Thousands Of Hotels Listings Were Hijacked In Google+ Local
Thousands of hotels listed within Google+ Local appear to have had links leading to their official sites “hijacked” and replaced with ones leading to third-party booking services. Google+ Local listings are what Google depends on to provide results in Google Maps or Google Search, when…
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How To Use Excel To Easily Spot SERP CTR Trends
Get better insights from your SERP Impressions Vs Clicks report with Excel wizardry for SEO content teams.
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Start The New Year With A PPC Health Check: Part 1
As Group Head at a fast growing search agency, I’ve carried out hundreds of campaign checks over the years. In my contributions here, I’ll be sharing my top tips on things to look out for when reviewing your own campaigns. Some of these things are obvious, while others might have…
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Google Image Search Adds Usage Rights To Search Tools
Now when you go to Google Image search, you will see an extra option under the search tools for “usage rights.” Searching and filtering images by “usage rights” is not a new feature for Google Image Search. The feature has been around since 2009 but Matt Cutts,…
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Creating Links That Offer The Best User Experience
We focus a lot on where we our links should go. We analyze Domain Authority and social metrics until we can spew back a site’s numbers faster than our own phone number. We nit-pick sidebars, in-content and author box placements until we’re blue in the face. But we don’t put nearly…
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Facebook Gives Yandex Access To Its Firehose In Return For Improved Presentation Of Its Own Content
Yandex has announced that it has signed a deal with Facebook which will give the leading search engine in Russia access to the Facebook firehose for “public” content published in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other CIS countries and Turkey, where Yandex also operates. Content will be available for…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 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: Ryanair CEO Claims Airline Is Working With Google On A Flight Search & Comparison Tool In an interview published by Irish Independent, Irish airlines Ryanair…
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Ryanair CEO Claims Airline Is Working With Google On A Flight Search & Comparison Tool
In an interview published by Irish Independent, Irish airlines Ryanair CEO Michale O’Leary claims his airline has entered a partnership with Google, and is providing the search engine with flight pricing to help build a travel search and comparison tool. “We’ll be sharing the…
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How Local Businesses Can Leverage Twitter’s New Nearby Feature
Twitter has made headlines in recent weeks with the quiet launch of its experimental Nearby timeline, which allows eligible mobile users to discover tweets posted by others in their immediate vicinity, regardless of whether they are following them. This feature is currently available to a select…
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Bing Begins Supporting SSL Search – Query Data Does Not Pass [Not Provided]
If you go to https://www.bing.com you will no longer get a security alert error, now Bing supports SSL search. If you conduct a search on Bing, while on the HTTPS URL, it will remain HTTPS and keep your searches secure. This is a new feature Bing quiet…
Lessons From An Accidental Tourist On The Inter-Webs
I live in a double bubble when it comes to my perceptions of how “America” uses the Internet. The first bubble I live in is Silicon Valley, where the latest venture-funded “SoMoLo” website always seems more important than, say, WalMart.com. The second is my profession of…
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VA Court Delivers Blow To Yelp, Free Speech Of Users
A Virginia state court of appeal has ruled that Yelp must disclose the real identities of seven individuals who posted anonymous, critical reviews of an Alexandria, Virginia carpet cleaning business, Hadeed Carpet. Yelp and free speech advocacy groups have decried the decision. Hadeed said that he…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 10, 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: Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” On Google Maps In a story reported by NBCNews.com’s World News, the…
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Google Apologizes For Berlin Street Being Renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” On Google Maps
In a story reported by NBCNews.com’s World News, the popular Berlin square Theodor Heuss Platz was momentarily renamed “Adolf Hitler Platz” on Google Maps. Google apologized for the error in an email sent to NBC, stating, “We were made aware of a wrong and inappropriate…
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DuckDuckGo Has Biggest Day Ever In 2014 With More Than 4 Million Queries On January 7th
The Guardian reported yesterday DuckDuckGo, the search engine that keeps user searches private, is now up to four million queries per day, with over a billion queries performed on the anonymous search engine during 2013. Prior to the PRISM scandal that…
Search In Pics: Speedy Delivery, Pinterest & Matt Cutts On TIME Magazine
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. Speedy Delivery: Mr. McFeely Of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood At…
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Google’s Latest Official Stance On Links Within Widgets
Just five-months ago Google’s head of search spam strongly recommended to nofollow links in widgets because the widget space has been abused with link spam. That may have changed with a small but significant update to the Google Webmaster Guidelines link schemes page. Now, the page specifies…
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Secrets Of Successful Enterprise SEO Part 2: Building A Winning Team
In the first part of this series, I outlined a powerful method used by successful enterprise SEOs to tackle the challenge of enterprise SEO. While operational planning is critical to get in place, the best laid plans are useless unless you can execute …
WMT: Google Gets Personal With SEOs?
Christmas morning, I got something I never expected: a personal email from Google. And it truly felt like a gift! Right out of bed, I had my 3 cans of Red Bull and checked my messages, as usual. Initially, I wasn’t surprised to see that I had an email from Google. I figured it was […]
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 9, 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: Google Preps “Hotel View” Interior 360 Imagery Call it Google “Hotel View.” According to the Associated Press (via Fox), Google is…
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