Google Study: Mobile PPC Ads Also Do Not Cannibalize Organic Traffic
Google released a new study as part of its series of analysis aimed at answering the perpetual question of whether PPC ads cannibalize organic traffic. You know the question: “If I’m already ranking, why should I pay for ads if they are just going to steal free clicks from my organic…
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Google Logo Marks The 407th Birthday Of Rembrandt van Rijn
Google has dedicated today’s homepage to Rembrandt van Rijn, marking the Dutch painter and etcher’s 407th birthday. The Google logo includes a self portrait of the artist standing in front of a “Google” etching. With more than 40 remaining self portraits, Rembrandt was known…
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Google To Take Action Against Fake Search Results Injected Into Browser History
Google made a clear stance late Friday on the Google Webmaster blog that they will not tolerate webmasters pushing deceptive search results to searchers through the use of browser history spamming techniques. The technique uses a method of detecting a click on the browser’s back button. When…
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Be smart, make the summer months count
Many companies pause or shut down all marketing campaigns during the summer holidays. This is not advisable, especially not when it comes to search, and especially not in the Nordics. In Norway we have a total of 2 months of summer a year. 10 months of rain, snow and cold, and only 2 months of read more »
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Be smart, make the summer months count
Desktop Search Activity Up 12% YOY In June, 4th Straight Month Of Double-Digit Gains [comScore]
Desktop search activity continues to rebound, and was up 12 percent year-over-year in June according to the latest comScore qSearch data just out today. ComScore estimates that there were 19.2 billion “core” desktop searches last month. That’s down four percent from the 20 billion…
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Google’s Schmidt: Hollywood Should Take Content Pirates To Court
Google’s Eric Schmidt says that the entertainment industry should focus on taking content pirates to court, rather than just trying to get Google (and other search engines) to remove pirate sites from search results. His comments, reported by Variety, came yesterday during an impromptu chat…
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Mastering PPC: Ad Extension Basics, Part 1
What are Ad Extensions? Ad extensions are additional features that show with text ads on the SERPs. Ad Extensions are optional features on Google AdWords (google.com) and Bing Ads (bing.com and yahoo.com). Ad Extensions are not available on search partners. Ad Extensions are most often shown with ads in high positions (usually 1-3) but can […]
90% of media is consumed on-screen – are you prepared for multi-screen
From the way people talk about it these days, one would be forgiven for thinking that the issue of multi-screen and multi-device usage was a new one – however its certainly an increasingly complex environment for marketeers to deal with.
Post from Peter Young on State of Search
90% of media is consumed on-screen – are you prepared for multi-screen
New Google Maps App Gives Users More Search Functionality & Navigation Features
Google announced today the release of a new Google Maps app for Android devices, with iPhone and iPad versions soon to follow. According to the announcement, the new Google Maps app will include more search functionality and updated navigation features…
Google’s Matt Cutts On Why Links Still Rule & How SEOs Go Wrong In Getting Them
Eric Enge has published an interview with Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam. The interview is similar to the format he published in 2010 with Cutts, but in this interview, the topic revolved mostly about link building and what is wrong with how SEOs do it today. In short, Matt Cutts…
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Are Google’s Results Getting Too Ad Heavy?
Are Google’s search results getting too ad-heavy? A new blog post suggesting that Google’s non-paid listings make up only a tiny fraction of the entire page has sparked some discussion, though the exact percentage actually varies on how you count what’s on the page and from…
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Today’s Google Logo Marks The 66th Anniversary Of The Roswell UFO Incident With A Video Game
In early July of 1947, sightings of an unidentified flying object were reported, along with crash remnants found near Roswell, New Mexico. While a public information officer from the Roswell Army Airfield initially published a release on July 8, 1947 stating a “flying disk” had been…
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How to use Google+ to Dominate a Generic Mobile Search Result
Dominating a generic query in a mobile search is not impossible, and can drive lots of mobile traffic. Cindy Krum explains how you can use Google+ for that.
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How to use Google+ to Dominate a Generic Mobile Search Result
Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at
People don’t want the government spying on them but at the same time tell the world everything about themselves.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at
Google July 4th Logo Answers The Question: When is Independence Day?
Today’s Google logo celebrates this year’s Independence Day with an interactive image of an illustrated family of dogs road tripping across the US. Set on the background of a paper map like your dad may have used before Google Maps, stars highlight trip locations across the country to…
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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition
What’s been happening in Search this June? Gianluca takes us through the main points
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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition
Google Logo Celebrates the 130th Birthday Of Franz Kafka
Today, Google’s logo celebrates the 130th birthday of one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, Franz Kafka. Born into a German-speaking family in Prague on July 3, 1883, Franz Kafka’s publishing career began with a number of short stories published in German literary…
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Google No Longer Powering Russian Internet Company Searches As Mail.ru Takes All Queries In-House
Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group released an official announcement that they will be handling all queries made by Search Mail.ru users from here on out. According to TheNextWeb.com, Google previously powered 60 percent of the searches performed o…
The Google Local Carousel & Local Directories
“Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound…” – Don Draper When Google’s new Local Carousel came to a town near you a couple of weeks ago, I immediately envisioned the Don Drapers of local search in conference rooms around the country dramatically presenting their initial impressions. Of course at the end, instead of Duck […]
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Google Testing Larger News Photos In Search Results
Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google web results page. Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal…
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