SearchCap: Reactions To AdWords Not Provided, Google Drops Video Images & IAB Report

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 10 Surprising Facts About “Keyword (Not Provided)” For Paid Search Earlier this week, everyone went bananas over a rumor that paid search query data was…

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10 Surprising Facts About “Keyword (Not Provided)” For Paid Search

Earlier this week, everyone went bananas over a rumor that paid search query data was disappearing and that third party tools providers would be slammed. In my article, I’ll clarify fact from fiction. Here are 10 things you need to know about the Keyword (Not Provided) for paid search issue: 1. Can…

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Link Building Fundamentals To Future-Proof Your Online Business

Google launched in 1998 and has grown steadily to become the most popular search engine in the world. Over 2,161 billion searches were run on their engines in 2013, and the company corners a 67% share of the global search market. As it grows and evolves, Google search is well and truly on its way…

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The Aftermath: Clarifications & Expert Reactions To Google’s Move To Secure Paid Search Queries

Yesterday Google announced it is expanding secure search to clicks on paid ads. The change means that the search query a user typed in before clicking on and ad will be dropped from the referrer string in the URL and won’t be passed to analytics or other software other than AdWords. The move…

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Google Tests Video Search Results Without Thumbnail Images

For the longest time, videos found within Google’s search results contained thumbnail images of a frame within the video. That is how Google has displayed richer search results, ever since the days of Universal Search. It seems like Google is testing making those video results a bit less rich…

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