SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 15, 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:

• Google Panda Update 25 Seems To Have Hit
  There are many webmasters and SEOs believing right now that Google has released an update to their Panda algorithm late yesterday. We’ve reached out to Google to confirm or deny the Panda update, as we’ve done 24 times previously; but this time, Google told us they are unlikely to confirm future Panda updates since Panda […]
• Google: We’re Unlikely To Confirm Current Or Future Panda Updates
  What’s that, a Panda Update you just felt? Some believe so. But Google says it is unlikely to confirm that or any future Panda Update, as it has done in the past, because of the new “gradual” rollout infrastructure it is using for Panda Update changes. Earlier this week at SMX West, Google’s Matt Cutts […]
• How Enhanced Campaigns May Affect Your Analytics
  You’re probably sick of hearing about it, but it’s true: enhanced campaigns are going to impact your ability to structure, segment, and optimize campaigns. Whether it’s in a positive or negative way is up for debate. Regardless, I hope you have done your research and understand the transition — how it affects you, your business […]
• Google Sends BBC News A Manual Link Penalty Notification
  Google has sent the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, an unnatural link notification last Saturday. The Search Engine Roundtable reports Nick, a BBC News representative, posted in the Google Help Forums about the notification. Nick was seeking advice from Google or SEOs on how he may find those unnatural links so the BBC […]
• Search In Pics: Bill, Ted & Rufus At SMX, Google Playground & Bing It On Taxi
  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. Bing It On Taxi: Source: Flickr Google & YouTube Canada Office: Source: Flickr SXSW Bag Design: […]

Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:

• Marketing Biz: Speed, Attention & Sunsets
• Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Highest Rated CEO In US, Apple’s Tim Cook Falls To 18th
• FTC: If Your Tweet Is Sponsored You Must Disclose It
• Samsung Introduces Galaxy S4 With Nary A Mention Of Android Or Google
• Samsung Launches The Galaxy S4
• Report: #Hooray, Hashtags Coming To A Facebook News Feed Near You
• Facebook’s 558 Million Video Views In February Is Its All-Time High [comScore]

Search News From Around The Web:

Applications & Portal Features

• Microsoft in the clear to add Google CalDAV support to Windows Phone, ZDNet

Business Issues

• How Search Is Evolving — Finally! — Beyond Caveman Queries, AllThingsD
• The Bing operating system: Microsoft bets on deep search integration to beat Google, The Verge

Link Building

• MajesticSEO Get Approval of Firefox Add-On, Release Due Monday, Dave Naylor
• Other-Worldly and Alternative Link Building Strategies – Part I, Kaiserthesage
• The new approach to link building, blog.seoprofiler.com

Paid Search

• How to Avoid Bid Overlap in Google Shopping Product Listing Ads Ad Groups, Search Engine Watch

Searching

• Lunch Break with Marshall Simmonds, iAcquire Blog

SEM Industry

• #SMX West 2013: Top Tips, Tools & Takeaways, KoMarketing Associates

SEO & SEM

• Google Authorship Markup Patent Applications Published, SEO By The Sea
• Mastering PPC: What is PPC?, SEER Interactive
• Doing Keyword Research Using Different Resources, northcuttSEO
• RSS the SEO’s Worst Nightmare !, David Naylor
• What Will The Next Google Algorithm Update Target?, koozai.com