Category: Search Engine Watch

Bing has been busy in recent days. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta. Bing Ads advertisers have a new resource with the launch of the Traffic Quality Center. And Bing News has rolled out news carousels.

Google+ users have received an update with how Google Search interacts with their photos, and the photos of friends, while signed into Google+. To see what images you have uploaded, simply search for [my photos] on Google.com.

Blekko says the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query, rather than scanning through a list of blue links. The new results aim to give users choices, whether they are researching a topic or a product to buy.

It’s now been one week since Google Penguin 2.0 went live. Google’s Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that promise. Here are some early findings from sites hit by Penguin.

How do you set up your SEO data, metrics, and reporting to prove progress and set the stage for the subsequent month? How do you set up your team for success? Follow these four steps with month-end reporting in mind for more successful SEO outcomes.

These bid algorithms offer significant improvement and a wide variety of options compared to enhanced CPC and conversion optimizer options that were previously available and also allow you to mix and match bid rules across campaign and ad groups.

Kicking around the idea of starting Vine for your brand? How should your brand use Vine? Take a look at some brands that have activated the platform in a unique and compelling way for consumers through a creative use of just a few seconds.

European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament yesterday and said that Google’s proposed changes to its search aren’t good enough, and that it’s unlikely to signal an end to the EC’s ongoing probe into the firm.

Yahoo is reportedly looking to buy video-streaming service Hulu. And it isn’t alone. Yahoo has submitted a bid in the range of $600 million to $800 million on Hulu, which has been holding a secret auction to sell itself, according to reports.

Capitalizing on what appears to be unquenchable demand for video content, BuzzFeed has announced plans to beef up efforts to create more viral video content, with the creation of a social video lab and a content deal with CNN.com.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is on the brink of launching a fresh antitrust probe into Google, over alleged misconduct over how it handles its display advertising business. The probe was spurred on by competing display advertising firms.

Select advertisers can now build their email marketing list right in Twitter. The “Lead Generation Card”is a new feature in Twitter’s advertising arsenal, and allows users to share their emails with brands in a tweet.

Forty-nine percent of marketers surveyed in Social Media Examiner’s 2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report consider Facebook to be their most important social media platform. Are marketers not properly tracking those Facebook efforts into ROI?

Search remains a crucial driver of traffic for ecommerce, generating 31 percent of website traffic versus just 3 percent each from email and social media. Of the .71 percent of social conversions, Pinterest saw the highest average order value.

In the past few weeks, advertisers have begun to receive emails with the subject line warning, “Upgrade to AdWords enhanced campaigns by July 22, 2013”. But what happens if you don’t upgrade by the deadline? Here’s what you can expect.

Despite the inherent SEO value of blogging, many blogs just aren’t properly optimized for search, or to their fullest potential. Many of the fixes and improvements you can make are really quite simple. Here’s how to improve your blog’s SEO.

User experience is the cheese to SEO’s macaroni. They can exist separately, but together they’re deliciously awesome. To start integrating UX steps into your SEO tactics, here are your best options for conducting user research and usability testing.

Facebook is now suggesting images of 308×308 pixels to show the traditional ad in the News Feed which is a significantly larger canvas size compared to the previous image dimensions of 100×72 pixels. Here’s what this means for marketers.

The Bing Ads Keyword Distribution Graph takes data filtering and slicing to a new and visual level. It lets you identify low or high performing keywords, obtain subtotals by segments quickly, and more. Here’s some of what PPC marketers can expect.

Google AdWords has launched a series of changes for advertisers, including updates to AdWords Editor, a new Display Benchmarks Tool, and improvements to enhanced campaigns with flexible bid strategies. Here’s a recap of the latest AdWords updates.