Search Ad Revenues Hit Record $16.9 Billion in 2012 [Report]
Search ad revenues once again broke records in 2012. Search remained the revenue leader at $16.9 billion, accounting for 46 percent of all Internet advertising revenue, although this figure doesn’t even include mobile search ads in the IAB’s report.
Google Admit That Too Many New Pages At Once Could Cause Manual Review
We are all aware that Google have revealed that they are looking for websites to stay fresh and to keep the content of their site related to what their site is focusing on but in the latest video with Matt Cutts, an interesting question was raised surr…
6 Key Insights from the International Search Summit Munich
The latest insights from the world of international search straight from the International Search Summit Munich
Post from Gemma Birch on State of Search
6 Key Insights from the International Search Summit Munich
Can Robots Click on Ads?
Yes, robots can click on ads. Crawlers have been fetching Javascript files at least as far back as 2004, possibly earlier. I first documented a crawler fetching Javascript from one of my servers in 2004. Google and Bing and other crawler operators have been working to fully render Web pages for years; this research and development entails the necessary execution of Javascript. As recently (or as long ago) as April 25, 2012 Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed that Google has the ability to “actually process some of the Javascript…especially people use Javascript to help with navigation ….” In March 2012, Matt specifically asked people to stop blocking Googlebot from Javascript (and this was not the first time he made the request): Back when people were using Yahoo! Site Explorer to review backlink profiles, many if not most SEOs seemed unaware (despite my numerous attempts to point this out) that many of the links reported by that tool were transient links embedded in Javascrpit (for example, I found many AdSense links in Yahoo! Site Explorer link reports). Rogue crawlers coming out of the Amazon Web Services network sometimes also execute Javascript. You can easily determine this for yourself (if you receive many […]
The Critically Important Role of Bing Ads in Search Marketing
In trying to be more like AdWords, Bing Ads has mostly reached parity with AdWords. Importing campaigns into Bing Ads can now be done in a matter of minutes, not days. And search campaigns running on the Yahoo Bing Network often yield better ROAS.
Google Glass eBay Auction Hits $90,000 Before Being Removed
The augmented reality eyewear yesterday turned up on auction website eBay. The listing reached $90,100.00 after receiving 28 bids, but was canceled due to Google’s terms and conditions, which state that Google Glass can’t be resold once obtained.
It’s Official – Looks Like Users Don’t Like Google’s New Image Search?
Google Image Search Suffers Massive Drop in External Search Numbers
Ray Kurzweil Brings Poetry to Google
Earlier this week, I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in a panel presentation on the future of SEO, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event was the first Digital Marketing for Business Conference (and it was filled with some great sessions). The presentation wasn’t a PowerPoint and pitter-patter type talk.
Instead, I […]
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International Search Summit Keynote: Yandex Co-Founder & CTO Ilya Segalovich
Yandex is Russia’s leading search engine, besting even mighty Google in numbers of unique visitors in its home country. But did you know comScore also ranks it as the world’s fourth largest overall search engine, ahead of Bing in number of search requests processed? In part,…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Time To Long Click
The internal metric Google uses to determine search success is time to long click. Understanding this metric is important for search marketers in assessing changes to the search landscape and developing better optimization strategies. Short Clicks vs Long Clicks Back in 2009 I wrote about the difference between short clicks and long clicks. A long […]
Time To Long Click is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
Google Affiliate Network Shuts Down Again
Google announced last night that they are closing their Google Affiliate Network.
Just so you know…
Does Google Want SEOs To Overreact?
An interesting thread at WebmasterWorld is asking SEOs to take a step back…
Google Quick View Badge Confirmed
In December we reported some signs of a new test of something called Quick View within the Google mobile search results.
Well, Google has confirmed that this is a test yesterday on their search blog and on Google+…
Google Apps & Gmail Down For Many
Since about 8am EDT, Wednesday, April 17th, Google Apps and many of the products within it, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and so forth are down for many – including me.
There are tons of complaints on Twitter…
Pictures Of The First People To Buy Google Glass
As we reported, Google Glass Explorers (the first non Googlers to be able to buy Google Glass) are now able to start picking up their pair of Google Glass, in order of who signed up first. I am part of the second batch, so I do not know exactly when I…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2013
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 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: Tokyo Court Orders Google To Alter Search Suggestions & Pay Fines AFP reports a Japan court has ruled Google to alter the search suggestions and fined Google…
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Tokyo Court Orders Google To Alter Search Suggestions & Pay Fines
AFP reports a Japan court has ruled Google to alter the search suggestions and fined Google 300,000 yen ($3,100). The Tokyo District Court ruled that Google has to change the auto-completions for a search on a particular man’s name – the name was undisclosed – because Google…
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Why we moved to all email support
When we started doing premium WordPress plugins, we also added a support forum to yoast.com. Many people liked this but I was, to be honest, skeptic. My experience with the WordPress.org forums are … Poor, at best. I just don’t think forums work very well, in large part because there is an ever continuing tendency…
Why we moved to all email support is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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Google Shopping: Product Listing Ad & Feed Optimization Tips & Best Practices [Videos]
Need help getting started with Google Shopping? This series of six videos explains Google Shopping data feed best practices, reasons why you might not want to list on Google Shopping, and how to troubleshoot issues with your PLAs, and more.