Google Search App Adds Ability to Easily Switch Languages in Voice Search
Users of the Android Search app can now easily switch among up to five languages when using voice search simply by adding those languages in the app’s settings.
Google AdWords Conversion Values Add Multiple Currency Support
AdWords will now convert the payment currency for online retailers promoting products from an AdWords account that is billed in one currency and accepts payments in other currencies.
Sponsored Message: The Future of Link Building
5 Important Messages For SEOs. This white paper from Page One Power contains 5 important messages for SEOs: Links are still the core of Google’s search algorithm. Link building and content marketing are fundamentally different. Content marketing is difficult to do well. Link building can…
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The Google Shopping Campaigns Countdown Is On: Transition Surprises And Tips From The Experts
Tick tock, we’re in the final countdown before the big transition from traditional product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to Shopping Campaigns in Google AdWords at the end of the month. Considering PLAs now can account for 40 percent or more of a merchant’s paid search traffic, getting the…
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Navigating Secure Search: From Keywords to Content [BrightEdge Share 14]
In a session at BrightEdge’s Share 14 event, brands discussed how they’ve shifted their approach in a keyword “(not provided)” world.
Google DMCA Removal Requests Hit High of 7.8M per Week
A report from TorrentFreak attributes the growth in these requests to copyright holders seeking to curb piracy.
Search In Pics: Google Shark Fin, Chocolate Balls & Yo Yo Ceilings
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. Not Google Meatballs: Source: Google+ Google Leaf Light Shields: Source:…
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This is SearchLove
Excited for our online marketing conference? This trailer will give you a flavour of what the two-day event is really all about.
After all, SearchLove is hitting San Diego in less than three weeks’ time (whoop!) and who better to talk you through the idea behind our conference series than Head of Events and Marketing, Lynsey Little and Distilled founder, Will Critchlow?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 22, 2014
This week in search, I cover Matt Cutts doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and I then do it live (I slowed that part down to make it more dramatic) in the introduction of the video and nominal Googleâs John Mueller & Search Engine Landâs Matt McGee and Greg Sterling. Googleâs Amit Singhal posted
Bing’s Image Search Widget Lets You Embed Image Results On Your Web Site
Bing has a new feature that allows you to embed images from a Bing Image Search query as a collage or slideshow directly on your web pages. This is called the Bing Image Widget and you specify what type of image widget you want on your site and then simply copy and paste the given […]
The…
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New Google Ad Format Only Changed User Behavior For 3 Months
Google rolled out a new design for its search engine results pages back in March, but the changes don’t seem to have had a lasting impact for search ads.
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Close Variant Matching – 3 Important Points to Keep in Mind
Here are three changes about the close variant change that you should keep in mind, and what you need to know in order to prepare ahead of time.
The demise of Video SEO
Recently, Google removed, without any warning, the video snippets in the search results for a large group of sites. This followed pretty quickly on Google’s removal of author highlight pictures from the search results. First discussed by Seer on July 16th and slowly becoming more and more visible, we’ve been testing and trying to figure out what worked and what…
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AdWords Adds Single Currency Reporting For Conversion Values
AdWords advertisers that accept multiple currencies on their sites or apps can now track ad-driven conversion values in a single currency. The change means sales will be converted into the same currency as the billing settings in an AdWords account. Ad…
Google AdWords Enables Multiple Currencies For Conversion Tracking
Many web sites that sell products or services these days sell them in multiple currencies and now Google AdWords will let you track those conversion values in the currency you sell them in.
Google quietly announced on Google+ that now you can add curr…
Google’s Matt Cutts Ice Bucket Challenge & Challenges His Spam Team
Virtually everyone I know is doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and more importantly, donating to ALS.
Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts did his and then challenges members of the search quality team. He challenged Brian White…
Bing Image Widget Tool
Bing has added a new tool to create an “image widget” out of the Bing Image search results.
Bing says that the “Bing Image Widget enhances your web site with the power of Bing Image Search and provides your users with beautiful…
How Google Treats HTTP 418 – I’m A Teapot
Google’s John Mueller was having fun this morning when he posted on Google+ “Time for HTTP 418. Every site should have one.”
The HTTP 418 server status code was an April Fools Joke back in 1998…
Google Maps Reviews Overlay Popup Going Away
Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ that Google is about to drop the reviews lightbox overlay you see when you click on the reviews link within the Google search results. Instead…
Why Facebook’s New Cross-Device Tracking Tool Is a Game-Changer for Advertisers
Advertisers who want to understand the role of different devices leading to conversions are able to do it with Facebook’s new cross-device reporting tool.