Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Choose the Right SEO Vendor Oct 25, 2018 by Digital Marketing Depot A business cannot stay relevant in today’s digital world without an online presence. However, a business could […]
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Just over three months ago, Google launched the news keyword meta tag designed to let news publishers have a better chance of ranking for words they might not have included in their headlines. Adoption rate so far? Only about 5% of the sources within Google News use the tag, according to new data provided by […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Consider The Ends To Justify The Means In PPC “En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.” (In everything one must consider the end) – Jean de La Fontaine, 1668 It […]
Last week in the Chicago Tribune former judge and scholar Robert Bork (who is also a Google advisor) penned an opinion column arguing that by the accepted standards of antitrust law Google has done nothing legally wrong. Bork says, “There is extraordinary competition in the search engine business. Look at the proliferation of what are […]
Infographics (or data visualizations) are all the rage in content marketing today, and Visual.ly is launching with hopes of becoming “the largest community for sharing, creating and promoting data visualizations.” The site currently offers a search functionality and a submission feature to help users find & share infographics from across the web. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVKfNeRbPQ[/youtube] As expected with […]
Today, Google News did a post about the death of Osama bin Laden. Disappointingly, it offered no statistics on what was most read, shared, topics most covered. The post did share a “sample” of 100 links to coverage about Osama bin Laden from representative sources. So, I decided to go where Google didn’t — to […]
A decades-old dispute involving Libya remains unresolved. How do news organizations spell the name of Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi? The exact spelling has a bigger impact these days, where people search for news. Use the wrong spelling, and your story might go missing. Can search tell us the “right” one? More below.
While many news organizations chase traffic by matching their news coverage to what’s listed as “hot” on Google Trends, Twitter, and elsewhere, a new report says hard news coverage actually makes the most money for major news publishers. Perfect Market, a company that works with publishers to help them make more money from search engine […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Location History, “Footstreams” & Aggregated Check-in Data Will Transform LBS Google recently announced a Location History dashboard that allows users to see where they’ve been, based on their Latitude activity: Today […]
In some ways, it’s the Who’s Who of Twitter — the Twitter Suggested Users list. These are the 241 people Twitter currently suggests that new people should follow. Below, a look at who makes it by categories, such as media or sports. Who’s getting Twitter’s love (such as the New York Times) and who’s not […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Google News Blog explains an error that occurred yesterday, which hurt the stock price of United Airlines. Google News picked up a story on the Florida Sun-Sentinel website about United filing for bankruptcy. It was an old story, but it did not contain the original date. Instead, Google found September 7, 2008 listed on […]
Have you noticed the number of layoffs being announced by newspapers of late? When the New York Times announced in February 2008 that they were cutting 100 positions from their newsroom, it was a sad moment. A prominent national paper that informs our opinion and dialogue was announcing a cutback. Then the San Francisco Chronicle […]
The real estate industry has a bad rap in the upper levels of search marketing. We deplore the SEM agencies that sell ineffective and/or shady tactics to the real estate industry. We criticize the agents and brokers who are victimized by their own ignorance or indifference. I’ve called real estate SEO a “joke,” and it’s […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
American journalists and news reporters never reveal their sources. Google News follows suit, nowhere providing a list of the more than 4,500 English language news sources it claims to track. However, Henk van Ess, an investigative journalist from the Netherlands, offers a service that reveals the names of 1,256 news sources used by Google News […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Investment pundits have been scratching their heads this week over billionaire investor Sam Zell’s $8.2-billion purchase of Tribune Corp., publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, and owner of other old-media properties. Newspapers have been bleeding cash and losing both money and eyeballs to online news, job and classified sites over the past […]
Back in March, 2006 newspaper publishers The Tribune Co., Gannett and KnightRidder (now McClatchy) acquired 75% of news aggregation and community site Topix.net. But with the exception of a minor placement of a “contextually relevant news” box on content pages of some of those sites, the newspaper owners haven’t done very much with Topix.
Dear Wikipedia Editors: I came back from vacation today to discover that in (some of) your infinite crowd wisdom, apparently the page at Wikipedia about Google’s Matt Cutts might get deleted. Wow. It’s inept things like this that can instantly reduce any respect I have for Wikipedia that builds up over time.
Jeremy Mayes has posted the first seen results of the Google newspaper ad test that we have been tracking. He noted about 1,000 visitors came from the ad, which generated 70% less page views than the PPC counterpart, 30% less time spent on the site than the PPC counterpart, but the registration rate (his goal) […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google to invest in Chinese video Web site at the Chicago Tribune describes that within a month, we will learn more about a Google investment in Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology Ltd. Xunlei is a Chinese video download company and Google may be hoping that their investment will help them grow market share in China. The […]
PPC Discussion updates us that his newspaper ad that Google is testing with him and hundreds of other advertisers is currently running now in 78 27 newspapers. The test run of Google Print Ads is between the dates of 11/29/06 and 12/21/06, and the ads are to be placed in newspapers such as Chicago Tribune, […]