SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 9, 2011
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 Images Carousel For Tablets & Better Movie Results For Phones Google announced two new improvements to mobile interfaces. The first is a new look for image results on tablets called […]
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 Images Carousel For Tablets & Better Movie Results For Phones
Google announced two new improvements to mobile interfaces. The first is a new look for image results on tablets called the image carousel and the second is better movie results on Android and iPhone devices. Tablet Image Carousel: When you use Google Images on tablet devices including iOS or Android tablet’s browsers, and then click […]
- The Search Marketer’s Dilemma: Reporting Vs. Optimizing
Cross-channel revenue attribution – arguably the most widely agreed upon concept in the analytics space – is ironically the source of the search marketer’s dilemma. The dilemma is simple conceptually but digging into it brings up some fundamental flaws in conversion modeling and highlights the underlying catch-22 that marketers face. It all starts with a […]
- Why User Experience Design Needs Search Engine Marketing
Most articles in this column focus on the how’s and why’s of usability, persuasive design and search engine marketing. We sound like a broken record. SEO needs UX. What about the other way around? There’s just as many misconceptions in the usability and user experience design industry towards search marketing and organic SEO. One of […]
- Google Drops Tele Atlas & Uses Their Own Maps Data For UK Maps
Google announced on the Google Maps blog that they are now powering their own map data in the UK, Germany, Finland and Sweden. Google maps data in the U.S. and many other countries is powered by Google’s own data. But this week, Google dropped their third-party map data provider, Tele Atlas, and switched their map […]
- Google’s Recent Algorithm Changes: SMN Webcast next Thursday
Trying to understand how the changes in Google’s algorithms will affect your marketing strategy? Next Thursday, Dec. 15, at 1 PM EST, Search Marketing Now is hosting a webcast to help answer your questions. “Google’s Recent Algorithm Changes: The Impact on Marketing Strategy 2012” will be moderated by our own Chris Sherman, with a panel […]
- Search In Pics: Google Guinness World Records, Gingerbread Chrome & Google Shoes
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. Guinness World Records Goes To Google: Google Self Driving Car: Google’s Schmidt At Le Web: Google […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Newsreader iSmackdown: Zite vs. Flipboard vs. Google Currents
- Google Makes Frontal Assault On Tablets: “Currents,” Carousel Images, Media Ads
- Google+ Comes To Gmail, Improves Contacts & Makes Sharing Easier
- Google Promotes Talkbin With 80% Price Cut For Small Biz Owners
Search News From Around The Web:
Applications & Portal Features
- Try Google presentations. No login required., Google Docs Blog
Business Issues
- Facebook IPO sparks dreams of riches, adventure, Reuters
- AOL Names Jim Norton as New Head of Sales, AllThingsD
- Google execs offer to save Hangar One, Mountain View Online
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Androidify yourself with new winter gear, Official Google Mobile Blog
- Google’s Schmidt calls Carrier IQ software a keylogger, computerworld.com
- New Cities in 3D – Rome, Seville, Las Vegas, and more., Google LatLong
Link Building
- The Decline of Organic Links Infographic, SEO Book
- Using SEOmoz Tools for Link Prospecting, Search Engine People
Paid Search & Contextual
- Microsoft Advertising Intelligence Add-in Offers Flexibility, adCenter Blog
- Hangout with us: AdWords API Office Hours in December, Google Ads Developer Blog
Searching
- Improvements to Autocomplete, Google Custom Search
SEM Industry
- Has Google Declared War on Small Businesses and Publishers?, Search Engine Journal
- Interview with SEO Book’s Aaron Wall to Discuss Google and Future of SEO, Search Engine Journal
- Video: Google Fluxes, Image Busting, New Twitter & Google Shoes, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 10 Most Important SEO Patents: Part 1 – The Original PageRank Patent Application, SEO By The Sea
- Bing Webmaster Tools Displaying Strings Of Numbers Instead Of Keywords, Search Engine Roundtable
- Discover AdWords API v201109: XML validation, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Your Ecommerce Solution–The 5 Key Areas, Search Engine People
- I’m Being Outranked by a Spammer – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
- Reconsideration Requests: The True Turtle Dove, outspokenmedia.com
Social Media
- Hello, world! City badges are coming your way!, Foursquare Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
- Check out the new Video Manager, YouTube Blog
- Easier copyright management on YouTube, YouTube Blog
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