Google Car Search Discontinued
Dan Barker posted on Twitter that google.com/cars no longer works.
In 2012, Google launched Google cars that allowed you to search for cars by make, model, year, color and so on. That is now gone…
Google: Keywords In Domain Aren’t Needed For Ranking Well
Google’s John Mueller posted a response in a Google Webmaster Help thread responding to someone asking if they need their keyword in their domain name.
In short, John said no, you can rank fine without having a keyword in your domain name…
5 Development Tricks Self-Sufficient Marketers Should Master
While there are some jobs better left to programmers, coders, and quality assurance specialists, there’s room for us marketers to step up our game. Master these five skills to rely on developers a little less and get your work done a little quicker.
Making site moves easier
Webmaster level: intermediate-advanced Few topics confuse and scare webmasters more than site moves. To help you avoid surprises, we’ve created an in-depth guide on how to handle site moves in a Googlebot-friendly way. So what, exactly, is a site move …
SearchCap: Google Losing Mobile Ad Share, Google Sends Mobile URL Redirects Warnings & 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: Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced Begins Next Week – Join us! SMX Advanced takes place next week, June 10-12 in Seattle. Learn actionable new tactics, find…
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Google Warns Smartphone Searchers About Homepage Redirects
When Google believes a site will redirect a mobile visitor to a homepage, rather than the actual page shown in search results, Google will tell searchers that clicking the link “May open the site’s homepage” with an option below it to “Try anyway.”
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 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:
16% Claim Recovery After Google’s Panda 4…
Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced Begins Next Week – Join us!
SMX Advanced takes place next week, June 10-12 in Seattle. Learn actionable new tactics, find inspiration, discover solutions to your campaign challenges, & make invaluable connections. Limited Search Engine Land Summit, Workshop, & Networking passes still available. Secure your spot…
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Invisible Matt Cutts Explains Why It’s Important to Have a Website
What is the most common SEO mistake, according to Google’s Matt Cutts? Not having a website. “If you don’t have a website, you’re kind of invisible on the web, and you really don’t want to be invisible on the web,” he explains a new video.
Bing Rocks Out With New Dynamic Carousel on Music Video Searches
Bing has fine-tuned their music discovery functionality. Bing will display a “dynamic carousel” on searches for an artist, band, album, or song. You can then browse the artist’s other music videos from within the carousel.
Matt Cutts on How Google Ranks Pages That Don’t Get Many Links
How does Google determine that content is quality, when there aren’t many links pointing to it? Or how is it determined that the content is spammy or thin, when there are a lot of links pointing to it? Google’s Matt Cutts explains.
New Kenshoo Technology Integrates Paid Search, Facebook Ad Targeting
Kenshoo has announced “Intent-Driven Audiences,” which gives advertisers the ability to create custom audiences made up of people who have clicked search ads, and are then are targeted to receive ads across Facebook’s ad inventory, including mobile.
Report: Google Losing Share Of Mobile Search Ad Market
Data aggregator and prognosticator eMarketer is out with a new mobile advertising forecast that shows Google losing share of the mobile search ad market. The company says that apps are taking their toll on Google’s mobile ad dominance. The firm says that US mobile advertising in total will be…
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58% Say Google’s Penalties Are Immoral
In May, we wrote twice about the ethics of Google penalties and covered the debate around that, asking you to vote and let us know if you think Google penalties are unethical or immoral…
IE8 No Longer Supported For Bing Ads
It seems that advertisers within the Bing Ads network are no longer able to use Internet Explorer 8 to manage their ads in the Bing Ad console.
A WebmasterWorld has some advertisers noticing the new requirement. Bing Ads write:
Bing Ads no longer su…
SEOs: Negative SEO On Google Much Easier Now
As you all know, negative SEO is not new, in fact, Google has said it is rare but possible since 2007. Sites as large as Expedia may have suffered from it and Google had to reword their documentation on the topic…
16% Claim Recovery After Google’s Panda 4.0 Update
On May 20th, Google began rolling out Panda 4.0 and shortly after we asked you to take our Panda poll. Thousands of you did and I wanted to share the results.
I asked, How Did Google Panda 4…
Google AdWords Drops IE9 Support
While Bing Ads dropped IE8 support, Google AdWords is dropping Internet Explorer 9.
If you want to login and manage your Google AdWords account, you need to use the latest version of Internet Explorer or Safari, Chrome or Firefox. Basically…
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A Strategic Approach for New SEO Clients
Starting a new SEO project, or want to check ongoing projects? Use the following approach, which includes a mix of specific keyword research, testing important assumptions, and growing traffic and rankings with link building and copywriting.
Reusable Code For MCC Scripts Will Save You Tons Of Time In AdWords
Writing reusable code is something all developers strive for. Any developer worth his/her salt is continuously building a library of reusable code snippets to use in future development. You don’t need to re-invent the wheel each time a common problem is encountered because you can use the…
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