Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Facebook To Retire “Who Can Look Up My Timeline By Name?” Search Setting For All Users
As of today, Facebook announced that it is completing the removal of its “Who can look up my timeline by name?” search setting. Users who still have access to it will begin seeing a reminder below their Facebook search bar that the setting is being retired. Last December, Facebook announced it was replacing the search […]
- Niagra Falls Photo Wins Bing Hometown Homepage Photo Contest
After asking users to submit photos of their hometown back in August, Bing announced today Prasad Karkera’s photo of the Niagra Falls has won its Hometown Homepage Photo Contest. Karkera’s photo was one of ten selected by Bing and then voted on via a public vote by Bing users. Taken from the New York State […]
- AdWords Smartphone CPCs Drop Sharply After Enhanced Campaigns Transition [RKG Report]
With two months of enhanced campaigns behind us, RKG’s Q3 Digital Marketing Report offers a look at the near-term impact of the roll-out on its client set, which includes 40 of the top 500 online retailers. Most metrics remained relatively stable, however the effects were seen in smartphones where CPCs dropped significantly after the transition. […]
- Just 2 More Days to Save $300 on SMX Social Media Marketing – Register Now
SMX Social Media Marketing Super Early Bird rates – the lowest offered – expire tomorrow, Friday, October 11. Register now. Attend for: Exceptional content: 2 days featuring tactic-packed sessions 100% focused on paid, earned and owned social media Invaluable connections: Meet others like you and the expert speakers pre-show and in-person while you’re enjoying the […]
- New Google AdWords Interface Design And Logo Starts Rolling Out
Google has started rolling out a new logo and web UI design. The logo is now integrated into the navigation bar and the green has been stripped away. Rick Galan tweeted this screenshot: The new AdWords logo and menu reflect the move toward flat design that Google recently adopted with its flagship logo. Here’s the current/old […]
- 5 Ways PPC Can Make You A Smarter Marketer
I’ve come to the conclusion that search marketing makes you super smart when you use it to its full potential. Obviously, one doesn’t get smart by being lazy, complacent or having campaigns run on autopilot. PPC smarts come from rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty with data, analysis, and data-driven decisions. In […]
- Google Hummingbird: When Evolutionary Becomes Revolutionary
The announcement of Google’s Hummingbird algorithm last month made quite a stir in the tech and SEO communities. In a blog post released the same day as the Hummingbird announcement, Google revealed some new features and ended the post with this: We’ll keep improving Google Search so it does a little bit more of the hard […]
- The Top 7 Milestones Of Google Search
I think that I can confidently say that anyone reading this post has an intimate relationship with Google. After all, it’s one of the most important companies in the world and has helped to spearhead the Internet revolution — which is up there with invention of the wheel, the discovery of electricity, and the creation […]
- Google’s Matt Cutts: User Redirection Based On Location Is Not Spam
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video yesterday clearly stating the geo-location or redirecting users based on their location is not spam. Google will not consider a site that uses geo-location techniques as spam. What Google does consider spam is when you redirect GoogleBot to a web page of content that users […]
- Google Now Cards Invade The New Google Maps
Google sure does love its new card-based information display. They’re the primary display for Google Now information. They’re part of Google’s new unified design on mobile devices. They’re how all information is displayed on Google Glass. They’ve been spotted in the wild displaying Google News results, too. And now they’re part of the new (still […]
Recent Headlines From MarTech, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Facebook To Retire Who Can Look Me Up” Search Setting, Finalizing Changes Announced Last Year
- Microsoft Joins the Anti-Cookie Movement, Working On Its Own Replacement
- Twitter Now Works On Android Tablets – Well, One Tablet
- LiquidM Launches First White-Labeled Mobile Ad Management Platform
- New @EventParrot Twitter Experiment Delivers Breaking News Via Direct Message
- Just 2 More Days to Save $300 on SMX Social Media Marketing – Register Now
- Major Facebook Insights Upgrade Gives All Page Owners More A Powerful Feature Set
- Study: Number Of People Who Share Or Post Videos Online Has Doubled Since 2009
- Lies, Damned Lies & Email Best Practices
- Most Of Fortune 100 Don’t Live Up To Google’s Mobile Best Practices — Even Google
- Microsoft Wins 13 Bing-Related Domains From Squatter
- Miss The SMX East Conference Last Week? Check Out The 10 Most Popular Presentations Now
Search News From Around The Web:
Industry
- WebmasterWorld Administrators Bill Atchison and Frank Bauer Join Internet Marketing Ninjas, PR Web
- Google Seeks to Appeal U.S. Judge’s Gmail Wiretap Ruling, Bloomberg
- Judge: Google’s Tracking Not Harmful, Wall Street Journal
- Microsoft tells UK users to BingItOn too, says 53% of Brits prefer Bing to Google in blind test, The Next Web
- Sirefef Malware Served Up By Bad Bing Ads, ThreatTrack Security Labs Blog
Local & Maps
- The Value of Online Reviews and How to Get Them, State of Digital
Link Building
- 4 Theoretical Ranking Factors Replacing Links, internetmarketingninjas.com
Searching
- Google Now: The Tip of A Very Long Spear, John Battelle’s Searchblog
- Look out Google: Disconnect says its no-track search tool is taking off, GigaOM
SEO
- Google Scoring Gibberish Content to Demote Pages in Rankings?, SEO By The Sea
- 4 Terrifying Local Search Marketing & SEO Mistakes, Search Engine Watch
- Are You Doing Your SEO Wrong?, quicksprout.com
- Educate Yourself Before Choosing an SEO Company, Local University
- FUD, Hummingbird and the future of SEO copywriting, SEO Copywriting
- Keep Your Website Content Ranking After Google Hummingbird: 8 Tips, Content Marketing Institute
- Optimising Your Site by Google’s ‘New’ Rules, Daily SEO Tip
- Posting Video Sitemaps via Bing Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Blog
SEM / Paid Search
- 3 Strategies for Building Better Search ROI, Yahoo Advertising Blog
- Bing Ads Express: Finding Local Customers Online Just Got Easier, Bing Ads
- Google Trusted Stores: the good, the bad, the inevitable, econsultancy.com
- How To Set Up Conversion Optimizer with Google AdWords, blog.adstage.io
- Mastering PPC: Different Conversion Types, SEER Interactive
Search Marketing
- RKG Digital Marketing Report: Q3 2013 Released, RKG Blog
- 7 Habits of Great New SEMs, 3qdigital.com
- Google is killing the keyword, unless you pay (here’s what to do about it), VentureBeat
- Koozai Shortlisted For Two UK Search Awards 2013, Koozai
- Mega-SERP: A Visual Guide to Google, Moz
- New Features in GinzaMetrics Platform Address Google’s Secure Search (Keyword Not Provided) Update, ginzametrics.com
- Understanding the AdWords Paid & Organic Report, SwellPath
