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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 2014

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Ryanair CEO Claims Airline Is Working With Google On A Flight Search & Comparison Tool In an interview published by Irish Independent, Irish airlines Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary claims his airline […]

| Jan 13, 2014 at 4:59 pm ET
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VA Court Delivers Blow To Yelp, Free Speech Of Users

A Virginia state court of appeal has ruled that Yelp must disclose the real identities of seven individuals who posted anonymous, critical reviews of an Alexandria, Virginia carpet cleaning business, Hadeed Carpet. Yelp and free speech advocacy groups have decried the decision. Hadeed said that he didn’t believe that any of the reviews came from actual […]

| Jan 10, 2014 at 4:16 pm ET
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Utah Has Highest Google Usage, West Virginia The Lowest

Ad network Chitika has released a new tool that provides a user percentage or traffic market-share breakdown of PC operating system and search usage on a state-by-state basis. Google is the only search engine for now; combined Bing and Yahoo usage can be inferred by simple math. The company says it will be adding other […]

| Jan 8, 2014 at 12:26 pm ET
Google Analytics

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 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: Enterprise SEO Tools 2013: A Buyer’s Guide Are you responsible for SEO in your large organization? Wondering about tools that can help automate and cut the time it takes to manage […]

| Apr 25, 2013 at 5:16 pm ET

Link Building Fundamentals

Link Building Fundamentals [flv:https://searchengineland.com/video_assets/bootcamp/link-building.flv 364 264] Ever since Google created PageRank more than a decade ago, every good search marketer’s motto has been “I link, therefore I am.” In fact, links are cited as four of the top five factors in a recent Search Engine Ranking Factors survey. They’re important! Though linking seems easy, it’s […]

| Feb 22, 2012 at 9:46 pm ET
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Apple

Google Maps The Great Indoors (Android Only)

Google is bringing the blue dot indoors. Google Maps for Android 6.0 is going to start showing interior maps of airports, select malls and retail stores in the US and Japan. In Japan transit stations are also mapped. The floor plan data has been obtained from all the participating entities, which Google’s Steve Lee says […]

| Nov 29, 2011 at 12:51 pm ET

SMX Advanced 2011 Video: Yes, Virginia, Facebook Is SEO

Yes, Virginia, Facebook Is SEO Presentations from SMX Advanced, June 2011 With more than 600 million users, Facebook is more than just the topic of a popular Hollywood movie. It’s an alternative web, where people are “Liking” content with each other. But those Likes have an impact on the regular web, influencing both regular and […]

| Aug 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm ET
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2011

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 & Bing (Still) Handle Underscores & Dashes Differently It’s one of the longest-running SEO questions around, and still something many of us get asked by clients, readers, conference attendees and […]

| Aug 17, 2011 at 5:07 pm ET
PPC

Rimm-Kaufman Group Acquires AudetteMedia

Two well-known online marketing agencies are joining forces. RKG (Rimm-Kaufman Group), based in Charlottesville, Virginia, has announced its acquisition of Bend, Oregon-based AudetteMedia. The acquisition allows RKG to continue expanding its service lineup. Long established as a leader in paid search marketing, RKG has recently added services such as shopping engine management, social media advertising […]

| Aug 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm ET
Google

Not Hot Air: Google Investing In Offshore Wind Energy

Google announced last night that the company has invested “in the development of a backbone transmission project off the Mid-Atlantic coast” that will help support future harvesting of power from offshore wind turbines up and down 350 miles of the US East Coast. The windmills have yet to be built, but this is key infrastructure […]

| Oct 12, 2010 at 7:57 am ET
Google Maps

Sunrise, Florida, Reemerges From Google Maps’ Bermuda Triangle

The city of Sunrise, Florida, is back on the map. On Google Maps. It mysteriously vanished more than a month ago, making it impossible to find anything in Sunrise via a Google search. Some local businesses have reported significant declines in online sales. The city’s mayor, after contacting Google and failing to get a call […]

| Sep 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm ET
Content

Report: Most People Don’t Want Online Tracking Even If It Means Relevant Ads Or Savings

Get ready marketers: a credible new report with sweeping implications from the University of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley is likely to be the nail in the coffin of self regulation of online advertising. Specifically I’m talking about behavioral targeting, which largely concerns online display advertising but does marginally touch search at Yahoo and Google. The […]

| Sep 30, 2009 at 8:10 am ET
Local

Thoughts On Categorization In Local Search

Properly categorizing your business at Google Maps is one of the most important Local Search Ranking Factors, as I mentioned in last month’s column. There’s been a lot of chatter about business categories since then, most notably at the Local Search Summit in San Jose, during August’s Search Marketing Now webinar on Local Search, and […]

| Sep 10, 2009 at 7:24 am ET
Local

What Is The Potential For Growth In SMB Online Marketing?

The handful of SEM companies that we work with at Palore make millions of calls to Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) every year. This raises the question of whether the market for SMB online advertising is saturated, and how much room there is for growth. A good (albeit somewhat simplistic) way of answering that question […]

| Aug 27, 2009 at 7:19 am ET
Local

How Many Categories Should A Local Business Have?

When dealing with someone, the first thing that you want to know, is who that person is. In the SMB world, this boils down to what category a local business belongs to. In the old days of the yellow pages, consumers were used to knowing search the pages for, and media companies were used to […]

| Jul 30, 2009 at 11:06 am ET
PPC

Alan Rimm-Kaufman Passes Away After Courageous Bout With Leukemia

The editorial staff at Search Engine Land has just learned that over the weekend, on July 18th, Alan Rimm-Kaufman passed away following a 16 month long battle with leukemia. He bravely faced countless rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant in hopes of a cure. Alan Rimm-Kaufman was just 41 years young, and is […]

| Jul 20, 2009 at 12:59 pm ET
Apple

Google Maps: Transit Updates, Map Maker In 27 Languages

Yesterday Google provided another round of Transit updates. These include more cities globally as well as full public transit schedules for a number of new cities in Canada, the UK, Houston, Texas and throughout the state of Virginia. Separately Google now says that its community mapping tool Map Maker is available in 27 languages: We […]

| Feb 20, 2009 at 8:24 am ET
Local

Google StreetView, GPS Save Kidnapped Girl

According to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Google StreetView was used by police to help locate a child in Virginia who was allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother. The police tracked the girl’s cell phone with GPS and then confirmed her whereabouts at a Budget Inn on a rural highway in Natural Bridge, Virginia, using StreetView: […]

| Jan 8, 2009 at 3:12 pm ET
Bing

Microsoft: Forget It On Paid Search Partnership, Google & Yahoo

So Yahoo’s going to partner with Google for a test of search ads? Better be only a test, Microsoft seems to be saying. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith just put out a statement suggesting that any partnership would likely be opposed on regulatory grounds, as Google would get more than 90 percent of the ad search market:

| Apr 9, 2008 at 4:42 pm ET