Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 7, 2013
This week I published the monthly Google Webmaster report…
Obama Admits “(Not Provided)” Drove Decision To Use PRISM Program
WASHINGTON – Following revelations that the U.S. government’s PRISM program has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas from the nation’s largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple, in search of national security threats, President Obama admitted that Google’s policy of hiding keywords in Google Analytics was the deciding factor in moving […]
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Tips To Ensure The Validity Of Your Day Parting
One of the most classic and beneficial analyses conducted for paid traffic acquisition channels is day parting. Not all visits are equal, and the time of day/day of week of the visit usually has a strong correlation with user qualification and likeliho…
Search In Pics: Miley Ray Cyrus At Twitter, Google Giant Koosh Ball & NYC Glass Fitting Area
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. Ingress Birthday Cake: Source: Google+ Miley Ray Cyrus At Twitter: Source:…
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Relationship Building Through Social Media: It’s a Love Story
Building a relationship online is much like building a love relationship this infographic shows.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Relationship Building Through Social Media: It’s a Love Story
New Rich Snippets Test “In-Depth Articles”
Dr Pete at Moz tipped of SEL about a new in-depth article snippet he found in Google’s SERPS.It appeared below the maps when he done a local search.
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How to Use Google Analytics Visitors Flow Reports to Improve Conversion Rates
We all want our website to be user friendly. But you don’t get there without constant analysis and optimization. Here’s how the Visitor Flow reports within Google Analytics can help you determine the complexity of your website to the average user.
Google Testing “In-Depth Articles” Search Results, A New Rich Snippet?
Dr. Peter Meyers, the Marketing Scientist at Moz, formerly SEOmoz, tipped us off to a new Google search interface test. It appears Google is testing showing “in-depth articles” in the search results for local queries. In the screen shot below, Pete triggered these results by searching…
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Google Images Tests New Related Searches User Interface
Google Operating System reports Google is testing a new Image Search interface for related searches. The example given shows images for [nexus 7] and at the top is a carousel of related searches to the [nexus 7]. When you click on one of those related …
Yandex Islands: Interactive Snippets: A Webmasters Worst Nightmare?
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced the launch of a beta of their Yandex “Islands” or as they describe it “interactive snippets,” yesterday in Turkey.
In short, interactive snippets lets searchers complete their goals directly in …
Google Study: Spend More On AdWords To Increase Your Movie Sales
Guess what? Google tells movie producers that if they want their movies to sell better they need to spend more with search ads or AdWords.
Google, I Want To Cloak…
Sometime the shortest responses are the best. A Google Webmaster Help thread has a long detailed example given by a webmaster looking to do some cloaking to make their site work…
Google Now: Taking the Search Out of Search
In a world filled with distractions, an effortless user experience is becoming a more desirable quality. Google is working to create the most effortless experience ¬– one that proactively delivers information before you even think to search for it.
Login With Amazon: What is it and Why Should Online Business Owners Care?
Amazon’s new sign-in service, Login with Amazon could be a foot in the door for online retailers to Amazon’s significant shopper base of more than 200 million active customers, and those potential purchases. But will shoppers buy-in?
I want to talk about Google Webmaster Tools
I have a few clients that keep complaining to me about how bad the webmaster tools data is. These are things I have seen so far.
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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo Deny Involvement in NSA PRISM Spy Program
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been named in a massive surveillance operation which includes monitoring activity on multiple U.S. carriers and service providers. Companies deny giving the government direct access to their servers.
State AGs: Google Still Allows & Profits From Illegal Drug Ads
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) is accusing Google of continuing to give consumers access to illegal and counterfeit goods — including drugs — in its search results, and letting sites that deal in such goods to advertise with Google. NAAG has asked Google co-founder…
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What Is a Link Scheme? Ask an SEO, Get a Wrong Answer
Everyone knows that Google expressly forbids the use of link schemes that are designed to influence their search results. Technically, they have no objection to any link scheme of any type that does not influence their search results (although, on the gripping hand, they do stress that whatever you do on your Websites should be done for visitors, not for search engines). SEO bloggers love to write serious-toned warnings against the use of link schemes. I have probably written a few myself, somewhere in the past. It’s an easy blog post to write and helps take up the slack on a slow blogging day. Technically, if you’re publishing a lot of content on a large Website (like a news site or a community resource blog) your editorial calendar should include occasional rewrites of important topics (or you should revisit them as incidental digressions in important articles) — but I digress. We innately, at some intuitive level, understand as a community that we should all be handing out anti-Link Scheme warnings like candy. People will mostly ignore them or interpret them in ways so as not to identify their own practices as constituting link schemes. Everyone “Building” Links Is Using One […]
Google Claims Searches & Paid Clicks Can Predict Box Office Success With 92% Accuracy
A newly released white paper from Google claims the search engine can predict a movie’s opening weekend performance within 92 percent accuracy based on search query and paid click volume. After evaluating search and paid click data for 99 top box office films in 2012, Google correlated the…
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 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: Bing Pushes To Build Marketshare Through “Bing It On” For Faster Airport Wifi I got a surprise recently on my trip through Orange County’s John Wayne Airport….
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