How To Leave Anonymous Business Reviews In Google+
For a long time, I’ve had some doctor friends complaining to me that once Google Places changed over to the new Google+ format, all their patients lost the ability to leave anonymous reviews (thus hurting their business and their rankings). They asked me what to do; and I, in turn, asked my…
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Google Maps’ Mobile Reach Drops In September — comScore
Yesterday comScore’s US smartphone market share figures for September came out. There weren’t many surprises — except for one thing: the Google Maps app has fallen three spots in comScore’s rankings. The smartphone app, which used to be the most popular in the US, fell from…
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How B2B Sites Can Align Their Website Strategy With SEM Tactics
A B2B website that does not drive traffic, promote the brand, deliver company messaging or convert users into customers represents a waste of online marketing investments. A good B2B website should help build a strong brand while educating relevant use…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 5, 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 iOS Search App Now Has “OK Google” Voice Activation, New Notifications, Reminders & Cards Google released a new version of its iOS Search…
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Learn Proven Tactics From The Pros. Attend A SMX Social Media Marketing Workshop
Sharpen your social media marketing skill set by attending one of four pre-conference workshops at SMX Social Media Marketing, November 19 in Las Vegas. Take a deep dive into community management, in-house social media marketing, international social m…
Updated Google iOS Search App Includes Handsfree Activation, New Notifications, Reminders & Cards
Google released a new version of its iOS Search App today, with an extensive list of updates, including new notifications, reminder alerts, cards and a handsfree search activation feature. With the 3.1.0 version of the iOS Search App, iPhone 4s users can say, “Okay Google” or touch the…
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Google Hotel Finder Goes Mobile
Google’s Hotel Finder, which launched in June 2011, is now available on mobile devices. Google said all you need to do is go to www.google.com/hotels directly on your smart phone and search for your destination. Listings will come up almost immediately, giving you the ability to filter the…
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Marin Issues Google Enhanced Campaigns Impact Study
Today, Marin Software issued a report on the impact of Google’s move to enhanced campaigns based on $5 billion in annualized spend managed through its paid search platform. The study focuses on a year-over-year performance comparison covering the nine week period beginning the week after the…
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AdWords Updates Combined Search And Display Campaign Type: Who Should Use It?
This week, Google introduced a new campaign type called “Search Network with Display Select”. This replaces the former “Search & Display Networks” option. Both enable ads to run on Google search, Google search partners and the Google Display Network (GDN), but Google…
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Google Hummingbird & The Keyword: What You Need To Know To Stay Ahead
On September 26, Google told participants at its 15th anniversary event it had a new algorithm impacting more than 90 percent of searches worldwide. They called it “Hummingbird.” Google’s Amit Singhal later said it was perhaps the largest change to the algorithm since he joined…
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Raymond Loewy, Father Of Industrial Design, Gets Streamlined Google Logo For His 120th Birthday
Today’s Google logo marks the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the Father of Industrial Design. The logo highlights the industrial designer’s work for Pennsylvania Railroad, where he designed a number of locomotives. While Loewy did not design the GG1 locomotive, he did create the…
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With 150 million users and over 40 million photos posted daily, Instagram is the fastest growing social network. Marketers noticed. Brand adoption of Instagram is comparable to Google+ and Pinterest… and gaining on Facebook and Twitter. Attend SMX Social Media Marketing and learn proven tactics for…
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Google Helpouts: Help From Experts Backed By Google, Via Video, For A Price
Looking for some help? Providing answers has always been Google’s goal, and now it has a new way to do it. “Helpouts,” a way to pick people offering help via live video, for a price. People that are vetted, checked and backed by Google. Google shared the news of the new program…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 4, 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 AdWords Yellow “Ad” Icon Spotted On Desktop SERPs In UK The bold yellow “Ad” icon that started showing up in Google search results…
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Google AdWords Yellow “Ad” Icon Spotted On Desktop SERPs In UK
The bold yellow “Ad” icon that started showing up in Google search results on smartphones in September, now appear to be getting a test run in the UK. This weekend, Ashley Williams, SEO Project Lead at Summit Media in the UK, noticed the icon appearing in the SERPs for every query he…
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Nexus 5 First Impressions: A Great, Search-Centric Smartphone
Google shipped out demo versions of the Nexus 5 late last week. People are still receiving them today. I got one on Friday and have been using it on WiFi ever since. (I haven’t tried it on a wireless network and can’t speak to the LTE experience.) The phone immediately sold out of its…
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Shakuntala Devi, AKA The “Human Computer”, Honored With Google Logo To Mark Her 84th Birthday
Quick, without Googling the answer or using a calculator – what is the cube root of 188,132,517? Did you get it 546,372,891? In 1977, Shakuntala Devi was able to solve this problem faster than a computer. The Indian born math prodigy’s astounding capacity to calculate complex numerical…
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The New Visual Brand Ads: What Google Banners & Bing Hero Ads Mean For Search
In the past two weeks, both Microsoft and Google began testing display-style ads that appear on search results for select brand queries. Many see the introduction of these ads as a money grab to get brands to pay for traffic they would otherwise get fo…
Bing Really Doesn’t Want You To Search Google
Go to Bing.com and search for [google], you may see Bing get a bit upset. In fact, when I search for Google at Bing, I get a big black box in the search box that says, “In blind tests, people preferred Bing to Google for the web’s top searches. See for yourself.” Here is a…
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Ingress: Is Google’s AR Game A Stealth Local Data Effort?
I recently got a new Android phone and found a little card in the box advertising Ingress, the “massively multi-player location-based alternate reality game from Niantic Labs at Google.” Ingress had slipped past my notice despite Greg Sterling’s mention of it nearly a year ago….
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