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 “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual 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: How The New Facebook Messages & Email System Works At one end of the spectrum, Facebook says it’s “simple” and “fun.” On the other end, some are saying it’s Facebook’s version […]
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 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Logo Saturday, November 13th is Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday. Robert Louis Stevenson is a famous writer including some works Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden […]
The PubCon Las Vegas 2010 show is now over and here is a recap of all the live blogging that I found while at the conference. Day One: David Pogue Keynote – PubCon 2010, SEO.com Day 1: Ecommerce and Shopping Cart Optimization Recap – PubCon 2010, SEO.com Day 1: Online Reputation Management Session – PubCon […]
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 For Android Now Available To Everyone Bing for Android was previously only available on selected Verizon Android handsets. Now, according to Microsoft, it’s available to everyone with an Android handset, […]
Back in October, Bing announced that it uses over 1,000 signals used to determine how to rank pages. Google has typically quoted using more than 200. Game on! I predicted Google would quickly find a way to match Bing’s figure. Yesterday, it did. Google’s 200 Factors For several years now, Google has said that it […]
Last night, Matt Cutts of Google gave a talk to the attendees at the PubCon. I was in the audience and I wanted to share my personal key takeaways from the talk. Specifically items Matt mentioned that I found to be new or interesting. Spam reports get 4 times priority in the spam queue at […]
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 AdWords With Ratings & Reviews Matthew Mierzejewski posted a screen capture on the Rimm-Kaufman blog, showing reviews and ratings directly in the AdWords ads. As you can see in the […]
From Search Engine Land: Google Adds More Answers & Info To Search Results Google has announced a pair of changes to its search results pages that make its search results pages more informational and give searchers information they’re looking for without having to click away from Google.com. […] comScore: US Has Most Searches; China Slowest […]
Matt Cutts of Google posted two videos. One was a short video answering a question on where he thinks Google and search will be in 2010. The other was a long video, re-creating his presentation on the “state of the index” from his presentation given at PubCon in late 2009. Here are those videos:
Ten years ago today, I had the privilege of organizing the first ever search marketing conference. On this anniversary, a look back at how things were then and have they’ve changed in a decade. In 1999, search marketing itself was about five years old. People had been doing search engine optimization to generate traffic from […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Switzerland Suing Google Over Street View Switzerland is taking Google to court over privacy concerns related to Google’s Street View service. The BBC reports that Swiss privacy official Hanspeter Thuer is […]
At PubCon, Matt Cutts from Google said there is strong lobbying in Google to introduce a new ranking factor into the algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with how fast a site or page loads. Matt described this as one of his ‘what to expect in 2010’ bullet points in his presentation yesterday […]
Day three is just about complete of PubCon Vegas 2009, at least the conference sessions. I thought I share many of the session coverage I found written on the various blogs throughout the day. Here is PubCon Vegas day three coverage: Best of PubCon 2009, Managing Greatness Competitive Intelligence: Know Thy Competitor Well, outspokenmedia.com Holiday […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the […]
Day two is just about complete of PubCon Vegas 2009, at least the conference sessions. I thought I share many of the session coverage I found written on the various blogs throughout the day. Here is PubCon Vegas day two coverage: Keynote: Vegas Strip Hotel Marketing Departments, outspokenmedia.com Live from Pubcon Vegas: How do Social […]
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 AdWords Expands Product Ads Google announced they are expanding the product ads within the AdWords listing that they have been testing for a while. Google said, in the U.S., searchers […]
Today was the first day of PubCon Las Vegas 2009 and the sessions are just about over. I wanted to share some of the blog coverage I found from the day that covered the sessions that took place. Here they are: Capitalizing on Twitter the Microblogging Revolution, outspokenmedia.com Hot Topics and Trends in the Affiliate […]
Is Twitter a search engine or not? There’s been plenty of discussion and debate about this recently. I’d say yes, in a way. It’s clear to anyone who watches a twitterstream that people put out questions to Twitter similar to how they use search engines. But if anecdotal examples aren’t enough, a survey I conducted […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Google Webmaster Central team has officially announced the launch of a new YouTube channel at youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp. This channel will contain, you guessed it, videos from Googlers on how to help your web site success in Google. The first video is the presentation Matt Cutts gave at PubCon last year named “State of the Index […]
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.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The third day of the sessions at PubCon is now complete. If you missed the sessions, do not worry, here is live blogging and coverage from several search and Internet marketing blogs across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The second day of the sessions at PubCon is now complete. Conference attendees are now enjoying the night life here in Las Vegas. If you missed the sessions, do not worry, here is live blogging and coverage from several search and Internet marketing blogs across the web.
Google is getting into the SEO consulting business. Well, not quite. But, Google is now formally offering an “SEO Starter Guide” with practical advice for webmasters about improving search engine visibility and increasing traffic to a web site. It comes in the form of a 22-page PDF announced today on the Webmaster Central blog and […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The first day of the sessions at PubCon is now complete. Conference attendees are now enjoying the night life here in Las Vegas. If you missed the sessions, do not worry, here is live blogging and coverage from several search and Internet marketing blogs 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.
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.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from December 2007:
Last month I began running a campaign on Facebook’s new ad network. After hearing the hype, I couldn’t resist playing around with it as soon as I had a reason to. At first I was somewhat frustrated because I wasn’t getting any page views or clicks. It took some time experimenting with my bid before […]