New AdWords Quality Score Info: What You Need To Know
By now, you’ve probably seen (or at least heard about) Google’s recent video and new white paper about Quality Score in AdWords. In fact, when I first heard about the updated Hal Varian video, I was a bit surprised, given that Google hasn’t bothered to update it for about five years!…
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Google Solicits Feedback On Right To Be Forgotten
Google’s implementation of the EU’s new Right To Be Forgotten mandate has been difficult, to say the least. Which is why Google may have decided to now solicit feedback on their implementation through a new Advisory Council. Google released a page at google.com/advisorycouncil that is…
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Google Speaks About Difficult Decisions In Implementing “Vague & Subjective” Right To Be Forgotten
Writing today in the Guardian, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond spoke to mistakes Google made in removing some links last week under the EU’s new Right To Be Forgotten mandate as well as the difficulties in implementing the law, including naming some criteria where removals…
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SearchCap: Yelp’s Leaked Documents, Bing Movie Times & YP’s MyBook
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It’s Not Getting Screwed By Google Yelp may once again feel Google is robbing it of its fair share of search traffic,…
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Searching Movie Times? Bing Scores 100% For Showtime Results, Google Only 70%
Looking for the next showing of “Jersey Boys”? If you’re searching for movie times, chances are you’ll have better luck finding them on Bing than searching for a movie on Google. After the producers for the documentary “America: Imagine the World Without Her”…
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MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference – Special Low Rates Expire Tomorrow!
Search Engine Land parent company, Third Door Media, Inc. introduces MarTech, a conference for people pioneering the field of technology-powered marketing. View the agenda for session descriptions & the speaker roster. Join us August 19-20 in Boston to learn how technology can transform your…
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How Local SEO Automation Delivers Results for Multi-Location Businesses – July 15 Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “How Local SEO Automation Delivers Results for Multi-Location Businesses” this Tuesday, July 15 at 1 PM EDT. Bill Connard of Rio SEO will discuss the planning, execution, measurement and ongoing optimization needed for effective local SEO. We’ll…
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YP’s “Mybook” Makes Local Search More Social
Local search provider YP has been investing in its mobile app, doing brand advertising and generally seeking ways to better compete with rivals such as Google, Foursquare and Yelp. It doesn’t have the reach of Google or the content of Yelp but with its mybook feature the company may have…
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Should You Gate Content? The SEO Implications
Content marketing is the hot topic these days, but lead generation marketers are faced with a conundrum: How do I get the visibility for my content via organic search while at the same time capturing leads? Are SEO and gated content mutually exclusive? There’s no magic answer to this…
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Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It’s Not Getting Screwed By Google
Yelp may once again feel Google is robbing it of its fair share of search traffic, with a study that’s been leaked to TechCrunch to prove it. A close read of that study actually shows that it proves the opposite — or at least, that it’s certainly not as damning as it sounds….
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SearchCap: Bing Ads Layout, Yelp Joins EU Google Antitrust & Twitter/Google Study
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 EU Censorship Removes Links For More Than Just Names On Their Own It turns out that those in the European Union asking Google to “forget” links they…
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Google’s EU Censorship Removes Links For More Than Just Names On Their Own
It turns out that those in the European Union asking Google to “forget” links they don’t like that appearing for searches on their names are also getting links removed for any search that involves their names and additional words, rather than just their names alone. Until now, it…
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Looks Like Google Hates “Jersey Boys” Just As Much As The Film “America”
Filmmakers behind “America: Imagine the World Without Her” have accused Google of keeping their movie’s showtimes and locations from appearing in search results. As it turns out, “America” isn’t the only film not getting fair play from the search engine. Based on…
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Yelp Joins Effort To Undo Current Google-EU Antitrust Settlement
Yelp has been an increasingly vocal critic of Google for several years. Now it has joined a group of companies opposing the European Commission’s current antitrust settlement proposal with Google. Originally Google and Yelp were partners. Google unsuccessfully tried to buy Yelp for a rumored…
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Survey Says Yelp The Most Influential Local Review Site
Yelp says it’s the most frequently used, most trusted and highest quality local reviews site, according to new Nielsen survey data. Some of those data were released on the company’s official blog two days ago. Beyond Yelp, the universe of competitors included in the survey were the…
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Bing Ads Lays Out Plans For Coming Year: More Scale, New Ad Formats, Eventually Automation
“As great as this past year was, I’m more excited about FY15 than I’ve ever been,” said Microsoft’s David Pann, General Manager for the Search Network, by phone this week about Bing Ads as the company starts its next fiscal year. “All the fundamentals are…
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Study: Why, When & How Often Google Indexes Individual Tweets
Figuring out when and why Google indexes a specific Tweet has long been a conundrum and point of angst for many SEOs. Of course Google does index Tweets, but the methodology has seemed like a total crapshoot — until now. The good folks over at Stone Temple Consulting have attempted to crack…
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How To Improve Shopping Ad Performance & Quality Score In AdWords
By late August, Product Listing campaigns for AdWords will be retired in favor of Shopping campaigns, so if you haven’t started migrating, don’t delay much longer. You can run both campaign types simultaneously, so start tweaking Shopping campaigns now so that they’ll be performing great by the…
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Google Maps Adds Distance Measuring Feature
Google has quietly announced on Google+ that they have added the distance measuring feature to the new version of Google Maps. The feature allows you to draw points on Google Maps to see how far in distance (feet/miles/etc) it is from one point to the …
Wanted: Session Ideas For SMX Social Media Marketing
We’ve begun planning for SMX Social Media Marketing 2014, a two-day, tactic-rich conference that covers all key issues for getting the most out of social media networks. The conference takes place at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, on November 19-20, 2014. Do you have a topic you’d…
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