How To Conduct A Winning Local Search Audit
Every week, our support team at BrightLocal fields numerous questions from our customers about how best to conduct a local search audit. The questions range from the type and quantity of data to include, to what processes and tools can be used to speed…
AdWords Click Fraud Service Found Using Google’s Trademark, Promoting Itself On YouTube
How’s this for brazen? For at least two years, a Russian hacker has been running a cheekily-named click fraud service called GoodGoogle, promoting it in videos on Google’s YouTube and using Gmail accounts to correspond with customers. Online security expert, Brian Krebs, recently…
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Link Building and Content Marketing: How They Work Together – August 5th Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Link Building and Content Marketing: How They Work Together” on Tuesday, August 5th at 1 PM EDT. Jon Ball of Page One Power will discuss how link building and content marketing work together. He’ll also why links are still relevant, how to…
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Managing The Very Short Tail: 9 Tips To Manage A 10 Keyword Account
Everybody loves the long-tail and diversified PPC accounts. However, sometimes these ideals just aren’t possible. Some accounts inherently have only a short tail. This applies heavily to lead gen advertisers that measure post-lead activity to determine actual profitability. Are the insurance…
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Google Search Designer Explains Why Some Features & Tools Get Axed
Google often removes features from their search results and other services. Jon Wiley, Google’s Principal Designer of Google Search in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) thread answered the question on why Google removes features people love. Most recently, Google completely disabled the Google…
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Google Testing Timeline View In Knowledge Graph
Google is testing a new knowledge graph interface for showing a timeline of data, facts and knowledge in the top carousel section of the Google search results. Florian Kiersch spotted this first and captured a video of it, posting the video on Google+….
SearchCap: Google Local Pigeon Update & AdWords Dynamic Sitelinks
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’s Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes…
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Google’s Pigeon Update Solves Yelp Problem, Boosts Local Directories
As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better visibility in Google’s search results. More specifically, it looks like…
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Pigeon: Search Engine Land’s Name For The New Google Local Search Update
Last night, Google released a pretty significant local search algorithm update. Google told us there was no internal name for the update but now that we see that this update was fairly significant, so we decided to give it a name: Pigeon. Pigeon is the…
Google Quick Answers Adds Images
Google’s quick answer results have recently added images to some of the answers. Alex Chitu spotted this and I was able to replicate it for many queries. Such as for [how old is barack obama] to [how many children does michael jordan have?] Here are both desktop views and mobile views of the…
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“Let Me Google That For You” Bill Aims To Replace Government Agency With Google Search
Senators Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill have introduced new legislation aimed at saving taxpayers $66 million a year. What’s their plan? It’s the “Let me Google that for you” Act, and its goal is to replace the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) agency with a…
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Search In Pics: Hillary Clinton At Google, Google’s Iron Chef & Alice Cooper Band At Google
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. The Next Iron Google Chef: Source: Google+ Hillary Clinton Interviewed By…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Link Building Is Sweat Plus Creativity
Back in June, Google head of webspam Matt Cutts participated in the annual You&A at SMX Advanced in Seattle, an hour-long event in which he was interviewed by SEL founding editor Danny Sullivan live in front of a large audience. A variety topics were covered, including important Google news,…
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Google: We’re Working On Multiple Language Translation Detection
Jon Wiley, Principal Designer for Google Search, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) discussion, where in one question, he was asked to share something cool he is working on. He shared that Google is working on a feature to listen to multipl…
Since May 91,000 Right-To-Be-Forgotten Takedown Requests
The Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) content removal requests in Europe keep coming in. It’s difficult right now to know whether they’re leveling off or continuing to increase. On the first day of availability Google’s RTBF online form, it received 12,000 submissions. Sources familiar…
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Google Updates Local Search Algorithm With Stronger Ties To Web Search Signals
Google has released a new algorithm to provide a more useful, relevant and accurate local search results that are tied more closely to traditional web search ranking signals. The changes will be visible within the Google Maps search results and Google …
Google AdWords Debuts Dynamic Sitelinks Globally: What You Need To Know
Meet Dynamic Sitelinks, the latest ad snippet from Google AdWords. Dynamic sitelinks are another one of those add-ons — like seller ratings and consumer ratings annotations — in which advertisers don’t have control over what displays or when the content is triggered. Here’s…
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SearchCap: Foursquare Swarms, Facebook Search & Google Maps Explore
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search Google recently released a study that concluded, “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” The study…
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Search Marketing Expo – SMX East Lowest Rates Expire Tomorrow. Register Now!
Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world at SMX East, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in NYC. The conference will feature three days of tactic packed sessions, the highest-level networking anywhere, and much more. See the agenda. Lowest Super Early Bird rates expire tomorrow – Register now…
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SMX East Super Early Bird Rates Expire Friday – Last Chance to Register & Save $300!
Time is running out! SMX East Super Early Bird rates – the lowest offered – expire end of day Friday, July 25th. Register now for an All Access pass. Here’s what you get: Exceptional content: 3 days featuring 60+ tactic-packed sessions that will help you build site traffic, grow sales, boost your…
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