SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Search In Pics: Domo At GooglePlex, Google Subway Bench & Google Fiber Van
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 NYC Subway Bench: Source: Google+ Google Fiber Van: Source: Google+ Google Pool Table: Source: Flickr […]
- Easy To Advanced Uses Of Cell Formatting In Excel
In my post on table formatting, I demonstrated how to transform your static data into a simple yet sexy database in a matter of seconds. If you don’t know how to use table formatting, go read that post and then come back. Otherwise, your data will look like one of those housewives who goes to […]
- Google Adds 13 New Languages To Voice Search
Google announced they have added 13 new languages to Google Voice Search. The new languages include Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, European Portuguese, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Swedish. This brings the total tally of supported languages in Google Voice Search up to 42 languages supported. Google says that adding these 13 new […]
- AdCenter Creative Rotation Feature Goes Live
The Microsoft AdCenter rotation feature — which lets advertisers optimize for clicks or rotate more evenly — is live today, having been announced back in July. The option will be available through adCenter online or through the adCenter API (version 8). It’s seen at the ad view level where keywords are connected to ad copy. […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Facebook Back At No. 2 On ComScore Video Rankings
- Not All Developers Hate Twitter’s New API Rules
- Marketing Biz: New Facebook Metric, Mobile Payment Dark Horse & Rio SEO Advances
- Google Changes Smallest, But All-Pervasive, Element Of Brand Identity – The Favicon
- Fruji: Inexpensive Twitter Analytics For The Masses
- Publisher Perspective: Choosing An Affiliate Program
- Using Star Trek To Explain Winners & Losers In Twitter’s New Ecosystem “Quadrants”
- Twitter Announces New API, Details Its Vision For Developer Ecosystem
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Exclusive: Yahoo Conducting a Search for a COO As No. 2 to Mayer, AllThingsD
- Trulia Goes After Zillow’s Real Estate, Files $75M IPO; Now Has 22M Monthly Users, TechCrunch
- Zuckerberg Admits Facebook’s Plummeting Stock Is ‘Painful’ To Watch During A Company-Wide Meeting, Business Insider
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Local Search Discussion – Impact of Service Magic Phone Number Masking, Stingray
- 17 Questions with Darren Shaw – Creator of the Local Citation Finder, LocalVisibilitySystem.com
- Should You Upgrade To New Local Google+ Pages?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Tour Brazil and prehispanic Mexican cities with more Street View imagery in Google Maps, Google LatLong
Link Building
- 10 Reasons Why Your Content Doesn’t Attract Links, CopyPressed
- 8 Link Building Tips – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
Paid Search & Contextual
- Heads Up: Get Ready for New API Features in adCenter, adCenter API Blog for Developers
- How to Look Better in Personal Google Results [Infographic], inspirationfeed.com
SEM Industry
- How “Big” is the SEO World on the Web?, Canadian SEO
- Video: Google’s Next Penguin Update, DMCA Request Penalties & I’m Feeling Lucky, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- Impact of Gmail in Personal Search Results on Email Marketing and SEO, A Covario Blog
- Why relative URLs should be forbidden for web developers, Yoast
- 5 Reasons Small Business Should Love Local SEO, Search Engine Watch
- 54 Conversion Rate Optimization Tips To Improve Your PPC Campaigns, PPC Hero
- Bing How to create search friendly content, Bing Webmaster Center blog
- Google Ranking Update? A Search Results Shuffle?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Webmaster Tools Treats Subdomains As Part Of Main Domain, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to create sitelinks for a Yandex PPC ad, Russian Search Tips
- The Google Rank-Modifying Spammers Patent, SEO By The Sea
Video, Music & Image Search
Web Analytics
- Using Analytics to Inform Your SEO Strategy, getstat.com
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