SearchCap: Google News Publisher Center, Google Pigeon Droppings & New Bing Ads Interface

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 Launches Google News Publisher Center
  Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News publishers to use to help manage their news sites within Google News. The new portal is named Google News Publisher Center. As long as your news site is verified within Google Webmaster Tools and already included in Google News, you should see […]
• Picking Through Google’s Pigeon Droppings…
  Local appears to have been hit with the most far reaching update since Venice, and one that has flung more kaka than Hummingbird – so “Pigeon” seems pretty apropos, perhaps because Google appears to be treating many local SERPs like so many statues in the park. Pigeon Is A Major Flux In SERP Order & Features Result […]
• How SEO & Content Marketing Can Transform Your Business – And Life
  If you’re reading this, you probably know that SEO can help businesses bring in new clients, increase cash flow, and encourage existing clients to spend more money. But have you ever thought about how, as a marketer or a consultant, SEO can help you market yourself, boosting your own career, connecting you to people, and […]
• New Bing Ads Interface Begins Rolling Out Today: What To Expect
  Starting today, some customers will begin to see the new Bing Ads user interface announced last week. All customers will have the new look in the coming weeks. The new interface design is cleaner with fewer competing colors and a bigger report canvas. The focus of the new design is to make data visualization and […]
• John Venn, Inventor Of The Venn Diagram, Gets Google Logo On His 180th Birthday
  Today’s Google logo is a hat-tip to British logician and philosopher, and inventor of the Venn diagram, John Venn on his 180th birthday. Born on this date in 1834, Venn came up with the idea of using circles to sort groups to illustrate their relationship to each other sometime around 1880 Offering users two circles, […]
• An Open Letter To The New SEO Generation
  SEO is almost 20 years old. Can you believe it? There’s some argument about when the practice started, as well as when the term itself was coined, including a failed patent attempt from 2007; but most industry old-timers put the birth of SEO at around 1995. So, after almost 20 years, what do we have […]
• SMX East Preview: What’s New & Why You Should Attend
  Our annual Search Marketing Expo – SMX East is less than two months away, and it’s shaping up to be an exceptional show. We’ve developed a ton of new content for the conference to keep you current with the latest tactics, tools and techniques. What’s New In SEO A better question is “what isn’t new?” […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Bing Ads’ New Look Reflects New Energy From Microsoft’s Search Ads Platform
• The Persistent Gap Between Mobile Devices And Web Traffic
• How To Conduct Influencer Outreach In An “Inbound” World
• Google On Pigeon Fluctuations: We Won’t Detail All Changes In The Future
• SMX East Preview: What’s New & Why You Should Attend
• Hilton Encourages Guests To Share Their #HiltonStory To Win Free Stay
• Twitter’s Growing Non-Core Users: Problem Or Opportunity?
• Why This Engineer Writes Better Copy Than You
• 5 Simple Rules Of Marketing, Whatever The Technology
• Simplified Hashtags With Built In Definitions Spotted In Twitter Test
• Report: Google May Be Subtracting Its Photo Service From Google+ And Offering As A Standalone Product

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Search Brothers, Business Insider
• This Story About What Larry Page Was Like In College Perfectly Explains Why He’s The Right Person To Lead Google, The Bulletin – Norwich, CT

Local & Maps

• Pigeon – An Anecdotal Impact Report, Mike Blumenthal
• “Nearby” – A Proxy for Voice Based Mobile Search?, Mike Blumenthal
• Google Maps Street View: Secret Indian Military Bases Revealed?, m.theepochtimes.com
• Pigeon Local Results are Useless, IntegrateDigitalMarketing
• See the metrics that matter for your business, Google and Your Business

Link Building

• The Four Most Effective Link Building Methods for a Brand New Website, ISOOSI Blog

Searching

• Through the Google lens: search trends July 25-31, Official Google Blog
• Do Politics-Themed Google Searches Predict Stock Activity?, Wall Street Journal

SEO

• Five Signs Your SEO is Scamming You, Gravity Search Marketing
• Google Restores MetaFilter’s Traffic After 20 Months Of Poor Rankings, Search Engine Roundtable
• Has The Long Tail Died In Google?, Search Engine Roundtable
• How I made Google index its own search results, dejanseo.com.au

Search Marketing

• 3 Ways to Brainstorm a Useful How-to Video, internetmarketingninjas.com