SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 3, 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: How Search Retargeting Is Bridging The Gap Between Search & Display Recently, Harvard Business School published a working paper, Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising. While […]
Barry Schwartz on April 3, 2013 at 5:01 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:
- How Search Retargeting Is Bridging The Gap Between Search & Display
Recently, Harvard Business School published a working paper, Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising. While I won’t go into all of the details and findings from this paper, I want to focus on a few of the findings and explore some overarching themes: How Search Retargeting Bridges The Gap Between […] - Google, Microsoft Keynoting SMX Advanced – Register Now, 50% Of Tickets Sold
Year after year, SMX Advanced delivers the most influential personalities in search marketing as keynote speakers. This year is no exception. Google’s spam team lead Matt Cutts will take questions directly from the audience in his “You&A” keynote, an SMX Advanced tradition. Bring your questions and don’t miss the opportunity to meet Matt! Highlighting the […] - Bing Ads To Launch In Australia And New Zealand
Bing announced today that it will be launching Bing Ads in Australia and New Zealand. Australia site, BandT.com, is reporting that the launch date will be in July. Bing Ads is partnering with Mi9, a digital media company in Australia that is a joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co. Bing’s search ads will […] - Link Seller Linking To You? Google Says You Won’t Benefit From It.
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a 90-second video on what happens if a site that is selling links also links to your site. In short, Matt Cutts explains that when sites that sell links (with Google knowing about it) link to you, Google won’t pass value from that link seller website. So, […] - Google Upgrades Its Google Places Dashboard With Google+ Local Integration
Google has begun a staged upgrade of its Google Places Dashboard — the backend tool that allows local businesses to manage their business information that appears in Google’s search results. A new dashboard that looks much more like the current Google (and Google+) aesthetic, and also offers some new functionality, will be available “over the […] - Yes, Google Says It’s Having Problems Listing iTunes Preview Pages
Yes, it is harder to find pages to iTunes apps in Google. But no, the company says, it’s not part of some nefarious plot. Rather, Google’s having technical problems gathering iTunes Preview pages, an issue it’s working to solve. Google has confirmed the issue, saying: We’ve been having some issues fetching pages from the iTunes […] - Google Partners With Nixle To Deliver Local Emergency Alerts & Response Information
Google Public Alerts has broadened its service through a new partnership with Nixle, a company that contracts with public safety agencies to send alerts via cellphones and social media networks. Police, fire, and emergency management agency alerts will now appear when a Google search or a Google Maps search is performed in an area with […]
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- Instagram: After One Year, About Half Of Our Users Are On Android
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- Safari Still Leading With 61% Of The Mobile Browser Market
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- Google Turns Focus To “Engaged” Android Users Rather Than Raw Activations
- Merchandising For Email Marketing — Selecting Products and Promotions
- Twitter Announces 3 New Twitter Cards At Developer Event
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- Instagram Gets Serious About Business With New Business Operations Director
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing, Neowin
- Yahoo Acquires Summly: The Death of SEO or A New Life for Yahoo?, www.covario.com
Local Search & Maps
- Categories in the new Places for Business Dashboard, Mike Blumenthal
- Google Apps Users Can Now Verify A Google+ Page, Search Engine Roundtable
- Tips for Optimizing for Local Search, www.ppcassociates.com
- Visual Guide to the new Places for Business Dashboard, Mike Blumenthal
Link Building
- Link Building No-Nos: How to Self-Sabotage Your Content In a Hot Minute, aimClear
- People Still Pay for Links, Not Vague Content Marketing Strategies, pointblankseo.com
- Exchanging Bad Links, www.wikimotive.net
- Future-proofing your Link Building Strategies, State of Search
- The Hunt for the Optimum Link Building Speed, Search Engine Journal
Paid Search
- The Total Guide To Product Listing Ads, PPC Hero
Searching
- A Deeper Look at Autosuggest, Bing Search Quality Insights Blog
- Google Cache/Similar Drop Down Links Test, Search Engine Roundtable
- National Library of the Netherlands Releases 80,000 Digitized Books From 18th and 19th Century Online, LJ INFOdocket
- Reference: Extensive Collection of Declassified Materials Now Accessible, Searchable in New Digital Archive, LJ INFOdocket
SEM Industry
- PPC Associates Expands Services, Announces New VP of SEO, PR Web
- SMX Hacks for Conference Survival: Part Deux, searchnewscentral.com
- The anatomy of 16 great SEO blogs, stokedseo.co.uk
SEO & SEM
- 3 Free SEO Tools for Identifying Target Keywords, Search Engine Journal
- Are You Overwhelmed By Your SEO Responsibilities?, Search Marketing Standard
- Feeding the Content Machine: 6 Steps to Repurpose and Maximize Content Creation, Search Engine Journal
- Google Authorship and Author Rank: Big for SEO in 2013 and Beyond, MarketingProfs
- How can a legitimate business compete online?, YouTube
- How One Bad Email Can Take Down An Entire Industry, www.koozai.com
- Lifting A Manual Penalty Given By Google (Personal Experience), SEOmoz
- New Case Study! How We Increased Call Volume by 254% with PPC, Amplify Interactive Blog
- SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links, Adam Sherk
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