SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 27, 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: David Beckham At Google, Google’s Moscow Office & Bing Bar
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. David Beckham At Google: Google’s Moscow Brick Desk: Bing Bar at Sundance: Bing […]
- Report Affirms Strong Q4 Search Growth In 2011, Offers Additional Insights
Marketers have had a couple weeks to digest their fourth quarter numbers and assess their successes and failures from a period that can be a whirlwind, particularly in the retail sector. Now, with Google’s Q4 earnings report and Yahoo’s out, we’re getting a chance to compare our own performance to data put out by some […]
- Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don’t Give The Impression You Care About Search
The debate about what should — and shouldn’t — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I’d like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else: how it appears Google is taking its eye off the ball of being a search engine. Searching For Santorum: […]
- Google’s “Trusted Photographers” Turns Business Photos Into A Self-Serve Product
Google is hoping to expand its Business Photos product with the launch of a new service called “Trusted Photographers” that essentially makes the process entirely self-service. Local businesses that are interested in having interior photos taken can use the new Business Photos website to find a “trusted photographer.” The business owner and photographer are supposed […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Infographic: Most Popular Conversion Tests
- Facebook Says Subscribe Button Has Been Good For Media, But One Journalist Has Doubts
- Let Affiliates Pave The Way Into New Markets
- Report: Twitter Will Begin Enhanced Profile Roll-Out In February
- House Committee Has Privacy Questions For Google; Google Says Bring It On
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Google taking over Mountain View: Office space expanded by 67 percent in 2011, Mercury News
- Google: "Ads Are Just More Answers", businessinsider.com
- Berry Acquires Webvisible Assets, blog.kelseygroup.com
- Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship, torrentfreak.com
- Could Our Immigration Laws Prevent the Next Google?, huffingtonpost.com
- Google Spent Nearly $2 Billion On 79 Acquisitions In 2011, TechCrunch
- Google’s Head of Consumer Payments Vikas Gupta Resigns, allthingsd.com
- Page Rage Escalates As Google Cancels Twitter Android Meeting, PandoDaily
Link Building
- A Picture’s Worth 1,000 Links: How To Find and Cite Images, blueglass.com
Local, Maps & Mobile
Paid Search & Contextual
- Microsoft pubCenter Payments Undeliverable Bug, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- PPC & Time Management: A Make-It-Better Checklist, PPC Hero
- 5 Big Reasons You Should Start Using Q&A Sites Immediately, StayOnSearch
- Bing Moving content? Think 301, not rel=canonical, www.bing.com
- Debunking the Myths of Quality Score, PPC Associates
- Everything You Need to Know About Ad Position in AdWords, PPC Hero
- How to Create Truly Effective Long-tail, Query Matching PPC Campaigns That Sell, Search Engine People
- Lies Writers Tell To Cripple Your SEO Copywriting, Outspoken Media
- Measuring ROI: How to Collect Meaningful PPC Conversion Data, Search Engine Watch
- Optimizing a Page for Search Engines, Part 3: Keywords to Content, www.practicalecommerce.com
- The Ultimate Google+ SEO Guide, blindfiveyearold.com
Social Media
- How to Increase the Odds of Your Content Going Viral – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
- Tweets still must flow, Twitter Blog
Video, Music & Image Search
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