SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Bing Experiments With Social Search By Adding New Bing Boards To Search Results
Bing announced today that they are adding a new social element to their search results with the introduction of Bing Boards. Currently being created by, “…a small group of food and lifestyle bloggers, experts and social influencers,” the Bing Boards are a collection of images, videos and links focused on a specific topic pulled together […]
- Search In Pics: Google Internet Balloon At GooglePlex, Noogler Pinwheels & Penguin Candies
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 Internet Balloon At GooglePlex: Source: Google+ Google Pinwheels For Nooglers: Source: Google+ Google Internship Kick […]
- Dashboard Series: Creating Combination Charts In Excel
I’m starting a series on dashboards because I think creating sexy dashboards is a critical skill every marketer needs to know. It’s going to be a long series — but by the time we’re finished, you’ll be able to create dashboards that excel in both form and function. Why Use Combination Charts? The first skill […]
- PLAs: Cannibals? Allies? Or Both?
The spectacular growth of Product Listing Ads (PLAs) over the past 2-1/2 years has been a boon for Google and advertisers as well as for consumers. This growth was spurred by the visual appeal of the ads themselves, by Google’s increasing sophistication in serving the right PLAs for the right queries and by Google’s decision […]
- Google Advice On When To Submit Reconsideration Request & How To Clean Your Link Profile
Google posted a new article today answering common questions about submitting reconsideration requests and managing your backlink profile. Google Search Quality representatives, Kaspar Szymanski and Uli Lutz, co-authored the article, going through the more common questions on this topic. Google says you should really only submit a reconsideration request when you receive a manual penalty […]
- 3 Principles Of Future-Focused, No-Surprise Link Building
Link building doesn’t really fit the mold with the rest of the online marketing world. It’s unique and always changing. Even after trying to understand it, most marketers still don’t get it, and many SEO agencies don’t even want to touch it. That’s because link building is a moving target that you can hit sometimes […]
- Google Makes Splash With Christoph Niemann Illustration To Mark Summer Solstice 2013
Today’s Google Doodle by Christoph Niemann marks the summer solstice for searchers in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated illustration of five swimmers in Google-logo colored swimming caps, bobbing along on a wave that splashes back and forth. Google users in the Southern Hemisphere get their own Google Doodle to mark the first day of […]
- Tempo “Calendar Assistant” Uses Search Like Google Now
Smart calendar app Tempo announced a $10 million “series A” funding round this morning. The app aims to replace the native calendar apps on smartphones. Needless to say, that’s a tall order. However, the technology behind the app is derived from the same US Defense Department (DARPA) SRI-led research that produced Apple’s Siri and Yahoo’s Summly, […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Geo-Targeted Ads Could Be Coming To A Twitter Feed Near You Before The End Of This Year
- Search Remains First, Social Second For How People Find Websites
- Internal “Google Mine” Google+ Product Sharing Tool Leaked
- Google Has 35 Days To Delete UK “SpyView” Data Or Face “Criminal Action”
- This Week On Vine: Father’s Day, Oreo Snack Hacks, Strawberries Prove Big For Sainsbury’s & Breaking Bad
- Apple Now Shows iOS “Fragmentation” Just Like Android
- 5 Top Tips For Marketing Your Mobile App Business
- See What’s Been Censored From Facebook Pages With “Hidden Post Explorer” Tool
Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- “You’ve come a long way, Baby”: remembering the world’s first stored program computer, Official Google Blog
- Video: Black Hat SEOs Target Payday Loans, Spammers Hit, AdSense Birthday & Google Health, Search Engine Roundtable
Local & Maps
Link Building
- Fixed: Google Webmaster Tools Link Report, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to Remove Unnatural Links to Your Site: Choosing the Best Solution after Penguin 2.0, Search Engine Journal
- Link Acquisition Using Humor: What We Can Learn From the Lebron James Faux Email Hack, Search Engine Journal
- Penguin 2.0 Penalty of DebtConsolidationCare, Link Research Tools
- The Top 4 Ways to Use Social Media to Earn Links – Whiteboard Friday, Moz
Searching
- 17% of searches for flights are mobile, but are the travel sites?, Econsultancy
- Watch Now: a New YouTube Experiment, Google Operating System
SEO
- Good News! SEO hasn’t really changed at all!, Search Engine People
- Local Carousel Ranking = Maps Ranking = Location Prominence, Mike Blumenthal
- My Authorship Image Gone From Search Results, Well For Only This Site, Search Engine Roundtable
- This Week in Search: How Will Facebook Graph Search Impact SEO?, Search Engine Journal
- Use Local SEO To Become A Leader In Your Local Market, Search Engine Journal
- How to Do SEO for Restaurants (Local Business Blueprint), Search Engine People
SEM / Paid Search
- 3 Big PPC Mistakes Even Pros Make, Beyond the Paid
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