SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 1, 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: WATCH: Google Now Shows Live Examples Of Spam Removed From Its Search Results In Google’s new How Search Works, Google is showing real live examples of spam that was recently removed […]
Barry Schwartz on March 1, 2013 at 3:55 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- WATCH: Google Now Shows Live Examples Of Spam Removed From Its Search Results
In Google’s new How Search Works, Google is showing real live examples of spam that was recently removed from their search index. Most of these examples are of pure spam, as Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan explained in his write up, Google Charts “Manual Actions” Against Spam In Search For First Time. Most of […] - How To Get Full Referral & Content URLs From Google Analytics
While cruising through the standard reports in Google Analytics (GA), you may have noticed that you can only get URIs (the part of the URL that follows the domain, AKA hostname). You can’t get the full URLs. That can be pretty unhelpful. So, I’m going to show you some tricks to pull full URLs into […] - Google Publishes Its Search Quality Rating Guidelines For First Time
As part of the How Search Works interactive infographic Google released today, they have decided to publish their search quality rating guidelines publicly to the world. You can access the 43-page PDF document over here. It was most recently updated November 2, 2012. As you may remember, the document has been leaked back in 2008, […] - Google Charts “Manual Actions” Against Spam In Search For First Time
How often does Google take “manual action” against web sites for spam, where a human being reviews a site and decides it deserves some type of penalty? For the first time, Google’s released a chart showing this, going back nearly 10 years. The chart is part of Google’s new “How Search Works” area, and it […] - Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”
Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google’s got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called “How Search Works,” the new area announced today is an interactive infographic that explains more about the search process, including […] - Google Avoids Link Tax But Ambiguous New “Ancillary Copyright” Law Sets Up Legal Battle To Come
In August of last year, a number of German lawmakers were pressing proposed ”ancillary copyright” legislation that would have required Google and others that indexed or aggregated news to pay for links or excerpts from those news items. The proposed law was championed by German magazine and newspaper publishers who, like their counterparts in the US, are seeing […] - New German Law Will Allow Free “Snippets” By Search Engines, But Uncertainty Remains
The good news for search engines like Google is a proposed German copyright law won’t require them to pay to show short summaries of news content. However, uncertainty remains about how much might be “too much” and require a license. The new law is expected to pass on Friday. NOTE: See our follow-up story from […] - Search In Pics: Google Cubatron, Sleeping Dog & Robbie The Robot
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 Dog Sleeping In Conference Room: Source: Google+ Google’s Robbie the Robot: Source: Google+ Google Installs […]
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Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Google Out-Googles Itself With New Tel Aviv Office, The Huffington Post
- Google Helped Honor FTC Chairman During Agency Inquiry, Bloomberg
- Google’s Low Profile at Show Belies Its Clout, Wall Street Journal
- Google’s Susan Wojcicki May Be the Biggest Name in Digital Advertising, AdWeek
- Happy Birthday Yahoo: 18 Years Old, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline, TechCrunch
Local Search & Maps
- Bing Photosynth for Windows Phone 8 is Here!, Bing Search Blog
Link Building
- 3 Ways to Identify Link Prospects, Search Engine Watch
- Identifying target markets for great inbound link building, verticalleap.co.uk
Searching
- Google and Democrats deny that Google is helping Democrats, www.redstate.com
- Google CFO Pichette: ‘Search is still in its infancy’, PC World
- The Shortest Google Search URL, Google Operating System
- Google Replacing Grandparents? Bleak New Study Says ‘Yes’, huffingtonpost.com
- Hot searches launches in Australia, Official Google Australia Blog
- Yahoo! Searches This Week Reveal Stylish Scarves & Boots Are Spiking , Bachelor Buzz, and Harlem Shake Mania, ycorpblog.com
SEM Industry
- Video: Google Advertorial Penalties, Yahoo’s 18th Birthday & Women In Search, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- Launching A New Site In 2013? Here Are Tips From Webmasters, Search Engine Roundtable
- Screaming Frog Guide to Doing Almost Anything, SEER Interactive
- SEO for Franchises, koozai.com
- SEO Friendly WordPress in 12 Steps, Search Engine Watch
- Site Search, Dynamic Content, and SEO, RKG Blog
- The Human Side of Black Hat SEO, tripleseo.com
- Unique SEO Content – How Unique is Unique?, Site Visibility
- Using Video SEO To Steal Clicks, Localize Results and Increase Conversion Rate, reelseo.com
- UX Myths That Hurt SEO – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
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