Don’t Want Your Searches Encrypted? Add ?nord=1 To Your URL Parameters
Not interested in having Google encrypt and secure your searches? Well, now there is a way to stop Google from forcing you to search using Google SSL search. All you need to do is add ?nord=1 to the Google URL parameter. For example, searching Google f…
In Memoriam: Ren Warmuz of Trellian
The search engine marketing and domain industries lost one of its greatest minds over the weekend. Ren Warmuz, founder and CEO of Trellian, who was battling cancer for about a year, passed away on October 27 at age 45.
Bing, Twitter Renew Deal To Include Tweets In Search Results
Bing has announced a renewal of its long-standing deal with Twitter to include tweets in Bing’s search results. The Bing-Twitter partnership began in 2009 and was renewed in 2011. Tweets are primarily available and searchable at Bing’s social search page, bing.com/social, but…
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Google Starts Indexing App Content
Developers now have the option to get their app content indexed, and that content to be opened up within the app on Android devices. This will help provide a seamless user experience for users when they are alternating between websites and apps.
Search In Pics: Android Pumpkin, Googleween, LinkedIn Band & A LEGO Yoda
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Halloween Pumpkin Figurine: Source: Google+ Minions, Wild Things,…
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Brands Expected to Respond Within an Hour on Twitter [Study]
New research shows the primary reason people engage with brands on Twitter is to show support or enthusiasm for the company, but when brands don’t engage back, it can have negative consequences, including bad-mouthing the brand to friends and family.
Pinterest Adds Related Pins for Better Discovery
Pinterest is adding “related pins” to users’ home feeds, in a bid to improve its discovery features and pin-based recommendations. Pinterest hopes the new related pins will help users more easily find pins that they like.
Ahrefs.com Gets New Layout
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Google, Android Makers Sued By Apple “Rockstar” Consortium Over Search, AdWords
Roughly two years ago Google and a consortium of companies competitively bid for the vast patent portfolio of bankrupt Canadian Company Nortel Networks. Google initiated the bidding with $900 million but ultimately was outbid by the Rockstar consortium, consisting of Microsoft, Apple, Blackberry,…
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Google Now Indexes Mobile Applications and Displays Them In Mobile Search
Google announced yesterday that they are now able to index pages with in a mobile app and then display them with a coresponding site with in mobile search results.
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 1, 2013
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Searchlove, a Personal Journey
When I wrote the recap of ProSEO London 2010, that was the name of Searchlove back on those days, the most important takeaway I had was that “in order to be better SEOs we must be able to copernically revert the way we think. When we do SEO, actually we work on how people search, wander, desire, and learn on the Internet.”
After four years – and after the LinkLove euthanasia previously this year – Searchlove now is not about SEO in the strict old term: it’s about SEO as an Inbound channel.
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Searchlove, a Personal Journey
3 Google Shopping Campaign Challenges & Solutions
PLAs have been tremendously successful at increasing paid media exposure and driving incremental revenue. However, advertisers are still dealing with a number of challenges. Google Shopping campaigns effectively address these issues head on.
Case Study: How Should You Be Using RLSAs?
If you were paying attention, you might recall that Google launched Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSAs) at the end of June this year. Now that we’ve had a few months of experimenting with how to best make use of this feature, we’ve managed to come to some interesting preliminary…
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3 Tips To Fine-Tune Your Paid Search Program For The Holidays
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, it is high time search marketers got their paid search program ready to scale up efficiently. In this column, I’ll outline and dive into three tips you should consider to get the most from the holidays in paid search. From my experience,…
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Step by Step Guide to Enhancing Multi-lingual Listings on Google MapMaker
Google has never fully supported multi-lingual listings in Places very well. At one point Google was suggesting that you create a separate listing in a different dashboard in the alternative language. Unfortunately Google was unable to keep those listings from merging and the practice was ultimately prohitibited. The current dashboard offers no real alternative. MapMaker […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 31, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Halloween Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing…
iGoogle Rest In Peace
iGoogle is now officially closed, if you try to access iGoogle at google.com/igâ you will be redirected to the Google home page.
iGoogle launched in May 2005, which was over eight years ago. About 18 months ago, Google announced iGoogle’s closure would be today, November 1…
Friends Are Getting Invites To Buy Google Glass
Earlier this week, we shared that Google Glass Explorers were now able to invite three friends to also join the Explorer program. They had 14
Google’s Nexus 5 & KitKat Launches
Google announced yesterday the new Google phone, the Nexus 5, plus that they are rolling out Android 4.4, aka KitKat to all Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Edition and of course…