Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Ask.com Launches New Visual Q&A App “Pollroll”
It seems like there are a million apps launching or promoting themselves in connection with the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. Among them is Pollroll a new Q&A mobile app from Ask.com. Pollroll, according to Ask, “is designed to facilitate the creation, distribution and sharing of poll questions and results.” In addition to answering [...]
- The Internet: It’s Like Real Life, Only With Buttons
Every time I read about social media these days, I end up hearing about how social sharing metrics are becoming a bigger factor in everything from organic rankings to driving additional clicks from visitors already on your site. And it makes total sense. If Google sees that a blog post has a ton of Likes, [...]
- 4 Reasons Your Boss Might Hate Your SEM Campaign
An Enterprise Paid Search program can be, and should be, a sophisticated operation. Sophistication drives performance, but can often lead to challenges with perceived performance within the organization. It is not at all uncommon for senior management to become unhappy with a terrific and progressing paid search program because of the way we communicate results. [...]
- International Women’s Day Google Logo
Today is International Women’s Day, a day where we celebrate women’s contributions around the world. Google has a special logo up on all of their home pages in order to commemorate the special day. The day is celebrated internationally on March 8th. Some countries have a non-working day, whereas others do not. For more on [...]
- Microsoft adCenter Launches Location Extensions In Ads
Microsoft has announced the launch of Location Extensions in adCenter, after mentioning plans for this, among other new features, nearly a year ago. The Location Extensions allow local business advertisers on Bing and Yahoo! search results to display their addresses and phone numbers within the ads, similar to the Location Extensions in Google AdWords. The interface [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- How Apple Made Twitter The Poster Child Of Android’s Tablet Failure
- Interest Lists Add More Personalization For Users (And Visibility For Marketers)
- E-Commerce On Twitter Brand Pages? Later This Year, Report Says
- Apple Using OpenStreetMap With Its Own Tiles Instead Of Google Maps In Select Cases
- How To Integrate The Latest Platform (e.g. Pinterest) Into Your Facebook Presence
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- AT&T In Talks To Sell Yellow Pages Stake With Cerberus, TPG, Wall Street Journal
- Facebook Gets $8 Billion From Credit Line, 364-Day Bridge Loan, Bloomberg
Link Building
- Link Building and the Bigger Picture with Google, internetmarketingninjas.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Updates Places Time to Live for Dashboard Data, Mike Blumenthal
- New 45° imagery available for 56 cities, Google LatLong
- Typical Turnaround For Google Places Listings Updates, Search Engine Roundtable
- U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers on E-Book Pricing, Wall Street Journal
Other Items
- Bing is heading to Austin. Let’s meet up!, www.bing.com
Paid Search & Contextual
- 4 Reasons Why Your Boss Might Hate Improvements, Rimm Kaufman
- Opportunities for sitelinks, Inside AdWords
Searching
- Ask.com Does Q&A Again, This Time With Mobile, Social Polls, TechCrunch
- Kayak Expands Direct Booking Into Flights; Adds Jetsetter And Travel + Leisure Hotel Reviews | TechCrunch, TechCrunch
- Microsoft Says Decaffeinated Bing Tastes as Good as Google, Wired
- The Personal Analytics of My Life, blog.stephenwolfram.com
SEM Industry
- Are We Putting Ourselves Out of Business With All These “How To” Blog Posts?, Search Engine Journal
- Matt Cutts Won’t Be At SXSW, WebProNews
- Networking at Search Marketing Conferences: 3 Tips for the Painfully Shy, www.portent.com
SEO & SEM
- Achieving an SEO-Friendly Domain Migration – The Infographic, SEOmoz
- An Open Letter to New SEOs, SEOmoz
- Google Webmaster Tools Message: Big Traffic Change For Top URL, Search Engine Roundtable
- How To Configure Regional Settings For Yandex SEO, www.russiansearchtips.com
- The 6 Hidden Identities of an SEO Consultant, Outspoken Media
- Three 70% Deltas Affecting your AdWords Account: Secondary Metrics, PPC Associates Blog
- Updates to AdWords API Terms & Conditions, Google Ads Developer Blog
- What Dr. Seuss can teach you about copywriting, SEO Copywriting
Social Media
- AuthorRank & Google+ Posts, www.virante.com
- Facebook Plucks At Twitter With Launch Of News Feed Interest Lists, TechCrunch
- Study: Pinterest Now Drives More Referral Traffic Than Twitter, siliconfilter.com
Video, Music & Image Search
- Welcome to your new YouTube channel, YouTube Blog
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