Customize Your Google Navigation Bar
Google is rolling out a way to customize the apps and products you want to see in your Google navigation bar.
Google announced this on Google+ saying that this is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone. Here is an animated GIF of how it will…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violations
The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 28, 2014
This week, we saw a lot of people talking about ranking changes in Google…
Webmasters Getting Creative With Their Link Removal Requests & It Works
The new link building is link removal as some would say. Especially with all the craze around links and how they can get you penalized, link removal requests have become a thing all too familiar to anyone who runs a web site. The challenge, like with l…
Search In Pics: Google Spam Fighting, Venom At The GooglePlex & Sergey Brin Sky Diving Again
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. Google’s Brian White Fighting Spam: Source: Twitter Google’s…
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Google Now Allows You To Rearrange The Google Navigation Bar
Google announced last night that you can now, or in the upcoming weeks as Google rolls it out, customize and rearrange the order of the products and apps within the Google navigation bar as you like. Meaning, if you want to move up the Google Maps icon…
3 Ways Merchants Can Gain More Visibility on Google
Highlighting Google special offers, using Google Consumer Surveys, and making sure you list all of your products on Google Shopping are three easy ways to get a jump on your competition – and they don’t require too much work.
Matt Cutts on How to Tell Google When Multiple Domains are Related
How should you handle linking between many different country specific sites, or several sites your company owns that are all related, without running afoul of Google for unnatural linking? Google’s Matt Cutts shares advice on how to not look spammy.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 27, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Car Makers Drove 14.4 Million Clicks From Google Ads In 2 Months (And That Doesn’t Include Mobile) A whopping 177 automotive manufacture sites drove 14.4…
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Car Makers Drove 14.4 Million Clicks From Google Ads In 2 Months (And That Doesn’t Include Mobile)
A whopping 177 automotive manufacture sites drove 14.4 million paid search clicks from Google ads on desktops and tablets this January and February. Of those 177 advertisers, the top 20 advertisers (roughly 11 percent) accounted for 81 percent of the paid search clicks in the two month period,…
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Webcast-Effective Social Marketing Methods
Join us Tuesday, April 8th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear aimClear Founder & Evangelist Marty Weintraub and aimClear Account Manager Merry Morud discuss: How to easily dominate social distribution against serious marketing KPIs; How to use ingenious internet-wide targeting methods; How to field…
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Is Rewarder The Heir Of Google Answers?
There have been a range of “answer engines” or “help engines” (Q&A sites) that have come and gone over the years. Some of them might be considered “social search.” Yahoo Answers, Ask.com (more recently focused on Q&A), Answers.com, Askville (Amazon),…
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Many Web-Only Retailers Fail to Offer Optimized Mobile Experiences [Study]
The Search Agency today released a new mobile scorecard report, which looked at the Top 100 Web-only retail sites to see how well they fared against key elements in a mobile user’s experience. The average score was about 2.8 out of 5.
Google Notifies Publishers Of A New AdSense Reporting Dashboard
Several Google AdSense publishers are reporting at WebmasterWorld that they received emails from Google the other day notifying them of a new AdSense reporting dashboard that is now available to them…
Site Owner: I Am Going To Be Sued Over Wrong Data In Google’s Knowledge Graph
A Google Web Search Help thread has someone who works at a company named BeyondTrust. The company has a knowledge graph come up for a Google search on the company name…
Now Preview Your Google Places Bulk Uploads
Jade Wang from Google announced in a Google Business Help thread a new feature that was added to the bulk upload tool. Businesses that have a lot of locations and need to maintain their business listings in Google Maps/Local do so with the bulk upload…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Be Careful Linking Sister Country Sites Together When…
In yesterday’s video from Google’s Matt Cutts, Matt addressed a pretty straight forward question we’ve touched on here a few times about how to inform Google of multiple ccTLDs for your business…
Want To Search Bing On Google? You’ll Get Bing SSL Only
Earlier this year, Bing activated SSL as an opt in option, the only way to see it was to go to https://www.bing.com/ directly. By default, Bing, unlike Yahoo and Google, is not SSL.
But if you search for Bing on Google…
Bing Product Ads Now Open to All U.S. Advertisers
Bing’s Product Ads include custom images from an advertiser’s own product catalog, promotional text, pricing, and company name. The ad costs are the same as other text ads on a pay-per-click basis with bidding done on product targets.
How To Reduce Landing Page Clutter For Optimal AdWords Performance
When it comes to optimizing PPC landing pages, marketers often think about beefing up page copy, adding trust signals, or including eye-catching graphics. What they often neglect to consider are ways to reduce page clutter — ways to make the information on your landing page easier to read, or…
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