#2 Most Read Article of 2014: The 10 Best Shopping Engines
A new study analyzes the best comparison shopping engines based on traffic, revenue, conversion rate, return on spend, average CPC, quality of merchant tools, and merchant response ratings to help guide marketing spend for online…
New Year 2015 Google Logo Says Hello To The New Year With A Bang
Today’s Google doodle offers up fireworks to celebrate the first day of 2015.
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China Cuts Access To Google Search & Other Google Properties
Chinese users report they are no longer able to use Google for search. Google’s transparency report confirms this.
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Did Comments Cause This Site To Get Hit By Google Panda 4.1?
Shortly after Google released the Google Panda 4.1 update, I asked if this site was hit by the almighty Panda algorithm. It clearly looked like it was and I believe it was hit by Panda. Nothing has changed since. Not to this site, not to the conten…
New Years Eve 2014: Google’s 2014 Trending Topics & Bing Fireworks
Happy New Years eve everyone! Well, if you are in the Australian region, happy New Years to you…
Google: Don’t Worry About The Ouput Of The Site Command
Almost four years ago, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, made a video on how Google ranks the site command results. In short he said, Google may use a form of PageRank to order them…
Google AdWords Testing New AdWords Extension?
Kim Clinkunbroomer believe she has seen a new Google AdWords extension format test on one of her client’s ads.
She said the ad shown in the wild a set of link extensions that were dynamically pulled based on the query and the title tag of the page……
Is Google Maps Cleaning Up Abbreviated Street Addresses?
Yesterday an interesting thread popped up in the Local Search Forum asking if Google has decided to automatically expand the abbreviated addresses listed in Google Maps.
I checked several queries and all of them showed me unabbreviated street address…
#3 Most Read Article of 2014: Index Your Content Faster With the Fetch as Google Tool
Have new content that you’d like to be discovered and found in Google’s search results more quickly? Within Google Webmaster Tools is the Fetch as Google tool, which gives users the opportunity to submit new URLs to Google’s inde…
SearchCap: Yahoo Directory, Google Lyrics & Santa On Christmas
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Call Analytics Marketer’s Guide
This report examines the current market for enterprise call analytics platforms and the considerations involved in implementing this technology. If you are considering licensing a call analytics platform, this report will help you decide whether or not…
Yes, Steve Scalise, There Was A Google In 2002
US House of Representatives majority whip says Google not being “available” in 2002 prevented vetting his speaking to group of white supremacists. But Google and other popular search engines did exist.
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Securing Investment In Content And SEO In 2015: 3 Keys To Unlocking Success
So, you want some of those business dollars filtered into content and SEO in 2015? If so, defining these three key areas will help you put together a budget that looks at internal operations, the major issues hindering the website, and tracking results…
All Things SEO: Our Top 10 Organic Search Columns For 2014
All Things SEO is by far our most widely read column here on Search Engine Land, and our columnists have worked hard all year to provide a wide variety of helpful SEO content for our readers. While many in the organic search community turned to these industry experts for their insights regarding…
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Doubling Down On Audience-Centric Marketing
After a banner year for audience marketing, it’s a great time to revisit the concepts I touched on earlier this year and explore some thoughts on what’s further driving audience marketing trends as we move into 2015. There are some major, exciting changes happening in the digital marketing space:…
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Fetch As Google Bug Shows Errors For One
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who says the fetch and render feature within Google Webmaster Tool’s Fetch as Google, shows an “Error” message without any reason.
After much back and forth in the forums…
Google Glass Developers Hanging Up The Glass
A Hacker News thread sums up what many Google Glass developers are feeling… What do they do with their Google Glass now. Now that no one wants to buy one. Now that no one wants to hire them to do Glassware or software for Google Glass…
Google’s John Mueller: Report Rich Snippet Spam To Me
Despite Google having a rich snippet spam form to report rich snippet spam to…
Webmasters Talk About 2015 SEO & Search Trends & Predictions
There is a wonderful thread that is pretty deep right now, going on at WebmasterWorld talking about the 2014 trends in search, and what people expect to see in search in 2015 – mostly on the organic side…
#4 Most Read Article of 2014: 5 Advanced YouTube SEO Tactics to Drive More Traffic to Your Videos & Website
YouTube is a very crowded place, so how do you get people to watch YOUR video instead of the millions of others? With video SEO. Here’s how to leverage the signals YouTube uses to get more traffic to your videos – and ultimately to your site.