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 Asked To Take Down Over 1.2 Million URLs Last Month From Search Results
Google announced they have enhanced the Google Transparency Report to include the removal requests to take down individual search results from showing up in Google. In fact, Google has told us in the past month they have received 1,246,713 removal requests from 24,129 different target domains of 1,296 copyright owners by 1,087 reporting organizations. So [...]
- Why Google’s Venice Update Fundamentally Changes Global SEO
Google’s Venice update has caused surprisingly few ripples in the search engine marketing industry given the scale of its impact on search: it’s easily as important as Big Daddy from 2006, itself the most significant update made by Google up to that point.
- Goodbye Google+ People & Pages, Hello Knowledge Graph Box
Google’s Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query. In making the changes to this prime real estate on a search results [...]
- How To ‘Protect’ Brand Keywords For Less
Imagine you own a restaurant and one day, a couple of big guys in nice suits come through your front door. One of the men introduces himself: “Good evening. My name is Gino, and this my colleague, Salvatore. We’re helping local businesses with their marketing and wanted to see if we could help you.” “Nice [...]
- 10 Blue Links Be Gone: Yahoo Axis Offers Browser & Visual Search Experience
Search launches seem to come in threes. A couple of weeks ago we had Bing Social, then came Google with Knowledge Graph and now Yahoo introduces Axis. When I met with Yahoo earlier this week to hear about it I received the now familiar speech that Yahoo is still very much in search and continuing to “innovate” around [...]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Facebook’s Promoted Posts Rolling Out, Here’s What It Looks Like
- Facebook Launches Standalone Camera App; Whither Flickr, Google+ & Pinterest?
- Report: iOS And Android Represent 82 Percent Of Q1 Global Smartphone Market
- Don’t Stop At The Click: The Importance Of Tracking Everything In Mobile
- As Doubts About Facebook Continue To Rise, Some Marketers Defend Advertising Opportunities
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Gmail now available in Welsh and Latin American Spanish, Official Gmail Blog
- Why Yahoo’s Axis Is Going to Fail, Read/Write Web
- Yahoo Disables Axis Chrome Extension Following Security Vulnerability, thenextweb.com
Business Issues
- Appeals Court Upholds $150K in Punitive Damages for 3 Fake Reviews, Mike Blumenthal
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Google Maps Changes PO Box Rules, Search Engine Roundtable
- Make the Most of Your Time in a New City with Yahoo! TimeTraveler, a new App for iPhone, Yodel Anecdotal
- Mobile is a lot bigger in Latin America than you think, Google Mobile Ads Blog
Link Building
- Internal Linking to Promote Keyword Clusters, Search Engine Watch
- Link Building Risks and Value Infographic, Daily SEO Tip
Searching
- Google and Microsoft Feature Do-It-All Search Pages, New York Times
- Google Scholar Redesign Drops Subject Areas Search Feature, Search Engine Roundtable
SEM Industry
- How Preaching White Hat can Lead to Ignorance, Peter Attia
SEO & SEM
- Future of SEO: Investment, Innovation & Integration, Search Engine Watch
- Has Google Audited Your AdWords Account?, Search Engine Roundtable
- How does Google+ impact SEO performance?, econsultancy.com
- How to Build and Operate a Content Marketing Machine, SEOmoz
- Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- The 3-Step Process to Creating an Effective and Profitable Keyword Plan, quicksprout.com
- The Best Way To Improve Your SEO Isn’t ‘SEO’, blindfiveyearold.com
Web Analytics
- Facebook App Developers Now Get More Detailed Analytics, thenextweb.com
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