Seahawks Beat Broncos 33-17 in Battle of Bing Search Volume by State
All signs point to a close game Sunday night when the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos meet in Super Bowl 48. Ahead of the big game, Bing looked at U.S. search volume for both teams and found searches for the Seahawks were higher in 33 states.
From 10 Blue Links To Entity SERPs: Is Your Website Ready?
Search is changing and along with it the landscape of search results. SERPs are more adaptive, more engaging, more informative, more interactive and more personalized. The adoption of Semantic Search- and Semantic Web-related enhanced displays in SERPs…
Link Network Buzzea Calls Google Penalty ‘Abusive’
It’s been a few weeks since Google’s Matt Cutts publicly announced the demise of the link networks (remember Backlinks.com and Anglo Rank?). But Cutts revealed via Twitter the latest recipient of a penalty is French link network Buzzea.
Last Chance for SMX West Early Bird Rates – Register Now!
Search Marketing Expo – SMX West rates increase Saturday, February 1st. Register now and save on all passes! Join us March 11-13 in San Jose for: The latest tactics and strategies: Over 75% of the sessions are new. Check out the agenda. Presentations by more than 80 internet marketing experts…
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Facebook Will Launch Graph Search For Mobile “Pretty Soon”
According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Facebook’s recent earnings call, Facebook’s Graph Search will hit mobile devices ‘pretty soon.’ It’s now been a full year since Graph Search was launched and mobile integration only makes sense. According to cnet, Zuckerberg…
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I Don’t Want No Scrub (Agency)
You know the song, so sing it with me people! I made some modifications to the lyrics below that demonstrate my point well: I don’t want no scrub (paid search practitioner) A scrub (PPC ) is a guy (PPC person) that can’t get no love from me Hanging out the passenger side Of his best…
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Bing For Schools, Finally?
Matt Wallaert, a Behavioral Scientist at Microsoft but more well known for creating Bing For Schools posted on Twitter something strange. He wrote, “Finally, Bing for Schools. No ads, the way it should be in schools…
Patent Holder Awarded 1.36% Of Google’s AdWords Revenue
You may have heard that Google was ordered to pay a patent troll 1.36% of their AdWords revenue between 2012 to 2016. That comes out to about $1 billion or so.
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Twitter Adds New & Useful Search Filters To Search Results
Twitter announced on Twitter that they have added new search filters to the Twitter search results…
Dear Google, We Can Help With Your Google Rankings
You and I get them all the time, spammy emails from SEO companies telling us how they can get us more traffic and higher rankings in Google…
Google Location Based Answer Query Results
Spotted via blumenthals, it seems Google has a new location onebox answer result for certain types of queries.
So if you search in Google for the location of X, or searches for business name locations and so forth, Google will give you a one box resul…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Use Article Directories For Link Building
In a short video yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts told webmasters and SEOs not to use article directory sites for link building strategies.
Well…
Building a CRAP SEO Content Strategy
How concepts and connections, relevance and relationships, authority and authenticity, and promotion and prominence (pardon the unfortunate acronym) provide guidelines for a content strategy that will improve website rank-ability and engagement.
Google Search Redesigns Stock Quotes, Drops Competitor Links For First Time Since 2000
Google has launched a new stock card result that is a lot larger, is more interactive and has dropped the links to competing financial sites. Here is the new stock card you get when you search Google for [yhoo]: Compare that to the old one: As you can see, the links to the competing stock […]
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Excelling (Again) At Excel For Search Engine Marketers
On Thursday, March 13th, I will be presenting on the Extreme Excel Excellence panel at SMX West with John Gagnon and Brett Snyder (moderated by Chris Sherman). In the session, we will be delivering power-user tips for marketers using Excel, and Chris has raised the bar very high for us to deliver…
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4 Tips to Effectively Localize Your Search Marketing
With the right structure and analytics in place, local search can help advertisers capitalize on regions where business is strongest, or become a lever that supplements marketing in underperforming regions to increase awareness and improve sales.
Global Mobile Advertising Opportunities: Brazil. Russia, India & China
Mobile advertising is on the rise in Russia, India, Brazil, and China, which are all experiencing huge growth in the number of mobile users. Here’s an overview and some tips on mobile marketing campaigns and strategies in the BRIC nations.
Live @ SMX West: Best Practices For Mobile SEO
For years, debates raged about what constituted “best practices” when it came to mobile SEO. Early on, the discussion focused on whether it was important to have a separate site optimized for mobile devices. That proved to be a major challenge, as it required detecting and optimizing…
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Bing Rewards Program Now Available On iOS & Android Devices
Bing Rewards is going mobile starting today. According to a post on the company’s blog, the incentive program that lets users earn credits toward gift cards for brands like Amazon, Xbox and Dominos, is available on iOS and Android devices starting today, and will be “coming soon”…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 29, 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: People, Videos, News: Twitter Adds New Search Filters Earlier today Twitter announced that it was bringing a number…