Yahoo News Digest App Hits Android & Goes International
Earlier this year Yahoo continued its mobile push with the release of their mobile news app “Yahoo News Digest” for iOS. The main powering agent of Yahoo News Digest was the technology from former acquisition, Summly. Today Yahoo News Digest is expanding out to more devices in more…
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SearchCap: Selling Bing, AdWords Scripts & Scaling Link Building
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Sell Bing? Makes No Sense, Says Microsoft’s Bill Gates — It’s A “Core Business” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was interviewed on…
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Google: Local Searches Lead 50% of Mobile Users to Visit Stores [Study]
Google research reveals 34 percent of consumers on tablets or computers will also go to a store. And these people are ready to buy once they are in a store, as 18 percent of local searches lead to sales, compared to 7 percent for non-local searches.
7 Reasons You Need to Update Your Google Maps App
Google Maps has released a major update to their app for Android and iOS, including lane guidance, offline directions, improved search for restaurants, bars, and hotels, direct integration with the Uber app, ability to save locations, and more.
No Sale: Bing A “Core Technology” For Microsoft Says Gates
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was interviewed on Fox Business News yesterday. Among other things he was asked about investor and analyst suggestions that Xbox and Bing be spun out or sold. Gates deferred to newly minted CEO Satya Nadella but said that he would support an Xbox spin-off if that was…
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Scaling & Systematizing Your Link Building
I’m all about systems and processes. That’s the only way to scale. You could be the best link builder in the world, but how are you going to scale that? Until you remove the bottleneck — namely yourself — from the system, you can’t achieve true scale. (At least until…
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How to Recover From a Google Smartphone Rankings Demotion [Case Study]
Websites that incorrectly handle mobile users can face a smartphone rankings demotion in Google. Here’s how one website that was hit by a demotion fixed technical problems causing the issue, and rebounded once the changes were implemented.
Google AdWords Scripts For MCC Accounts Are Here And Ready To Use
After a beta period that started in March, earlier this week, Google rolled out scripts for AdWords MCC accounts to all users. AdWords scripts can be used to automate account maintenance, changes and reporting. The ability to use scripts in MCC (My Cli…
Google Maps App Update Adds Uber, Offline Maps, Lane Navigation & More
Google announced they made a bunch of updates to both the iOS and Android version of the Google Maps apps. The major changes include adding integration with Uber, the ability to download offline maps, lane by lane navigation help, more local search fi…
Google AdWords MCC Scripts
Google announced a powerful way for developers or tech savvy advertisers to save time when managing their AdWords accounts through MCC Scripts.
Google has now made MCC Scripts available to all advertisers. MCC Scripts is a way to manage your AdWords a…
Matt Cutts: Google May Treat The Same Subdirectories As Unique
Someone asked Matt Cutts, Google’s head of spam, on Twitter if Google would treat the same subdirectory as different pages if the URLs are slightly off.
The example give were:
http://domain.com/dir
http://domain.com/dir/
http://domain.com/dir…
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Google Drops Amazon’s Rich Snippets From Search Results
Gabs at Cre8asite Forums noticed that just recently, Amazon has lost their rich snippets in the Google search results.
About a year ago, Amazon had rich snippets even without them adding the rich snippet markups for product reviews…
10 Video SEO Tips That Can Truly Impact Your Rankings
Video SEO best practices and ideas for taking a long-term, quality-driven approach to get your videos to rank well for your search terms. Let these 10 points be your checklist as you plan or review your video SEO strategy.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 6, 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:
Google’s Matt Cutts: Links Still Have Many Years Left In Them But…..
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SearchCap: Local Search “On The Go,” Google Maps Upgrades, App Annie’s New Mobile Tools
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Re-imagining Google: America’s Favorite Homepage Gets A Redesign By Letter Society Blog Early last month, the design blog Letter Society posted a challenge…
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Matt Cutts: Google Won’t Devalue Links Anytime Soon
With Google stepping up its efforts to penalize link networks and those who buy and sell links, and algorithms like Panda meant to reward sites with high-quality content, how important will backlinks be to Google’s search algorithm in the future?
Re-imagining Google: America’s Favorite Homepage Gets A Redesign By Letter Society Blog
Early last month, the design blog Letter Society posted a challenge asking its select group of designers to submit redesigns of Google.com. The site, which positions itself as a “collaborative and challenge based” blog, asked the designers to do a “reskinning” of the current…
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MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference – Agenda & Speaker Roster Now Live!
Search Engine Land parent company, Third Door Media, Inc. introduces MarTech, a conference for people pioneering the field of technology-powered marketing, will be held in Boston August 19-20, 2014. View the list of speakers & session descriptions on the agenda. Learn how technology can…
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Google Now Combines Online Shopping With Location-Based Purchasing
If one of the products you’ve been searching for online is sold at a store near you, you will receive an alert via Google Now cards of the nearest location and price of your item, but you’ll have to visit to see if the item is actually in stock.
Research: 56 Pct. Of “On The Go” Searches Have Local Intent
ComScore recently found that 78 percent of local-mobile searches resulted in an offline purchase (usually a few hours). New consumer data from research firm Ipsos MediaCT (sponsored by Google) echo most of the comScore study data, underscoring the critical nature of local information to mobile…
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