In-App Search: Great Idea, Not So Great Experience
Google, Facebook and others are trying to bring the world of internet-style “deep linking” to apps. Google is indexing in-app links from Android in a bid to keep search relevant in a mobile world now dominated by apps. Facebook recently touted gains that its open-source App Link program…
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Why Your Content Marketing Team Needs A Link Builder
Link building requires very different skills than those needed to create content. Make sure you have these very important capabilities at your disposal.
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What Google, Amazon & Domino’s Pizza Have In Common? Drones!
Google X announced they are also working on flying delivery drones, just like their friends at Amazon and Domino’s Pizza.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Introducing Project Wing from Google[x]…
Google Bringing Back Old Design Or A Bug?
Many folks are reporting in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google is bringing back the old design that has either the black top bar or the gray top bar.
There are people who can see it in all sorts of browsers including Opera, Firefox, Safari….
BingBot As GoogleBot? Maybe, If It Crawls Google’s PageSpeed Tool
A savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content…
Google Kills Off Their Authorship Support
Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.
Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 29, 2014
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, I cover a wide range of topics. I cover the extreme chatter around more Penguin vibrations. Google completely killed off their authorship support…
Google Allows Store-Exclusive “Nearby” Product Listing Ads On Desktop
The ability to advertise locally-available products on Google via local product listing ads on mobile and desktop devices has been available since last fall. However, only on mobile devices could retailers promote items that were just available in-stor…
Google Blog Search Now Within Google News Search
Google has quietly disabled the Google Blog Search home page at google.com/blogsearch and redirects it to the Google home page. Now, if you want to filter content based on blog posts, you can do so by going to Google News, clicking on the Search Tools and selecting the “All news” drop…
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Search In Pics: Google Coffee Lab, Android Ice Bucket Challenge & Public Urination Fines Via YouTube
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. Google Coffee Lab: Source: Google+ Google Irvine Office Views: Source:…
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14 Ultimate Link-Building Guidelines to Keep Safe in 2014
How do you know what link-building is safe in 2014? Is there such a thing? That’s a question most SEOs, marketers, and business owners have been trying to answer since Google Penguin first hit in April 2012.
Google Retires Its Web Search API
Google announced it has retired its Web Search API this morning, recommending developers use the Custom Search API in its place. Google noted the Customer Search API has a free quota of 100 queries per day.
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The PPC Search Network Campaign Launch Checklist
Even the most diligent PPC managers can let things fall through the cracks. Here are few checklists to use to ensure that your PPC search network campaigns go off without a hitch.
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2014
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Getting Chilly… Google Penguin 3…
Live @ SMX East: Breathing New Life Into A Tired Paid Search Campaign
If you’ve been doing paid search for a while, you’ve undoubtedly run into a situation where you’re working on a campaign that’s been moderately successful, but has essentially been on autopilot and isn’t taking advantage of any new features that could enhance its…
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SearchCap: Goodbye Authorship, Bing Spam Filtering & Google Star Colors
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Official: Google Kills Authorship After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end … at least for now. Today John Mueller of Google…
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It’s Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results
Anyone who follows Google knows that nothing it creates is immune from elimination. Like so many efforts before it, Authorship is fading into the sunset.
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Study: Organic Search Drives 51% Of Traffic, Social Only 5%
After analyzing “billions of pieces” of content, content marketing firm BrightEdge claims organic search is the primary driver of website traffic to business sites, while social barely generates a blip on the traffic radar. The BrightEdge study found organic search drives 51 percent of…
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DoubleClick Adds Optimization, Reporting Tools to Search Commerce Suite
The Google subsidiary says it has added adaptive Shopping campaigns, bid optimization for Shopping campaigns, and purchase detail reports to make reporting and optimization easier.
Expert Insights On The Future Of SEO, Part 1
Do you have the skills it will take to thrive in the SEO environment of the future? In the first of this 3-part series, search industry veterans weigh in on how things will be different in 2015.
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