Google Management Lessons Book Coming From Eric Schmidt
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former Google SVP Jonathan Rosenberg have written a new book called How Google Works. Not yet published but available for pre-order, it’s a wide-ranging discussion of corporate management drawing upon the lessons the two men learned over a decade at…
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SearchCap: Google+ Authorship, Bing Mobile Problem & The New Foursquare App
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: “Right To Be Forgotten” To Blame For Removal Of 50 Wikipedia Links From EU Search Results According to a release today from the Wikimedia Foundation,…
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“Right To Be Forgotten” To Blame For Removal Of 50 Wikipedia Links From EU Search Results
According to a release today from the Wikimedia Foundation, 50 links to its Wikipedia site have been removed from Google search results in Europe on account of the recent Right to Be Forgotten legislation. From the release: As of July 18, Google has re…
Google Merchant Center Adds Shipping Tool
The Google Merchant Center has added a shipping rates tool that allows sellers to display more accurate total prices to consumers.
8 Free Must-Attend Networking Events at ClickZ Live San Francisco
Heading to ClickZ Live San Francisco? You don’t want to miss out on all the great, easy and complimentary ways to network with peers, make connections with top brands and more. Here’s your inside guide to the events happening right around the corner.
Google’s Top Heavy Ad Algorithm & The SEO Catch-22
The SEO Catch-22: You’ve done all of the typical technical and content SEO stuff but your organic traffic keeps trending downwards Your SEO guy suspects the culprits are the above-the-fold in-content Adsense units designed to look like content Problem is they are your top performing ad units by a factor of at least 10x […]
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The Incredible, Vanishing Authorship Program — Step Right Up, Folks!
The Google Authorship program could be experiencing the death of a thousand paper cuts as yet another feature of the program — author stats — has gone missing. That’s on top of the recent announcement author photos would be dropped in search results.
Google Maps Currently Taking Users To The Moon & Mars
Google Maps used its Google+ profile yesterday to announce a new out-of-this-world feature, allowing users to explore the craters on Mars and take a virtual trip to the moon. The announcement marked NASA’s Curiosity Rover expedition to Mars, which has spent the last two year’s roaming…
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New Foursquare App Bets The Company On Personalization
After months of anticipation the new Foursquare app has finally arrived. It will be available this morning from the three major app stores. The new app is built around two principal concepts: Tips and Tastes. It attempts to create a better “local search” experience using data (in the…
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Pinterest: The Must-Have Social Media Platform
These days it seems like there’s a new site that pops up every day claiming to be the next best thing when it comes to promoting your business, but does your site really need another social media platform to manage? Well, if you’re going to add additional social platform to your roster, Pinterest is the […]
Making Hay While the Sh*t Flies – What Should Union Street Do Now?
The internet is a funny place. A world of opportunity and a world of pain. The Union Street Guest House is in the middle of a maelstrom of its own creation. One that if managed properly could serve them well over the long haul and if managed improperly could flag them for years. There’s no […]
6 Reasons to Join us at SearchLove
It’s six weeks until the first speaker takes to the stage at SearchLove San Diego, ready to share their freshest and most inspiring insights with a room full of ambitious online marketers.
UC Berkeley & Google Not Getting Along: Indexing & Ranking Issues
The University of California, Berkeley is having some issues with Google crawling, indexing…
Your Business Have Nicknames Or Acronyms? How To Get Them Listed In Google Maps.
A business owner posted a question in the Google Business Help forums asking how he can get his business to show up for multiple names.
His business has its official business name, which in this case is Quincy Asian Resources…
Google AdSense Ad Choices Arrow On Left?
Google AdSense seems to be testing placing the ad choices arrow on the left top of the ads, instead of the top right of the ads.
A WebmasterWorld thread has complaints from some publishers, claiming the arrow, when positioned at the top left…
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Competitive Analysis for Panda Using SEMrush [Tutorial]
There’s a lot you can learn from analyzing websites in your niche that have been impacted by Panda. This post explains how to use SEMrush to drill into organic and paid search data in order to surface problematic content, keyword targeting issues, usabi
Google+ Authorship Images Live On
Search engine optimization professionals were caught off-guard back in June when Google’s John Mueller announced that the search giant would be “simplifying” the way authorship is displayed in search results. This simplification involved the removal of profile photos and circle…
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Yelp Coming Under Fire For Review Take Downs From Its Reviewers
Yelp is caught in the middle of the shit storm surrounding the hotel that recently was outed for finning wedding parties if they left bad reviews. Thousands of reviews have been posted there and thousands removed. Now though, many reviewers are targeting Yelp for their squelching of dissent and their ability to properly vet reviews. […]
Bing Mobile Domain Returns Service Unavailable 503 Error
If you try to access Bing Mobile at m.bing.com, you will be presented with an error message. The error will read: The page you want isn’t available We’re working to restore service as soon as possible. The server error code also returns a major error, specifically a 503 error code which…
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Not Everything in Today’s SEO Has to be Organic
SEO is now more about the amount and quality of the outreach you can do to pitch content to the right audience in order to grow exposure, shares, links and citations.