Spotted: Stunning AdWords Policy Violations, That Facebook & Google Shouldn’t Be Happy About

Behold a brilliant display of Google AdWords advertising policy violations: This ad was spotted by Luke Alley from Avalaunch Media. As it turns out, Alley unearthed a deep pit teeming with ad violations. Search for “facebook support” on Google, and you’ll quickly see the ads are…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 2013

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: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per…

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Google: Here’s Why AdWords Cost Per Conversion Calculations Don’t Always Add Up

In the past couple of weeks, the question of how Google calculates cost per conversion in AdWords has been percolating in the PPC community. Robert Brady wrote a post illustrating that the cost per conversion reported in AdWords does not always match the manual calculation of dividing reported…

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Google Does Love Windows Phone, When It Comes To Search — Angering YouTube Users

Google doesn’t care about Windows Phone, given the latest spat over its YouTube app? Think again. Google cares very much, at least when it comes to search. That apparent double-standards is something users of its Windows Phone search app have taken to its review page to express upset over….

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Friday Talk: Marissa Mayer on Women and Innovation

Marissa Mayer is now CEO of Yahoo for over a year. When she had just started she held a talk at the Annual Womensphere Global Summit & Awards on Women and Innovation.

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Friday Talk: Marissa Mayer on Women and Innovation

Search In Pics: Google Bus, Glass Welcome Here & Google Stair Case With Keywords

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 Bus: Source: Google+ Google Glass Welcome Here: Source: Google+…

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Building An Enterprise-Level Search Marketing Team: Part 2

In July, I began my two-part series on building an enterprise-level search marketing team. We left off with a review of the essentials for SEO, including all the technical and editorial factors that can hinder your website’s rankings in the search engines. If you’ve followed my…

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