Spotted: Stunning AdWords Policy Violations, That Facebook & Google Shouldn’t Be Happy About
Behold a brilliant display of Google AdWords advertising policy violations: This ad was spotted by Luke Alley from Avalaunch Media. As it turns out, Alley unearthed a deep pit teeming with ad violations. Search for “facebook support” on Google, and you’ll quickly see the ads are…
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Google Goes Down Briefly
It wasn’t you. It was Google. Specifically, Google.com went down around 3:50pm PT for about five minutes, a very rare occurrence. Other Google services also appear to have had issues. We’ll update if we hear more, but it appears back now. It certainly sparked brief panic on Twitter….
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 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: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per…
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New Data Mining Tool Will Let You Make Your Own Private Search Engine
The brainchild of Dr. Edel Garcia, the Minerazzi project aims to allow anyone to build small, on-topic search indexes. His hope is that anyone can be involved in data mining and learning through discovery by building these search indexes.
Play ‘Missile Command’ Game on YouTube
In case you missed it, as part of Geek Week, YouTube added a fun Easter egg that lets you play the classic “Missile Command” Atari video game. To trigger it, play any video, click on white space, type in “1980”, and your game will load.
Google’s Search Market Share Shoots Back to 67%
Google is once again gathering more search market share and remains the uncontested top search engine in the U.S. In July comScore reported that Google’s market share shot back to 67 percent after having fallen below that mark three months ago.
Google: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up
In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per conversion in AdWords has been percolating in the PPC community. Robert Brady wrote a post illustrating that the cost per conversion reported in AdWords does not always match the manual calculation of dividing reported…
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Google Does Love Windows Phone, When It Comes To Search — Angering YouTube Users
Google doesn’t care about Windows Phone, given the latest spat over its YouTube app? Think again. Google cares very much, at least when it comes to search. That apparent double-standards is something users of its Windows Phone search app have taken to its review page to express upset over….
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Google Search Now More Personal: Ask Google About Your Travel, Purchases, Plans, Photos
Using Google Voice search, you can ask Google questions such as “Is my flight on time?” or “what are my plans for tomorrow?” and Google will now give you instant answers if the information is in your Gmail, Google Calendar or Google+ account.
Maybe I’m Not That Ugly, My Face Is Back In Google
Two months ago, I got very emotional about my ugly face not showing up in Google…
Afrikaans, Greek, Hebrew & Serbian Added To Google Translate App
Google quietly announced on Google+ a couple of enhancements to the Google Translate App for Android…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 16, 2013
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable…
Search In Pics: Google Bus, Glass Welcome Here & Google Stair Case With Keywords
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 Bus: Source: Google+ Google Glass Welcome Here: Source: Google+…
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5 New Website Vulnerabilities Straight from Black Hat & DEF CON
Protecting your online presence keeps getting harder. Here’s what to do to protect your site from exploits due to advertising security holes, nasty injections, HTTPS cracking, and more techniques that can get your site flagged as malware by Google.
Building An Enterprise-Level Search Marketing Team: Part 2
In July, I began my two-part series on building an enterprise-level search marketing team. We left off with a review of the essentials for SEO, including all the technical and editorial factors that can hinder your website’s rankings in the search engines. If you’ve followed my…
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5 Ways To Get Way More Results From Link Building Outreach
If you’ve heard me talk, you know that I’m ridiculously passionate about link building that, ahem, works. I mean, getting a couple links out of a campaign is nice. After all, a link is a link. But if you’ve done all the work to find 100 “webmasters,” researched their…
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Google AdWords Keyword Planner vs. Keyword Tool: SEO & PPC Feature Comparison
With the approaching consolidation of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator into the Keyword Planner, SEO and PPC professionals should become familiar with this new product. Here’s a comparison of the Keyword Tool and Keyword Planner.
How to Find Free Images With Google’s Advanced Image Search
There are several benefits to complementing your blog posts with a little visual appeal, but photos must make sense and not infringe on any copyrights. Follow these simple steps to find royalty free images using the Google Images advanced search.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 15, 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: 72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study] Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013…
72 Percent of PPC Marketers Plan To Spend Even More In 2014 [PPCHero Study]
Hanapin Marketing has released its 2013 State of Paid Search report, revealing how PPC marketers are feeling about paid search marketing and where they plan to spend their money in 2014. A large majority, 83 percent of respondents, said they are feeling positive about the state of paid search….
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