Retailers Outspend Luxury Brands on Luxury Keywords in Paid Search [Report]
In the battle for luxury shoppers, top retailers in 2013 outspent top luxury brands on Google AdWords paid search ads in four of five categories: apparel, beauty and cosmetics, shoes, and watches, according to a new report from AdGooroo.
SearchCap: Google Local Pigeon Update & AdWords Dynamic Sitelinks
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 Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes…
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Google’s Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories
As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better visibility in Google’s search results. More specifically, it looks like…
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Pigeon: Search Engine Land’s Name For The New Google Local Search Update
Last night, Google released a pretty significant local search algorithm update. Google told us there was no internal name for the update but now that we see that this update was fairly significant, so we decided to give it a name: Pigeon. Pigeon is the…
Google Quick Answers Adds Images
Google’s quick answer results have recently added images to some of the answers. Alex Chitu spotted this and I was able to replicate it for many queries. Such as for [how old is barack obama] to [how many children does michael jordan have?] Here are both desktop views and mobile views of the…
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“Let Me Google That For You” Bill Aims To Replace Government Agency With Google Search
Senators Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill have introduced new legislation aimed at saving taxpayers $66 million a year. What’s their plan? It’s the “Let me Google that for you” Act, and its goal is to replace the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) agency with a…
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Google Has Removed 100,000 Links, Approved More Than Half of ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Requests
Google has removed “the majority” of “right to be forgotten” requests, a number that could exceed the 100,000 mark. It has rejected just over 30 percent of the requests it has received and approved “more than 50 percent” of the requests.
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 25, 2014
This week, the biggest SEO news is that Google pushed out a major local search algorithm change last night that seems to impact most businesses, I share more details on what is new with the local algorithm…
Search In Pics: Hillary Clinton At Google, Google’s Iron Chef & Alice Cooper Band At Google
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. The Next Iron Google Chef: Source: Google+ Hillary Clinton Interviewed By…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Link Building Is Sweat Plus Creativity
Back in June, Google head of webspam Matt Cutts participated in the annual You&A at SMX Advanced in Seattle, an hour-long event in which he was interviewed by SEL founding editor Danny Sullivan live in front of a large audience. A variety topics were covered, including important Google news,…
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Google: We’re Working On Multiple Language Translation Detection
Jon Wiley, Principal Designer for Google Search, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) discussion, where in one question, he was asked to share something cool he is working on. He shared that Google is working on a feature to listen to multipl…
14 Top-Notch Resources to Help You Become a CRO Expert
It’s becoming increasingly expensive to drive traffic to your website. The only way to maintain or improve results is to increase your conversion rate. Study up on these expert conversion rate optimization guides and tutorials to get up to speed.
How to Use Twitter Lead Gen Cards to Increase Newsletter Sign-ups
Newsletters are an amazing marketing tool, but building a large newsletter audience can be tough. You can run Twitter lead gen cards for free. Just don’t promote it, and you never have to pay a dime. Here’s how you do it.
Google Hypocrisy: Keyword Rich & User Friendly Links Should Die
Back in the days before Google, online usability folks were all about making user friendly hyperlinks that communicated to the user what the link was about and what to expect when they clicked it. That means…
Google Right To Be Forgotten Success Rate Is 50%
As you know, Google has started taking down content in the European Union based on the right to be forgotten form submission requests.
Google shared statistics with both the Wall Street Journal…
Google Launches New Local Search Algorithm: SEOs Notice Significant Ranking Changes
Last night, Google pushed out a new and major local search ranking algorithm change. Where Google provided details for me on this update. This is not really a spam change but more of a fundamental change to the local search ranking algorithm.
How to Make AdWords Paid Search Work for You – 7 Important Steps
Want to make your AdWords PPC accounts work better for you? By using these seven routine tasks, you can be not only more effective in managing your paid search clients, but become more valuable to your clients as well.
Since May 91,000 Right-To-Be-Forgotten Takedown Requests
The Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) content removal requests in Europe keep coming in. It’s difficult right now to know whether they’re leveling off or continuing to increase. On the first day of availability Google’s RTBF online form, it received 12,000 submissions. Sources familiar…
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Google Updates Local Search Algorithm With Stronger Ties To Web Search Signals
Google has released a new algorithm to provide a more useful, relevant and accurate local search results that are tied more closely to traditional web search ranking signals. The changes will be visible within the Google Maps search results and Google …