SearchCap: Google Car Insurance, DMCA Takedowns, Urbanspoon & Super Bowl Answers
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from…
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Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
Post by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Roundtable:
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Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
Post by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Roundtable:
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Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
Post by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Roundtable:
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Google Translate Update Challenges Microsoft’s Skype Translator
Additional capability will be added to Google Translate to allow speech to be converted into text in real-time.
Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market
International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in cash. Zomato was founded in India in 2008 but now operates in more than 20 countries and 130 cities globally. Urbanspoon content will be incorporated into Zomato and the Urbanspoon…
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Google Doesn’t Know When Super Bowl 2015 Starts (Yet!)
Why hasn’t Google provided the correct answer for the Super Bowl start time when year-after-year, it has been an issue for them?
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Seeing Double: Yahoo, Bing Search Ads Show Duplicate Copy In Headlines And Ad Text
Change effecting top line ads said to boost click-through rates.
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Think Small: Solve Your Mobile SEM Problem With “Micro Leads”
The time has come for brands to have a mobile paid search strategy in place. Columnist Susan Waldes suggests that businesses begin with tiny steps.
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MarTech Conference Rates Increase Saturday – Register Now & Save $400
“Customers first.” A simple concept and the North Star of modern marketing. But implementing systems and operations that deliver brilliant customer experiences in a fragmented technology environment and legacy-steeped organizations is tricky. MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference tackles the…
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Report: Google Translate To Provide Real-Time Translation Via App
Google Translate to soon offer real-time translation between two people, much like the Microsoft Skype translation demo we saw months ago.
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DMCA Takedown Database ChillingEffects.org Takes Itself Out Of Search Results
The irony here is almost too obvious to mention: an entity dedicated to monitoring the potential “chilling effects” of DMCA takedown notices is censoring itself. Chillingeffects.org has now removed itself from search results, making those notices harder to find. Chillingeffects.org was…
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Google Poll Shows Most Webmasters Go Responsive With Mobile Configuration
Google’s Webmaster team on Google+ posted a poll asking which configuration are you using for your mobile friendly web site? Is it responsive, dynamic serving, separate desktop and mobile URLs or are you not mobile friendly yet…
The Google Now Cards Bug Is Now Fixed
Last week, many users lost access to their Google Now Cards due to a weird bug. Google has fixed the issue over the weekend and many are now able to opt-in again to re-enable their device to get these cards…
Google Analytics Changes Acquisitions Section
Don’t be surprised if you go to your Google Analytics and try to quickly check in on your search traffic and possibly start freaking out that Google dropped the feature.
They didn’t drop the organic search results or remove it…
Jim Noble, DMOZ Editor Passed Away
Jim Noble, a 14 year veteran volunteer editor and administrator at DMOZ (Open Directory Project) has passed away after fighting cancer for a long time.
DMOZ announced it this weekend on their Twitter profile. He passed a couple months ago on November…
Google: Even Without Disavowing, Getting Good Links Can Remove Your Penguin Problems
In a video hangout with Google’s John Mueller, John said that even without using the disavow file or removing bad links, it is possible to recover from a Penguin penalty (aka algorithm). Let me say that again… If you are hit by a Penguin issue on you…
2015 Guide to Free SEO Training Courses Online
Here is a suggested syllabus for developing an organic search specialist, comprised of free, readily available tools found on the Web.
The psychology of discounts
Discounts are something everybody uses, especially when you want people to buy a certain product. But there are a lot of different ways to actually give a discount. In today’s post I’ll go into the psychology of discounts and what kind of discounts work best for most people. But let me start by explaining why discounts…
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75% Of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) Say Internet Marketing Is Effective
Columnist Myles Anderson shares key stats from BrightLocal’s most recent annual SMB Internet Marketing Survey.
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