SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 11, 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: Google Finally Adds Their Hanukkah Decorations To The Search Results If you search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] and so on – you will see special Hanukkah decorations on the […]
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 Finally Adds Their Hanukkah Decorations To The Search Results
If you search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] and so on – you will see special Hanukkah decorations on the Google search results. Hanukkah began this past Saturday night and we reported yesterday that Google launched Festivus decorations but didn’t have any decorations for the holiday of Hanukkah. Well that has just changed, Google […]
- Google’s Authorship Fail: How Truman Capote Was Credited As A NYT Writer 28 Years After His Death
If you happened to do certain abortion-related searches in the past few days, you might’ve been surprised to see the late Truman Capote getting Google+ Authorship credit for an article from The New York Times. What makes it odd, of course, is that Capote died in 1984. He wrote numerous classics that showed up on […]
- Real Relationships Lead To Search Marketing Success
How far do your relationships extend across the Web? This question is totally relevant to digital marketing nowadays. No longer are the days of just plain and simple on-page SEO. I have read countless articles about link building vs. relationship building, seen Whiteboard Fridays and attended panels at conferences about the subject. The obvious conclusion being: relationships […]
- Official: Bing Updates Social Sidebar Design
Bing has officially announced they have redesigned the search results screen and social sidebar to help improve usability of the page. The changes include: The social results on the right are now clearly labelled as “Social Results” The search results on the left are now left-justified Addition of a + more link to expand the […]
- Search Engine Land Turns Six, Celebrates With New Editor-In-Chief & Expansion Plans
It’s our sixth birthday here at Search Engine Land, and we’ve got some news — a new editor-in-chief and expansion plans for the future. Congratulations to Matt McGee, on his new position as Editor-In-Chief of Search Engine Land & Marketing Land! He starts on January 1, 2013. Matt joined our publications in September 2008 as assignment editor for Search Engine […]
- Will 2013 Bring A Paid Link Resurgence?
With Google rolling out frequent changes, the last couple of years have been alternately amazingly fun and freakishly terrifying for anyone who builds links or has links built. It should be clear by now that your site can be harmed by poor quality links, whether you bought them or got them for free, or heck, […]
- If Content Quality Is Key, Why Is So Little Attention Paid To Quality For Global Sites?
Everywhere I go and in every conversation I have, the importance of the quality of content keeps on cropping up. You’ve no doubt had the same conversations where Pandas and Penguins keep poking in their nosy beaks? So, here’s my question: “If quality is so important, why do we give up caring when it’s in […]
- SMX West and Marin Software Launch 5th Annual SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest
Want to really *earn* your trip to SMX West in March 2013? Why not test your search marketing intelligence — you could win a free trip to SMX West. Take the 5th Annual SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest sponsored by Marin Software, and see how you stack up against your peers. First prize is a […]
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- For Marketing Land’s First Birthday, A New Editor-In-Chief & Expansion Plans
- Report: iPad Owners More Educated, Affluent Than Android Tablet Owners
- Content Marketing For People Who Hate Writing
- Study: Nexus Tablets Generating Many Times More Traffic Than Microsoft Surface
- For Real-Time-Bidding To Continue To Thrive, Transparency Is Key
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- A better Google News experience on tablets, Google News Blog
- Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers, Wired
- Introducing the New Yahoo! Mail, ycorpblog.com
- Introducing the Save to Drive extension, plus enhancements to images, Google Drive Blog
Business Issues
- Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google, Fortune
- FTC expected to settle Google patent case, POLITICO.com
- More data about copyright removals in Transparency Report, Policy by the Numbers
Local Search & Maps
- Google Maps Send-to-Car Feature No Longer Supports Telenav, Search Engine Roundtable
Link Building
- Hard Truths on Scalability in Link Building, pointblankseo.com
- Local Backlink Strategy: Why Yours Needs Work, northcuttSEO
- 5 Link Building Methods that Are Still Worth Your Time, Daily SEO Tip
- Advanced Small Business SEO and Link Building Tips (With Examples), Search Engine People
- Your Best Link Building Tool in 2013: Community Manager, distilled
Paid Search
- Migrating from AdSense Management API v1.0/1.1 to v1.2, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Updates around usage of 300×600 ad format, Inside AdSense
Searching
- 152 Million Unique Searchers and Growing, yahoobingnetwork.com
- Against ‘Objective’ Algorithms: The Case of Google News, The Atlantic
- This Year on Twitter, Twitter Blog
SEM Industry
- ymarketing presents: "P.I.M.P. in the S.E.R.P.", www.ymarketing.com
- Google’s Matt Cutts Goes Oy Vey, Search Engine Roundtable
- Raven pull their Rank Checking feature: a Reaction from other SEO tools, State of Search
- Want SEOs to lose their job? Start doing yours!, yoast.com
- Want SEOs to lose their job? Start doing yours!, yoast.com
SEO & SEM
- Google Authorship Markup, Rich Snippets & rel=author, mendenhallcreative.com
- AdWords Christmas List: 6 New Features Google Should Add in 2013, Search Engine Watch
- Answering the “How”: The Secret to Natural Site Conversions for Usability and SEO – Part VI, internetmarketingninjas.com
- Google AdWords Bulk Edit Facility: 4 Key Use Cases, Search Engine Watch
- Google Shopping: Promotional Credit and Update to Feed Spec for International Merchants, Inside AdWords
- My 2013 Google AdWords wishlist, Econsultancy
- PPC Chat Streamcap – Reviewing AdWords My Client Center (MCC), theppcblog.com
- Search Traffic and Keyword Insights – How To Optimize for Tax Season 2013, Bing Business
- The Bing ads quality evaluation – ways to regulate, Bing Ads Blog
- The Inconvenient Truth About SEO, Smashing Magazine
- What are the advantages of 301 redirects over rel="canonical"?, YouTube
- What Makes for a Good Author Photo in the Local Results? (Part 2), Mike Blumenthal
Video, Music & Image Search
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