Bing Updates iPhone App With New Search Widget, Bookmarks Manager & Shake Feature
Within a week of releasing three new Windows phone apps, Bing announced a series of updates for its iPhone app, including a search widget to help with navigation, new image tiles, and a shake feature to see what stories are trending. According to the a…
AdGooroo Adds Mobile Paid Search Spend Insights, Releases List Of Top Mobile Search Advertisers
Search marketing intelligence firm, AdGooroo announced it is the first to provide insights into search advertising spend on mobile devices. The new mobile search data is now included in the company’s SEM Insights Tool, starting with data from the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Additional mobile…
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Bing Tags Hangs It Up & Shuts Down
Bing Tags, which launched two years ago as Bing Linked Pages and then renamed and did an expansion about a year ago, has hung up the project and shut down the feature. Bing closed down Bing Tags on June 14, 2013. A Microsoft spokesperson told us: We ca…
Google To Look Into Movie Blogs Losing Traffic
About eight different movie blog sites, including Slashfilm.com, have lost traffic in Google — and the issue is apparently big enough that Google is looking into it. On Saturday, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts responded to the owner of SlashFilm on Twitter about the issue where…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: We Reserve The Right To Use EXIF Data For Image Search Rankings
Google’s head of search spam posted a video today reconfirming that while Google may not be using EXIF, exchangeable image file format, data for ranking images today, they do reserve the right to use the data in the future within their ranking algorithm. Google does recommend you use the EXIF…
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gShift Gives Content Marketers More Ways to Mine Twitter Keyword Data
SEO software company gShift has announced a new way for its subscribers to mine valuable data from the conversations a brand’s audience is having on Twitter. Its social keyword research module may expand to other social mediums in the future, too.
The Definitive Top 10 Local Citation Sources for SEO!
Six months ago, after 7+ years of being in business I finally got around to incorporating Local SEO Guide, Inc. A few weeks ago, I thought it would be interesting to create a Yext Powerlisting for the biz and see what happened. Today when I checked the…
What not to do when Entering for an Award – a Judges’ Perspective
When entering for awards most tend to ‘just do something’, that annoys judges and doesn’t make you win. Bas van den Beld shows some bad examples.
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What not to do when Entering for an Award – a Judges’ Perspective
Boost Traffic, Rank, Engagement & Sales – Attend SMX West in Two Weeks!
SMX West returns to San Jose in just two weeks! Here is what’s in store: Up-to-date Tactics: SMX West sessions provide you with the latest tactics to cope with algorithm changes, understand evolving paid advertising options and leverage emerging platforms and opportunities. See the agenda….
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Video Ad Views Hit 26.9 Billion in January, SpotXchange Jumps to #1 Spot
According to comScore, 183.8 million Americans watched 48.7 billion online content videos in January 2014, while the number of video ad views totaled 26.9 billion. The number of video ad views is up 195.6 percent compared to January 2013.
Monitoring Your Brand – Unlinked Mentions
Monitoring your brand for unlinked mentions is beneficial for the following reasons: Find the issues Monitoring mentions of your brand garners thousands of unsolicited reviews from your customers. While it’s easy to see unhappy customers on social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, all too often we forget that some people aren’t always going to bring […]
Are Google’s AI Claims Just Smoke And Mirrors?
Famed techknologist, and Google Engineer, Ray Kurzweil, is talking more about Google’s plans with Artifical Intelligence.
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10 Local Marketing Myths Hamstringing Your Business
As an internet marketer, I frequently encounter local business owners (and large chain store companies with many local outlets) that haven’t had time to really understand online marketing. Many of them have latched onto some myth that’s completely false — and which can keep their…
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New Google Easter Egg: Blink HTML
Google’s Ilya Grigorik who works on the Google Chrome team posted on Google+ a neat new easter egg in the Google search results…
Bing Warns: Poor Grammar May Lead To Poor Rankings
Duane Forrester from Bing strongly implied on the Bing Webmaster Blog that having poorly written content with poor grammar will have a negative impact on your search rankings within Bing…
/Film & Other Movie Blogs Drop In Google, Matt Cutts Promises To Investigate
A few days ago Peter Sciretta, the Owner/Editor of slashfilm.com, a movie blog…
Google: Don’t Worry About Small Number Of Related Sites
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who has three web sites on different domains but the sites are very similar. There is one main company site with “two sites dedicated to two lines of specific product…
3 Years Ago Today, SEO Changed Forever With Google’s Panda Algorithm
Today is a day no SEO and many webmasters will never forget, it is the day Google launched their Panda algorithm. On February 24, 2011, three years ago today…
3 Ways SEMrush Can Make SEO More Effective
Every digital marketer is only as good as the tools they use. SEMrush is one tool you should have at the ready to help determine changes to your rankings, research a new or ongoing campaign, and analyze how your site compares with the competition.
Consumer Mindshare and Yelp: An Empire in Local Search Or a Wannabe?
Last week Greg Sterling noted: … Yelp and Google. They’re like Spain and Portugal in the 15th Century — rivals trying to carve up the local globe. The analogy seemed wrong to me as Spain and Portugal were to a large extent equal in their strength. I noted in the comments that “I see the […]