Cultural differences in websites
While doing our website reviews, we look at sites from all over the world. Most of our clients are from the United States and Europe, but we also have clients from Australia, South Africa and even China. Websites from different countries can differ largely in their choices for color, pictures, navigation and site structure. That…
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Bing Tests New Search Results Design & Top Navigation
Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving the top navigation below the search box, using yellow lines above or on the left side of the navigation menus and/or gray arrows integrated with the to…
Google Image Search Bug Leads To Duplicate Russian Auto Accident Images In Search Results
This morning, for a few hours, searchers looking for images using Google Image search were presented with an image of a Russian automobile accident in the search results. Searching for dogs to cats, screen shots to flowers and diapers to pornography we…
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The NSA Has a Hush-Hush Google-Like Search Engine
The search tool, ICREACH, is reportedly capable of handling 2 to 5 billion new records every day, including email, phone call, fax, Internet, and text message metadata.
Bing, Following Google, Will Test Close Variants in Exact Match
Bing says it will test the inclusion of close variants in exact match for a portion of queries, which some say helps pave the way for a future with keywordless search.
Bing Releases Image Search Widget
Bing has provided access to the code necessary to display its search result images on websites.
Rich snippets effect on Google’s knowledge graph
Here’s a great article by AJ Kohn looking into the rich snippet algorithm
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Bid Management Science Explained
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes with your bid management software? Learn more about how your bids are calculated.
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Pinterest: Not Just Interior Design & Cats – There’s Real Money To Be Had
This month’s guest post on all things social comes from Marketing Insights Analyst, Natalie Meehan. Natalie has worked in marketing for almost a decade, and forms part of Brandwatch’s marketing insights team – writing reports and other content about all things social. She keeps a big, well-stocked tin of sweets on her desk at all times.
How To Prove The Value Of SEO Without Drowning In Data
Having a tough time communicating the value of SEO to your C-Suite? Erin Everhart provides some tips on how to tackle this common issue.
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Google Images Bug Shows Russian Car Crash For All Queries?
It seems there is a wide spread bug or hack with Google Image search impacting a lot of users across the world.
When they search for anything within Google Image Search…
New Google Easter Egg For SEO Geeks: Server Status 418, I’m A Teapot
Google has a new easter egg, mostly designed for server geeks and SEO geeks, at google.com/teapot. The page itself serves up an 418 response code, which is a server status code, named “I’m a teapot.” The 418 code itself was an April Fools Joke from 1998 and is not meant to be…
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Bing App Linking For Windows & Windows Phone Devices
With Google, Facebook and Twitter heavily promoting ways to promote apps within search and ads, few are taking notice of Bing’s efforts on that front. Bing has offer Bing App Linking since at least March 2014. Bing App Linking works in a similar way to Google App Indexing but specifically…
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Bing App Linking For Windows & Windows Phone Devices
With Google, Facebook and Twitter heavily promoting ways to promote apps within search and ads, few are taking notice of Bing’s efforts on that front. Bing has offer Bing App Linking since at least March 2014. Bing App Linking works in a similar way to Google App Indexing but specifically…
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Google Search Offers Up Multiple Travel Options To Help Users Avoid Traffic Complications
According to a Google+ post, Google Search now displays multiple travel options and estimated route times on a single card when users search for traffic directions. From the post: The aim is to help users determine the fastest way to get to where they’re going, in as few views as…
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Google Teapot Easter Egg Uses Mobile Gyroscope
The other day, we reported on how Google handles the server 418 status code, which stands for I’m a teapot.
Well, Google has their own page for it at google.com/teapot and it not only returns a proper 418 status code but if you:
(1) Click on the teap…
Google Shows Traffic By Transportation Modes In One Card
Google announced on Google+ that now you get all four transportation modes (car, transit…
Google AdWords Design Update: Kennedy Phase Two
Google shared on Google+ that they have updated the design for the AdWords reporting interface ever so slightly.
I believe Google internally called this update…
Google: SSL Errors Do Not Currently Impact HTTPS Ranking Boost
As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!
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