Google Logo Celebrates 161st Birthday Of Spanish Architect Antoni Gaudi
Today’s Google homepage is dedicated to Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, the leader of Catalan Modernism. Born in 1852, Gaudi’s hometown in Catalonia, Spain is rumored to be Reus or Riudoms. An artist of many trades, including ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and…
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Notice: Google Places Users, Do Not Edit Those New Categories
Jade Wang from Google’s local business team announced in a Google Business Help thread that if you see new categories in your business listings, please refrain from updating them…
Google Kills ~Tilde Search Function
As I reported at Search Engine Land via Google Operating System – Google has decommissioned the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator from working.
Google’s Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist…
Google AdWords Keyword Tool Redirecting Advertisers To Planner Tool
Frederic Chanut shared on Google+ an interesting Google AdWords bug with the keyword tool.
Some are reporting that when you login to your AdWords account and click on the tools drop down and select the keyword tool…
Google AdWords Report Shows How Your Campaigns Change With “Top Movers”
Google announced a new reporting tool to see how your campaigns are moving in terms of changes to your budgets and clicks.
In addition, when possible, Google will try to explain why the change happened. At least…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Multi-Week Update Rolling Out
For the past week or so, I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter around a Google updating happening. The thing is…
The Problem With Identifying Problem Links
Since the last Penguin update, there has been a lot of chatter about examining your link profile in order to identify bad links. Whether you’ve been hit by that update or your site remains unscathed (for now), the potential danger of “unnatural” links is top of mind. Many people…
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How to Make Your Keywords Fit Your Marketing Messaging
There’s so much more to keywords than traffic. Keywords are how people remember you, so they should reflect what you do, not be picked based on search volume. Here are some ways to make sure the keywords you choose will reach the audience you want.
The Lost Art Of Social Sharing Buttons
Sharing buttons are no doubt one of the best ways to get your content shared via social media, email and other online channels. However, while many website owners agree that sharing buttons are a good thing, not everyone agrees on how to implement them…
Goodbye Enhanced Campaigns, Hello Bing Ads
Dr Shah has observed a 6% CPC increase from March through May. The report goes on to forecast another 5-10% CPC increase over the next two quarters, compared with the CPCs in the same quarters in 2012. These increases are being driven in part by enhanc…
Do the PPC Engines Reward the Right Behaviors?
Google and Bing both reward for A while hoping for B. That is, both search engines claim to provide simplified account management, while putting PPC advertisers in no-win situations, especially when it comes to quality score and enhanced campaigns.
Linkable Asset Strategy: How to Pick & Prioritize Assets
You want to ensure that your linkable assets generate not only quality links, but social shares and mentions, qualified leads, conversions, and high-intent traffic. Here’s a process for picking and prioritizing linkable asset development.
Let the Instagram vs. Vine Video Battle Begin!
Within 8 hours of launching Video on Instagram, more than a year’s worth of footage was shared. Meanwhile, the number of tweets containing a 6-second looping video from Vine has almost doubled in just two months, according to new Unruly Media data.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 24, 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 AdWords New Top Movers Report Aims To Automate “What’s Changed” Reporting The new Top Movers report in Google AdWords shows you which…
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Google AdWords New Top Movers Report Aims To Automate “What’s Changed” Reporting
The new Top Movers report in Google AdWords shows you which campaigns and ad groups had the largest changes in clicks and cost between two timeframes. Located under the “Dimensions” tab (View: Top Movers), the report compares performance for two consecutive time periods of equal length,…
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Bing For Schools Offers Ad-Free Search Experience, SafeSearch Filtered Content & Lesson Plans
Bing announced Bing For Schools today, a new program designed for K-12 US schools, scheduled to launch later this year. In an effort to help schools teach digital literacy skills, Bing For Schools will offer an ad-free search experience with SafeSearch…
Google Waze Buy Faces Antitrust Review
Iit’s unlikely the FTC will conclude that Google’s Waze buyout will significant harm other mapping services such as Bing Maps and Tomtom. But the FTC will consider whether Google is buying Waze to eliminate a potential future competitor.
Google Rolls Out AdWords Dynamic Retargeting For Retailers
In another move to beef up its retargeting offerings–and take on retargeting platforms like Adroll, Retargeter and Mediaforge–Google is rolling out dynamic retargeting to all AdWords retail customers with Google Merchant Feeds. The company is also piloting dynamic retargeting in the…
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Google Grants Cannabis Group $240,000 in AdWords Money
Google’s got $5 on it … er, make that $240,000. This is according to last week’s announcement from medical cannabis nonprofit Michigan Compassion. The nonprofit said $240,000 in AdWords grants had been given by the Google Grants program.
Google Grants Cannabis Group $240,000 in AdWords Money & Other Products
According to Michigan Compassion, a medical cannabis nonprofit, Google awarded the group $240,000 annually in AdWords advertising through Google Grants, as well as the use of other Google products for nonprofits.