You’re Dead… If You Don’t Integrate Social Media & PR Into Your Local SEO Strategy
The peppered moth (Biston betularia), once white with black spots, faced a strange challenge in London during the Industrial Revolution. Buildings and trees, stained with soot, turned black. The light colored moths could no longer hide against this bac…
Google iOS App Log Out Bug
There are dozens of reports and complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums that the Google iOS App keeps logging users out over and over again. This can be frustrating to those who want to use personalized features such as Google Now or other sav…
Favicon Images Being Tested By Google AdSense Again
Over eight years ago, Google AdSense tested showing favicons in AdSense ads – little graphics next to the title of the AdSense ad unit. Now it seems Google is testing it yet again.
A WebmasterWorld thread has a couple publishers noticing this. In fa…
Domain Crowding Search Spam Complaints
I hate being in over packed elevators, don’t you? Now, imagine if the elevator comfortably fits 8 people…
Should You Take Over A Competitor’s Domain Name?
A HighRanking Forum thread has a site owner asking about expired domain names. Not any expired domain name…
Breaking Up With Your Spokesperson: Men’s Wearhouse Applied to Authorship
George Zimmer didn’t have Google authorship, but he was the face of Men’s Wearhouse. What happens if you implement authorship, making individuals brand messengers, and those individuals leave? Here are a few scenarios, and how brands should prepare.
Backend Website Development: How to Prioritize Your Efforts
New feature requests that seem simple to others can add layers of complexity to your team’s workload. Before hitting the “easy button”, first make sure you’re prioritizing based on the goals of the site, the brand and the effort required to do so.
Yelp’s New Wordmap Helps You Avoid Hipsters
Users can search cities by keyword so they can discover (or avoid) certain areas they live in or would like to visit. This heatmap extracts keyword density of Yelp reviews all over a city, and the patterns in the maps are pretty entertaining.
Twitter ‘Embedded on These Websites’ Test Curates Links Under Tweets
Some tweets are now displaying a list of curated links to articles that have embedded the tweet within them. It adds an interesting twist to discovering more about a topic and finding more content from a particular publisher.
Webcast: Optimize Your Landing Experience for PPC
Digital Marketing Depot Webcast July 18th 1:00EDT/10:PDT – This webcast will focus on tactical, how-to advice for creating and optimizing landing pages to increase conversions with guidance specific to PPC. Attend this webcast and learn how to find the right combination of keywords for a…
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Google Reminders Americans When Independence Day Is
This may be the first year that Google linked their Google Independence Day Logo, aka July 4th Doodle, to a search result for [When is Independence Day…
Search Engines Keep The Lights Out On Fireworks Ads, Mostly
Happy 4th of July! It’s fireworks season here in the US, a time when online searches for “fireworks” skyrocket. Yet, ads for explosives and pyrotechnic devices like “firecrackers”, “bottle rockets,” and “fireworks” are not allowed per…
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Bing Discovers Searches Made During July 4th Holiday Week Same As Any Other Day
What were Bing users searching for leading up to this July 4th holiday? It appears the same as any other day. Based on Bing’s search records from earlier this week, celebrities remained more popular than American historical figures and Independence Day topics. After reviewing search logs,…
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Top 4th of July 2013 Searches From Bing & Yahoo
While Google is celebrating July 4th with a Doodle, rival search engines Bing and Yahoo have revealed some top U.S. searches leading up to this year’s celebration. Yahoo’s users want to party, while Bing uncovered some depressing search trends.
Google July 4th Logo Answers The Question: When is Independence Day?
Today’s Google logo celebrates this year’s Independence Day with an interactive image of an illustrated family of dogs road tripping across the US. Set on the background of a paper map like your dad may have used before Google Maps, stars highlight trip locations across the country to…
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Interactive 4th of July 2013 Google Doodle Takes You on a Road Trip Across America
It’s Independence Day in the U.S., which observes the signing of the Declaration of Independence. America has celebrated every July 4th for 237 years. Today’s Google Doodle once again marks the 4th of July, as Google has done every year since 2000.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: New AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting Google has announced a new AdWords integratio…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2013
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:
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How to Make Money on YouTube: ‘Elementary’
YouTube has made a number of recent announcements aimed at helping more than a million YouTube Partners from 30+ countries around the world earn more money from thousands of advertisers who are placing TrueView in-stream ads inside Partner videos.
New AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting
Google has announced a new AdWords integration for Google Analytics that starts rolling out today. The biggest immediate change is that campaign names in Analytics will reflect the lastest naming in AdWords. Currently, if you rename a campaign, the dat…