Google Maps Reviews Overlay Popup Going Away
Nicolai Helling posted on Google+ that Google is about to drop the reviews lightbox overlay you see when you click on the reviews link within the Google search results. Instead…
Why Facebook’s New Cross-Device Tracking Tool Is a Game-Changer for Advertisers
Advertisers who want to understand the role of different devices leading to conversions are able to do it with Facebook’s new cross-device reporting tool.
Greggs Falls Victim to Google Search Image Gaffe
The bakery brand offered the search engine donuts to fix the problem and created a Twitter hashtag to go along with its request.
SearchCap: Google Multilingual, Bing Ads Editor Update & Google DMCA At New Levels
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’s Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20…
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Google’s Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual
Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20 percent of the population speaks more than one language at home (though this really only captures immigrants). But in what I imagine is something …
Google, YouTube See Uptick in 2014 Back-to-School Search Traffic
Back-to-school searches on Google grew 45 percent year-over-year while searches for “back to school haul” and “dorm hauls” on YouTube are also up.
New Bing Ads Editor 10.5 Features Shared Library For Negative Keyword Lists
Bing Ads has released the latest update of Bing Ads Editor, the desktop tool for campaign editing and management. Version 10.5 includes supports several new features including a negative keyword library, and refined ad scheduling and geo-targeting opti…
Google AdWords Incorporates Focused Bid Automation and Bulk Editing
Google has added an update to streamline the management of multiple campaigns and a tool that enables advertisers to better target their customers.
Lost and Found: How Top E-Commerce Brands Stack Up With Site Search
Recent analysis by the Baymard Institute shows top e-commerce brands fall short with site search results and highlights the need for brands to better assist shoppers in their path to purchase.
If Account-Level Quality Score Doesn’t Exist, Can It Really Hurt Your AdWords Program?
Google has continually denied that an account-level Quality Score exists — yet this unseen metric still seems to have an impact on AdWords performance.
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Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High With 7.8 Million Link Removal Requests Filed In One Week
Going on Google’s recent takedown notice numbers, it looks as if the site may be spending as much time on link removal requests as it is algorithm updates. According to TorrentFreak, Google is now processing an average of more than a million takedown requests a day, an enormous increase from…
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Fun Google Search Easter Eggs Work With Query Refinements
Google is a big fan of doing easter eggs and we’ve covered many of them in the past, including ones that mess around with the display of the search results listing page. They include the do a barrel roll and blink HTML examples. But did you know they work with query refinements as well, and…
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Google Sending Invalid Error Notices Of Redirecting Smartphone Users To Homepage
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google began sending notices to webmasters over faulty mobile redirects. This notice was to inform webmasters of notices being shown to searchers that the searcher may be redirected to the home page as opposed to the…
Google Says HTTPS Is A Ranking Signal, But It’s Not Really
Is it worth it for webmasters to switch to HTTPS in light of Google’s recent announcement?
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Product Listing Ads – An Evaluation
The end of product listing ads as we know them makes this a perfect time to evaluate their effectiveness and impact on the industry.
Google AdSense Earnings Drop With HTTPS Migrations
So I was all excited migrating over this site to SSL and my corporate site but despite very little ranking changes, both negative or positive thus far, AdSense earnings seem to have taken a hit somewhat…
Google’s Blink HTML Trick Works On Query Refinements
In February, Google released a easter egg named blink HTML that made some of the words in the search results blink on the screen.
But as Enrico Altavilla noticed and posted on Google+, it also works on query refinements…
Google AdSense Ad Label Being Tested
One AdSense publisher claims seeing a Google AdSense ad with the “ad” label replacing the favicon spot in the AdSense ad format.
He posted about it in WebmasterWorld saying:
Anyone else seeing this new test on text ads…
Google App Promotion Ads
Google announced you can now globally promote your apps within the Google Search, the Google Display Network and YouTube ad networks.
Google previewed this back in April where you were able to promote apps to users who install apps…
What to Include (& Leave Off) Your Homepage
Is your homepage doing what it’s supposed to do? Is it answering the necessary questions and putting customers on the path to conversion? If you haven’t taken a look at your homepage structure, now’s the time.