Bing Ads Launches Live Chat Support And Industry Insights Portal With Research, Case Studies
Today, the Bing Ads team announced the launch of live chat support and a new industry insights portal. Live Chat will be available at all hours every day of the week for in its English-language markets. Customers can use Live Chat to ask questions abou…
Google Updates iOS Search App To Include “Smarter” Voice Search Cues & Customized Alerts
The Apple-focused website 9to5Mac.com reported today that Google’s iOS Search app has been updated to version 4.0, with new voice search cues and customized alerts from Google Now. With the updates, the app’s new voice search cues offer more conversational-styled search queries….
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How to Know if Your Site Has Been Hacked
One of the unfortunate realities of doing business on the web is the threat of getting hacked. Hacking can take a number of forms, from injecting content or malware into your site, to simply redirecting your site elsewhere. If you have a site that has been infected, Google will sometimes notify you via Webmaster Tools […]
SPONSOR MESSAGE: Get High Quality Leads From Search
Join us Thursday, May 15th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling and John Lee of Clix Marketing discuss how combining search results with call tracking can be used to generate high-quality leads. Topics include: What is call tracking; Using mobile, organic, and paid…
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Google Brings NHL, NBA Video Highlights to Search Results
Google has launched a new feature that allows sports fans to see video highlights from the previous night’s game when they search for the team name. The video is embedded at the top, above the organic search results.
SEO and PPC Lessons Learnt at SMX London 2014
Day one of SMX London has concluded and the State of Digital team have been there in full force capturing all the top lessons, tips and tactics from both the SEO and PPC tracks throughout the day. Rather than the normal session write ups in blog post format, this time at SMX we are trying […]
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SEO and PPC Lessons Learnt at SMX London 2014
Top Brands Now Testing Pinterest Promoted Pins
Pinterest announced the next phase in promoted pins testing with some heavy-hitting brands primed for Pinterest’s target audience. Brands include Kraft, Target, and Disney, and these advertising campaigns will be in three- to six-month stints.
The “Right To Be Forgotten”: EU Court Gives People Ability To Delete Their Google Search Results
The “right to be forgotten”: a triumph of individual privacy rights or censorship? It’s going to depend on how it plays out in specific circumstances. The Luxembourg-based European Union Court of Justice, Europe’s “top court,” ruled earlier today that Google can…
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Bing: Link Spam Killing Links & Google: Links Still Matter
The other day we covered a topic on hold Bing’s Duane Forrester has a bold statement that you shouldn’t know where your links are coming from and honestly, I think it is awesome advice but people may take it to mean, if you do, it may lead to a penalty…
Google’s Matt Cutts Looks Back & Shares His Webspam Regrets…
I rarely submit questions for Google’s Matt Cutts, but I did submit one and he actually answered it in a video.
The question was, Matt – what are your regrets related to web spam…
European Court Requires Google To Delete Personal Info: Reputation Management Just Got Easier
A major ruling just knocked Google over the head, where Europe’s top court, the The Court of Justice of the European Union…
Break-Even CPC & Simple Landing Page Testing
Optimizing your conversion rate is so important because it drives bid. Your bid helps determine your position, or your profitability. Here’s how you can improve your landing pages, and then reinvest gains into your PPC strategy.
Those Google Ranking Shifts Are Not A Google Update, Google Denies Any Algorithmic Changes
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot of various signals across the search community that Google’s algorithms and rankings were updating, so much so that people were bracing themselves for a major Penguin or Panda-like algorithm announcement from Google. Google never made the…
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5 Tactics We Used To Build Links Last Month
There are a lot of questions around link building tactics these days, especially when it comes to how companies can actually build links that won’t get them in trouble. In fact, one of the most common questions I hear at conferences and from clients is, “How do you build good…
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New Google Sports Knowledge Graph May Include NBA Video Recaps
Search for [miami heat] on Google and you may not just see information about scores, schedules, standings and so on, but you may also see a video hosted on YouTube from the NBA with a game recap. Google is now showing video thumbnails in the NBA knowle…
Time to Think Big When it Comes to Reputation Management
When it comes to reputation management it’s easy to get lost in detail. Instead help organisations channel their digital profile into a stronger reputation.
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Time to Think Big When it Comes to Reputation Management
Nuggets of Wisdom: The Future of Search
A couple of weeks ago, we held our first Search Chat on Twitter which saw Will Critchlow answer your questions on the future of search.
5 Googley SEO Terms – Do They Mean What You Think They Mean?
Robots.txt. Google DNS. Penguin, Panda, and penalties. Duplicate content filter. PageRank. You’ve heard all these terms, but these words have very specific meanings and are among the most commonly misunderstood terms when it comes to Google and SEO.
Google: Nothing To See Here, No Update Going On…
Despite all the signals, chatter and reporting showing that Google’s search results appear to be updating as if there was an algorithmic change at Google, Google has told me that there is nothing going on.
Google said that they are not working on anyth…
How To Save URLs To The Wayback Machine On Demand
Yesterday, Search Engine Land featured a post about the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now providing access to more than 440 billion archived web pages back to 1996. As I’ve written about before on Search Engine Land and my infoDOCKET blog, the Wayback Machine is an absolutely…
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