People, Videos, News: Twitter Adds New Search Filters
Earlier today Twitter announced that it was bringing a number of new search filters to the site. These include: people, photos, videos, news. There are also “people you follow” and “near you” filters that further refine results. If one were to search for “Super…
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Searching For Super Bowl Ads? Watch Our Official Playlist
With all the excitement of the big game building and our third annual #Hashtag Bowl quickly approaching at our sister site, Marketing Land, we’ve put together a special page where you can watch all of the official Super Bowl ads as they go online. You’ll also find teaser ads as well as…
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Searching For Super Bowl Ads? Watch Our Official Playlist
With all the excitement of the big game building and our third annual #Hashtag Bowl quickly approaching at our sister site, Marketing Land, we’ve put together a special page where you can watch all of the official Super Bowl ads as they go online. You’ll also find teaser ads as well as…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Try To Build Links Through Article Directories
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer encouraging webmasters not to use article directory web sites with the goal of building links. The question posed was: Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad? eg. I link my beauty website from a…
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11 Reasons Link Building Is A Futile Waste Of Time — And One Big Reason It Isn’t
I don’t have to build links anymore, and I have never felt so liberated. So free. All the years I spent endless hours trying to help content get discovered — and I didn’t realize I didn’t have to do any of it. Those 163 conference gigs? Waste of time. 300+ articles, columns…
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Report: Google Close (Again) To EU Antitrust Settlement
The third time may be the charm. According to Reuters Google is (once again) “close to settling a three-year antitrust probe by European regulators after it offered ‘much better’ concessions” to the European Commission (EC). However Google has been here before. Two previous…
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Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll
A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and others using two patents related to search advertising. The plaintiff won approximately $30 million at trial in 2012. Google was asked to pay $15.8 million of…
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Seattle Seahawks Take The Lead In 33 States For Bing Super Bowl Searches
In an anticipation of the big game Sunday night, Bing has tallied searches for both Super Bowl teams across the country and found the Seattle Seahawks won the largest share of search volume in 33 states. The search engine was quick to note the percentage of searches are “generally evenly…
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How To Optimize Database-Driven B2B Websites
Database-driven websites are very common in the B2B sector. This is because many companies want to have a catalog of products available on their site for distributors, but it would not be cost-effective to manually build out those pages as they are mea…
Google Takes Down Another Link Network, France’s Buzzea
Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter earlier this morning, that Google has taken action on another “link network” named Buzzea. Matt Cutts tweet read, “Today we’re taking action on a French link network that violates our quality guidelines…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 28, 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: 5 Tactics Super Bowl Advertisers Are Using To Boost Their Paid Search Campaigns In the weeks leading up to game day…
SPONSOR MESSAGE: 2014′s Must-Have Resolutions for Marketers
In 2013, big brands incorporated more social elements into marketing and collect photos, videos, and other content from consumers. In 2014, companies will realize the benefits of user-generated content to humanize their brands, and amplify the reach of…
5 PPC Tactics Super Bowl Advertisers Are Using To Boost Their Campaigns
In the weeks leading up to game day, several Super Bowl advertisers have been employing paid search to help ensure their campaigns are found by the legions of users searching for “Super Bowl ads”. While the majority of Super Bowl advertisers still aren’t taking to PPC, those that…
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Moz 2014 Industry Survey Results: Google Webmaster Tools Ranked Top SEO Tool
With more than 3,700 survey respondents, this year’s industry survey from search marketing analytics provider Moz discovered the No. 1 SEO tool used by internet marketing professionals is Google Webmaster Tools. The majority of the survey focused on marketing issues, but Moz did ask…
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How To Analyze A Link: Link Building Basics
The importance of link quality in SEO cannot be overstated. Before you begin any link building project within SEO, you must be sure you’re pursuing links that will not only have an impact today, but will continue to have a positive impact in the future. That means understanding what makes a…
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DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or a…
Google Showing Date Selector In Knowledge Graph Carousel For Hotels
Google has added a new feature to the Knowledge Graph Carousel, where for some search queries, it will show a date selector box. For example, a search on [hotel in new york] returns the local hotel listings at the top carousel but now adds this date se…
Google Issues Subtle Warning To Affiliates That Have “Thin-Content”
Google’s Chris Nelson of the search quality team issued a warning on the Google Webmaster Blog to affiliates who produce thin-content. He said that affiliates that produce thin-content and have little-to-no value-add on their site may be penalized for going against Google’s guidelines….
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Google Search OneBox Answers Are Getting More Detailed
There are several reports throughout the search community that Google’s OneBox answers or a form of the knowledge graph, are now more aggressive about answering even more complex questions with more detailed responses or answers. When we asked Google about this, a Google spokesperson told us,…
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Secure Search & SEO Methodology: Key Strategies & Enablers
One of the primary ways SEO changed forever in 2013 was Google’s move to 100% secure search — otherwise known as “Keyword Not Provided.” SEOs long accustomed to measuring their performance at the keyword level have been forced to rethink their measurement criteria in order…
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