Bing Rewards Program Now Available On iOS & Android Devices
Bing Rewards is going mobile starting today. According to a post on the company’s blog, the incentive program that lets users earn credits toward gift cards for brands like Amazon, Xbox and Dominos, is available on iOS and Android devices starting today, and will be “coming soon”…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 29, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: People, Videos, News: Twitter Adds New Search Filters Earlier today Twitter announced that it was bringing a number…
Pinterest Interests: New Tool Delivers Personalized Pin Recommendations
Pinterest Interests is designed to make it easier for pinners to explore topics they are most interested in and find new pins on topics that they most frequently pin on. Recommendations will be based on previous pins collected and more specific.
WordStream Enhances AdWords Grader: New Benchmarks, Monthly Reports, Mobile PPC Scores
Search marketing software and service company WordStream announced updates to its free PPC auditing tool, the AdWords Performance Grader, which include updated performance benchmarks, mobile ad analysis, and more.
People, Videos, News: Twitter Adds New Search Filters
Earlier today Twitter announced that it was bringing a number of new search filters to the site. These include: people, photos, videos, news. There are also “people you follow” and “near you” filters that further refine results. If one were to search for “Super…
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2014 Industry Survey Reveals Salaries, Top SEO Tools & More
Moz has released the results of their 2014 Industry Survey, which sheds light on salaries for various roles, top marketing activities and metrics, the top 10 SEO tools, and how marketers are dealing with “(not provided)”.
Searching For Super Bowl Ads? Watch Our Official Playlist
With all the excitement of the big game building and our third annual #Hashtag Bowl quickly approaching at our sister site, Marketing Land, we’ve put together a special page where you can watch all of the official Super Bowl ads as they go online. You’ll also find teaser ads as well as…
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Searching For Super Bowl Ads? Watch Our Official Playlist
With all the excitement of the big game building and our third annual #Hashtag Bowl quickly approaching at our sister site, Marketing Land, we’ve put together a special page where you can watch all of the official Super Bowl ads as they go online. You’ll also find teaser ads as well as…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Try To Build Links Through Article Directories
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer encouraging webmasters not to use article directory web sites with the goal of building links. The question posed was: Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad? eg. I link my beauty website from a…
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Google Testing Location Answer Box
Pete Meyers of Moz just pointed out an unusual new feature that Google is testing: Location Answer Box. Darren Shaw noted that it was visible via Firefox. I see it regardless of whether location is set or whether I am logged in, if the query is specific enough to generate a single answer. IE Dress […]
A Study In Quantity: Sometimes Less Is More
There are generally two schools of thought when it comes to quantity. As a certain group of hilarious phone-peddling kids would tell you, more is better. Image Source This makes sense. More of something (well, something good anyway) is better than less of that thing. However, as a certain insurance-mongering lizard tells me on my […]
Apple Maps May Trust Yelp Data More Than Others…
According to some data I uncovered it appears that Apple Maps Trusts Yelp More Than Business Listing Aggregators: Just as Google Local SEO relies on NAP (Name, Address & Phone Number) consistency to help Google understand and rank (or not rank) your business, Apple Maps has its own flavor of NAP inconsistencies gumming up the […]
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11 Reasons Link Building Is A Futile Waste Of Time — And One Big Reason It Isn’t
I don’t have to build links anymore, and I have never felt so liberated. So free. All the years I spent endless hours trying to help content get discovered — and I didn’t realize I didn’t have to do any of it. Those 163 conference gigs? Waste of time. 300+ articles, columns…
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Conferences vs Training vs Self Study – What Is The Best Way To Learn Digital Marketing?
With so much information at our fingertips, deciding the best way to learn digital marketing skills and techniques isn’t easy. We take a look at the options and the pros and cons of each.
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Conferences vs Training vs Self Study – What Is The Best Way To Learn Digital Marketing?
Report: Google Close (Again) To EU Antitrust Settlement
The third time may be the charm. According to Reuters Google is (once again) “close to settling a three-year antitrust probe by European regulators after it offered ‘much better’ concessions” to the European Commission (EC). However Google has been here before. Two previous…
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What Does the Distilled ‘Voice’ Sound Like?
I recently launched a new guide called ‘Finding Your Brand’s Voice’, which aims to help companies pin down an effective way of communicating to their customers.
Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll
A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and others using two patents related to search advertising. The plaintiff won approximately $30 million at trial in 2012. Google was asked to pay $15.8 million of…
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Search Google+ Photos For Motion To Get Animated Photos
Google+ posted on Google+ a search tip to help you create and find pictures that were made into animated GIFs through their autoawesome feature.
You can search Google+ Photos for the word [motion] and Google will return pictures that have motion from …
Search Google+ Photos For Motion To Get Animated Photos
Google+ posted on Google+ a search tip to help you create and find pictures that were made into animated GIFs through their autoawesome feature.
You can search Google+ Photos for the word [motion] and Google will return pictures that have motion from …
Google Answers Questions With Longer Responses Now
Google for as long as I can remember showed answers for basic questions. Questions like what is the weather, what is 1+1 and so forth.
Now, Google is answering more complex questions with more more detailed responses…