Microsoft Takes Its ‘Bing It On’ Campaign To The UK, Where Google Has Royal Grip On Search
Hey search engine users in the UK, Microsoft wants a few minutes of your time. The company this week launched its “Bing It On” campaign in the UK, inviting searchers to compare its search results directly against Google’s. Microsoft is challenging Google’s seemingly…
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Bing Gets ‘Klout-orship” As Verified Klout Snapshots Now Identify Authors & Content In Bing
Klout has becoming a much more powerful tool than simply measuring social significance. Bing and Klout have teamed up to form a puesdo-authorship alliance that will appear in the search results pages. A new Klout-verified ‘Snapshot’ will show in Bing along with social icons, Klout…
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Bing Adds Klout-Verified Snapshots to Search Results
This new snapshot will enable you to verify and manage how you appear in Bing search results, based on the public portions of LinkedIn and Twitter profiles. It includes a public LinkedIn summary, links to social profiles, your Klout score, and more.
[SEER Event] 11/13/13 – Big Wins for Big Sites
The next event is coming up at the Search Church on November 13th and will focus on the optimization, technical link building, and outreach for larger sites: Nailing SEO basics is one thing, but what about complex sites on difficult platforms, marketing teams that are shackled by legal, brand compliance and a tough boss, and […]
Part-Time SEO Job in the Bay Area
Hey readers, Local SEO Guide is looking for help in the Bay Area from someone who has experience in “big SEO data” analysis – don’t be intimidated – we’re talking about taking data from various tools and interpreting it into actionable recommendations. You must be located in the Bay Area. We will not relocate you for this […]
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Facebook Users Can No Longer Remain Anonymous in Search
The social network has removed the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” search feature. All users will now show up whenever someone types their name in the Facebook search bar. You’ll have to adjust your privacy settings on past posts.
Microsoft Also Working On Cookie Replacement
The big ad news from last night was that Microsoft is also working on their own technique for tracking ads and replacing the cookie tracking system that has been around for over a decade…
Google Shopping Adds Local Availability & Local Storefronts
This week, Google announced two new features for Google Shopping Product Listing Ads. The two new features are (1) local availability listings and (2) local storefronts.
So when you search for a product and local results come it…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 11, 2013
This week in search news we covered our monthly Google recap…
Pinterest Promoted Pins Debut
When you next log into Pinterest, you could see promoted pins in your pin stream. Pinterest announced that it has officially begun including promoted pins, which appear almost identical to regular pins that users have pinned on their boards.
Search In Pics: Google Monorail, Android Land & Google’s Patio
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. Google Monorail: Source: Google+ AndroidLand Grand Opening In India:…
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White Paper: An Analysis of Link Metric Distributions
In this white paper you can find an exploratory analysis of the distribution of link metrics using box plots and scatter diagrams. A comparison will be made among the quality metrics of MajesticSEO, MOZ and Ahrefs, along with a study of how they correlate with each other.
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White Paper: An Analysis of Link Metric Distributions
Securing the Future of SEO: Global Brands & 5 ‘(Not Provided)’ Solutions
SEO has changed forever. Authority, relevancy, and influence will dictate how we optimize going forward. Future SEO revolves around these three centers of excellence. Here are five top tips from brands on dealing with secure search.
Bing SEO Ranking Factors 2013 Study By SearchMetrics
Searchmetrics has released their SEO ranking factors for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, today. Similar to their Google ranking factors, Searchmetrics analyzed 10,000 popular keywords and 300,000 websites appearing in the top 30 search results and looked at how various factors correlated…
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Did Hummingbird Eat Link Building?
Panda squashed bad content. Penguin froze low-quality links. And now, did Hummingbird eat link building? Hummingbird wasn’t just another algorithm update. It was more a re-tooling, behind-the-scenes adjustment to make Google faster and smarter. And it most likely opens the door for a lot more…
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How To Use The Marketing Funnel For SEO & Inbound Marketing
This month, I’m going to discuss content marketing strategy as it relates to search engine optimization. A lot of businesses get this wrong by focusing too tightly on the sales parts of the marketing funnel. With PPC, Money Buys Placement Before I get into SEO, let’s examine PPC as a…
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Link Building 101: Finding Web Mentions
Monitoring and searching for mentions of your website, brand, product, or company is a common link building tactic. Here’s how to successfully turn these mentions into great link building opportunities using Google Alerts and Fresh Web Explorer.
Moderation & Email Controls Improved In Google+ Communities
One of the most annoying aspects of Google+ Communities, at least for me, were the email notifications I received for communities I happen to be a moderator off. Google said they added email notification controls with an update yesterday…
Google Says Thank You To Top Contributors
Google posted on their official blog a thank you to the top contributors who spend countless hours helping support Google products and services without compensation.
As you know, the other week, the top contributors were mostly at Google for a speci…
7 Ways to Make Your Google Search Result Stand Out
The competition for search engine real estate is fierce. Don’t be satisfied with a Google listing that doesn’t highlight you from your competitors. Here are a few tips that should help your Google search result attract the most attention.