Yahoo Announces New Search Tools & Upgrades In Their Continued Battle To Win More Of The Search Market
Just a day after the story broke that Yahoo wanted out of their deal with Microsoft, Yahoo’s senior vice president of search Laurie Mann commented on new search tools and upgrades that are scheduled to launch over the coming months. According to an article in Bloomberg News, some of the…
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Yahoo Wants Out of Microsoft Search Deal
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to pull out of the agreement for almost a year. Mayer has already met with her previous employer Google and agreed to enter an alternative search partnership if the Microsoft agreement can be concluded.
Attention Merchants: New Changes To Google Shopping Feed Specifications
Google announced changes to the Google Shopping Feed Specification today. Here is a review of the updates and deadlines to be aware of: Products Without Unique Identifiers In the biggest change, Google has added the ’identifier exists’ attribute for merchants selling custom goods and…
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Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing’s Search Results
From Yahoo! to Facebook to Quora, social sites have long been struggling to leverage the Q&A format successfully. Today Klout officially enters the ‘social answers’ space with a unique proposition, integration with Bing search — outside of the social search bar and into a big…
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YouTube’s Expanded Home Page Feed Offers Brands More Visibility
YouTube hopes new personalized feeds will encourage a new way to use the homepage and, therefore, more time spent watching videos. It means more visibility for brands and a new opportunity for continued engagement with your most engaged audience.
Saul Bass Google Logo Celebrates Master of Movie Title Sequences
Today Google is honoring iconic graphic designer Saul Bass, famous for creating some of the best movie opening sequences in the late 1950s and ’60s. Here is the complete list of title sequences Google used in their Doodle.
Why Vertical Search Is Threatening Google’s Reign
Until recently, Google has dominated search. It has been the main stomping ground for consumers looking to buy products, visit sites, or conduct research. However, the nature of search is changing, especially on mobile devices. My own search behavior i…
Facebook Graph Search: Local Search Ranking Factors
Facebook Graph Search could be an important driver of new customers for local businesses as it continue to roll out. This post covers a number of local ranking factors for Graph Search, and includes key takeaways for local business owners.
No, Publishership Isn’t Coming Soon To Google Search To Join Authorship
There are expectations in some quarters that publishers will soon be able to have their logos showing up in Google in the way that authors can have their pictures appear. But, Google says there are “no plans” for some type of “publishership” to go live similar to the way it…
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How to Use The Keyword Planner — The New Keyword Tool From Google AdWords
Last month, Google quietly began rolling out the AdWords Keyword Planner to select AdWords accounts last month. In typical AdWords fashion, one of the biggest overhauls of the Google Keyword Tool ever went almost unnoticed! This new keyword tool combines elements of two existing keyword…
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YouTube Launches Ads Leaderboard, Dancing Babies Claim Top Spot
In YouTube’s first Ads Leaderboard for April 2013, Evian, Dove, and Kmart took the top three spots using dancing babies, powerful insights, and clever wordplay, respectively. The list also shows why it’s important to tap into basic emotions.
Google Celebrates The Iconic Work Of Graphic Designer Saul Bass
Google is celebrating the work of graphic designer Saul Bass today, giving him his very own Doodle video complete with a musical composition by composer Dave Brubeck. Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass made a career creating iconic film po…
How to Become a Content-Sharing Ninja
Sharing content with your audience is a great way to create awareness, show expertise, grow your brand, and create relationships. Any brand can use content sharing as a way to increase visibility. All it takes is putting the proper steps in place.
Bing It On Challenge Goes Directly to Google … Kansas
The next wave of the Bing it On Challenge has arrived. Now Bing has taken their side-by-side comparison challenge out of Google’s back yard and into the front lines of Kansas, where Google is bringing super-fast Internet to the masses.
YouTube Adds Email Notifications, Makes Uploaded Videos Private by Default
YouTube has announced new functionality, including an email notification system, alerting users when the video is done processing, and the ability to control when the video is published, keeping it private until it’s deemed “ready” by the user.
Why Did Google Change It To Google Palestinian?
As you may have seen across the news, Google changes the label on Google.ps from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestinian…
Google Stops Showing Link To Additional Local Results
Now if you search for a local intent query in Google, Google will still likely show results from Google Places/Maps but it will no longer give you the ability to quickly click and see additional results…
Google: Awesome Sites Are Better Than Perfect SEO’ed Sites
When it comes to SEO, I often meet two types of webmasters. The ones that know nothing about how search engines work and the ones that obsess over the smallest SEO concerns. There is often never a balance…
Google Update Brewing? May 2013
There are some very early signs of a possible Google update brewing as of early this morning. A WebmasterWorld thread has some renewed chatter around an update…
How Google Now Will Impact SEO & What You Can Do to Get a Head Start
Google Now will likely be an important factor in the transition from tactical to strategic SEO. Moving forward, search results will focus less on page orientation and more on customer orientation. Here’s how to stay ahead of the game.