Yahoo’s Mayer: “Our Search Share Has Declined” But She’s Optimistic About Opportunities

Yahoo is making progress in a number of product areas under CEO Marissa Mayer, but search isn’t one of them — a fact that Mayer herself admitted during today’s Q3 earnings call. Yahoo’s US share of the search market was just 11.3 percent in September, according to…

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Google AdWords Third-Party “Review Extensions” Start Rolling Out To All Accounts

In June, Google announced the beta release of Review Extensions which allow advertisers to append a quote of endorsement from a reputable publication in their AdWords ads. Today, these Review Extensions will begin to roll out to all AdWords accounts. Y…

MugShots.com Says Google’s Algorithm Change Puts Americans At Risk

About a week ago, Google released an algorithm update we named the Google’s MugShot Algorithm. This update specifically targeted sites ranking well for names and displayed their arrest photo, name and details. The new algorithm update impacted sites such as Mugshots, BustedMugshots and…

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Why The YouTube Keyword Tool Is So Amazing For Link Building

Debra Mastaler mentioned the YouTube keyword tool again recently, and I don’t think I’ve been this excited about keywords in, well… ever. I confess to only now realizing how much of a help it can be. Never mind the awesome fact that you can get keywords and easily import them into…

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Infographic: An Anatomy Of Google’s Dynamic Search Results Page

Do you know your SERP? That stands for Search Engine Results Page. In the case of Google, it can be pretty hard to keep up. Google has multiple SERPs, with some elements that may only appear if your search is deemed especially local, or shopping-orient…

Dashboard Series: Update An Entire Excel Dashboard With One Radio Button

In this month’s installment of my Excel dashboard series, I’m going to show you a trick that will give you the ability to control an entire dashboard with one menu — in this example, a radio button menu. For my example, I’ve put “months” in the menu at the top of…

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September Search Market: Flat As A Pancake

The September search market share data from comScore got pushed out earlier this evening by financial analysts. As always these numbers aren’t official until comScore releases them tomorrow. Here are the figures as we received them: Google — September: 66.9 percent; August: 66.9 percent…

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Bing Gives IE11 Users A Quick Look At The Top Search Result With New “Pre-Rendering” Feature

Bing released a new search feature today that “almost instantly” renders the associated page of the top search result when clicked. With the goal of providing a “faster end-to-end search experience,” the new “pre-rendering” feature is currently available only to…

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Google Images: Search By Image Not Working For Many

Google’s Search By Image feature is currently not functioning for many searchers. The search by image feature allows a searcher to take an image from their computer or plug in an image source URL into Google Images and Google will return related images, with web pages that may have more…

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Eating My (Key)Words: Changing The Way We Think About SEO

I have glimpsed the future of search, and it is not keyword-driven. While I have long been an advocate of using keywords as an indicator of a searcher’s intent, I am about to eat my words. The truth is that search is heading in a direction that most of us could not have foreseen… a […]

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Google And SEO Communications: Swahili Vs. Latin

There are many in the SEO community that get very frustrated with Google, and one of the reasons for this is simple: there is a communications gap. This is not a simple case of US English vs. UK English, but more like Swahili vs. Latin. Many publishers — and many who profess to be SEO…

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Bing Ads Analysis Tools Go Live: Dimensions Tab, Performance Comparison Graph

Bing Ads launched two very handy tools today that make account analysis from within the web interface a reality. The Dimensions Tab provides a shortcut to performing campaign analysis and includes access the fantastic Distribution graph. If you’re not using the distribution graph already, do…

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Microsoft Takes Its ‘Bing It On’ Campaign To The UK, Where Google Has Royal Grip On Search

Hey search engine users in the UK, Microsoft wants a few minutes of your time. The company this week launched its “Bing It On” campaign in the UK, inviting searchers to compare its search results directly against Google’s. Microsoft is challenging Google’s seemingly…

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Bing Gets ‘Klout-orship” As Verified Klout Snapshots Now Identify Authors & Content In Bing

Klout has becoming a much more powerful tool than simply measuring social significance. Bing and Klout have teamed up to form a puesdo-authorship alliance that will appear in the search results pages. A new Klout-verified ‘Snapshot’ will show in Bing along with social icons, Klout…

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