Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Microsoft’s FY2014 Q1 Earnings Report Includes 47% Growth In Search Ad Revenue
Yesterday’s Microsoft FY2014 Q1 earnings report showed the company generated $18.53 billion in total revenues, with 47 percent growth in search advertising revenue. Executive vice president and CFO Ann Hood said Microsoft experienced broad based revenue growth from a geographic perspective, with better than expected results in a number of areas. “This quarter, revenue growth […] - Search In Pics: Google Skeleton, Prescription Google Glass & Google Security Bear
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 Skeleton: Source: Google+ Ping Pong At Google Oslo: Source: Google+ Google Play Time Square Billboard: […] - How Local Businesses Should Size Up & Tackle Social Media
The most frequently asked question posed these days at events, webinars and new client meetings is “What is the best social media platform for my local business?” Research shows social channels are becoming more important signals in major search engine algorithms that affect the entire SEO and local search landscape. However, effective local and social […] - SEO & Social Media Alignment
I recently presented at SMX East on how SEO and Social teams can no longer operate separately. Why? Because social media is playing an ever-more important role in SEO, and it has the potential to be disruptive to the status quo. Everywhere I turn, I find examples: personalized rank results, results with rel-author that display in […] - The Bright Side Of Not Provided
It’s been a few weeks since Google rocked our worlds and stripped keyword-level data from the referrer, so it’s time to examine the fallout and see what’s changed in the world of search marketing. Surprisingly, not much. Keywords were beacons of insight – fantastic beacons – but keywords were a double-edged sword leading us to create content […] - Facebook Offers A Peek At How Graph Search For Status Updates Works
It’s been less than a month since Facebook expanded Graph Search to include status updates and posts, and the feature still isn’t available to all users. Nonetheless, Facebook search engineer Ashoat Tevosyan shared an “under the hood” look at how it works — and why it took so long to become reality. There’s nothing incredibly […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Oreo, Taco Bell, Old Spice & ESPN Are Featured Brands In Twitter’s IPO Roadshow Video
- Google Signs Upfront Advertising Deal With MediaVest Worth Millions
- Search. Browse. Abandon? How Automation Converts Browsers Into Buyers
- Infographic: All About How People Share On Pinterest
- Is Not Provided A Good Thing?
- Twitter Will Raise More Than $1 Billion In IPO
- Microsoft Reports “Better Than Expected Results” With FY2014 Q1 Revenue Totaling $18.53 Billion
Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- Search Influence Wins Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Award, Search Influence
Link Building
- Google May Not Accept Your Disavow File If You Don’t Manually Try To Remove Links, Search Engine Roundtable
- Link Building 101: Local Link Building, Search Engine Watch
- Link Reclamation – Whiteboard Friday, moz.com
Searching
- Google Maps Easter Egg for Philadelphia, Google Operating System
- Calling All Basketball Fans, Bing Search Blog
- Google Search Setting For 100 Results Per Page Breaks, Search Engine Roundtable
- Huge Google Shift Points To Faster Search Results, TechCrunch
- The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It, MIT Technology Review
SEO
- How to Optimise a One Page Parallax Scrolling Website, koozai.com
- SEO: 5 Ways to Avoid Indexation, Practical E-Commerce
- The Executives Guide to SEO — The Free 111-Minute Course, BruceClay.com
SEM / Paid Search
- What the New AdWords Ad Rank Algorithm Really Means, www.wordstream.com
- 10 PPC Musts for Making Your Holiday 2013 Jolly, Portent
- AdWords Lessons From SEO Agencies?, Crazy Egg
- Are You Making These 10 Common Google AdWords Mistakes?, KISS Metrics
- Bing Ads Billing Update: Add a Back-Up Payment, Bing Ads
- How a Higher Quality Score in Bing Ads Can Mean More Clicks and More Sales, Bing Ads Blog
- Stop Obsessing Over AdWords Quality Score, Search Engine Watch
- The Top 5 Ways To Use Pivot Tables For PPC, Beyond the Paid
Search Marketing
- Video: Google’s Matt Cutts On Future, MugShots Downgraded, Banner Ads In Google & AdWords Changes, Search Engine Roundtable
