SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 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’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search results, which mimic Siri’s functionality on the iPhone. Siri had been […]
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’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice
At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search results, which mimic Siri’s functionality on the iPhone. Siri had been a major point of differentiation between Android handsets and the iPhone, despite Google’s preexisting voice search. The new Google female voice actually sounds less like a machine and more natural than Siri. And there are […]
- Newest Version Of AdWords Editor Released
It’s time again to update your AdWords Editor desktop software. Google today released version 9.8.1 which will now let users add and edit dynamic search ads and product listing ads. Each of these ad formats now has its own tab, and these types of ads can now be managed on two new targeting tabs. The […]
- SMX Advanced Video: Google’s Matt Cutts On A Disavow-This-Link Tool
All the talk today about Bing’s launch of a disavow this link tool is a good reminder that we should go back into our video archives and post the comments that Google’s Matt Cutts made about a tool like that during our SMX Advanced event earlier this month. Cutts was speaking with Search Engine Land’s […]
- Google Shopping: 7 Advanced Tips & Strategies For Merchants
The new Google Shopping is based off of your typical paid comparison shopping engine, such as Pricegrabber, Nextag or Shopping.com. It’s a move that presents significant opportunity to the merchants who chose to stay and play in the market-rate CPC program, with no minimum CPCs. Many small merchants and some SEOs have shown their disgust […]
- Search In Pics: Android Jelly Bean, Google Beach Party & Neon Fur Man
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Neon Fur Man With Sergey Bring: Source: Google+ Android Jelly Bean: Source: Google+ Android Kids: Source: […]
- Not All Bad Links Hurt You, Google Ignores Links Also
Google doesn’t always penalize you for bad links, they sometimes and very often, will ignore links completely that they find to be against their guidelines. Back in 2007, Google started penalizing sites for selling paid links and over the years they have penalized many sites for buying links. Recently, Google has stepped up their notifications […]
- Virtual Pageviews Or Event Tracking – Which Is Right For You?
An interesting challenge came across my desk this week. A site owner had installed a new contact form plugin on their WordPress website and they were struggling with tracking the submissions. The form submit button triggered some JavaScript and didn’t then open its own thank you page within the site. The problem? Virtual Pageviews were previously chosen […]
- Don’t Like The AdWords Display Ads You’re Seeing? Now Users Can Mute Them
Google has long made it possible for users of YouTube to skip ads. Now, it’s adding that capability to the Display Network, letting people hit an “X” to dismiss, or mute, the currently-displaying ad. Google says it will use the signal as a way to deliver more relevant ads to consumers. Once a person mutes […]
- Bing Launches Way to “Disavow” Links, But Why?
For years, Google’s webmaster guidelines have noted that attempts to manipulate Google’s algorithms with artificial external link profiles (paid links, link schemes and the like) are violations and that Google may take action (by removing the site from the index or lowering its ranking). This year, Google starting alerting site owners with “unnatural links”, recommending […]
- Hitwise: Bing Has Chipped Away 5 Percent Of Google’s Search Share Over Past Year
Google continues to hold a death-grip on search market share in the U.S., but Experian Hitwise says that Bing has taken five percent of Google’s market share in the last 12 months. According to Hitwise’s market share stats for May 2012, Google accounted for 65 percent of all U.S. searches — down from 68 percent […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- ‘Want’ Button Plugin Discovered In Facebook SDK
- Marketing Biz: Psychic Search, Facebook Want Button & Smart Pricing
- Google Analytics Goes Mobile – Launches App Analytics
- You Like WHAT?!?! Social Success Tips For Smart Affiliate Marketers
- Google’s Chrome iOS App Top Free App In App Store
- Prompting Facebook Fans To Share Leads To 77% Higher Share Rate
- Report: Twitter Now Generating The Majority Of Ad Revenue From Mobile
- Google’s Developer Dilemma: Open Up Google+ Or Hold On To ‘Something Special’?
- Google Takes The Google+ Platform Mobile
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong’s Memo], TechCrunch
- Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again, TechCrunch
- Yahoo! Koprol will be discontinued on August 28, 2012, Koprol Blog
Link Building
- 9 Questions to Shape and Future-Proof Your Link Building Strategy, Search Engine Watch
- The New Link Ecology In A Post Penguin World, SEO.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Maps API, now with even more style!, Google Geo Developers Blog
- The great map update of 2012, Code: Flickr Developer Blog
- An SEO Lesson from Google Now: Get your Butts on Google+ Local NOW, www.thesearchagents.com
- Google Design Chief Would Love to Work With RIM on an Android Phone With a Real Keyboard, ABC News
- Google Maps Owner Responses Not Working Again, Search Engine Roundtable
- Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple’s Siri gets a D, Fortune
- Street test measures Siri comprehension at 83%, accuracy at 62%, appleinsider.com
- TomTom opens up MapShare to all 60 million of its GPS units (video), Engadget
- Windows Phone 8 apps Coming to 180 Countries, thenextweb.com
Other Items
- Celebrating Pride 2012, Official Google Blog
- U.S. Trying to Extradite Brit for Sharing Links, Read/Write Web
Searching
- “Google Now” Knows More About You Than Your Family Does – Are You OK With That?, Read/Write Web
- One-Word Queries Up 19 Percent In Last Year, Hitwise Says, Small Business SEM
SEO & SEM
- Can You Automate and Patent SEO?, SEO By The Sea
- How To Use Analytics Custom Reports To Optimize E-Commerce Accounts & Increase ROAS, PPC Hero
- Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Algorithm Again, TechCrunch
- More Google Shopping Changes to Look Forward To [Pictures], CPC Strategy
- Templated Success: How To Make Your Life Easier With Excel, PPC Hero
- Undoing SEO Damage Caused by Global Reputation Management Disasters, Search Engine Watch
Social Media
- Instagram Launches Sexy New "Photo Page", thenextweb.com
- Pinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States, royal.pingdom.com
- Does Google Have Any Social Skills at All?, Gizmodo
- UK Study: Top Twitter stories shared ‘350 times more’ on Facebook than Google+, Journalism.co.uk
Video, Music & Image Search
- Google TV will get subscription billing, support for movie and TV purchases in Google Play, Engadget
- Introducing all new up-to-date Maps, Flickr Blog
- Choosing how you’re seen on YouTube, YouTube Blog
- Flickr Trends – Summer Has Arrived, ycorpblog.com
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