SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 13, 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: Yahoo Updates Answers For Social And SEO Value It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network…
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Google Rolls Out Broader Marketing of Helpouts
Google Helpouts, a G+ based product ”that enables individuals and small and large businesses to buy and sell services via live video” first came to light in early August. It is a fascinating product that creates a video based marketplace that allows local trainers, national support personnel and consultants to engage a much larger market. […]
Yahoo Updates Answers For Social And SEO Value
It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network and social search site, Yahoo really let Answers go to seed. However the company announced yesterday that it was rolling out a new user-experience including mobile optimization. Even…
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Search In Pics: Google’s KitKat Bar, Mr. Jingles Pillow & Twitter Cupcakes
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. Making Of The KitKat Android Statue: Source: Google+ Google Local London…
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Report: Google Product Listing Ads Drive CSE Channel Growth, Cannibalize Text Ad Clicks
The August Same Store Sales report from ChannelAdvisor shows that the 7.7 percent growth from Comparison Shopping Engines was driven by the product listing ads (PLAs) that power Google Shopping. Search (traditional AdWords text ads) saw just a slight u…
Google Carousel: Local Search Optimization 101 – Part 1
Circa June 2013, Google revamped the way local businesses appeared on the SERPs. Across the nation, bedlam ensued as local business owners ran around, pulling their hair out cursing the Google gods and their gaudy, horizontally scrolling, row of images atop the results page. Many of us questioned its purpose. How did it work? How […]
Google To Launch New Top Navigation: White Top & Box Bar
This morning, Google is rolling out a new top bar navigation style worldwide. They have not yet announced it…
Google AdSense Live Chat Support
A year ago, Google began offering email support to AdSense publishers, which was a big deal. They have even tested phone support but that didn’t work out. Now they are offering live chat support to some AdSense publishers between certain business hou…
Bing’s New Sub Deep Links
@tecnonetblog posted a video of new Bing deep links (aka sitelinks). The new format has 6 main top level deep links and then has up to an additional six or so sub-deep links under some of the main deep links…
YouTube Player Updated With Cleaner Features
Keane from the YouTube team announced in a YouTube Help thread that the team there has updated the YouTube player to make it cleaner while also adding features…
Take That Back: Not Every Manual Action Must Be Acted On…
I’ll be honest, I am still confused on this. The other day, I reported on how an ex-Googler who worked in the web spam team…
Google’s Link Report Now Much More Representative Of Your Links To Your Site
Yesterday, Google announced they have immensely improved the linkage data from Google Webmaster Tools “links to your site” export option for “download sample links…
Bing Tests Sub Secondary Level Deep Links In Search Listings
Bing is running an experiment with their deep links in the search results. Now Bing is testing displaying sub or secondary level deep links for some search results. That means that under a search listing that has deep links, you may see additional sub-…
AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses
AdWhat Now? Tara West from Koozai shares AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses In The Post Enhanced Campaigns Era including slides from the presentation she gave at BrightonSEO.
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AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses
AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses #brightonseo
AdWhat Now? Tara West from Koozai shares AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses In The Post Enhanced Campaigns Era including slides from the presentation she gave at BrightonSEO.
Post from Guestpost on State of Search
AdWords Tactics For Local Businesses #brightonseo
E-commerce Holiday SEO Keyword Optimization: 6 Keys to Success
Many e-commerce sites don’t publish holiday content until November, which is too late for the early birds and for search engines, which can take weeks to add new pages to their index. The remedy to this problem? Start early and plan smart.
4 Types of Low-Cost Content Small Businesses Should Create
Small businesses need to market themselves without breaking the bank. By creating great content and promoting that content via social media, small businesses are also creating buzz, relationships with consumers, and value to their clients.
Creative Content Marketing Strategies
Find out the latest advice on Creative content strategies and what to do if you haven’t been marketing with a content-led approach.
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Creative Content Marketing Strategies
BrightonSEO 2013 Creative Session
Our panel for the session are Phil Nottingham, Danny Ashton, Tony Samios and Paul Madden Phil is Distilled resident video expert and has promised memes and swearing, so excited for this! Phil opens with the premise that there’s a misconception around video that you need big dollars to get results which is not the case! read more »
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BrightonSEO 2013 Creative Session
4 Ways to Wash Away The Link Building Hate
This is a post from one link building nut to link building nuts everywhere. You know who you are. Link builders love building links — most of the time. But there are lots of reasons to hate it, too. If you hate link building and you’re a link builder, you’d better take a serious…
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