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Search Engine Land » Google » Google Algorithm Updates » SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 25, 2012

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 25, 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: iAcquire Banned From Google After Link Buying Allegations The search marketing agency, iAcquire, that was allegedly responsible for buying links for clients was just banned from Google’s search results. iAcquire was […]

Barry Schwartz on May 25, 2012 at 4:56 pm

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

  • iAcquire Banned From Google After Link Buying Allegations

    The search marketing agency, iAcquire, that was allegedly responsible for buying links for clients was just banned from Google’s search results. iAcquire was cited as the agency behind Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation’s link buy request emails. For more on that see our story named What Can We Learn From The Latest Brand To Be […]

  • Search In Pics: SEO LEGO, Facebook Cooler & A Happy SEO

    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. Facebook Cooler & Snackbar: Source: Google+ Social Internet Candies: Source: Flickr Google’s Larry Page In Green: […]

  • Google Disapproved 134M Ads And Disabled More Than 800K AdWords Accounts In 2011

    Like fighting spam and click fraud, finding and nixing bad ads on AdWords is a continually escalating battle. One telling stat the company revealed in a blog post today: 134 million. That’s how many ads Google axed in 2011, a 136% rise from the year before. Back in 2008, the company only disapproved 25 million […]

  • Microsoft Integrates More Nokia “Infrastructure” (Traffic, Geocoding) Into Bing Maps

    Slowly Bing is handing over more of its mapping “back end” functions to Nokia, as part of the deal that brought the two together for the Lumia-Windows Phone partnership. Yesterday Microsoft announced that in 24 countries, including the US and UK, Nokia (Navteq) will be delivering traffic data to Bing Maps. The company also said […]

  • What Trademark Search Data Can Reveal About User Behavior

    I can’t count the number of times I’ve been challenged by advertisers on the topic of trademark search. The question is simple: why “waste” money buying traffic on trademark keywords when it is clear that the user intends to get to their site? Researching the topic, there have been a number of studies all concluding […]

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

  • Marketing Biz: Tracking Google’s Dune Strategy
  • How Performance Marketing Is Influencing The Next Generation Of Internet Startups
  • New Google+ Android App Adds Vivid Imagery & Additional Functionality
  • Tumblr Debuts In ComScore’s Top 50 Web Properties
  • Facebook’s Premium Ads Getting More Automated

Search News From Around The Web:

Business Issues

  • Alibaba Cleared to Privatize Unit After Shareholders Vote, Bloomberg
  • Exclusive: HP’s core webOS Enyo team is going to Google, The Verge
  • How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus, The Atlantic
  • Lawmakers urge DOJ to reopen Google Street View probe, CNET News

Local, Maps & Mobile

  • Heat Map of the Local Search Results on Google, ngsmarketing.com
  • Apple Tipped to Bring Baidu Search to iOS in China Next Month, thenextweb.com
  • Events support in the Google Places API, Google Geo Developers Blog
  • Find places faster with quick access to local info on the go, Inside Search
  • The Local Search Plus Box, Search Engine People

Link Building

  • Reacting to Penguin: Link Pruning and Bruce Clay on Algo-Proof SEO, BruceClay.com
  • Purchase yourself a link (bargain!), sebastians-pamphlets.com

Searching

  • Yahoo Axis uses Microsoft Bing’s raw data, but only ‘in part’, GeekWire
  • Baidu: We Do Semantic Search Better Than Google, Search Engine Watch
  • NHL Dominant in Canada, Popularity on the Rise in the US, Hitwise Blog
  • Video – DuckDuckGo: You Don’t Have To Track Users To Make Money, WebProNews

SEM Industry

  • Video: Google Bans SEO Agency For Links, Block Unwanted Links, Anti Penguin Links & Yahoo Axis, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & SEM

  • 10 Myths That Scare SEOs But Shouldn’t – Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
  • Bing Moving domains: avoiding the pitfalls, Bing Webmaster Center blog
  • Google Penguin Update Rumors Again, Search Engine Roundtable
  • Google’s Crossed the Line on SEO Publicity Stunts, pointblankseo.com
  • Micro-SEO Audit: WaldowSocial.com – WordPress Optimization, outspokenmedia.com
  • PPC Account Cleanup: Recap & Current Results, Small Business SEM

Social Media

  • What effect has Google+ had on search campaigns?, econsultancy.com

Video, Music & Image Search

  • First video sample from Google’s Project Glass, The Verge
  • Flickr Adds Much Needed Features for Groups, thenextweb.com
  • Yahoo! Connected TV: Connecting All Your Screens – Big to Small, Yodel Anecdotal

Web Analytics

  • Social Reports are now found under ‘Traffic Sources’, Google Analytics Blog

New on Search Engine Land

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    Vimeo adds structured data to all public videos to improve Google Search visibility

    How to manage and edit your Google Business Profile from Google search

    Google Search Console page experience report now tracks more desktop search features

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About The Author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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