Google Local Carousel Display Showing More Frequently, In More Categories

Image courtesy of Greg Gifford. Greg Giford of Autorevo and Dr. Pete Meyers of Moz are both reporting increased visibility of the Local Carousel display that highlights local businesses at the top of the SERPS in a highly photographic style rather than the embedded 7-Pack Local Universal display of a list of pins. Interesting for the […]

Friday Talk: Sheryl Sandberg about Having Too Few Women Leaders

Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions, and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice

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Friday Talk: Sheryl Sandberg about Having Too Few Women Leaders

Spurred By PRISM Scandal, StartPage & Ixquick Surpass 3 Million Daily Searches

Alternative search engines are having a good week, likely thanks to public awareness and concern over data and privacy issues being raised by the PRISM scandal. StartPage and Ixquick, two small search engines from the same company, announced this week …

New Places for Business Dashboard Has 25 Listing Limit

As the new Google Places for Business Dashboard is being adopted more widely, we are starting to gain insights into its strengths and limits. One of its great strengths (besides a much enhanced interface) is the speed at which data typically makes it to the public listing making the use of MapMaker no longer as […]

Search In Pics: Bing Glasses, Google Shoes & #ThroughGlass Cop

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 Seats: Source: Google+ Bing Glasses: Source: Twitter Google…

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More New Tools From Bing Ads: Change History Graph In The Works

Following up on the new Bing Ads keyword performance visualization tool, Keyword Distribution Graph, Microsoft will soon be rolling out a visualization tool for change history. The Change History Graph will be available in the web interface and is meant to offer quick visual insight into the…

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Google Authorship Beyond Webpages

In last month’s post about authorship, I shared that Google has been experimenting with inferring authorship for PDF documents in addition to webpages. This piqued my curiosity to see if any other indexable filetypes could also have inferred authorship. Microsoft Office Files PowerPoint files…

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Smart Geographic Segmentation & Bidding With Enhanced Campaigns

New PPC Best Practices In An Enhanced Campaign World was one of SMX Advanced Seattle’s most engaging sessions; and, as a speaker, I have received a great deal of feedback and questions about those bid location modifiers. As it turns out, location bid modifiers are one of the (only) benefits…

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