Google Glass Diary, Part 4: Local Search & Navigation
Remember that first Google Glass video? It was published a little more than a year ago and gave the world its first glimpse at what Google had in mind for Glass. Even though Google described it as “an early concept video,” you can clearly see that local search and navigation was a key…
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Search In Pics: Google Robots With Lightsabers, Bloomberg Cutting Google Cake & The Simpsons Street View
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. Android Bathroom Signs: Source: Google+ Bike To Work Day At Google Germany:…
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Google Voice Search Coming To iOS, Chrome For Android Gets An Update
Google released a couple of new UI features with the latest Chrome update for Android yesterday and announced that voice search will be coming to Chrome for iOS “soon”. Android Updates With the Android update, the long search URL box is gone and search queries in Chrome display in the…
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Google Penguin 2.0 Goes Deep – But What Does That Mean?
As you know, Penguin 2.0 #4 is live and webmasters and SEOs are buzzing about that. The thing is, some misconceptions about Penguin 2.0 are driving me absolutely crazy.
Matt Cutts, in his video about this update, talks about how Penguin 2…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 24, 2013
Very busy week with Google releasing the major next generation Penguin update, Penguin 2.0. Bing also may have made a search update a few…
5 Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Know
One question I get asked a lot is this: what Excel skills are most important for marketers to learn? I have whittled that interminable list down to five skills that I believe are absolutely essential for marketers to know, presented below in order of i…
Ecommerce Title Tags: Top 5 Ways to Increase Clicks
The first steps of commerce take place within the search results. Give consumers a better sense of offers and pricing with your title tags. By exposing more information up front, sites can better align with the right consumer and get more clicks.
Bing Officially Releases Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0
After releasing a preview of the Bing sitemap plugin a few months ago, Bing is ready to officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin 1.0 to the public. This sitemap plugin allows webmasters to easily create XML sitemap files for their web sites that c…
Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New “Super-Specific” Search Filters
Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if…
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Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Spends One Hour Trying To Contact A Hacked Site
Gary Illyes, a former webmaster and SEO, converted Webmaster Trends Analyst working at Google Switzerland…
AdSense Publishers Like The New Google Publisher Toolbar
Google announced they have made a major update to the Google Publisher Toolbar for Chrome. The toolbar works as a Chrome extension and lets you view your DoubleClick for Publishers…
Bing Search Update On May 22nd?
Over the past few days I spotted two webmasters asking about a Bing Search update. With all the domain clustering and penguin chatter dominating the SEO space…
Google AdSense Let’s Publishers Modify Ad Code For Responsive Design & Other More
One of the largest wants/needs of Google AdSense publishers is to be able to make their AdSense ads work with responsive design web sites.
Although Google won’t do it for you automatically…
Guest Blogging vs. Guest Posting – Imagine A World Without Links
For months, debate has raged about the merits of guest posting, the relationship between content and links, backlinks, publishers and signature links, guest posting, and comments. It’s time to shed a little clarity on the subject in a simple format.
5 Content Lessons & SEO Opportunities From Bloomingdale’s
Bloomingdale’s is a leader in fashion in the brick and mortar world. But how does a store with history back to the 1800s adapt to the new online world? Let’s look at a few tactics Bloomingdale’s uses in content marketing and a few SEO opportunities.
Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down?
According to a just-published Bloomberg report Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may …
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 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: Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live….
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Google Talks Back: Conversational Search Available on New Version of Chrome
Google conversational search rolled out on the new version of Chrome this week. While the “OK Google” search prompt we heard about at the I/O event is not yet available, Google is attempting to have relevant conversations with users.
Penguin 2.0 Losers: Porn Sites, Game Sites, & Big Brands Like Dish.com & The Salvation Army
Google’s fourth Penguin update — what the company is calling Penguin 2.0 — hit last night, and less than 24 hours later we’re already getting a first chance to look at what sites might be considered “losers” in terms of search visibility. In a nutshell, the list…
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“My Photos” — Google Now Lets Find Your Google+ Photos Within Search
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny’s photos…
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