SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 4, 2013
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 May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about […]
Matt McGee on September 4, 2013 at 5:02 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes
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 May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It
Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about the Google search results shifting and changing. In short, many SEOs and webmasters were complaining that their rankings in the Google search results have declined drastically. In addition, many sent me images of their analytics, […] - Bing Video Adds More Filters, Navigation & Pop Overlays
Bing announced some upgrades to Bing Video search. The upgrades include additional search filters, larger video thumbnails, pop-out hover previews and video overlay and improved navigation. New filters – Allow people to easily filter through video content categories by length, date, resolution and source. Bigger video thumbnails – Larger thumbnails make it easier for people […] - Topsy Becomes Definitive Twitter Search Engine
Social search and analytics provider Topsy announced that users can now search its index for every single tweet ever published since Twitter’s inception in 2006. This capability is very useful and likely makes Topsy an acquisition target (probably by Twitter). According to the site, there are now more than 540 billion tweets in its index. Topsy […] - Google’s Data Highlighter Adds Support For Book Reviews
Google has quietly added support for book reviews rich snippets with the data highlighter tool. Pierre Far from Google announced it on his Google+ page saying “you can now use Data Highlighter to tell us about pages on your site that have book reviews.” That means you can now mark up pages with this tool […] - Bing Tests Deep Links Within Search Box Results
Aaron Wall shared a picture on Twitter of a new experiment Bing is trying out by showing deep links directly in the search box results. When possible, Bing likes to show answers and structured data directly as you type in their search box. But this is the first time I am seeing Bing show “deep […] - 4 LinkedIn Recommendations For The B2B SEO Professional
LinkedIn’s recent announcement about the redesign of LinkedIn Group pages has had me thinking much more about why B2B search marketers need to leverage this social media platform in support of SEO initiatives. According to the announcement, “there are more than 200 conversations happening each minute across LinkedIn Groups and more than 8,000 Groups created […] - What It Takes To Create A Winning Mobile SEO Strategy: 5 Questions With Humana’s Mobile Manager
According to a study conducted by Pure Oxygen Labs earlier this year, Humana was one of only six top 100 Fortune 500 companies whose website met Google’s mobile SEO requirements. In light of Google’s focus on mobile, mobile SEO is something all companies should be considering – not just Fortune 500 organizations, and definitely more […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Facebook Fixes Its Google Glass App; Twitter’s App Still Not Working
- Samsung Announces Galaxy Gear, Apple iWatch Next Week
- Live Blog: The Samsung Galaxy Gear Watch, Galaxy Note 3 & Galaxy Note 10.1 Event
- Mobile Close To 20 Percent Of Internet Traffic Globally
- Is Your Email Program Experiencing That 2:30 Feeling?
- How Wikipedia Could Improve Its Facts With Verification & “Right To Reply” Box
- How To Design A Landing Page That Converts
- Latest Google Survey Asks About Public Reactions to Glass
- Topsy Makes Every Tweet Since The Beginning Of Time Searchable
- Twitter Reportedly Hires Google’s Christian Oestlien To Lead International Growth
- Kit Kat Gets Behind Android KitKat With “Kit Kat 4.4″ Candybar Phone Parody Ad & Website
Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- Jonathon Fletcher: forgotten father of the search engine, BBC News
- Judge Denies Request for Delay in Google Case, www.publishersweekly.com
Link Building
- Google Says Using The Disavow Link Tool Can Harm Your Site, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Says We Will Improve After Mistaken Unnatural Link, Search Engine Roundtable
Local & Maps
- Google’s Map Features Find Their Way Into More Cars, Forbes
- Updated Street View imagery of tsunami-affected areas of northeastern Japan, including the exclusion zone, Google LatLong
- Why Local Businesses Don’t Need Big Budgets for Their Content Marketing, Moz
Search Marketing
- Paid Search vs. Organic Search: Which Converts Better?, MarketingProfs
- Something’s Fishy in the State of Google’s New Keyword Tool [Data], Conductor Blog
- Yandex keyword tool gets a facelift, Russian Search Tips
SEM / Paid Search
- Doh! Little PPC Mistakes That Can Cause a Big Mes, Clix Marketing PPC Blog
- How To Master Google Analytics & AdWords Remarketing, koozai.com
- I love the AdWords Dimensions Tab, State of Search
- PPC Reality Vs. PPC Theater, PPC Hero
Searching
- Photos on SkyDrive get smarter with Bing-powered OCR (optical character recognition), The Bing JP Blog
SEO
- An Introduction to Local Search Engine Optimization (LSEO) on Google, internetmarketingninjas.com
- Does Google take action on automatically generated pages that provide no added value?, YouTube
- Does Google’s authorship integration affect search rankings?, Econsultancy
- Lifecycle Automation for SEO and Smarter Content Marketing, Covario
- Thin Content With Little or No Added Value Manual Action: Google on How to Fix It, Search Engine Watch
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