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Search Engine Land MVP Contest Terms and Conditions
Participants can join the Search Engine Land MVP contest between January 9, 2020 and February 14, 2020 (dates are subject to change). Winners must live in the United States to qualify and will be notified via email the week after the contest has ended on February 14, 2020. We respect your privacy. The TOP winner […]
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Search Engine Land’s Most Shared Stories on Facebook of 2012
Today for our last installment top stories from the past year, we feature the most-shared stories on Facebook. Our little Panda friend made it in the headline nine times (“Nine times? Nine times.”– Quick, name the movie!)* Meanwhile, Google stories are popular with our Facebook crowd, appearing in seventeen out of the top 20 headlines, […]
The Hottest Reads In Search & Social In 2012
We already shared the news that Jordan Kasteler took home the top prize and had a second entry in our overall list of most read columns for the year, both of which appeared here in the Search & Social column, alongside several other worthy reads. In 2012, “social signals” became one of the most talked […]
Search Engine Land’s Top Tweeted Stories Of 2012: Pandas, Google and a Zuckerberg
There’s no question, the Search Engine Land Twitterverse likes to talk about the Panda updates. We took a look at the top tweeted stories of 2012 using Social Crawlytics, and without a doubt, Google and Panda-related stories trumped much of the Twitter activity in the past year. Mark Zuckerberg did make an appearance in one of […]
Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories On Google+ In 2012: Panda, Knowledge Graph & SEO
It’s started, the top lists of 2012! Over the next few days, we’ll be posting a series of these, including the most read Search Engine Land stories, the most tweeted ones and the ones most liked on Facebook. But to kick it off, the stories with the most +1’s on Google+. How did we collect […]
The Google Dance: Google’s Eric Schmidt and PSY Dance “Gangnam Style”
Technology news site The Verge shared a photo and video of Google chairman Eric Schmidt doing the “Gangnam Style” dance while visiting Korea this week. He took a break from his tour of East Asia where he is launching the Nexus 7 to meet the PSY – the rapper behind the record-breaking viral YouTube hit. […]
Google Emails Authorship Confirmations To Bloggers
Did you receive an email from Google Authorship this morning? It seems that many writers and bloggers who work with sites that have set up Google Authorship have received email confirmations from Google today, confirming their participation. The email welcomes the participant to Google Authorship, and shows how authorship works in search results. Here’s the […]
Movember SEO Moustache Competition Raises $17,000 For Cancer Research
What started out as a friendly rivalry between Bing’s Duane Forester and Google’s Matt Cutts resulted in $17,000 for the Movember, a moustache campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, specifically prostate cancer. Mike Halvorsen set up the competition while at SMX Advanced. There were 83 participants in the Search For The Cure […]
What Businesses & Brands Can Use Google Plus Pages For Now
Initially, when I was pulling a Google+ presentation together for PubCon last week, branded business pages were not “allowed” at the time. However, the features businesses can use to increase traffic and grow a following on Google Plus are pretty much the same as before branded pages were launched. For the record, this is not […]