Porn Comes to Google Glass, is Quickly Banned
Google moved swiftly to get rid of the first pornographic app created for Google Glass. This was followed by a quick tweak to its Glass Platform Developer Polices to ensure that no more porn makes its way onto its augmented reality spectacles.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 4, 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: Search Your Own “Pins” On Pinterest Pinterest announced a new, useful search feature that allows you to filter your search results to just your own Pins. You can…
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New Pinterest Research Shows Which Images Get the Most Engagement
A new analysis of more than 500,000 images looking at 30 different visual characteristics like textures, colors and more, uncovered a pattern in the popular pictures on Pinterest. These types of images get the most pins, repins and likes.
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Search Your Own “Pins” On Pinterest
Pinterest announced a new, useful search feature that allows you to filter your search results to just your own Pins. You can now search for images that you’ve pinned and filter out all the other search results from other users of Pinterest. Can’t remember an image you’ve…
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SEO, Content Marketing & Social: Hot Topics Ahead of SES Toronto 2013
Four groups of Canadian marketing professionals are set to converge at SES Toronto for a collaborative get-together with SES attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Before we get there, the group organizers discuss the dynamic digital landscape.
Microsoft Search Ad Revenue Estimates Get Major Downgrade; Google Retains 74% U.S. Market Share [Report]
eMarketer has issued a major revision to its predictions for Microsoft’s U.S. search ad revenue. The latest estimates peg Microsoft net search ad revenue at $660 million last year and $890 million this year, down substantially from the previous estimates of $1.41 billion last year and $1.84…
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Matt Cutts: Google Didn’t Make Panda & Penguin to Force People to Buy Ads
Are algorithmic updates created solely to force webmasters to buy ads and increase Google’s bottom line? While it’s no conspiracy that Google wants to make profits, Google’s Matt Cutts says updates are only designed to improve the user experience.
Moved: I Thought Exact Match Domain Doorway Pages Were Dead!?!?!?
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Negative SEO Extremely Rare
Yesterday, Search Engine Watch published a story that was a bit outdated. What they eventually did was redirect the story to an older story which said the same thing.
In short…
Black Hat SEOs: Focus On Your Site, Not Competitors
In the SEO space, there are always two types of personalities. One is those that go head down and focus on improving their own site and then there are those that look at competitors and complain that they are doing things that are illegal…
Monetizing Site Search Queries
I believe that once everyone starts thinking clearly again after the last round of Penguin updates — focusing on their business rather than on ways to game the system or mass produce activities that are not scalable — we can get down to action that can actually move the needle. One such…
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3 Ways To Break The Link Building Block
We’ve all been there — that moment in any link building campaign where you hit a wall. There are so many things that you want to do, but there is so little time or buy-in to do them that you settle on just doing the things you need to do. That sucks. It gets tedious, […]
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Defining Authorship: The Difference Between Contributors and Guest Authors
Many people are missing the point of authorship. Strong authors who pass great Author Rank won’t be people who simply blog a lot, all over the place; they will be contributors who contribute amazing content that is relevant.
The Content Catalyst: How Content Drives Search & Social Synergy
Today, many a search marketer lives in a world driven by Pandas and Penguins. SEO as we used to know it has changed forever. As Google shifts its focus to quality and relevancy, content marketing adoption has soared. It is no coincidence that the incre…
Trulia Is Making A Real Estate Search App For Google Glass
Google Glass may never become a popular consumer device, but that’s not stopping Trulia from making what should be the first real estate search app for Glass. The real estate search engine revealed its plans to San Francisco’s NBC affiliate over the weekend and shared more details in a…
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YouTube Capture: Videos Upload Upside Down
Jennie from the YouTube team posted in the YouTube Help forums that the YouTube Capture app that is currently live is uploading videos upside down.
This seems to be a specific bug to version version 1.4…
Are These Your Best SEO Tips?
A WebmasterWorld thread has Webmasters and SEOs sharing their best SEO tips. The thread was started by moderator, goodroi…
5 Steps to Create a Website That Both Your Customers & Search Engines Will Love
A major mistake businesses often make when it comes to SEO is optimizing their website at the expense of their customers. Here are 5 steps you can implement to avoid this, and create a website that both your customers and search engines will love.
2 Underutilized Opportunities for Schema on Your Website
Want to make your website’s listing stand out from others within increasingly limited search engine real estate? Two schema.org protocols – breadcrumbs and person markup – both offer huge opportunities and are really easy to implement.