Apple “Embarks” On Another Mapping Acquisition
Last month Apple bought Locationary and Hop Stop. The point of the first was to improve the overall quality of local data for Apple Maps and the second was for mass transit information. Apparently, according to former WSJ reporter Jessica Lessin, Apple has made another buy for transit purposes. The…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 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 Now Gains Car Rental, Concert Tickets, Reminders While You Search & More More cards have come to Google’s predictive search service, Google Now,…
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Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin
We’ve been rather busy with the WordPress SEO plugin the last few days. We did a release yesterday and a quick follow up today to fix a few collisions with other plugins. Loads of cool small fixes in there, but one in particular that I think is worth highlighting as it’s something other plugin developers…
Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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Google Now Gains Car Rental, Concert Tickets, Reminders While You Search & More
More cards have come to Google’s predictive search service, Google Now, including information to alert you to your car rentals, concert tickets and a way to set reminders related to TV shows, book releases and more, when you are searching. Car Rentals Google posted the news to its Android…
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Linking to Non-Content Pages Can Affect Your Authorship via @marktraphagen
Google finally published
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Google Launches AdWords Paid & Organic Report: See Organic And Paid Query Data Side-By-Side
Today, Google is rolling out a brand new Paid & Organic report in AdWords that gives advertisers at-a-glance insights into query performance across the Google landscape. This is pretty big news from a reporting viewpoint. In the screenshot below you’ll see query performance when an ad was…
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Yahoo Defeats Google: Gets More Unique Visitors in July
Yahoo dethroned Google as the top destination of U.S. web users in July, comScore reported. Yahoo had an estimated 197 million unique visitors in July, compared to Google’s 192 million. However, mobile device visits aren’t included in those figures.
Majority Of Mobile Ad Spend To Go To Search — Forecast
In an updated digital and mobile advertising forecast eMarketer has projected that mobile search will be worth more than $15 billion in the US by 2017. Accordingly it will lead all other types of mobile advertising, similar to its current position onli…
7 Tips From Google on Using Google Authorship
On which types of pages is it OK to use authorship? Does authorship support multiple authors? Can a company or persona have authorship? If you write in different languages, do you need more profiles? Google answers some frequently asked questions.
Google Is Starting To Creep Me Out Big Time!
If you haven’t heard of Google Now yet, you really should take a look at it….a serious look at it….This mobile app/platform tracks your movement
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Google Admit They Recognise That You Are Confused About Manual and Algorithmic Penalisation
A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!
Do we need new technology to drive innovation?
The potential applications of current technology are vast, James Murray asks if we need to wait for the future in order to drive innovation?
Post from James Murray on State of Search
Do we need new technology to drive innovation?
Animated Google Doodle Commemorates Influential Composer Claude Debussy
Google’s special animated, musical logo for Achille-Claude Debussy features a historic moonlit French city scene reminiscent of the 1800s that unfolds as one of his most famous musical works, “Claire de Lune,” plays in the background.
Baidu Reseller Opens US Office, Aims To Lower Barriers For US Advertisers
China’s dominant search engine, Baidu, offers huge potential for marketers seeking to connect with Chinese consumers. Yet, for US companies there are several barriers to entry that haven’t made it worth the hassle — for starters, all documentation is in Mandarin and ads and…
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Mastering PPC: Bidding Options
I think we all have a few things from our childhood and teenage years that get us super excited like Nintendo, gushers, Boy Meets World and boy bands… *NSYNC went on “hiatus” about 11 years ago and have been “Tearin’ Up My Heart” ever since BUT just announced* that they will be no longer be […]
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Early Bird rates for Search Engine Land’s SMX East end this Saturday, August 24th. Register now and save! Join us October 1-3 in NYC for: Timely programing: over 80% of sessions are new, with the latest tips on Penguin-proof link building, mastering Google Enhanced Campaigns and more. Check…
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Google’s Musical Logo For Claude Debussy
Today on the home page of Google worldwide is a special musical Google logo for Claude Debussy on his 151st birthday.
The logo appears like a movie but has little actual interaction…
Google’s FAQ On Rel Author Says Not For Product Pages
Yesterday on the Google Webmaster Blog, Maile posted and FAQ on using Google authorship, rel=author…
Google Now Adds Ability To See When Your Employees Get To Work
Google announced on Google+ that they have upgraded Google Now features to add in seven plus new types of Google Now card notifications…