Facebook Aims to Restrict Gun Sales With New Rules
Facebook is jumping into the gun rights debate by creating new clear policies regarding the gun sales on their social media platform. The aim is reportedly to stop what people say are rampant illegal gun sales.
Twitter’s Vine Updates Rules on Explicit Sexual Content
Twitter is clamping down on graphic sexual activities and provocative nudity that people post on quick clip video app Vine, making it clear that explicit sexual content is unwanted.
‘New’ Facebook News Feed Redesign Now Rolling Out, 12 Months Later
Facebook has spruced up its Newsfeed redesign and started rolling it out, a year after it announced the makeover. Facebook announced its News Feed redesign exactly 12 months ago today, and is rolling out the updated look to a fraction of its users.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 7, 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: Google Posts Women’s Day 2014 Logo After Agreeing Its Logos Are Male-Dominated Tomorrow, March 8th is International Women’s Day and Google has a…
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Google International Women’s Day 2014 Doodle
12-hours early, Google has posted the Women’s Day 2014 Google Doodle for the annual March 8th International Women’s Day. The logo is an animated video that takes you through some of the women “inspiring” women in history…
It’s BrightEdge vs. Searchmetrics in SEO Patent Case
Two leaders in the SEO software space, BrightEdge and Searchmetrics, could be duking it out in court soon over a complaint filed by BrightEdge over reported patent infringement by Searchmetrics. This case hits close to home for many in the industry.
Google International Women’s Day Google Logo
Tomororw, March 8th is International Women’s Day and Google has a special Google logo, aka Google Doodle for the day. The logo is going live 12 hours early on all Google properties around the world, in order to make sure those who don’t go to Google on Saturday see the Doodle the day…
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Google Stepping Up Merchant Feed Enforcement
Got some slop in your Google product feed? Now’s the time to revisit all those pesky identifiers and tidy things up. Google is upping its enforcement of product feeds in Google Merchant Center again. Google began this process last year by disapproving products without unique product…
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Throwing in the Towel on SEO
The backstory: …about an Intern, and a damn impressive one at that! Late at the bar after an event she sort of disagreed with me on something I was riffing on, and I liked it. She had moxie and would speak her mind! Then her resume came in…for PPC! Total sadface. I mean, I was […]
Digital Marketing Research Publications for week 10 2014
An overview of research published around the web around Digital Marketing topics. Week 10 of 2014.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Digital Marketing Research Publications for week 10 2014
4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know
Santa’s elves weren’t the only ones busy this past holiday season. Paid search was also working overtime to make sure shoppers ended up with perfect holiday gifts. The share of e-commerce transactions driven by SEM during November-December 2013 was 15%, up from 14% in 2012. And, organic…
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Get Google Maps Lite, 3D Or Classic With These URLs
The new Google Maps fully launched a couple weeks ago and some users want to be able to go back and forth between the new and the old version.
Daniel the Google Maps Community Manager shared special URLs that let you either go to the lite version…
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Local SEO Checklist
WebmasterWorld moderator, travelin cat, posted an awesome and free local SEO cheat sheet on WebmasterWorld.
He said he has uses this cheat sheet for “some time” and if you take it step by step in a careful and detailed manner…
Google Updates The AdWords Express Stats Dashboard
Google has announced they have revitalized the AdWords Express dashboard showing more colorful…
Google: Keep URL Length Shorter Than 2,000 Characters
SEOs obsess about the smallest things, even how long is too long for a URL.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has SEOs and webmasters asking how long can they go for a URL. Google actually answered the question…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 7, 2014
It was a slower week in search news but we still had a nice number of topics in the SEM space. First we covered the past month in Google search news…
Take Your Sitelinks to the Next Level With Descriptions
Providing ads with more detail improves the overall user experience. Sitelinks help users get to exactly where they need to go, and are a great way to boost your average CTR. Here are some keys to success when implementing descriptive site links.
Search In Pics: Bing Street View Car, Google Toy Helicopter & Special Key
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. Google Sydney Monorail Car Conference Room Key: Source: Google+ Google…
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AdWords API For New Google Shopping Campaigns Now Available
Google has launched the API for the new Google Shopping Campaign type for managing product listing ads (PLAs). The API is available to agencies and third-party platforms to facilitate large-scale implementations. Google Shopping Campaigns came out of b…
Facebook Insights Glossary of Terms
Often marketers use terms which are confusing. Like terms used for Facebook Insights. Here’s an overview of what means what in Facebook Insights.
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Facebook Insights Glossary of Terms