SearchCap: Google Structured Snippets, DuckDuckGo Blocked In China & Ask.com Arbitrage

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop?

  Google has been steadily cracking down on sites with poor quality content, both on the organic and the paid side. So why does Ask.com continue to get away with it, and what’s it getting out of the relationship?

• Google Structured Snippets Officially Live In Search Results

  Earlier this month, we caught Google testing a form of knowledge graph data within the search results snippet. This feature is now officially being confirmed by Google on the Google Research Blog. Google calls these “structured snippets,” where Google will show snippets of data, relevant to the query, within the snippets of the search results. Google […]
• Understanding Sales, Conversion & Revenue For Local SEO Agencies

  Contributor Myles Anderson takes a deep dive into the stats BrightLocal collected in a survey of more than 1,700 local SEOs.

• China Blocks DuckDuckGo, The Privacy Search Engine

  China has blocked DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that recently made big news when Apple added them as a default search option to iOS and their upcoming desktop operating system. The Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, confirmed that his search engine was blocked by Chinese regulators. He confirmed this yesterday on Twitter and […]

• SMX East Starts Next Tuesday – Here’s How to Attend

  Search Engine Land’s – SMX East kicks off next Tuesday – September 30 – in New York City. With over 60 educational sessions and keynotes, networking activities and presentations from leading providers, you’ll get the SEO, SEM and internet marketing tactics and solutions you need to exceed your goals. SMX East offers flexible pass options […]

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

• Emojew App Has Fun With Emoticons And Encourages Charitable Donations To Food Bank
• Facebook Adds A “Your Pages” Box To Page Administrators’ Timelines
• Study Shows CTRs A False Metric For Mobile Ad Performance
• SMX East Starts Next Tuesday – Here’s How to Attend
• The Only B2B Advertising Metric That Matters
• Apple’s iPhone 6 Launch Biggest Ever: 10 Million Sold
• Pinterest Inches Closer To Fuller Ad Rollout, Will Update Privacy Policy On Oct. 19
• Google+ Is No Longer A Requirement For Creating A Google Account
• EMarketer Report: Facebook Gets More Than Its Share Of Digital Ad Revenue

Search News From Around The Web:

Industry

• Sam Noble: State of Digital Summer School, Learning from the Experts, State of Digital
• Shopzilla, Inc. Becomes Connexity; Offers Wide Range of Technology Driven Marketing Solutions Based on Retail Data, Business Wire

Local & Maps

• Pigeon Update 2 Months Later: Google Flipped The Bird At Local Search, aimClear Blog

Link Building

• New Historic Index for September, Majestic SEO Blog

Searching

• Through the Google lens: search trends Sept 12-18, Official Google Blog
• Top Fall TV Show Searches!, Yahoo Search
• The 4 reasons I switched from Google to Bing, PC World

SEO

• Google’s New Sitelinks Search Box Steals Branded Traffic (if you let it), blindfiveyearold.com
• How Google Might Fill in Missing and Incorrect Data in its Knowledge Graph, SEO By The Sea
• Google Creating New App Indexing Videos, Soliciting Questions, The SEM Post
• Google Images Does Index WebP Images, Search Engine Roundtable
• PBN Sites De-Indexed, Manual Spam Actions on Money Sites, nohatdigital.com
• Searchmetrics Ranking Factors 2014: Why Quality Content Focuses on Topics, not Keywords, Moz
• SEP Research: SEO Statistics and Insights in Canada, Search Engine People Blog

Search Marketing

• Here’s Your Best Tool for Content Brainstorming, internetmarketingninjas.com
• What Are They Thinking? 7 Techniques to Decrypt Search Intent, SEMrush Blog