20 Top YouTube and Video Marketing Stories of 2013
YouTube dominated the video marketing headlines again this year – but the launches of Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Video on Instagram as well as AOL’s acquisition of ADAP.TV provided lots of interesting sidebars. These were the 20 biggest stories.
Switching to the new website verification API
Webmaster level: advanced Just over a year ago we introduced a new API for website verification for Google services. In the spirit of keeping things simple and focusing our efforts, we’ve decided to deprecate the old verification API method on Match 31…
Machine Learning for SEOs
Posted by Tom-Anthony
Since the Panda and Penguin updates, the SEO community has been talking more and more about machine learning, and yet often the term still isn’t well understood. We know that it is the “magic” behind Panda and Pengui…
4 Memorable Twitter Campaigns of 2013
As we close out 2013, it’s time to take a look back at some of the most successful social media campaigns brands had to offer this year. Let’s revisit some great campaigns executed by Oreo, Jell-O, Charmin, and Starbucks.
Google Structured Data – does not display org info
Are .org domains effected by Google Structured Data
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 20, 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: England’s Lulworth Cove Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular 2013 Homepage Images Bing has released its ten most popular homepage images of the year, with…
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England’s Lulworth Cove Tops Bing’s List Of Most Popular 2013 Homepage Images
Bing has released its ten most popular homepage images of the year, with England’s Lulworth Cove off of the Jurassic Coast topping the list. According to the site, homepage popularity was based on user interactions. While the list includes a collection of pictures from across the globe, a…
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The 100th Anniversary Of The Crossword Puzzle Gets A Google Doodle
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the first ever crossword published anywhere. It was published by Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England on December 21, 1913 in the New York World…
Crossword Inventor Arthur Wynne Behind Google Logo Marking 100th Anniversary Of The Crossword Puzzle
Today’s Google Crossword puzzle logo may not have made it in time for crossword puzzle fanatics on the East coast to enjoy with their morning coffee, but it’s up now and will keep many cruciverbalist busy for the afternoon. Celebrating tomorrow’s 100th anniversary of the crossword…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 20, 2013
It was an all Google week, like many, with Google breaking the bad guys and loving the good guys. Google penalized another link network, this one named Backlinks.com. Anglo Rank, the network Google penalized the week before…
Happy Holidays from Search Engine Watch!
As the year draws to a close, we’re all thinking about family, friends, and winding down for the holidays. And as usual, we here at Search Engine Watch wish you all the very best over the holidays and for the coming New Year.
What better way to say Happy Holidays…
…than ducks in hats. Let’s all get into the festive spirit with this little something from the creative team.
Search In Pics: Penguin & Panda Keycaps, Google Barge, Google Glass On Snowman
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. Panda & Penguin KeyCaps For Google Webspam Holiday Gifts: Source:…
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Google Still Working On Promoting Subject-Specific Authorities In Search Results
Remember the video Google’s Matt Cutts released in May, talking about the ten future Google SEO changes? One of those topics was about authority boost for authors and sites that are an authority on a topic? Well, Google is still working on that. In TWiG, This Week in Google, episode 227,…
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Google: Authorship Works With Google+ Vanity URLs
Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don’t like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results…
iOS 6 Jailbreak & Google Search App Don’t Work Together
There are new complaints, since the Google search app was updated…
New Look For Medical Knowledge In Google’s Search Results
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around a new look for answers around medical or health related queries in Google.
The results, as described by a webmaster, “replaces results with content…
Google Continues Work On Promoting Topic Authorities
Back in May, we covered how Google is planning on releasing an algorithm to promote subject authorities in the search results. Some call this the “good guy algorithm” and some call it the “author authority algorithm,” while others may have some other …
Google December 19th Ranking Fluctuations Reported
So Google confirmed they reduced the authorship snippets from showing in the results. We know that. Matt Cutts strongly implied that there was no update on December 17th…
Valuing Conversions: Quick Tips for Assigning Values to Google Analytics Goals
Ecommerce has it easy. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) documents for Ecommerce clients are usually pretty easy: KPI = transactions Value = transaction value Sure there are micro conversions and other KPIs to track, but the big KPI is right there in front of you. It’s very easy to tie that ecommerce value to your data […]