Live @ SMX East: Breathing New Life Into A Tired Paid Search Campaign

If you’ve been doing paid search for a while, you’ve undoubtedly run into a situation where you’re working on a campaign that’s been moderately successful, but has essentially been on autopilot and isn’t taking advantage of any new features that could enhance its…

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SearchCap: Goodbye Authorship, Bing Spam Filtering & Google Star Colors

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Official: Google Kills Authorship After three years the great Google Authorship experiment has come to an end … at least for now. Today John Mueller of Google…

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It’s Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results

Anyone who follows Google knows that nothing it creates is immune from elimination. Like so many efforts before it, Authorship is fading into the sunset.

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Study: Organic Search Drives 51% Of Traffic, Social Only 5%

After analyzing “billions of pieces” of content, content marketing firm BrightEdge claims organic search is the primary driver of website traffic to business sites, while social barely generates a blip on the traffic radar. The BrightEdge study found organic search drives 51 percent of…

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Search Within A Search: Google Testing New Search Box

Google is trying out a new search box that displays under the first search result. Right now, Google’s first search result often includes a search box that lets users search within that first search result, as shown here for Microsoft.com: According to a report on Google Operating System…

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AdAlysis Launches To Make AdWords Ad Testing More Efficient, Accurate

Ad testing in paid search is a relatively painless — until it comes to the actual analysis. It’s easy to set up ads tests, but analyzing ad performance can be a time sucking process for even the most sophisticated paid search teams. Worse yet, the results can be misleading if enough…

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Bing Testing More Updates To Its Search Results Page

After this week’s story on possible changes coming to Bing’s navigation bar, it appears the site is also testing how search results are displayed. Along with repositioning its navigation bar, All Google reports Bing is experimenting with Google-like search cards for its results….

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LocalU Bootcamp at SMX – Sept 29th in New York

On September 29th, we’re rolling out a new classroom-style training event in conjunction with SMX East – Local U Boot Camp in New York City. REGISTER WITH CODE WS-LUA10 FOR A 10% DISCOUNT LocalU Bootcamp is the only workshop of its kind and provides the knowledge, processes and tools needed to help your business and the businesses […]