Didn’t Win The Powerball Or Mega Millions Jackpot? Try Your Luck At The AdWords Jackpot!

Chances are you didn’t win this past Friday’s $190 million Mega Millions drawing or Saturday’s $600 million Powerball jackpot. However, the great news is that if you’re an SEM account manager, you can still try your luck at winning the AdWords Jackpot! What’s An AdWords Jackpot? An AdWords…

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Google Notifies Sprint Of Spam Penalty; Seeks Advice In Google Help Forums

The latest large brand to be hit with a user generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large U.S. wireless communications company. Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their site that was…

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Google Drops “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Option Due To Lack Of Use

Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu. Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use but they say they are still committed to making the web available to as many people, in as many languages as possible….

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SMX East Registration Open – Best Rate Available Now, Save $300

Change is constant in search and social media marketing, and the next few months won’t be an exception: Google promises a significant Penguin update; Bing plans to roll out its version of Product Ads; authorship and authority will have greater influence on search results; and Twitter, Facebook and…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from…

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Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference

Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To…

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Search In Pics: Google Blimps, Sullivan Junior At Google LA & A Google Mohawk

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+ Blimps: Source: Google+ Danny Sullivan’s Kid At Google LA:…

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Google Updates AdWords Express Sign-Up Process, Ad Copy Preview And Dashboard

Google has updated  the interface for AdWords Express, Google’s AdWords product designed for small businesses. Among the interface updates are a redesigned dashboard to show an at-a-glance look at ad views (impressions), clicks and calls generated as well as a pie chart that tracks monthly…

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