SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 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: Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Less Results From Same Domain
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will make it less likely to see results from…
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Bing Beams Up Star Trek Fans With Home Page Easter Egg, Klingon Translator
In conjunction with the arrival of “Star Trek Into Darkness”, Bing has added a couple of features that fans should appreciate: a home page Easter egg when you search for “beam me up” and a new language option to Bing Translator: Klingon.
Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference
Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To…
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Search In Pics: Google Blimps, Sullivan Junior At Google LA & A Google Mohawk
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+ Blimps: Source: Google+ Danny Sullivan’s Kid At Google LA:…
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Google Updates AdWords Express Sign-Up Process, Ad Copy Preview And Dashboard
Google has updated the interface for AdWords Express, Google’s AdWords product designed for small businesses. Among the interface updates are a redesigned dashboard to show an at-a-glance look at ad views (impressions), clicks and calls generated as well as a pie chart that tracks monthly…
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From Authorship to Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters #smxlondon
From Authorship to Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters: This SMX London session consisted of Chelsea Blacker, Jim Boykin, Maile Ohye and Grant Simmons looking at this very topic.
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli on State of Search
From Authorship to Authority: Why Claiming Your Identity Matters #smxlondon
35% Will Block Google Images In Protest Of Change
About a month ago, we asked our readers if they are or plan on blocking Google Images after they noticed a huge drop in traffic since the new image search design launched…
Google Subject Specific Authority Ranking
As part of our coverage of the ten Google algorithm changes coming this summer, I wanted to make sure you all saw that Google was coming up with a technique to determine which sites are authorities in specific topics. Now, if Google determined…
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Gaining Access To The New Google Maps
As we expected, Google introduced the new Google Maps interface and features at Google I/O.
The new maps are no longer a “static map” but now the maps are “immersively interactive” said…
Google Adds Organization Schema Markup For Knowledge Graph Logos
Google has announced they’ve added support for the schema.org markup for organization logos within the search results, specifically not the search snippets but within the knowledge graph…
Google Drops The “Translated Foreign Pages” Search Filter
Google has dropped yet another search filter option from the search results. This one is named “Translated Foreign Pages…
Google Maps Will Allow You To Move Reviews To A Different Listing
Jane Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that you can now make a request for Google to move your businesses reviews from one listing to another…
Your Rankings Drop Around May 15th? May Be Due To Link Networks Google Busted
On May 15th, Google’s head of search spam, announced on Twitter that Google has taken “action on several thousand linksellers in a paid-link that passes PageRank network.”
Google has done this time and time again…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 17, 2013
Very busy week at Google, mostly because of I/O but a lot of other things going on – it didn’t help that I was offline for two days. We first discuss the ten changes coming to Google related to SEO, including softening Panda…
Analyzing Competitiveness In Your Paid Search Account
The auction-based industry we work in involves a number of metrics which help search marketers identify where they are doing better or worse than the competition. Just to name a few, the most common metrics search marketers usually look at are the Qual…
Paid Search Advertising in a Multi-Device World #SMXLondon
There is no denying that mobile is growing, even to the extent that Google is focusing more on mobile and looking to benefit from mobile, as seen with new Enhanced campaigns. Kyle covers this session at SMX London.
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Paid Search Advertising in a Multi-Device World #SMXLondon
10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve SEO & Usability
Looking to increase your WordPress performance? These top 10 plugins (most of them free) will help you perform all kinds of different tasks and tweaks with WordPress, while also helping your site when it comes to SEO, usability, and conversion.
Google Glass: Metaphor for the Future of Local or a Turkey?
At the Philadelphia Local U last week I had a chance to touch Matt McGee’s Glass. It was exhilarating, disturbing, interesting, disorienting and a number of other adjectives. Everyone at the table was anxious to try it and see what it did and how it works. I was struck by its awkwardness and obtrusiveness as […]
Yahoo Wins $2.75 Billion Appeal In Yellow Pages Case
Yahoo announced yesterday that it had prevailed in an appeal of a $2.75 judgment in Mexico obtained by former joint venture partners: The appellate decision overturned all monetary awards against Yahoo! Inc. and reduced the monetary award against Yahoo…