Last Week in Google Local

tl;dr: Lots of small updates last week. And Soon, very soon I won’t be pulling my hair out. The transition to the new dashboard status: Judging by the fact that there were lots of complaints over the past two weeks in the forums about THE EMAIL and that my crufty, 2007 dashboard was finally converted I […]

10 Key Takeaways From Meet The Search Engines @ SMX West

Another SMX is in the books! This show definitely had one of the most engaged attendee groups I have ever seen at any conference in recent memory. The polite, attentive search engine marketers weren’t there to just network and enjoy the San Jose sun. They were interested and looking for…

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SEO Is Stone Soup

Each year my wife and I take our daughter to the Chevron Family Theatre Festival at the Lesher Center for the Arts. It’s a great local tradition where kids sit on stage during fairy tale plays, get their face painted and eat ice cream among other things. Last year we also saw The Pushcart Players, a smaller […]

SEO Is Stone Soup is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.

Google’s Matt Cutts SEO Advice On Unavailable E-Commerce Products

Google’s Matt Cutts answered in a video what webmasters and site owners should do about their out of stock products on their e-commerce sites. Matt Cutts basically said it depends on the size of the e-commerce site. He broke it down into three sizes: small sites with tens of pages, medium…

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Register Now for SMX Advanced – Rates Increase Next Week

Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced is a fast paced, engaging, and intimate experience that emphasizes sharing ideas and networking with peers. The Search Engine Land editorial team creates the agenda, so you’ll be treated to sessions that are Q&A-packed, frequently controversial,…

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Bing Ads Now Shows Zero-Click Search Queries, Offers 20 To 40X More Data Than Before

Formerly dubbed the Search Query Report, Bing Ads has updated what’s now called the Search Term Report, which houses the data on the terms users actually typed before clicking on an ad. Included in the new release are results on zero-click search queries. These terms had been excluded from…

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Remove My Link or Be Disavowed! – Fear Tactic Eliminated

I have already covered the seemingly aggressive stance that backlink removing services tend to take while trying to clean up a clients link profile and came into the story with the belief that the threats of action were often over inflated and resulted in the whole conception that you portray

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Google Testing New Sponsored Shopping Boxes, With 3D View

Google continues to experiment with Google Shopping displays beyond the traditional thumbnail box panel of Product Listing Ads. This latest version is larger than the sponsored result spotted earlier this month for the book “Don’t Make Me Think”. Found by Twitter user Brittney…

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Study: Researchers Blame Google Flu Trends Inaccuracies On Ongoing Algorithm Updates

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston claim the regular overestimation of flu cases by Google Flu Trends can be blamed on Google’s ever-evolving algorithms and the inaccurate analysis of big data. Google Flu Trends often has been cited for incorrectly projecting the number of flu…

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Matt Cutts: Google Mobile Queries May Surpass PC Search This Year

Speaking at SMX West last week Google’s Matt Cutts said that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if mobile search exceeded desktop queries this year. A similar comment was made by a Google speaker informally during a roundtable discussion at the International Franchising Association…

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