SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 22, 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: Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties Google has agreed to settle a class-ac…
Pinterest Bests Facebook on Ecommerce Content Sharing [Study]
Facebook is still the dominant provider of social logins and shared content but other networks are gaining favor as users seek variety in their social activity. Google+ is growing as a login provider, but it’s rarely used for social sharing.
Huge Compilation of Mozcon Resources, Recaps, Official and Unofficial Responses and more
Dan Liebson has pulled together a fantastic resource of nearly everything that happened and was discussed at the
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Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties
Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their search queries with third parties without user content or knowledge. As part of the settlement, Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million…
Search Engines Ixquick & StartPage Double Up On Security Measures With 2 New Encryption Standards
On the heels of the US PRISM scandal, private search engines Ixquick and its partner site StartPage are leveraging new encryption methods that offer higher levels of security beyond the standard SSL encryption. With a combined four millions searches da…
UK Prime Minister Attacks Google, Bing & Yahoo On Child Porn, Demands Better Efforts By October
UK prime minister David Cameron unveiled a wide-range of efforts today to protect children against pornography on the internet. A significant part of his speech attacked the search engines of Google, Bing and Yahoo for not doing enough and demanding changes by October. Below is Cameron’s…
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Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Urge ‘Greater Transparency’ in PRISM Letter
Letter asks that the government release its own transparency reports that show the number of individuals targeted and the number of accounts and devices covered. Supporting this would be more detailed transparency reports from the companies involved.
Google+ Caught Spamming People Every 2 Weeks
Google is on a really big push nowadays to get users to sign up for Google+, and to fill out their profile completely.
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Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic
According to a story in Wired, “On an average day, Google accounts for about 25 percent of all consumer internet
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Google: Today’s Enhanced Campaigns Rollout Will Take Several Weeks To Complete
Account managers have been bombarded with alerts in their AdWords dashboards for months now. Today, notices like the one below started appearing upon login to AdWords — upgrade your campaigns by July 22 or Google will do it for you. Now, in a new blog post, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt You, Unless It Is Spammy
Duplicate content is a huge topic in the search engine optimization (SE)) space, heck, we even have a category devoted to the topic. But should we worry about it? Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said he wouldn’t stress about it – that is, unless it is spammy duplicate…
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SearchLove San Diego speaker line-up revealed…
We’ve kept you in suspense long enough but now it’s finally time to announce the speaker line-up for SearchLove San Diego! (Plus, there’s an exclusive discount at the bottom, keep reading!) For the past few months, we’ve been busy researching Continue reading »
Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX Social Media Marketing
Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered in a session at SMX Social Media Marketing on Nov 20-21, 2013? Something you’d like to see covered in depth, or a discussion strategies and tactics for getting the most out your social media marketing campaigns? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Anyone…
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SMX East Super Early Bird Rates Expire this Week – Register Now, Save Up to $300
Constant algorithm changes. New ad platforms and options. Breakneck growth in mobile usage and advertising. Attend Search Engine Land’s – SMX East, October 1-3 in NYC, and you’ll get the latest tactics, tips and advice from marketing experts who succeed in – or in spite of – the ever-evolving…
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What Job Is Apple Maps Hired To Do?
Hint: Not this one…ripped off from Tumblr. I asked a bunch of Local Search geeks which company will Apple Maps buy next?.
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9 Quick Tips to Increase Affiliate Income on Your Blog
So you’ve got a blog and you’re doing affiliate marketing – with either no success, little success or great success (high five!) – but hey, you’re always looking for ways to make more. Below are 9 things I’ve done over the years – with success – to earn more revenue from my blogs. 9 Ways […]
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How to Get Clean Links From Affiliate Bloggers
So you think you could never get a squeaky clean, direct link from an affiliate blogger? Think again. What if I told you that you could not only get clean links from your own affiliates, but from your competitors’ affiliates? Stay with me here. It’s no secret that bloggers want to make money. Of course […]
Google Earnings: Revenue Up 19%, Paid Clicks Up 23% But CPC Down 6%
Google announced earnings last week and for the first time in a long time, those earnings did not beat expectations.
The main concern from investors is the 6% drop in cost per click (CPC) prices. While we’ve seen a 2-4% decrease in those prices……
Don’t Try To Fix Your Google Maps Listing Yourself, Call Google.
About a month ago, some Google representative in India from the Google Maps team called my office to verify our address on Google Maps. We verified all was good and then he hung up. A day or so later…
Would Google Penalize A Google Ventures Investment?
Joe Hall on Threadwatch highlights a post by Jacob King on how Google Ventures, Google’s investment arm, has a big investment in one of the largest coupon sites on the internet – a site that gets the majority of their traffic from Google organic sear…