Potential iOS Market For Google Now Is 2.5X Larger Than Android “Now” Base
Google Now for iOS and Android are almost identical in their look at feel. And aside from a few “cards,” the same is true of their content. But, there are some differences behind the scenes worth noting: one of them is the fact that with its launch on iOS this morning, Google Now is…
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The Top Five SEO Mistakes According To Google’s Matt Cutts
In a recently published Webmaster video, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, listed off the top five SEO mistakes webmasters make. Matt said these are not the most devastating mistakes, but rather, the most common mistakes. (1) Having a website or having a website that is not crawlable…
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Facebook Offers An In-Depth Look At The Natural Language Interface Of Graph Search
Since its launch in January of this year, Facebook has been rolling out their Graph Search, allowing a limited number of users to perform queries with the natural language interface. In a post on their engineering blog today, Facebook explains how thei…
See Who’s Speaking at SMX Advanced – Early Bird Rates Expire Friday
Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced’s faculty features nearly 100 leading authorities on SEO, paid search, mobile, social media and more. Don’t miss this once a year opportunity to meet them and learn what they know! Early bird rates expire this Friday – register today! SMX Advanced speakers…
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iPhone & iPad Users To Get Google Now, As It Comes To iOS
Previously Android-only, Google’s “predictive search” tool Google Now is now available for the iPhone and iPad. It’s part of an updated Google Search App for iOS. Google Now for iOS had been anticipated since March, when Engadget discovered a promotional video suggesting it…
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The Amazing “Google Now” — When Google Searches Before You Think To
With Google Now coming to iOS, a whole new audience using iPhones and iPads are about to meet Google’s predictive search service. It’s a feature that’s gone from interesting novelty to being downright amazing, in less than a year. Here’s a look at how the “predictive…
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Top 5 Mobile SEO Tips For M-commerce & Retail
Clearly I’ve broken my own resolution when it comes to not talking about responsive Web design, as I’ve done so for the past two months. This month, I’m taking a break so I can focus on resolution #1: giving more tactical advice on how to do mobile SEO well. Today’s column…
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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Re-Evaluation & Geo-Targeting Tools
Bing announced two new features for Bing Webmaster Tools. First, you can now see more details on malware issues impacting your site and be able to submit a malware re-evaluation request. Second, you can now geo-target specific pages, directories or you…
The Enhanced Campaigns Waiting Game
Like many of my fellow PPC colleagues, I feel uneasy about the impending move to Enhanced Campaigns and the lurking cutover deadline of July 22nd. Should we convert now and get it over with? Should we run a few tests with our smaller, simpler accounts? Should we abandon tightly-crafted,…
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Search In Pics: Matt Cutts Office, Facebook Mule & Google NYC Hidden Rooms
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. The Google Glass Easter Egg: Meet The Team: Source: Google+ Al Gore At…
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Deduplicate Your Google Analytics Reports in Excel
One of the steps in my last post on finding 404 pages worth saving involved determining if any of your404 pages received traffic in the past year. This can be accomplished by pulling a landing page report and using VLOOKUPs in Excel to see any of your …
Google’s Matt Cutts Says It Is Okay To Link Your Sites Together But In Moderation
In a recent Matt Cutts video, where the head of Google’s search spam team answered the question “Does linking my two sites together violate the quality guidelines?” The short answer is no but, there is always a but, if you link hundreds of unrelated sites together, then it would…
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Live @ SMX London: Ready, Aim, Fire… Then Retarget!
If that visitor from your search ad doesn’t convert, retargeting (also called remarketing) allows you to keep your message in front of potential customers as they visit other sites across the web, minutes, hours or even weeks after they’ve done that initial search. Retargeting attempts to…
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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…
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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 huge, distributed projects? Search Engine Land’s sister site, Digital Marketing Depot, regularly takes deep dives into areas we can’t always cover in depth while…
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Newly Launched Bing Offers Pulls Deals From Across The Web
Bing is appealing to fans of daily deal sites with the launch of Bing Offers, a one-stop shop for online deals and coupons. Boasting one of the largest collections of local deals on the web, Bing Offers pulls deals from various partner sites. Users can…
Webcast: Effective “Big Data” Management = Successful Online Marketing
Digital Marketing Depot Webcast May 14th 1:00EDT/10:PDT – When organized, search rankings, site visit and click-thru data can contribute to marketing success. During this webcast you’ll learn how data influences marketing strategy, how to create a data management plan, how to identify…
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Governments Across The Globe Are Making More Requests To Remove Content From Google Services
According to a new Transparency Report released today, Google received 4,096 government requests to remove 42,249 pieces of content during 2012. The purpose of Google’s Transparency Reports is to record the number of worldwide government requests to censor content on Google services, and…
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Google’s New European “Antitrust” Search Results: Here’s What They’ll Look Like
I’ve found documents associated with the Google-EU settlement proposal that offer mock-ups of how the new, regulated SERPs will look. It’s very interesting and greatly clarifies the settlement terms and how they will be implemented practically. These mockups look quite different (and…
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Bing Relaunches Places For Business
Bing announced they have relaunched the Bing Business Portal under a new name, “Bing Places For Business.” The change doesn’t currently do much with your listings, outside of move the location of where you manage your business Bing Maps listing to bing.com/places. It also removes…
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