SearchCap: Search Market Share Report, Google Keyword Planner Adds Conversion Estimates & More
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Down Slightly, Bing-Yahoo Up In October comScore Search Report Google saw its share of the US search market …
Google Down Slightly, Bing-Yahoo Up In October comScore Search Report
Google saw its share of the US search market drop slightly in October, while both Bing and Yahoo saw corresponding gains. That’s according to comScore’s October 2014 search engine rankings. ComScore estimates Google’s US market share at an even 67 percent for October, down from…
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Bing Strives Toward Mobile Friendliness
To keep up with the growing number of mobile Web users, Bing ranks pages optimized for mobile higher in its search results.
Bing Strives Toward Mobile Friendliness
To keep up with the growing number of mobile Web users, Bing ranks pages optimized for mobile higher in its search results.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 21, 2014
This week is the mobile week in SEO! Google announced they are officially showing mobile-friendly labels in the mobile search results. They released a testing tool for mobile friendly…
Black Friday Is NEXT Week. Is Your Local Business Ready?
The holidays are right around the corner, and columnist Rachel Lindteigen provides helpful advice for how local business can prepare.
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Google Testing Scrollable Answer Box
Here is a new format for the Google Answers box you typically see at the top of the search page when doing a question based or fact based query. This new answer box lets the user slide or scroll the box to see more answers from additional sources…
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Conversion Estimates Added To Google AdWords Keyword Planner Tool
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they’ve upgraded the Keyword Planner tool to support conversion estimates.
Now you can use a slider to see how varying bids may influence your campaignsâ performance differently for desktop and mobile devices…
Google Merchant Center Adds Diagnostics Section
Google announced they’ve added a new diagnostics tab in the Google Merchant Center that provides consolidated issue reporting for your feeds and items. This tab now replaces the Data Quality tab but aims at improving the troubleshooting efforts of your…
Google: Sites Lose Loads Of Pages Over Misuse Of 403 Status Codes
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that he sees many large sites lose a ton of their pages in the Google index for misusing 403 status codes when they should be using 503s…
Search In Pics: GooglePlex Where’s Waldo, Jon Stewart At Reddit & Marissa Mayer The Crayon
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. YouTube Double Decker Bus: Source: Google+ Jon Stewart At Reddit: Source:…
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Bing Maps Helps Drivers Avoid Traffic Around The World
Previously only available in the U.S., Bing Maps is now helping travelers around the world avoid traffic jams with its Clearflow technology. According to Bing, Clearflow can predict traffic on roads that do not include live traffic data. Traffic issues…
Bing Mobile Ranking Techniques & Relevancy Factors
Mir Rosenberg from the Bing Mobile Relevancy team posted some of the “factors at play” when it comes to how determines mobile relevance and ranking in the mobile results. As you know, a couple weeks ago, Bing announced new mobile crawlers to help them discover and understand different…
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Aruba Networks Enables “Blue-Dot” Indoor Navigation With Beacons
WiFi provider Aruba Networks used to offer retailers and others “blue-dot” indoor navigation using WiFi triangulation. However Apple’s recent decision in iOS 8 to randomize the iPhone’s MAC address changed all that — and may have effectively killed WiFi as an indoor…
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The Rise of the User Experience Marketer
There is no denying the rising importance of user experience in search marketing, and the crossover goes beyond mobile search.
The Rise of the User Experience Marketer
There is no denying the rising importance of user experience in search marketing, and the crossover goes beyond mobile search.
Google Keyword Planner Now Shows Conversion Estimates
Google announced today that conversion estimates have been added to the Keyword Planner tool in AdWords. Google will use an account’s historical conversion data, or users can enter their own conversion rates and conversion values to see how bid changes might impact metrics such as estimated…
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SearchCap: Firefox Picks Yahoo, Apple Maps Partners & Bing Home Page HD
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Free Ride? In Europe, Google Will Remain Firefox Search Default Despite No Deal How much does it cost to be Mozilla’s Firefox search provider in Europe?…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: What Are The Marketers of The Future Learning?
For this unique white paper, Oracle asked 8 professors from top marketing universities to comment on the state of marketing today, what marketers need to focus on, B2B vs. B2C marketing, social, mobile and more. Some of the answers might surprise you.
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Free Ride? In Europe, Google Will Remain Firefox Search Default Despite No Deal
How much does it cost to be Mozilla’s Firefox search provider in Europe? Perhaps nothing — because Google will continue to be the provider there despite not having any formal deal with Mozilla, come this December. Yesterday, it was big news that Mozilla announced new deals making Yahoo…
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