SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Releases Targeting Updates For Bing Ads Express Bing Ads today announced several updates for its small bus…
Bing Ads Releases Targeting Updates For Bing Ads Express
Bing Ads today announced several updates for its small business solution, Bing Ads Express. This is the first big series of updates since the Bing Ad Express service launched last October. Here’s the rundown on the new updates. The focus is on improved targeting options: Advertisers now have…
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Hummingbird SEO
Hummingbird, Google’s new search algorithm launched August last year, is said to have impacted 90% of search results.
The majority of the affected results are for long-tail search queries, which is why many practitioners didn’t notice the changes when it was first launched (30 days before the update was publicly announced).
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webcast-Effective Social Marketing Methods
Join us Tuesday, April 8th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear aimClear Founder & Evangelist Marty Weintraub and aimClear Account Manager Merry Morud discuss: How to easily dominate social distribution against serious marketing KPIs; How to use ingenious internet-wide targeting methods; How to field…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webcast-Effective Social Marketing Methods
Join us Tuesday, April 8th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear aimClear Founder & Evangelist Marty Weintraub and aimClear Account Manager Merry Morud discuss: How to easily dominate social distribution against serious marketing KPIs; How to use ingenious internet-wide targeting methods; How to field…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Google Search and Censorship
With the recent penalization of MyBlogGuest, I felt compelled to write on the unique phenomena of Google censorship, teasing out what Google’s policy seems to be on the issue and determining whethe
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No Joke: Google Maps Brings Back “Search Nearby” Feature
You’re going to hear a lot of rejoicing when this news spreads: Google has returned the “search nearby” feature to Google Maps. #celebrate!!! Amidst all of today’s Google April Fools’ joke announcements, the company tweeted the feature’s resurrection earlier…
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10 New Media Trends Shaping the Lives of Modern Consumers @ClickZLive #CZLNY
ClickZ Live New York kicked off with a keynote from Randi Zuckerberg on the top trends in tech and new media that are influencing the minds and behaviors of modern consumers and gave insights on how to engage, convert, and delight consumers.
Want News About New York In Yahoo News? Too Bad.
If you try to search Yahoo News for [new york], you will be out of luck. Yahoo News is returning an error that reads “we did not find results for: new york.” Here is a screen shot: Other states do work, such as Florida or California, but not New York. Why? We are not sure, […]
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Google’s Matt Cutts April Fools Video: No We Won’t Stop Changing; While Shirt Constantly Changes
If you didn’t have enough April Fools day fun today, here is one more for you. In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Matt answered a real question from Dave in the UK, who asked, “When will Google stop updating its search results?” The answer was never! And to prove his point,…
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Google Webmaster Tools Gives More Precise Index Status Data
Google has announced the ability for webmasters to now track indexed URLs for each protocol – HTTP and HTTPS – as well as for verified subdirectories. The change will make it easier for site owners to monitor different sections of their website.
Google Webmaster Tools Gives More Precise Index Status Data
Google has announced the ability for webmasters to now track indexed URLs for each protocol – HTTP and HTTPS – as well as for verified subdirectories. The change will make it easier for site owners to monitor different sections of their website.
More Google April Fools: Everything From Emoji Translators To Free Nexus Phones
Yesterday, our editor in chief Matt McGee found a number of April Fools jokes already in play, including a Google Maps Pokemon challenge and Google+ David Hasselhoff photobombs. Today’s first batch of April Fools pranks include a few from Google, as well as jokes directed at the search giant….
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Adapting 3 Fundamental Human Values Into Your Link Building Outreach
When creating outreach messages for link building, the most important concept to come back to is: just be yourself. Sometimes we get caught up in how to phrase a sentence or pitch, causing us to stumble over our words and lose sight of some of the most important fundamental human values. The key is to […]
Google Index Status Reports Now With HTTPS & Subdirectories
Google announced the Index Status reports within Google Webmaster Tools now lets you differentiate between HTTP, HTTPS and subdirectories.
Google’s John Mueller said “If you’re a data-driven SEO (or just love to see how your site’s indexed), you’ll l…
Google’s Cutts: Here Is How Google Evaluates New Algorithms
Google’s Matt Cutts, depicted here in an April Fools style animated GIF, posted a video on how Google goes about evaluating new search algorithms…
Google+ Adds Views Metric To Profiles
Yesterday, there was all this craze about Google+ adding a new metric named “views” to your profile.
Google’s Yonatan Zunger posted on his Google+ profile the meaning behind the views count. In short…
Adopt A Contingency Search Marketing Plan Before You Get Dinged
What if you were penalized or deindexed in Google? What if you accidentally blocked everything in your robots.txt file? What if you didn’t know you had done something wrong, and you were hit with an algorithmic update that crushed you? For every one of you who sees it coming, there are a ton…
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SEO Now 2014 – MoneySupermarket & Linkdex #RIMC14
Where is SEO? And why should brands care? David Harling of MoneySupermarket and Linkdex’s Matt Roberts give a blueprint for SEO in 2014 and beyond.
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SEO Now 2014 – MoneySupermarket & Linkdex #RIMC14
Getting More From Your RLSA Campaigns
Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSAs) has been, in my opinion, the highest impact feature released by Google over the last year! However, many people out there are still not putting them to use, and those who are using them could probably be getting…