SearchCap: Foursquare Experts, Google Blessings & LinkedIn B2B Tools
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant – August 12th Webcast Digital Marketing Depot presents “Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant: Emerging Trends for Call Tracking in 2014″ […]
Barry Schwartz on August 1, 2014 at 4:00 pm | Reading time: 4 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:
- Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant – August 12th Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Why Traditional Call Tracking Is No Longer Relevant: Emerging Trends for Call Tracking in 2014″ on Tuesday, August 12th at 1 PM EDT. Carlton van Putten from ContactPoint will share emerging trends for call tracking in 2014. He will explain why traditional call tracking and analytics may not be relevant in […] - Google Quick Answers For Jewish Food Blessings
Google is now offering the answers for what blessings observant Jewish people should make prior to consuming food or drinks in their quick answers. The term for blessing in Hebrew is ‘Bracha‘ and if you search for [bracha for yogurt], Google will return a quick answer telling you what the “before” blessing is and the […] - Foursquare “Experts” Reintroduces Gamification Into New App
In order to broaden its appeal Foursquare has been backing away from its origins as a “check-in app” for a long time. The banishment of check-ins into a separate app, Swarm, seemed to mark a complete break with the company’s “gamification” legacy. Not so apparently. Gamification is in Foursquare’s DNA. So perhaps it’s no surprise […] - How To Use LinkedIn As A B2B Link Prospect Development Tool
It’s no secret that LinkedIn is widely considered one of the top social media platforms for B2B marketers. As illustrated in the fourth annual B2B Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report, put out by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 91% of B2B content marketers are using LinkedIn to distribute their content. And in Holger Schulze’s 2013 B2B Content […] - Search In Pics: Google Cookie Tower, Android Framed & Google Whiskey Delivery
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Whiskey Delivery Via Telepresence Robot: Source: Google+ Cup Cakes From Covario: Source: Google+ Framed Android […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Study: Pinterest Referral Traffic Drives 67% Increase In E-Commerce Revenue
- Merchant Sues To Stop Yelp’s “Trustworthy” Review Claims
- Facebook Goes Down; Back Online In Less Than An Hour
- Bank’s ‘Automated Thanking Machine’ Shocks Customers With Heartwarming Gifts
- LinkedIn Posts $534 Million In Revenue For Q2 2014, Up Nearly 50% Over Last Year
- The Fundamental Checklist For Website Navigation Design and Architecture – Part 2
- Lifting The Veil On Audience Modeling: It’s Not Just Retargeting
Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- Google Says It Has the Right to Notify Publishers of ‘Forgotten’ Requests, Wall Street Journal
- Semalt infecting computers to spam the web, blog.nabble.nl
- ClubBING Google: 3 Ways Bing Beats Google, MKG Media Group
Local & Maps
- Google Pigeon Local Search Algorithm Gets First Update, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Pigeon Mess, Mockingbird Marketing
Link Building
Searching
- Google Searches Could Predict the Next Financial Crisis, www.livescience.com
- Site search: Too many results and not enough, Search Engine Guide
- Answer: Three Classic Mistakes, SearchReSearch
- Google Knowledge Graph Answers Show Jewish Blessings For Food (Brachas), Search Engine Roundtable
- Take Me to the Movies!, Yahoo Search
SEO
- Increase Your SEO By Appearing on Google News, ProBlogger
- Double Manual Google Penalty Recovery + 302 Redirects Hurt Site, linkresearchtools.com
- Google Update On 30th?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Real-World Panda Optimization – Whiteboard Friday, moz.com
SEM / Paid Search
- 5 Common AdWords Script Mistakes, PPC Hero
- The Evolution of Google AdWords Agency Reps, The SEM Post
Search Marketing
- Video: Google Pigeon 1.1 & Updates, Bing Ads Update & AdRoll Invalid Traffic, Search Engine Roundtable
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.