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 App for iOS gets AMP content & sports highlights in Now cards May 27, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Google says today’s improvements for its IOS app will save users 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: New Google Maps Comes Out Of Preview Today Roughly last May at Google’s “I/O” developer conference, the company introduced an updated version of its desktop Maps experience. Since that time, it […]
Breaking The Speed Limit: Faster Sites Win! Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2012 Faster sites win in more ways than just rankings. Search engines can crawl (and index) more pages as server-side speed increases and user engagement (including most importantly, conversion!) increases as client-side speed (and perceived loading time) increases. Learn about hidden tricks you […]
Trada, the crowdsourced PPC marketplace, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from their existing investors, Google Ventures and Foundry Group. This additional seed of Series D financing brings the total money raised for Trada to $17 million. Trada basically lets you offload your PPC management onto a community of SEM experts, who spend […]
PPC & SEO: Can’t We All Just Get Along? Presentations from SMX East – NYC, NY, September 2011 Do you ever feel like your SEO and PPC teams act more like old style western gunslingers where only one can be the last "winner" standing? You’re not alone, Despite working toward a common goal of maximizing […]
Hot Topics In Paid Search Presentations from SMX West, March 2011 What are the big new ideas for paid search advertising in 2011? What are experts thinking and talking about? What are the most significant new developments in paid search that are impacting your campaigns? This session is all about what’s hot, what’s new 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: Foursquare Improves, Expands Information For Businesses Foursquare is going after local businesses and major brands with an improved and expanded content section that explains how they can take advantage of Foursquare’s […]
Tim Mayer, a former Yahoo and longtime search industry veteran, has landed a new role at Trada, the crowdsourced SEM marketplace based in Colorado. Mayer joins the company as its Chief Strategy Officer, and will oversee sales, marketing, product development and operations. Ben Wright, another ex-Yahoo, is also joining Trada as its VP of Service […]
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: The SEO Rap Sheet: What Does Your Mug Shot Look Like? While attending the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle this year, I was very eager to sit in on the SEO […]
Earlier I wrote about the depature of Yahoo’s Srinija Srinivasan. Yahoo’s lost another person, and another big figure in search, that of Tim Mayer. Tim just tweeted, as shown above, that he’s enjoying his first “post-Yahoo” day. Tweeted using the Twitter account I personally set up for him ages ago, I might add! Who Didn’t […]
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the most powerful person in search was arguably Yahoo’s Srinija Srinivasan. If Yahoo’s was the “gateway” to the web in the way some think Google is today, Srinivasan was the chief gatekeeper. And now after 15 years, she’s leaving Yahoo. Srinivasan was Yahoo’s “Ontological Yahoo,” among other titles including being […]
Yesterday Yahoo hosted a press event called SearchSpeak that sought to dispel the “misconception,” in the words of new Search Products SVP Shashi Seth, that Yahoo was no longer investing in search. As Seth took the stage to begin his presentation the power in the room went out. Not a very auspicious start to the […]
Philipp Lenssen’s The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry to pictures. Here’s Danny Sullivan’s Wikipedia article, but showing a picture of Danny Sullivan the race car driver:
The nominations are in, and now it’s time for search marketers to vote on which two people should represent SEMs against the major search engines in the SMX Search Bowl search trivia contest, which happens at our SMX West three-day search conference next month in California. The nomination round happened last week, and now SEOmoz […]
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 a roundup of all the coverage I was able to find throughout the day of the SES San Jose conference. This coverage is for the second day of SES, taking place on August 21, 2007. If I missed any, please add a comment below.
Aaron Wall of SEO Book has posted a new interview with me. I normally don’t highlight these type of interviews here on the blog, but Aaron asked a lot of interesting questions that really got me thinking — and I thought readers here might like a heads-up about it. In the interview, he asks me […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human editors at Mahalo have assembled a page that lists actual hotels in Paris rather […]
Seth Godin is widely known as one of the foremost advocates of “permission marketing,” promotional campaigns that don’t rely on interrupting the attention of your customers, but rather engage them and even turn them into enthusiastic advocates that volunteer time and effort to help you promote your products or services. Godin doesn’t shy away from […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Tim Mayer of Yahoo informed us that there will be a Yahoo Search index update tonight. Tim said we should “expect minor changes” over the next few days. The update will conclude this Friday.
Yesterday’s rollout of Yahoo’s new Panama search advertising ranking system has been both praised and criticized by advertisers (see Panama is LIVE! – for some and Yahoo’s Panama: The Switch Is Flipped on The New Ad System). Praised, because the new system is streamlined, easier to use and offers more campaign management tools. Criticized, because […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Since Yahoo rolled out a new Delete URL feature this week, a number of questions have come up on how exactly it works. I had time yesterday with some of the Yahoo Site Explorer team to gather answers. Thanks to Priyank Garg and Amit Kumar, who along with Tim Mayer, went through the inner workings. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
A week ago, we thought that Lower Case Titles In Yahoo Coming From Anchor Text, and asked Yahoo about it. Tim Mayer of Yahoo has commented on original post at the Search Engine Roundtable saying that this has now been fixed. And, based on the examples in our post from last week, a search on […]
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:
I reported this morning at Search Engine Roundtable that Tim Mayer from Yahoo posted in a WebmasterWorld thread saying support for a “No Yahoo Directory” tag will be coming this January. A No Yahoo Directory tag will enable webmasters to tell Yahoo not to use their Yahoo Directory title in the search results. Yahoo began […]