tool in order to see if it suits you isn’t always easy. […]

  • Google Still #1 Traffic Source For Most Of Top 30 Websites — Report

    This may surprise no one: Google is the leading source of traffic for 23 of the top 30 websites. That’s according to Citi analyst Mark Mahaney in a document released yesterday to clients. Based on underlying comScore data, the report analyzes visits to the top five websites in several verticals: Media, Retail, Travel, Auto, Finance […]

  • The Characters In Google’s Charles Dickens Logo

    Google is honoring the life of of Charles Dickens with a special Google Logo, aka Doodle, for his 200th birthday. The logo contains several characters from some of his more well known works. The characters include: Nell and her grandfather in the The Old Curiosity Shop Several characters from Little Dorrit Oliver and his friends […]

  • Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules

    After China and the US, India is the third largest internet market in the world. But India has philosophically aligned itself more with China in pursuing a policy of censorship toward publication of content deemed “offensive” or “objectionable” by individuals, groups or the government. A recently enacted law seeks to remove all such content from […]

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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