SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 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: Search Week: October 29, 2012 Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Search Week: October 29, 2012
Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below are top stories organized by topic that happened over the past week. Each topic (or Search Engine Land column) is also a link, where you can click through and […]
- Google Now Gains More Content Categories & Info Cards
Google has beefed up its Google Now feature. In addition to the existing content (Calendar, Sports, Traffic, Weather, Places) the company has added a range of new cards/categories to Now: Flights Hotels Restaurant reservations Events Packages/shipping Stocks Movies Breaking news Nearby attractions Nearby photo spots Google Now is in a way Google’s answer to Apple’s […]
- The Building Blocks Of Good Local SEO
It’s been a few months since I have written for SEL. I had to take a short ‘sabbatical’ to hunker down and focus on a major phase of development and updates on our own site. It’s nice to get back to blogging but I have to admit that I feel a bit off the pace. […]
- Hurricane Sandy Superstorm Online News, Search & Social Media Resources
Along with the Crisis Map Google is making available and Barry writes about here, I’ve compiled a few more information resources that might be of interest as Hurricane Sandy and the resulting megastorm (aka “Frankenstorm”) pummels the east coast. We’ll be updating this page periodically as the storm continues. Online Weather Weather.com has a real […]
- SMX Social Media Features Del Harvey, The “Matt Cutts” Of Twitter
Our SMX Social Media Marketing show is coming to Las Vegas this Dec. 5 & 6, and as part of our great agenda is a keynote talk by Del Harvey, Twitter’s director of trust and safety. Not familiar with Del? You should be, if you’re a marketer doing anything involved with Twitter. She oversees what’s […]
- How To Easily Manage & Test Millions Of Ads
You must test ads to make your paid search account grow and thrive. That fact is no longer debatable – it is just a best practice fact. Ad testing in small accounts is very easy as there are not thousands of ad group or hundreds of thousands of ads to track. However, in large accounts, […]
- Google Has Launched A Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map
For those of you in the path of Hurricane Sandy, like me, knowing certain information about the storm can be vital to those stuck at home and preparing for the storm. Google announced a new crisis map for Hurricane Sandy at google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy and they have an additional more detailed map for New York City at […]
- 7 Tricks To Take The Scary Out Of SEO
Does your company use SEO for online marketing guidance? If you are a regular Search Engine Land reader, I suspect you will answer with something like, “Of course we do. We’re enlightened marketers, not Neanderthals.” And, you probably are. Actually, I would not ask you this question without reason. Being an inbound marketing consultant, I […]
- Q&A With Google’s Matt Cutts On How To Use The Link Disavow Tool
It’s been almost two weeks since Google launched its link disavowal tool. Some have been busy diving in and using it, but others have had more detailed questions about it. We’ve got some answers, from the head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts. Question: How do people know what links they should remove? Answer: When […]
- Upgrade Your Social Media Marketing Skills – Attend SMX Social Media Marketing, Register Now to Save $300
Social media marketing is evolving so rapidly. Just last week Twitter added gender targeting. Facebook’s new Suggested Posts now allow you to reach people who have no connection to your brand. And Pinterest may drive even more visits now that it’s a top-50 trafficked web property. With major developments coming daily, it’s difficult to sort […]
- Google Logo Honors 70th Birthday Of “The Joy Of Painting” Host Bob Ross
Google is running a special logo today to honor Bob Ross, painter, art instructor and host of “The Joy Of Painting,” which aired for over a decade in the US and Canada. Ross’s show ran from 1983 through 1994, when he stopped to fight lymphoma, which he later died from in 1995, at age 52. […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Google’s ‘Universal Analytics’ Offers Integration Tools For Enterprise Users
- Live Blog: The Windows Phone 8 Launch Event
- Google Announces Nexus 10 Tablet With Multiuser Support, Nexus 4 Phone With Android 4.2 & Music Match Service
- Predictions For The Future Of Advertising & Media
- 1.1 Million Facebook Users’ Email Addresses Purchased For $5, Facebook Claims Data Was Scraped
- Upgrade Your Social Media Marketing Skills – Attend SMX Social Media Marketing, Register Now to Save $300
- Windows 8: A Touch Too Far?
- Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event
- Twitter CEO Confirms Test That Replaces ‘Favorite’ With ‘Like’ & ‘Star’
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- 3.6 million social security numbers exposed in unprecedented South Carolina cyber attack, The Verge
- Google Music to roll out scan and match feature soon (exclusive), CNET News
Business Issues
- Village Voice sues Yelp for using “Best of”, paidContent.org
Link Building
- MajesticSEO offers comprehensive Link Reports, blog.majesticseo.com
- The Hope of a Link: Mashable Content Analysis, SEOmoz
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Bing Apps on Windows 8 Now Available Worldwide, Bing Search Blog
- Is Siri Sick (of Local Search)?, Mike Blumenthal
- Nexus 4 and Android 4.2 Get the Hands-on Treatment in New Video, thenextweb.com
- Service Area Shows Up on Google Maps, NGS
Other Items
- Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers, New York Times
Searching
- Google Instant Bug On Opera: Searches Way Too Fast, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Now: behind the predictive future of search, www.theverge.com
- The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality, The Atlantic
- Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google, TechCrunch
SEO & SEM
- 3 Ideas to Connect with your Audience and Attract Links #RCS style, State of Search
- 4 Google Product Listing Ads Tips for Q4, Search Engine Watch
- Do AdWords customers get special treatment in organic search results?, YouTube
- Google Says Website Submissions Service Can Hurt Your Web Site, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Content Marketers Fit Into Your Search Marketing Team, BruceClay.com
- Image Optimization 101, Search Engine Journal
- In-House/Agency SEO Expert: My Interview With Dave Rohrer, PPC Associates Blog
- Keyword Match Ratio, www.blindfiveyearold.com
- Relevance as a driving force, Bing Ads
- ROI from SEO: misunderstood, undermined and inaccurate, Econsultancy
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