SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 19, 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: Twitter Improves Search On Mobile Apps By Adding Toggles & Photo Filters Twitter announced they have improved the search capabilities on the iOS and Android…
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Twitter Improves Search On Mobile Apps By Adding Toggles & Photo Filters
Twitter announced they have improved the search capabilities on the iOS and Android mobile apps. Twitter added: A toggle between top Tweets and all Tweets A new photo search filter Photo search results layouts for grid and list view Filter tweets by pe…
LinkedIn Showcase Pages Let Users Follow Specific Brands, Products
LinkedIn has unveiled Showcase Pages, a complement to its now well-known Company Pages, with the important difference that now followers of the brand can interact directly with the specific branch, unit or business they are interested in.
Google’s Your Money or Your Life Search Quality Ratings: What Webmasters Need to Know
Here’s what webmasters should do to ensure that if they have a site with pages that could be considered a YMYL page (web pages that can directly influence your money or your life), so that they will be rated highly and follow best SEO practices.
Google Pays $17 Million to Settle Apple Safari User Tracking Case
Google has agreed to pay a settlement of $17 million to 38 U.S. states in order to end a probe into claims that it deliberately bypassed user privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Google also agreed to never deploy similar tracking code again.
Bing Webmaster Tools Connected Pages Let You See Owned Content Search Terms
Bing has introduced Connected Pages, a feature that lets you claim your owned content properties (e.g., your Facebook business page, LinkedIn profile, app store pages and other social properties), and see how they’re discovered in search.
New: Google AdWords Video Call Support
In April, Google added the ability to share your screen with a Google AdWords support representation. Now, Google is adding video calls…
Want To Speak At SMX Israel? Here Is How…
We are now accepting speaker pitches for SMX Israel. To submit a pitch, please first review the agenda in full and then go to our pitch form over here.
The rules are simple: Submissions must come directly from the person making the pitch, in their na…
Why Did My PageRank Drop? Google: You Are Selling Links!
I always find it interesting when people come into the Google Webmaster Help and complain about issues with Google and it turns out they were obviously doing something against Google’s webmaster guidelines…
Google’s Matt Cutts: I Don’t Add Meta Descriptions To My Site Because…
Last night, I covered at Search Engine Land a video Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts…
Google Bug? Increase In Webmaster Tools DNS Errors?
Since November 14th, I’ve been seeing a large uptick in complaints about Google Webmaster Tools reporting DNS issues with sites, leading to Google not being able to index sites fully.
There is a thread at WebmasterWorld and dozens at Google Webmaster …
Bing Previews Its Role In Providing Natural Language Voice Search On Xbox One
When Microsoft’s next-generation gaming console, the Xbox One, comes out on Friday, it will arrive with Bing built-in to power a range of searches from games to music to television programs — and searches you can do just by speaking to the Xbox. Today, Bing shared a preview of how this…
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How to Avoid Google Analytics Data Sampling Using Excel
The Yellow Box of Death. Ok. Death is a little extreme. Really, this is just Google Analytics alert that this report is based on sampled data. But anytime I decide I’m going to do some deep analysis in Google Analytics (add a second dimension, add an advanced segment, etc.) and this little box appears, I […]
Search Engine Traffic Drives Most Ad Clicks on Websites [Study]
Chitika released findings today that showed the click-through rates of ads on websites were highest when visitorscame to that website from the Ask.com engine, with Google trailing behind Bing and Yahoo in fourth position.
5 YouTube Video Optimization Tips
With 100 hours of content uploaded every minute to YouTube, gaining a high number of video views isn’t easy. But it’s not impossible with the right plan. Here are a few optimization steps you can take to help your video get found, viewed and shared.
Google Maps Makes Exception & Speeds Up Process To Replace Image Of Shooting Victim
Google Maps is making an exception to its process for reviewing image removal requests, and speeding up the actions needed to replace a satellite image of a 14-year old shooting victim. Following a story broadcast on KTVU-TV, a CNN affiliate in Oakland, California and a report on CNN.com, Google…
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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Connected Pages Dashboard
Duane Forrester, the Senior Product Manager at Bing announced a new feature within Bing Webmaster Tools named the “Connected Pages Dashboard.” Formerly known as linked pages, connected pages is a way for Bing to allow you to tell them what pages you own under your social network. Once…
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If Link Building Really Is Dead, What Do We Do Now?
“He’s dead, Jim.” It’s been shouted from the rooftops, from here to Moz and every blog in between, but I guess it isn’t official until the doctor says so: Link building is dead. Depending on how much you agree with that statement, you’re somewhere in the five…
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A Mature Digital Marketing Industry Provides SEO Opportunity For Small & Ambitious Businesses
As we are approaching the end of the year, I thought it would be worth reviewing 2013 from the perspective of a UK based SEO with a diverse range of multinational clients and what opportunities lie ahead for all things SEO.
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SMBs Spend An Average 46% Of Marketing Budget On ‘Digital’
In October 2013, BrightLocal teamed up with ChamberOfCommerce.com to conduct an insightful piece of research into the attitudes toward and usage of Digital Marketing by SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses). (In the survey, we used the phrase “Internet or Mobile Marketing” to make it…
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