SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 17, 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: Retailers Spending Record Levels On Paid Search In 2013 Holiday Season An early look at the paid search performance…
SPONSOR MESSAGE: SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest
Are you the geek to beat? Prove your SEM chops and win a trip for two to SMX West plus your choice of an iPad Mini, Sony PlayStation 4, or an Xbox One. Just answer the most questions in the least amount of time to win. Test your marketing intelligence and see how you stack […]
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Google’s Matt Cutts: A Little Duplicate Content Won’t Hurt Your Rankings
If your duplicate content is for legitimate reasons, webmasters really shouldn’t be concerned about duplicate content. However if you’re utilizing duplicate content in a spammy fashion, Google certainly can take action against those sites.
Stop Carly Rae Content Marketing
Lately I’ve gotten a few too many Carly Rae content marketing emails, which makes me both sad and grouchy. This is not the way to promote content, gain fans or build a brand. Stop it. What Is Carly Rae Content Marketing? The term comes from Carly Rae Jespen’s popular Call Me Maybe song which contains […]
Stop Carly Rae Content Marketing is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Retailers Spending Record Levels On Paid Search In 2013 Holiday Season
An early look at the paid search performance this holiday season shows retailers invested at record levels, beginning earlier, and are realizing new levels of revenue from their paid search efforts this year. The record highs in paid search activity se…
Twitter Shares the Year on Twitter #2013
What do the World Series, the Royal Baby, and actress Lea Michelle have in common? They were all the center of this year’s most popular and trending tweets, as Twitter takes us down 2013’s memory lane.
Bing Dresses Up For Christmas
Bing has added a new set of decorations to their search results for the holidays. If you search for [christmas] at Bing, you will see a new wintery top area that counts down to Christmas day, lets you swap out different snowmen and also sends you to the Santa Tracker. Here is a picture of […]
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Nelson Mandela Ranks #1 On Google’s Top Trending Searches For 2013
Google has published its top ten global trending searches of 2013, with the recently deceased South African leader Nelson Mandela ranking No. 1 for this year’s top global searches: It’s perhaps unsurprising that the #1 trending search of 2013 was an international symbol of strength and…
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Google reveals most popular search queries in 2013
Top trending general searches
The ‘top trending’ categories refer to queries with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2013 as compared to 2012.
- Paul Walker
- iPhone 5S
- Royal baby
- Cory Monteith
- Oscar Pistorius
- Nelson Mandela
- Grand National
- Universal Jobmatch
- Margaret Thatcher
- Xbox One
Top trending ‘What is?’
- What is twerking
- What is my IP
- What is YOLO
- What is a prime number
- What is illuminati
- What is my car worth
- What is spooning
- What is global warming
- What is zumba
- What is the meaning of life
Top trending politicians
- Boris Johnson
- Nick Clegg
- David Cameron
- Maria Miller
- Theresa May
- Harriet Harman
- George Osborne
- Stella Creasy
- William Hague
- Ed Balls
Most searched celebrities
The ‘most searched’ categories include queries with the largest volume of traffic over the year.
- Kim Kardashian
- One Direction
- Miley Cyrus
- Justin Bieber
- Kate Middleton
- Taylor Swift
- Martin Lewis
- Beyoncé
- Andy Murray
- Harry Styles
Most searched tech gadgets
- iPhone 5s
- PS4
- Xbox One
- Samsung Galaxy S4
- Nexus 5
- iPad Mini
- Blackberry 10
- Nexus 4
- HTC one
- Nexus 7
Most searched TV shows
- EastEnders
- Breaking Bad
- Coronation Street
- Big Brother 2013
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Emmerdale
- Hollyoaks
- Daybreak
- Top Gear
- The Voice
Google Torches Yet Another ‘Undetectable’ Link Network
The target this time was Backlinks.com. The takedown was announced by Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter, where he cited a line from their marketing pitch where they said their paid links were undetectable by search engine bots.
Do You Have a Named Entity Strategy for Marketing Your Web Site?
When specific people, places, and things show up in queries or in web pages, that can be a signal to search engines to do something special in the results that they show. How prepared are you to understand and anticipate how the search engines treat th…
[Event] Recap – Big Wins for Big Sites
Event Drawing by SEER Interactive COO, Larry. On November 13th, we held our “Big Wins for Big Sites“ event at the Search Church. Speakers included SEER Interactive’s Wil Reynolds and Adam Melson, along with Marshall Simmonds from Define Media Group, Matthew Brown from Moz, and Adam Audette from Rimm Kaufman. Each speaker chose a charity to which […]
Zuckerberg and ClickZ Live New York: There’s a Keynote Combination
The inaugural ClickZ Live New York, formerly known as SES New York, will begin with a bang, as Randi Zuckerberg opens up the ball as the keynote speaker.
“Let’s Go Caroling” Google Easter Egg Gives Mobile Users Their Very Own Christmas Carol Karaoke Machine
Phandroid.com, a website devoted to Android news and updates, has discovered Google’s latest holiday-themed Easter Egg. When performing a Google search for “Let’s go caroling” on an Android or iOS device, the first result includes the question “Which carol would you…
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Personal PR Hacks & How to go from Zero to Hero
Want to be more visible in your chosen industry? Jackie Hole shares hints and tips about getting yourself out there with some PR Hints & Tips
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Personal PR Hacks & How to go from Zero to Hero
5 Increasingly Commodified SEO Solutions That Confuse B2B Marketers
While discussing the changes in the search industry with a B2B marketing colleague earlier this month, he mentioned that many marketing professionals may be confused about SEO, particularly when it comes to advising clients on search initiatives. Jargon, conflicting “expert” opinion,…
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6 Ways to Accelerate Your Local SEO Success in 2014
Examining what Google Hummingbird means to local search in 2014, plus how mobile and local overlap; how to use Pinterest to increase local traffic; turnkey local SEO strategies; free, freemium and premium tools; and some important infographics.
Google AdSense A/B Test Winner Not Setting?
A month ago, Google launched native A/B testing for AdSense ads.
When Google was 95% confident of an ad type being a winner, it would show you the results and let you choose the winner to continue to run…
Google: Let’s Go Caroling Card
There is a new Google Now card for a search on [Let’s Go Caroling], honestly, I am surprised it does not work on all Google searches.
In any event…
Google On IE11 Displays Left Aligned
Google and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 11 are not acting nicely together. In short, if you are using IE11 and you do a search at Google, the results will be extremely close to the left hand side of the page…