SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 15, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Little Known But Powerful: Google’s Export Planning Tool
Google’s Export tool was developed to help businesses identify overseas market opportunities for expanding their business. While not perfect, it does allow companies new to international marketing to discover potential markets by leveraging multiple Google tools to translate keywords then weigh market potential based on search volume and average cost per click data.
- How To Use Linkedin To Generate Business
While Social Media is definitely the hot topic of conversation this year, most of the tools focus on consumer centric business, and improving communication. If you provide B2B consulting, services or products, your options for social media are fairly limited, let’s be honest you probably won’t find many fans for your Facebook Legal Incorporation Services […]
- Google Earth Updates For PC & Mobile, Adds Great iPad Version
Google has announced Google Earth 5.2 for the PC and 3 for iOS with native iPad support. There are many changes, detailed here, for 5.2 — the biggest of which is probably the ability to open a browser within Google Earth.
You can click a button on the top nav and a full browser slides in […] - Twitter Places: How It Might Challenge Google’s Local Dominance
One of the big, unanswered questions in the local search space is, Who’s going to do the best job of marrying location with real-time context. Twitter is hardly the first to try, but it may have the best chance to succeed. On Monday, the company announced Twitter Places, a new feature that’s being rolled out […]
- Twitter’s Down Through June 15, 3AM Pacific
It’s not your imagination. Twitter’s down. And been down for several hours. And likely staying down through Tuesday, June 15 until 3AM Pacific Time. Twitter PR has sent us this message about the outage:
I want to let you know that we’re currently experiencing site availability issues resulting from a failed enhancement of the site. Our […]
Search News From Around The Web:
Local, Maps & Mobile
- GetListed.org UK Public Beta Version, SEOish
- Foursquare To Open Online Store, Forbes
- Let Pegman guide you to user photos, Google LatLong
Searching
- Bing Winning Hearts of Children In UK?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Special Functions in Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram|Alpha Blog
SEO & SEM
- SEO is a Craft not a Science, seo2.0.onreact.com
- 5 Ways to Kill Your Search Rankings & Solutions, Online Marketing Blog
- Google AdWords Traffic Slowing?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google News Hasn’t Crawled News Sitemaps For 2 Weeks By Accident, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google To Fix Soft 404 Reporting in Google Webmaster Tools, Search Engine Roundtable
- What’s your take on "addon domains"?, YouTube
Social Media
- 4 Father’s Day Inspired Tips for Social Media Marketing, webranking.com
Video, Music & Image Search
- Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr, TechCrunch
- Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name, Domain Name Wire
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