SMX Advanced Agenda Posted – Register Now & Save with Early Bird Rates!
Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX Advanced, June 11-12 in Seattle. Check out the agenda, featuring two days of expert-only sessions, keynotes and the highest-level networking anywhere. Six in-depth workshops offered on Jun…
Google Quick View Badge Field Trial
Google announced a new Google field trial experiment for a feature they’ve been quietly testing named Quick View. The Google Quick View badge is found on a select number of sites when a searcher uses Google Mobile search from their smartphone. The feature is currently working for Wikipedia on…
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9 Netiquette Reminders For Today’s Link Builders
For many years, email was one of just a few ways you could share a URL with another person. And, people were far less accepting of link request spam than they are today. So, for today’s column, let’s talk about the ancient concept of net etiquette and link building. In many ways, it’s come full…
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Bing Updates Windows 8 Apps Enhancing News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps & Travel
Microsoft announced they have made major updates to the Bing Apps for Windows 8 across most of their apps including News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps and Travel. The video below walks you through the changes but here are some highlights of the core …
Live @ SMX Advanced: Think You Know Good Content? Fuggedaboutit. Here’s What Really Counts
Ever since Google “pandalized” the rankings of many sites, the mantra of many publishers and search marketers has been “content, content, content.” Wise words: The now ongoing Panda updates are designed to reward websites that offer valuable information and penalize sites…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 15, 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: 2013 Boston Marathon Explosion: Official Information Sources Following today’s explosions at the Boston Marathon, social media channels were immediately swamped…
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2013 Boston Marathon Explosion: Official Information Sources
Following today’s explosions at the Boston Marathon, social media channels were immediately swamped with reports, graphic images and videos from the scene. Race officials immediately held runners on course, and canceled the rest of the event. During tragic events like this, it’s hard to…
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Study: Google Image Search Referrer Traffic Drops 63% Since Upgrade
Define Media Group released statistics from 87 different websites on the images the new Google Image Search design features have impacted on publishers websites. Overall, sites in the study saw an average decline of 63% of their traffic from Google Ima…
Study: Top Reason A User Would Block A Site From A Search? Too Many Ads
An online survey examining SEO assumptions by SurveyMonkey found that the No. 1 reason users would block a website from their search results was if the website contained too many ads. If given an option to remove a website from future search results, 6…
Study: Many Searchers Choose Google Over Bing Even When Google’s Name Is On Bing’s Results
In a recent study by SurveyMonkey examining SEO assumptions, respondents were given two search result pages, one with a page header labeled “Google” and the other with a page header labeled “Bing,” and asked which page of results they preferred. Even when the page header…
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Infographic: 26 Ideas For Split Testing Your Search Ads
If you want to always be closing, then you need to always be testing, a long-standing mantra (and title of a popular book) in the search marketing space. When it comes to search ads, always be testing means trying out variations of ad copy to see which works best. Feeling like you’re out of…
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14 Ways Facebook Homes In On Local Search
With the announcement of Facebook Home, Facebook has pushed the accelerator on its local mobile strategy, which was already in high gear, thanks to Facebook Local Search and its big brother, Facebook Graph Search. By the end of 2013, I expect the socia…