Topic: Avalaunch Media

SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 18, 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: Yandex Does What Google Can’t: Provides Bitcoin Exchange Rates How much is one US dollar in UK pounds? Google will give you a direct answer to that and many other currencies […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 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: Maps Roundup: Google Avoids Waze Antitrust Fight, Scout Social Mapping, deCarta Route Patent Google spent just over $1 billion to take Waze away from Facebook, Apple or Nokia and Microsoft. It […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 19, 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: What The Heck Is AdWords Quality Score And Why Does It Matter Anyway? Last month, Google announced some changes in how Quality Score is being reported. While it’s been described as […]

Spotted: Stunning AdWords Policy Violations That Facebook & Google Shouldn’t Be Happy About

Behold a brilliant display of Google AdWords advertising policy violations: This ad was spotted by Luke Alley from Avalaunch Media. As it turns out, Alley unearthed a deep pit teeming with ad violations. Search for “facebook support” on Google, and you’ll quickly see the ads are crawling with AdWords policy violations. The ad above features “Symbols, numbers, and letters […]

SMX West 2013: Advanced, Bullseye Keyword Research Tactics

Advanced, Bullseye Keyword Research Tactics Presentations from SMX West, March 2013 Doing keyword research? Chances are you’ll go straight to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool to find answers. But popular keywords are often too expensive or not worth the effort to bid on. So how do you find your own "bullseye" search terms? This session […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 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 Expands List of “Generic” Top Level Domains and Makes Them Geotargetable Typically, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) is just that — a country code. For instance, example.co.uk has content […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 19, 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: ChaCha Defeats Google, Bing And Siri In “Answers Quality” StudyA study published today by Indiana-based Butler University compared the performance of a range of search engines and Q&A sites on mobile […]