Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Social Media Marketing Tactics that Work – Next Week in Las Vegas Learn the latest tactics and best-practices for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Whether you’re managing your brand’s communities, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Image Mismatch: The Latest Google Webmaster Tools Manual Action Penalty Google has a new manual action penalty within their guidelines named image mismatch. Image mismatch is when the images on your […]
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 Testing New AdWords Site Search Extension A new flavor of AdWords form extensions has been spotted. It’s a site search box, and according to Google, this test is related to […]
Google has quietly added a new section to the MyGlass site for Glassware. This section will be the location Google Glass users will be able to discover and manage the apps (i.e., Glassware) they can add to their Google Glass. As you know, Google opened up Glassware submissions to developers and when that opens up, […]
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 Webmaster Tools Adds “Security Issues” Section Google has announced the addition of a new section within Webmaster Tools named “Security Issues.” This new section is aimed at better communicating to […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft’s FY2014 Q1 Earnings Report Includes 47% Growth In Search Ad Revenue Yesterday’s Microsoft FY2014 Q1 earnings report showed the company generated $18.53 billion in total revenues, with 47 percent growth […]
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.
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 International Targeting In AdWords Google has tweaked how location targeting works for international searches. It’s a change that allows ads to be seen across countries, not just within countries, […]
People+, a people directory and search app that’s available now on iOS, is coming to Google Glass in 2014. The company bills its service as a “Wikipedia about professionals and companies,” and its unreleased Glass app was selected as a finalist this week at the DEMO Fall conference for emerging technology. As the company’s website […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook To Retire “Who Can Look Up My Timeline By Name?” Search Setting For All Users As of today, Facebook announced that it is completing the removal of its “Who can […]
Google sure does love its new card-based information display. They’re the primary display for Google Now information. They’re part of Google’s new unified design on mobile devices. They’re how all information is displayed on Google Glass. They’ve been spotted in the wild displaying Google News results, too. And now they’re part of the new (still […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Places Expands To Canada, UK Bing Places is finally available beyond U.S. borders. The company announced today that local businesses in Canada and the United Kingdom — and search marketing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Penguin 5, With The Penguin 2.1 Spam-Filtering Algorithm, Is Now Live The fifth confirmed release of Google’s “Penguin” spam fighting algorithm is live. That makes it Penguin 5 by our count. […]
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.
SMX East kicked off today in New York City. We had a nice, diverse set of search-related sessions from paid, organic, mobile, analytics and social covered today. Below are some of the live blog coverage of the day one sessions today from the industry. How To Increase Organic Traffic by Diversifying Your Digital Marketing, BruceClay.com […]
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 […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: WordStream Launches PPC Landing Page Creator, Lead Management Tool For SMBs Successful PPC lead generation campaigns demand good landing pages. Yet many small business marketers are left without the resources to […]
The integration of Google+ across Google properties continues in a big way today with the launch of hashtag search. Simply put, if you search Google for a hashtag, you might see Google+ posts using that hashtag to the right of the regular search results. Google’s Zaheed Sabur announced the new feature this morning on Google+, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Official: Google Rolling Out App Launcher, Flat Logo The testing is over. Google has confirmed its plans to add a new app launcher to the main Google navigation bar that will […]
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 Makes You A Best In Class SEO? Survey Says… Today, at Conductor’s annual client summit, #C3NY, Director of Research and Search Engine Land contributor Nathan Safran unveiled research from a […]
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 Trends Gets “Trending Top Charts” To Show Interest Spikes; Hot Searches Go Back 30 Days What’s hot in search? Often, it’s the same-old, same-old. That’s why Google Trends has added […]
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 Quietly Brings Back RSS Feed Option To Google Alerts The Next Web reports Google has quietly added back the RSS Feed option to Google Alerts. I’ve confirmed the RSS Feed […]
It’s Google’s latest “moon shot.” Google Glass. A wearable computer that offers hands-free access to both the consumption and creation of online content. Some say Glass changes everything, while others remain skeptical about Glass’ place in the digital future. This much is certain: Many brands have already built — or are currently designing — apps […]
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’s Cutts: Auto-Generated Content & Search Results In Our Index Violate Our Guidelines In a recent video from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt discussed a pretty obvious spam […]
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 May Be Updating Their Algorithm But They Won’t Confirm It Today, September 4th, and last week, August 21st, there were huge spikes in chatter amongst the SEO and webmasters about […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Dive Deep! Attend A Marketing Workshop At SMX East In NYC. Register Now! Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX East, October 1-3 in NYC. Add an […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 10 Features Unique To Bing Ads That You Might Not Know About On the Bing Ads blog this week Marta Turek from Mediative spotlighted several features offered in Bing Ads that […]
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.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Foursquare Now: Update Intros Location-Aware Alerts Call it “Foursquare Now.” Today the company announced that it would begin rolling out a new push recommendations feature, initially to Android users and later […]
Call it “Foursquare Now.” Today, the company announced that it would begin rolling out a new push recommendations feature, initially to Android users and later to iOS. Based on the billions of check-ins, likes and other social data Foursquare has accumulated, the updated app will proactively send alerts about places and venues, without any required […]
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 One Brand Switched A Million URLs & Lived To Tell About It: 5 Questions With HomeAdvisor.com Last year, home improvement company HomeAdvisor.com underwent a monumental rebranding effort that included switching […]
The Verge noticed that if you ask Apple Siri about Google Glass, Siri will respond with some humorous responses. In short, if you activate Siri on your iOS device and say, “okay glass,” Apple Siri will respond in a witty way. Above are some of the responses in an animated GIF, but here they are […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Says Goodbye to Bing Shopping, Hello Product Search With Rich Captions & Product Ads Today, Bing announced that Bing Shopping is being replaced by Product Search, which simply integrates product […]
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 Responds To #GoogleGate: AdWords Account Manager’s Accidental Voice Mail Recording Earlier this week, Martin MacDonald, inbound marketing director at Expedia EAN, in a post on his website titled “#GoogleGate – […]
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: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per conversion in AdWords has been […]
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.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study] Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling […]
Will the day come that Google can successfully respond when you tell it something like, “Book me a trip to Washington, DC” — walking you through all the queries and answers needed to complete such a complex request? Will the day come when we’re using devices that only offer voice-based search? Will the day come […]
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’s Matt Cutts: I Recommend NoFollowing Links On Widgets Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer this morning strongly recommending that those who place widgets on their […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA Complaints Every Month Because of their share of the search market, Google is most frequently targeted by copyright holders filing DMCA complaints, […]