70% of Customers Pay Under $1,000 for SEO Per Month [Local SEO Survey]
SEO isn’t the big money maker many people believe, with many SEOs serving a small number of clients most earning smaller revenue. Bright Local has done a refresh of their 2011 Local SEO Industry Survey and there are some surprising results.
Google Starts Treating More Country-Code Top-Level Domains as Generic TLDs
Google has just updated their list of ccTLDs (Country Coded Top Level Domains) they will treat as a generic TLD. This means that Google will consider these ccTLDs as generic for geotargeting, similarly to how .com domains are treated as generic.
Google Palestine: Is Google Taking Sides?
Google says it’s merely following the lead of the United Nations and other organizations. The Palestinian National Authority is praising Google’s decision, while Israel states Google’s move is causing more harm than good in the geopolitical battle.
AdWords Campaigns That Don’t Use Advanced Settings Will Be Migrated To Standard Type Campaigns
Over the next few weeks, Google will be migrating AdWords campaigns that don’t use any advanced features from “All Features” to “Standard” type campaigns. The change applies only to “Search Network Only” and “Search and Display Networks”…
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Bing Asking Users To Break Their Google Habit In Latest Bing It On Challenge
Bing announced today a new version of their Bing It On Challenge, an online campaign launched last September that offers users a side-by-side comparison of Bing and Google search results. In the latest Bing It On Challenge, Bing asks users to perform f…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 6, 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: Google Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed…
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Watch Out For Google Rich Snippet Hacking
There are two reports in the Google Webmaster Help of webmasters noticing that the schema aka rich snippet details show third-party data and links in the rich snippet testing tool…
May 30th, Google AdWords Spreadsheet Edit Shutting Down
Google announced they are sunsetting, removing the option for AdWords advertisers to modify their campaigns through the spreadsheet edit option.
The spreadsheet edit option is going away May 30, 2013…
Google AdSense Changes Reports To Remove Invalid Clicks & Impressions
Google announced on the AdSense blog that effective now, Google is removing not just the earnings associated with invalid clicks but also the clicks and impressions associated with those invalid clicks.
Google: Our Business Places Analytics Is A Bit Fickle
It should be of no surprise to our reader or anyone who has a business listing on Google Maps/Places/Local that the Google Places Dashboard has issues and bugs.
It is one of the most consistent complaints from business owners who interact with Googl…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 3, 2013
This week I reported on a scary possible Google Rich Snippet hacking issue, I hope it is just a display bug. Bing Webmaster Tools added a malware…
Structure Your Google AdWords Account For Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is a week from Sunday and most children probably still have not bought their mother’s a gift.
So that means you still have time to create your campaigns to target searchers looking to buy your goods and services on AdWords…
Google Maps Images: Can I Use Them?
One of the more common topics I see come up is the question of, can I use images from Google Maps or Google Earth on my web site, on a t-shirt, in the news paper…
Google’s Cutts Say Search Flux Not Meant To Trick SEOs?
Several months ago we covered discussion around a patent document filed by Google named ranking documents…
Google: Don’t Hide URLs In Search Results. We Don’t Like It.
@tecnonetblog, a man who spots probably 2 – 5 Google experiments per week, noticed a new one where Google is not displaying the search results URL in the search results interface…
Exact Match Domainers: Are You Switching Or Improving?
Several months ago, Google launched the Google EMD Update that went after “low-quality exact-match domains in search results,” according to Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts.
Since then…
May 2013 Google Webmaster Report
It has been a pretty busy month over at Google, not much in terms of “official” updates but a lot of discussion about changes on both the algorithm side and user interface side. Plus, we learned a lot from Google comments…
Is Google Places Search Permanently Closed?
Google has removed the link to Places search. The link, which had been located in Google’s “More” drop-down menu option, is no longer there, meaning local businesses can only be found via search (paid or organic), Google+ Local, or Google Maps.
Google Ignites Controversy By Using “Palestine” On Homepage
Google has been at the center of heated geo-political controversy before, usually around disputed place names or borders on maps. A new controversy, however, has arisen about one of Google’s international homepages: Google.ps. That’s the page previously dedicated to the…
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Local Search via Non-PC Devices Quadrupled in 2012 [Study]
Of the smartphone users studied, 60 percent used apps to access local information in 2012. Tablets are also becoming a technology to watch in mobile marketing, with tablet ownership crossing 40 million in just two years.