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 Q3 Earnings Leak: $14.1 Billion, Disappoint Surprised Investors
Google’s Q3 “consolidated earnings” leaked early and are below analysts’ expectations. Search clicks were up 33 percent vs. a year go but CPCs were down 15 percent, probably a result of the impact of lower mobile CPCs. Traffic acquisition costs were also up, as were other expenses. Investors were surprised by the early release and [...]
- FTC Playing Antitrust Poker With Google And Looking For A Way To Save Face
Last week there was a report that “four out of five FTC commissioners” favored going forward with an antitrust case against Google. The Reuters article in which the claim appeared mentions but doesn’t emphasize the litany of “vertical search” complaints against Google raised by competitors. Those “Google favors its own results” claims have been at [...]
- Why Changed Goals Require Changed Metrics
Enterprise businesses demand savvy communication from SEM managers. It is the nature of large organizations to have the following: Senior executives reviewing data from programs they don’t understand A shortage of institutional memory Consultants coming and going who offer opinions based on superficial data Each of these traits make performance reporting particularly important, and sometimes [...]
- Google Now Reports “Practically 100%” Of Manual Actions
Wondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google’s search results? Google’s now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time. “We’ve actually started to send messages for pretty much every manual action that we do that will directly impact the ranking of your site,” [...]
- Google Searchers 3x More Likely To Be Logged-in Than Bing
A study we recently did at Conductor found that search engines still have work to do when it comes to integrating social search results in the SERPs: 62% of respondents reported they do not want or gain benefit from social results mixed in with search results. In the same survey, we asked the 150 respondents [...]
- Google’s Moby Dick Logo Takes You To Herman Melville Books Knowledge Graph
Google’s Moby Dick logo celebrates the 161st anniversary of The Whale novel written by author Herman Melville. There are two special points to be made about the implementation of this logo: (1) Google purposely is taking searches who click on the logo to a search result for [Herman Melville books] which brings up the Google [...]
- After Sting Operation, Yelp Outs 8 Businesses That It Caught Trying To Buy Reviews
Yelp is now showing “Consumer Alert” warning messages on the profile pages of eight businesses that it says it caught in a sting operation trying to buy reviews. As the New York Times reports, Yelp conducted a sting operation in which one of its employees pretended to be an “Elite” reviewer and responded to review [...]
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Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Dlvr.it Converts To Freemium Distribution Model
- Twenty Dollars For A Twitter App? Blame Twitter’s API Rules
- Google Q3 Earnings ($14.1B) Leak Early, Company Blames RR Donnelley
- The Fallacy Of Twitter Marketing Rules: Different Approaches For Different Objectives
- The Future Of Location-Based Marketing Isn’t Foursquare
- Twitter Takes First Country-Specific Censorship Action, Against Hate Group In Germany
- Google Announces Android Event For Oct. 29
- Pinterest Users Can Now Block, Report Accounts
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung, BBC News
- Yahoo’s departing CFO to get annual salary, bonus as severance, Reuters
Link Building
Paid Search & Contextual
- Google AdSense Classic Design Error: "Unable To Process Your Request", Search Engine Roundtable
- Worldwide, Internet Ad Spend Grows More than Other Media in First Half of 2012, Nielsen Wire
Searching
- Google News Location Filter Not Working For Two Word Cities, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Sitelinks Change Based On Time Filter, Search Engine Roundtable
SEM Industry
- A new tool to Dis A Vowel, hitreach.co.uk
- Best of Pubcon 2012, managinggreatness.com
SEO & SEM
- Google AuthorRank: Heir to the Throne, portent.com
- How Google’s New EMD Update Ruined My Life, Performancing.com
- Should your business stop blogging for SEO?, SEO Copywriting
- What is SEO 2012?, David Naylor
- How Out of Date is the Learning Center and AdWords Exam?, SEOptimise
- How to Find Core Keywords For Effective Online Marketing, Search Engine Guide
- How To Pause Keywords in AdWords (The Right Way), Search Engine People
- My Top 10 SEO Myths, Search Marketing Standard
- New Feature: Keyword Destination URLs in Bing Ads Now Available in All Markets, Bing Ads Blog
- Our Top 10 Updates Wishlist For Google Webmaster Tools, David Naylor
- Six types of clicks that Google gets paid less for, Traffick
Social Media
- Announcing a New Pages Structure for Global Brands, Facebook Studio :: Blog
- The human face of big data, Twitter Blog
Web Analytics
- Real Time Analytics Supports Profiles, Google Analytics Blog
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