SearchCap: Old Google Street Views, Bing For Schools & DailyMotion’s Upset
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: “Bing For Schools” Becomes “Bing In The Classroom” & Makes Program Available To All Schools Originally launched in August of last…
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Can Bing Predict Reality Show Winners?
Bing is using search and social signals to display predictions in its search results for how contestants of popular reality TV shows will fare. Bing said more types of predictions will be coming in the future as well.
How to Avoid Buying a Bad Domain – Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts
Checking the Internet archive, doing some Google and Bing searches, and asking the seller for specific analytics or Google Webmasters data can help ensure that you’re either starting with a clean domain, or discover potential problems.
Bing in the Classroom Now Open to All U.S. Schools
Bing for Schools search, which incorporates both safe search with an ad-free search environment, has been tested in a pilot project since the start of the school year with more than 5,000 schools and 4.5 million kids.
“Bing For Schools” Becomes “Bing In The Classroom” & Makes Program Available To All Schools
Originally launched in August of last year as Bing for Schools, the new Bing in the Classroom program has moved out of its pilot phase and is now available to all US schools, grades K through 12. For participating schools, the free program offers ad-fr…
Search Ads Yield 68% More Revenue per Conversion When Integrated with Social
Marin Software conducted research that sought to answer the question of whether search and social advertising campaigns managed together produced better results. What it found was positive results in the areas of conversions and revenue.
New Google Maps “Digital Timeline” Shows Street View Images Dating Back 7 Years
Google Maps has launched a cool new feature for its Street View images that lets you see past pictures of various landmarks dating back seven years. From the announcement, “If you see a clock icon in the upper left-hand portion of a Street View image, click on it and move the slider through…
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DailyMotion Says Google Is Cheating, Serves Up Its Own Video Content Over DailyMotion Videos
The president of French video platform DailyMotion Giuseppe de Martino told UK newspaper The Independent he believes Google is leveraging unfair search practices, serving up YouTube videos in place of DailyMotion content. Independent reporter Ian Burre…
Enterprise SEO Audits – Go Beyond The Desktop Crawl
Digital technology — and the way consumers are using it — is evolving at a pace never seen before, and the platforms and tools used by digital marketers are trying to keep up with it all. We all know content is still king. In order to win the battle for the consumer’s attention,…
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Majestic SEO Now Categorizing The Web For Marketers
Majestic SEO, a popular link research tool, announced a new feature where they are now categorizing their index, which is made up of over 700 billion web pages, into about 1,000 different categories. Majestic is then using the categorization to add a new metric, they are calling “Topical…
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Google’s Knowledge Graph Seeks Answers From Parked Domains?
Andrew Steel searched Google for the definition of [what is guest blogging] and the answer Google’s Knowledge Graph returned was from a parked domain site named moneyonlinemaking.com. I kid you not…
Google AdWords App Marketing, Estimated Total Conversions & More
Google announced what they showcased at an event they hosted for 170 search marketing experts at the AdWords Performance Forum the other day…
Google’s Matt Cutts On How To Buy Domain Names
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video on the question How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase…
A Google Update Brewing?
The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has been pretty active with webmaster chatter since Sunday, when I went offline for two days.
It also appears that the automated tracking tools are seeing nice spikes over the past couple of days including Mozcast…
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Bing: Again, Why We Are Better Than Google At Image Search
Several months ago, Bing told us seven ways Bing is better than Google at image search. This week, Bing posted more examples in the Bing blog of why Bing is better than Google at image search. The examples are of course specific sets of queries that sh…
How To Get Your Content Linked To From Top-Tier Websites
Creating great content that other websites will organically and editorially link to is a core part of a modern-day SEO campaign. In premise, it sounds simple: you create a piece of content that is relevant within your niche and holds a certain level of…
Are All Sitewide Links Unnatural?
While sitewide links can be unnatural, they can also be really good links! Here’s how you can evaluate sitewide links pointing to your site and determine whether it’s a good link or you should try to remove or disavow these links.
4 Keyword Research Techniques in an Age of Vanishing Keyword Data
Keywords still matter and Google is making it harder for us to find them. But not impossible Here’s how you can use small AdWords campaigns, Google Webmaster Tools, UberSuggest, and user interviews or surveys for keyword research.
Rank Still Matters in the Age of Secure Search
Rank is about the user experience. If rank is the doorway to success in search engine optimization, conversion is the ultimate success. The more you can use rank metrics to inform your conversion efforts, the more successful you will be.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 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:
Schema.org Actions: What Is It…