Study: Google Universal Results Show Up For 85% Of All Searches: Videos In 65% & Maps In 1%

SearchMetrics released a study on the penetration of Universal Search results in the Google search results. By Universal Search we mean the way Google “blends” results from “vertical” search engines like Google Images, Google Videos, Google Maps or Google News into its web search listings. The…

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Why “Linksville” Is a Ghost Town: Link Building Is Moving In House

Several years ago, I wrote a column here titled Why Link Building Must Go In-House. The main thesis of that column can be summed up with this quote: There are almost as many link building tactics as there are companies selling them. Google lists over a million. On more than one occasion, I have…

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New At MarTech: Fortune 500 Chief Data Officers And CxO Talk Live – Join Us August 19-20 In Boston

Marketing technology is evolving rapidly, and marketing management is striving to keep up. MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference will connect the dots between technical possibilities and strategic opportunities. The speakers are thinkers and doers who…

Yandex Introduces Cityguide Apps For Russian Market

Combining maps, business listings, reviews and other content aggregated from 70 partners, Yandex has introduced a cityguide app for iOS and Android. There’s also a PC site as well. Called Yandex City, it’s a straight-up map-centric local search site. It’s only available for Russia…

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Will Google & Bing Penalize Microsoft Over Their Sponsored Post Campaign For Internet Explorer?

This morning, news broke that Microsoft Internet Explorer is getting help from SocialChorus to build more awareness for the aging browser by way of sponsored posts. Michael Arrington posted on his site an email from the company, soliciting him into thi…

SearchCap: Microsoft Catapult, Facebook Mobile Graph Search & Bing Ads Express Closes

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is The Mobile Migration Of Graph Search Upon Us? New Facebook Test Uncovers Mobile Web Integration We’ve been saying that it is just a matter of time for…

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Up Close @ SMX: Link Acquisition & Auditing For The Advanced SEO

Link acquisition and auditing issues for the advanced SEO was probably one of the most popular sessions at SMX Advanced. The panelists framed the discussion around three areas: Preventative Link Building, Link Earning  and Site Auditing. However, the tips — at least as far as I could tell…

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Multi-cultural and International Search: Trends and Opportunities – Webcast next Tuesday

On Tuesday, June 24, at 1 PM EDT, our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast, “2014 Trends and Opportunities in Multicultural and International Search.” International search presents an entirely different set of opportunities – and challenges – for today’s marketer….

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Using Campaign Tracking To Measure Link Building Success

Ask any SEO what the most difficult, confounding and valuable part of optimization is, and you’ll invariably get a consensus: link building. Even the term “link building” has become so controversial that many marketers are shying away from it in favor of “content…

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SEO Plus PPC Equals SERP Real Estate, Content Glue & ROI

Most marketers would agree that to be competitive, we do not operate in an either/or environment. It’s not a choice between either SEO or social, or SEO and PPC. It’s a requirement that we understand how these channels work together to impact one another, and a website’s ability to stay afloat in…

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Microsoft Shuttering Bing Ads Express

Bing Ads Express, Microsoft’s program to encourage small businesses to adopt the paid search platform, will be sunsetted this summer. Launched just last October and modeled on Google’s own AdWords Express, the program was designed to simplify and automate paid search advertising across…

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Microsoft’s Catapult Project Aims To Speed Bing Search, Improve Relevancy

A major datacenter project at Microsoft could lead to faster and more relevant search results on the company’s 5-year-old search engine, Bing. The Catapult project is a collaboration between Microsoft researchers and the Bing team that was presented Monday at an industry conference on…

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