iPhone & iPad Users To Get Google Now, As It Comes To iOS
Previously Android-only, Google’s “predictive search” tool Google Now is now available for the iPhone and iPad. It’s part of an updated Google Search App for iOS. Google Now for iOS had been anticipated since March, when Engadget discovered a promotional video suggesting it…
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The Amazing “Google Now” — When Google Searches Before You Think To
With Google Now coming to iOS, a whole new audience using iPhones and iPads are about to meet Google’s predictive search service. It’s a feature that’s gone from interesting novelty to being downright amazing, in less than a year. Here’s a look at how the “predictive…
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Top 5 Mobile SEO Tips For M-commerce & Retail
Clearly I’ve broken my own resolution when it comes to not talking about responsive Web design, as I’ve done so for the past two months. This month, I’m taking a break so I can focus on resolution #1: giving more tactical advice on how to do mobile SEO well. Today’s column…
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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Malware Re-Evaluation & Geo-Targeting Tools
Bing announced two new features for Bing Webmaster Tools. First, you can now see more details on malware issues impacting your site and be able to submit a malware re-evaluation request. Second, you can now geo-target specific pages, directories or you…
The Enhanced Campaigns Waiting Game
Like many of my fellow PPC colleagues, I feel uneasy about the impending move to Enhanced Campaigns and the lurking cutover deadline of July 22nd. Should we convert now and get it over with? Should we run a few tests with our smaller, simpler accounts? Should we abandon tightly-crafted,…
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Website Indexation Audit: How to Find & Remove Non-Essential Content
Are you feeding search engines garbage? Taking a look at your entire index will allow you to gain an understanding of what Google and Bing see and index. Here’s how to hone in on and assess your content, see if it’s indexed, and clean it up.
How to Create Effective Content to Help SEO & Sales: 3 Top Ideas
When the goal is to attract larger audiences for your content marketing efforts, either to turn these visitors into new leads or just for the SEO value to be gained from earning links and social media shares, you need some heavyweight content bait.
A 7-Step Landing Page Template to Convert Prospects into Leads
If you’re using PPC to generate leads, then an effective landing page is critical to converting visitors. Use this template that you can adapt to most markets in which your prospects are just becoming aware of a problem and potential solutions.
Weekly Rundown: Google Penalizes Mozilla, Enhanced Campaign Updates & More
One page out gives Mozilla trouble with Google. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center. And it sure was hard not to see Eric Schmidt. Here’s a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.
Kenshoo: Global Search Spending Grows 15%, CPCs Drop in Q1 [Report]
Has search lost its luster? Global search spending continues to grow, but costs-per-click (CPC) may be stagnating, according to Kenshoo’s Global Search Advertising Trends report.
How to Successfully Launch a New Website & Refresh Your Brand
Launching a new website isn’t just about updating your CMS and content, it’s also a brand refresh – your opportunity to reshape your company from the inside out. Here’s a roadmap of vital elements you’ll need for a successful relaunch and rebrand.
Comedy Central Brings #ComedyFest to Twitter
The comedy cable network and social media platform have teamed up to launch #ComedyFest, the “first-ever celebration of comedy and comedians to be programmed on Twitter.” The laughs start tomorrow and will be provided by more than 50 comedians.
Google Buys Startup Wavii in Move to Boost Knowledge Graph
Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million. Wavii, which uses natural language processing technology to distil online news into topics the users most care about, confirmed the news in a post on their website.
Google Reports Surge in Government Takedown Requests
Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last year. From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 26, 2013
Google made a nice number of changes to the search results, removing instant previews, adding a green arrow next to the URL, dropping related searches and removing…
Google Kills Instant Previews, Adds New Drop-Down Menu to Search Results
Google Instant Previews, which gave searchers a sneak peek of a website by hovering over a magnifying glass icon, has been removed due to low usage. Now Google has added a drop-down to view Cached or Similar results, or Share a page on Google+.
Search In Pics: Matt Cutts Office, Facebook Mule & Google NYC Hidden Rooms
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. The Google Glass Easter Egg: Meet The Team: Source: Google+ Al Gore At…
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Deduplicate Your Google Analytics Reports in Excel
One of the steps in my last post on finding 404 pages worth saving involved determining if any of your404 pages received traffic in the past year. This can be accomplished by pulling a landing page report and using VLOOKUPs in Excel to see any of your …
Google Analytics Explains The Customer Purchase Journey In New Report
The Google Analytics blog announced a new benchmark tool that is made up of statistics and analytics from 36…
Google AdWords Support Adds Screen Sharing
Zee from the Google AdWords Help forum announced a new support feature from the Google AdWords team. You can now share your screen with the Google AdWords support team.
Why would you want to do this…