SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 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:

• Infographic: How Much Does SEO Cost?

  How much does SEO cost? How much time do you have to discuss the various models and prices out there! However, a new survey sheds some light on the subject. Over 500 people and companies who offer search engine optimization services were asked about how their models. Turns out, it’s most common to charge $100 […]
• Infographics: Why They Fail For Link Building

  We’ve all seen them: too much of them. They filter through our Twitter stream, pop up in our News Feed, and infiltrate our search results. My dear friends, we are in infographic overload, and if we don’t do something now, it may be too late for us all. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against […]

• Did International Markets Cause Google’s Loss Of Love On Wall Street?

  Wall Street wasn’t terribly impressed with Google’s figures for the last quarter of 2011 announced after the bell last thursday. To a normal person, you would think that generating $2.71 billion profit and significantly beating your own previous quarters would be a cause for celebration. But these aren’t normal people and this isn’t a normal […]

• A Proposal For Social Network Détente

  For the past two weeks, I feel like I’ve been witnessing some type of Cuban Missile Crisis going on between Google, Twitter and Facebook. I’d like to suggest some ways that social-nuclear war might be averted. Beyond Blame, Believing In Cooperation Let’s set aside blame, because blame isn’t going to move anything forward. Let’s also […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Google’s New Terms Of Service & Privacy Policy: Anything You Do May Be Used To Target You?
• Who Got Web Traffic When Wikipedia Went Down? Facebook, Twitter & Answer/Homework Sites, Of Course
• Webcasts This Week: Social Media Analytics + Pay Per Call Advertising
• Pinterest Is Growing Like Gangbusters (Hitwise & comScore Agree)
• Social Media Makes Gains As A Trusted Source, But It’s Still Behind Traditional Media
• US Consumer Group Wants EU To Block G-Moto Deal, Calls For Google Breakup
• Metric-ocracy: Less Data, More Insight
• Gap Widens Between Big 3 Search Engines & Facebook In December, comScore Says

Search News From Around The Web:

Business Issues

• Google’s Big Problem They Don’t Want You To Know About, Forbes
• Consumer Watchdog Urges EU to Block Google’s Motorola Deal, PC World
• Evil, Greed, And Antitrust Aren’t Google’s Real Problems, Relevancy Is, pandodaily.com
• Google China Business Grows, ‘Continues to Thrive,’ Alegre Says, Bloomberg
• Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in 4Q, Data Center Knowledge
• Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else, PandoDaily

Local, Maps & Mobile

• Catalog of Current Bugs in Google Places and the Google Places Dashboard, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Maps Reviews Issues: Here Is Google’s Help Guide, Search Engine Roundtable
• New 45° imagery available for 24 cities, Google LatLong

Link Building

• 9 Search Query Combos for Scalable Link Building, pointblankseo.com
• Competitive intelligence reloaded: get much more information about your competitors, SEOprofiler Blog
• Content Audits for Link Building – Tips & Free Spreadsheet, seogadget.co.uk
• Dealing With Bad Links: Six Ways To Recover From Link Spamming, Search Engine People

Paid Search & Contextual

• 2012: Our resolutions to improve AdSense for you, Inside AdSense

Searching

• Ask.com Users are the Wordiest Web Searchers, thenextweb.com
• Search strategies and tactics, SearchReSearch

SEM Industry

• 10 Reasons Why SEO Haters Are Plainly Wrong, SEO 2.0
• Forbes showing the SEO love again!, Search News Central
• What Google Revenues might mean to the SEO industry, State of Search

SEO & SEM

• 12 Awesome Tactics for Crazy Productive PPC Meetings, Search Engine Watch
• A Stalker’s Guide to Competitive Research, blueglass.com
• AdWords Keyword Statuses & Diagnostics, PPC Hero
• AdWords, Declining Click Prices (CPC’s), and Interface Optics: Two Theories, Traffick
• Another Reason to Advertise on Your Brand Name in Paid Search, Rimm Kaufman
• Answers to 43 Questions About Search, Social, Content, Conversions and More, SEOmoz
• Dear @twittercomms – A Basic Search Query For Your Engineers, andybeard.eu
• Dear @twittercomms – A Basic Search Query For Your Engineers, andybeard.eu
• Google Places Myth: Linking to Your Places Page, Mike Blumenthal
• Google SEO: Changing On Page Text Have Ranking Effect In 2012?, Search Engine Roundtable
• The Myth Of Ad Text Succinctness, PPC Associates
• Timely Content in a World of Google Freshness, distilled
• Video Sitemap Guide for Vimeo and YouTube, SEOmoz

Social Media

• Facebook: Everyone Gets Timeline In ‘Next Few Weeks’, allfacebook.com
• Follow the State of the Union on Twitter, Twitter Blog
• Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections, Technology Review

Video, Music & Image Search

• Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007, TechCrunch