Topic: Labor Day

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 12, 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 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 […]

Google Anticipates Surge In Smartphone Search For Holidays

Earlier this morning I wrote a post about how most search marketers were failing to utilize mobile paid search and/or not following mobile best practices. Failing to “get your act together” (from a mobile standpoint) could be costly for marketers of all sizes this holiday season. There have already been a dozen or so surveys […]

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Covario: Consumer Electronics Marketers Take Q4 Paid Search Boom Overseas

Holiday shopping for consumer electronics is starting earlier than ever in the Americas, according to new research released by Covario, a search marketing agency that works with large global clients such as Intel, Lenovo, Research In Motion and Adobe. Covario found that, among its tech and consumer electronics clients in the Americas, paid search spending […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 8, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox Does today’s speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened […]

Happy Labor Day ’09

Happy Labor Day Search Engine Land readers! Due to the U.S. holiday, we will likely have limited coverage here today. Go out and enjoy the unofficial last day of summer! If you are stuck at work, like me, here are some logos from the search industry to hopefully brighten your day. Oh, yea – Google […]

Labor Day & Programming Note

Today is Labor Day and I wanted to let you know that normal search news coverage will be mostly suspended for the day. In addition, I do want to point out the Labor Day logos from the various sites in our industry. As I noted this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable, neither Google, Yahoo […]

John McCain’s Google Bomb

Chris Bowers is trying to push in certain articles into the Google search results for a search on [john mccain]. His goal is to “Google Bomb” these articles into the search results before Labor Day. ComputerWorld has a write up on his efforts. But as Danny described in the past, this type of Google Bomb […]

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Tis The Season To Optimize For The Holidays

Prediction: Any day now, you’re going to walk into a retail store and see Christmas products for sale. I know it’s only August. I know the holidays are more than four months away. But that won’t stop your favorite store from getting a jump on the shopping season. And it shouldn’t stop you from preparing […]