New To Bing Ads Location Extensions: Directions Links To Maps, Multiple Location Listings, Reporting By Location
A couple of new features are coming to Bing Ads location extensions, which launched launched in March of last year. The features will start rolling out over the coming weeks. Starting today, new detailed reporting is available along with added functionality for setting up location extensions. A…
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State of Search’ Jackie Hole named European Search Personality of the Year
Jackie Hole wins the European Search Personality of the Year Award in Barcelona 2013! State of Search are extremely proud of Jackie and the continuously support she brings to our team.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
State of Search’ Jackie Hole named European Search Personality of the Year
Google To State AG’s: We’ve Blocked Over 3 Million Bad Ads From “Rogue Online Pharmacies”
As part of its response to a potential subpoena by the Mississippi attorney general and accusations from The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) earlier this month that Google facilitates the sale of drugs without a prescription, among other illegal transactions, Google legal…
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Facebook Reveals a New Way to Share 15 Second Videos on Instagram
Today, Facebook and Instagram announced video on Instagram for iPhone and Android. Now, users can record and share 15 seconds of mobile video with basic editing features, including 13 new visual filters exclusively to video.
How Many Results Are Required for the New Local Carousel to Display? At least 5
It would appear that the new Local Carousel will show up to 20 listings if there that many in any given market. But how few will it show? It seems that the answer is five listings. And at five they look weird on the screen. If there are fewer than five available to display then […]
Forrester: Consumers Prefer Organic Search, Not Search Ads, For Discovery
Forrester, in its annual report on how consumers found websites during the past year, discovered that 54% of respondents found websites through natural search results in 2012, up from 50% in 2011. Social networks were the second-most preferred discover…
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New in AdWords: Add Descriptions to Sitelinks
Google now lets advertisers specify, or nominate, the specific text they would like to appear for their sitelink descriptions. This allows advertisers to be specific about what text they would like to appear on their enhanced advertisements.
Mastering PPC: Getting to Know Smaller Search Engines
Imagine this: You own a business software company and your goal is for individuals to come onto your site and fill out a short form so you can give them a call and sell them on how your software would benefit their company. Your company is running ads on two engines, both of which have received […]
Mississippi Attorney General To Subpoena Google For Illegal Sale Of Prescription Drugs
Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood will subpoena Google records and emails to determine if Google facilitated the sale of drugs without a prescription and other illegal products, including counterfeit copies of movies, games and music. “Google is aiding and abetting criminal activity and…
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Google: Improve Your Site’s Rank by Building High-Quality Sites, Not Links
Google has updated their rankings help article to state that you can improve your rankings by “creating high-quality sites.” Google previously said the key to higher rankings was “increasing the number of high-quality sites” linking to your site.
Blekko Brings Izik Search to iPhone, Android With New ‘What’s Nearby’ Feature
Blekko released the Izik search app for tablets earlier this year and now follows up with the smartphone version that aims to give important information to mobile users in the results “without clicking through multiple tiny blue links.”
Standardising WordPress theme hooks
I’ve been working on integrating our SEO plugins more deeply with Genesis the last few weeks and something dawned on me. Ever since I wrote my post on Genesis 2.0, I’ve been thinking: Genesis started a small revolution, but we should open that up. More theme developers should start doing a Schema.org API and if…
Standardising WordPress theme hooks is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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Official Google AdSense Score Card
Google announced a new feature within the AdSense console to help you compare your performance against other Google AdSense publishers, named the AdSense Score Card…
Google Health Related Search Results, Can You Find Them?
I am sure my readers will have a field day with this screen shot. Search for [treatment for ibs] and take a look at the search results.
By default you will see 3 ads on the top…
Google’s Matt Cutts Says DuckDuckGo Maybe Not So Private?
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, has a history of defending Google and pointing out misconceptions their competitor, DuckDuckGo, may insinuate on Hacker News.
He did so when talking about DuckDuckGo & robots.txt directives and he did so when talking about filter bubbles…
I Want To Delete My Discussion Forum: Should I 404 It?
In December 2005, about 7.5 years ago, I started a forum on this site. Truth is, today, I barely spend time there. I make it incredibly hard to sign up…
Google Language Change: Content That Get’s Used & Shared, Not Linked To.
As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land with Google Changes Ranking Advice, Says Build Quality Sites Not Links – Google made a change to their messaging on the ranking article help document. This was first spotted by @Baeumlisberger and it is an…
No. 1 Position in Google Gets 33% of Search Traffic [Study]
New data from online ad network Chitika looks at organic search rankings relative to traffic, and shows the importance of being on top in order to get the most clicks. This is the latest study to demonstrate the huge power of Page 1, Position 1.
Why the Local Carousel Make Local Branded AdWords More Important
The new Google Local Carousel provides a striking design at the top of the SERPS that not only provides significant eye candy and for some users a click attractant but also leaves little room below for the display of many organic results. This is true on very large screens but is even more so on […]