Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Raven Tools To Remove Scraped Data To Maintain Access to AdWords API While there has been lots of talk about a Google crackdown on developer access to the AdWords API, there […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Take Twitter Campaigns To The Next Level With SEO Data You drive amazing amounts of traffic to your sites, grow conversions and engage with thousands of users over social media. Want […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Competitor Analysis: Realize your Visibility Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast Thursday Dec 13, 2012 at 1:00 EST (10:00PST). The webcast Competitor Analysis: Realize your Visibility will feature speaker Shaun […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Auto Industry Benefiting From Growth In Mobile Search Approximately one-third of all search traffic for auto industry related terms comes from mobile devices. This underscores why it is critical for auto […]
The holiday shopping season is almost upon us. Black Friday comes at the end of the week, followed by the increasingly popular Cyber Monday. While there are plenty of deal sites, there also remain traditional shopping search engines that consumers may wish to use. Shopping search engines, or perhaps more properly, product and price comparison […]
Globally there are arguably four main digital mapping competitors: Google, Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. Google is the clear leader. However Nokia is making a renewed bid to challenge Google’s mapping supremacy with a rebranded platform “Here,” new APIs, a Google Street View-like offering, augmented reality and new apps for third party smartphone operating systems. Apple […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Week: October 29, 2012 Search Week is an exclusive weekly newsletter for Search Engine Land premium members that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past week. Below […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Election 2012: Searching And Researching The Presidential Debates The final debate between U.S. presidential candidates Obama and Rommney airs tonight. Until the election next month, a lot of attention will continue […]
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 Develop Helpful Content To Improve Visibility & Conversion In this article, we’ll look at another website that was submitted for review from a “Keywords and Content” point of view. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A Simple Guide To Understanding The Searcher Experience When search engine optimization (SEO) professionals talk about the searcher experience, they often cast their personal mental models onto the minds of searchers. […]
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 Offers Own Version Of “Pepsi Challenge” Against Google: “Bing It On” Surely you remember (or have heard about) the now classic “Pepsi Challenge” ad campaign from the 1970s and early […]
Yahoo’s slide continues with the news today that Pinterest is now sending more traffic to publishers than organic Yahoo search results. That’s according to Shareaholic, a provider of social sharing buttons and widgets with more than 200,000 publishers using its tools. In a blog post today, Shareaholic says Pinterest was the fourth biggest traffic source […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Activity Makes Michelle Obama The FLOS (First Lady Of Search) A Pew Research study that was released this week showed that Democrats are more likely to mix social media and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: Android Noogler, Google Paper Towels & Big Yahoo Ball In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat […]
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 Says It Has A Million Public Transit Schedules, Adds Transit Features In Android Maps Google Maps (and related data) continues to be strategic for the company. On Android Google Maps […]
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-hoo Search Down 4 Percent In Past Year, Hitwise Says June and July haven’t been very kind months for Bing and Yahoo. What Hitwise calls “Bing-powered search” had about 28.1 percent […]
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 SEO Guide On A/B & Multivariate Testing Google posted their official word on how you can conducting web site testing using A/B testing or multivariate testing and stay clear of […]
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 Explains Removal Of Age And Gender Targeting From AdCenter What do you do when you figure out that a lot of self-reported data you’re using to target ads is inaccurate […]
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 Antitrust “Settlement” Take Two: Not Quite Yet On the basis of statements and representations made in a Financial Times report, I wrote a post yesterday entitled “Google Strikes Antitrust Deal […]
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 Tips Now Integrated Into Bing’s Social Sidebar In May Bing rolled out its new social sidebar that tied together social data from both Facebook and Twitter. Today another source has […]
Search engines seem to be inexorably drawn to social platforms. There’s Google+ and there was Google Buzz. Yahoo has Flickr and Yahoo Answers, and had Yahoo Buzz and Yahoo Meme (among others). Microsoft/Bing has So.cl. And now Blekko has a social content platform of its own: ROCKZi, where the tagline is “Read. Vote. Rock.” It’s […]
Paid search’s growth rate slowed a bit in the second quarter of 2012, but it still increased 29% year-over-year — down from a 32% year-over-year growth rate in Q1. That’s according to the RimmKaufman Group’s latest report on digital marketing, released this week. Generally speaking, CPC’s were down (6%) as compared to the same period […]
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 “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search results, which mimic Siri’s functionality on the iPhone. Siri had been […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The Current State Of PPC Keyword Match Types I’ll start with a big thank you! It’s been a busy few months with advertisers and Google forcefully exchanging opinions back and forth […]
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 Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The […]
Bing has updated its image search today with a new look and some tweaks to its search and discovery features. The first thing you’ll notice, aside from the fact that puppies are really cute, is the tight tile-based layout that Pinterest often gets credited for making popular in the past year or so. Both Flickr […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: Android Chandelier, Google Manhole & Google Discs In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the […]
For ages, Google has encouraged people to build links in order to rank well. But in the wake of the Google Penguin Update, it’s become painfully clear to me how many people have failed to understand the inherent quality links part of that link building message. Consider this a wake-up call. Yes, you want links, […]
The first day of our Search Marketing Expo Advanced in Seattle is now over and we have complied a list of live blogging throughout the day. Below is a listing of blog posts we have found covering SMX Advanced today. 12 Hardcore Social Media Tactics from #SMX Advanced in Seattle, Microsoft Advertising Blog Authority Building […]
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 Releases Penguin Update 1.1 No matter that it’s late Friday night on the start of a three-day holiday weekend in the U.S., Google has just pushed out the first update […]
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 Asked To Take Down Over 1.2 Million URLs Last Month From Search Results Google announced they have enhanced the Google Transparency Report to include the removal requests to take down […]
Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, wrote a blog post on the Bing Search blog named Penguins & Pandas Poetry. The post is about Google’s latest Penguin update and how SEOs and webmasters need to be better prepared for such updates. The basic advice is simple, SEOs and webmasters need to do one […]
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 Search API Now On Paid Platform About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Snapshot, Sidebar Oh My: Live Blogging the Bing Search Summit Danny and I are here at the Bing Search Summit in San Francisco. For a comprehensive overview of the new Bing […]
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 Great Adwords Options For Boosting Conversions We all know that Adwords is the most used system in the world to drive paid traffic to websites. The Adwords system is an […]
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: Yelpy Insights: Yelp Adds Two New Search Filters, Looks To Add More Is there a battle brewing in the area of searchable local content and reviews? Foursquare has been making some […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo In A Fight For Its Life According to Reuters on Tuesday next week the already embattled new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson will lay out his vision for the company. The […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Traffic Estimates Return To Google Maps About a year ago, Google dropped traffic estimates from Google Maps driving directions and now they are back in the form of “current traffic conditions.” […]
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 Makes Android Maps Cleaner, More Personal If Siri is the differentiating feature of iPhones, then Google Maps (and Navigation) are that for Android. It’s the most popular Android app as […]