Google+ Business New Review Sharing Feature?
Google seems to be testing a new format for sharing reviews on Google+ of Google My Business (Google Places) listings…
Bing Correctly Predicts “No” Win In Scotland Independence Vote
A few days ago, we reported that Bing predicted on September 15th that the vote for Scotland’s independence would be a “No” with a 52.5% vote for NO and a 47.5% vote for YES. The final results are now in and it was a 55% vote for No, so Bing’s prediction was correct and very…
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Don’t Forget to Invest in Content (Not Just “Content Marketing”)
Don’t let excitement for content marketing blind you to other uses for content, like brand building, increasing conversions and setting up a proper framework.
Friday Infographic: Become a Google Power User: use Search Operators!
This (huge) infographic will give you a lot of useful search operators to use, which will make Googling a lot more fun!
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Friday Infographic: Become a Google Power User: use Search Operators!
Want Scotland Election Results? Don’t Bother Asking Google Or Bing
It’s not often you have a vote that might create a new, independent nation. But that’s what’s happening today with Scotland. It’s such a big event that you’d think Google and Bing would be doing something special to provide election results. That’s not the case….
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How Google is Connecting Keyword Relevance to Websites through More than Just Domain Names – Whiteboard Friday
Posted by randfishWe’re seeing Google continue to move beyond just reading pages, instead attempting to truly understand what they’re about. The engine is drawing connections between concepts and brand names, and it’s affecting SERPs. In today’s Whiteb…
SearchCap: Google+ In Search, Bing Image Update, RTBF & Mistaken Google Penalties
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates…
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Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution
Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search experience that include touch-friendly search result pages that have been designed to adapt to a user’s screen size and resolution. According to the announcement, image results will soon expand to the full width of a…
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Search Agency Covario Acquired, but its Saas Tools Remain Independent
Covario will be acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network and will transition toward operating as iProspect. Meanwhile, Covario’s SaaS platform, Rio SEO, will remain independent.
Google+ Loses More Real Estate In Search, Brand Boxes Dropped For Logged Out Users
Continuing the trend of downplaying Google+ in search results, Google has dropped the display of Google+ elements in brands’ knowledge box results for searchers who aren’t logged into their Google accounts. Previously, the Google+ presences of brands prominent enough to rate knowledge…
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SMX Social and Marin Software Launch Inaugural Biggest Social Geek Contest
Test your social marketing intelligence – you could win a free trip to SMX Social! Enter the first annual SMX Biggest Social Geek Contest, sponsored by Marin Software, and see how you stack up against your peers. First prize is a trip to SMX Social in Las Vegas and your choice of an iPad…
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Google Makes Penalty Mistakes: The Buffer Story
Buffer’s Courtney Seiter posted on the Buffer blog that they had a bit of unusual Google Penalty that resulted in a 90% drop in organic Google traffic to the site. The issue had nothing to do with the Buffer web site, but rather a bug with Google, according to Courtney. Courtney said they…
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Google’s My Maps Upgrade Presents Opportunities for Local Search
Google’s My Maps feature could help businesses drive in-person traffic by giving them a new tool to better market themselves to consumers searching for what’s nearby.
Multi Channel Digital Marketing: Trends to Watch – October 2nd Webcast
Digital Marketing Depot presents “Multi Channel Digital Marketing – Trends to Watch” on Thursday October 2 at 1 PM EDT. This webcast covers how the latest digital marketing technology yields data that helps businesses gain deeper insight into the performance of their marketing…
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Amazon and Google: Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
Reports show Amazon is Google’s biggest search advertiser, but the online retailer is reportedly developing its own ad program to rival Google AdWords.
The End Is Near For Panoramio, Google To Migrate Photos To Google Maps Views
Googler Evan Rapoport announced this week that Google would be closing Panoramio, the geolocation photo site that lets users upload photos to Google Maps and Google Earth. In place of Panoramio, Google will be migrating photos to its Google Maps Views …
Michael Bonfils: State of Digital Summer School, Learning from the Experts
What things do you need to learn to become an expert in Digital Marketing? Experts are telling you. Here Michael Bonfils talks about education in Digital.
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Michael Bonfils: State of Digital Summer School, Learning from the Experts
Why Nofollow Links Could Become the Redheaded Stepchildren of SEO
Nofollow links can be great for traffic, but are they leading us down a dangerous path where we can’t trust anything we read online?
Google+ Dropping From Google’s Knowledge Graph Box
Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ that Google started dropping a lot of the Google+ elements you’d find in the Google Knowledge Box on the right hand side of the page…
Report: Google Sitelinks Searchbox Taking Queries To Publisher Sites
A couple weeks ago, Google announced changes to the search within search box in the Google search results. One of those changes was the ability to direct the query done on Google, directly to the publishers site by adding some schema.
Now…