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Bing rolled out a trio of changes this week. In addition to revamping the design of Friends Photos search and changes to the autosuggest algorithm, Bing also unveiled a plugin to help webmasters more easily generate XML sitemaps.
Redesigned your site in the past few years? Making sure your Google Analytics code is modern will ensure your page load speed isn’t impacted and you can use some cool newer features. Here’s how to check if your code needs an update.
Majestic SEO is expanding yet again. Fresh off of announcing the Majestic SEO Fresh Index increased to 90 days, the Majestic SEO Team has just introduced a new URL submission tool open to everyone, not just their paid subscribers.
Google's logo today combines Valentine's Day with a tribute to American engineer George Ferris. When you click on the heart button, the Ferris wheels stop rotating and two animals are left side-by-side to (hopefully) fall in love at first sight.
Whether it’s QR codes or innovative apps, digital disruption is here – and it’s already transforming traditional search marketing. It's a great opportunity for agile innovators. Here’s how search marketers can combat digital disruption.
For search marketers in 2013, the message today at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint conference was clear: know your audience, use all your channels, data still rules, and come up with innovative ways to test from which you can learn and succeed.
Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt suggests in his upcoming book that search engines will give priority and higher rank to content created by those with verified accounts. "The true cost of remaining anonymous," he writes, "might be irrelevance."
Celebrating what would have been his 94th birthday, Google in honoring Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball, with a portrait of Robinson swinging a bat in front of a logo resembling classic Dodgers script.
The combined suite of software, now renamed to Rio SEO Social Media Suite, includes three products that assist with large-scale, social-sharing campaign analysis, as well as social advertising initiatives and digital-influencer activation programs.
Bing is now allowing you to make your tags public. In the past, search results pages you were tagged in were only seen by your Facebook friends. Starting this week, you can choose to select tags that you want marked as public.
Whether you measure your own blog or a host of clients' sites, some of the automation features and additional dashboarding data reporting tools in the App Gallery are impressive and can help you perform some tasks faster than Google Analytics alone.
Between July and December of 2012, 68 percent of the personal data requests Google received from government entities in the U.S. were through subpoenas; 22 percent were through search warrants; and the remaining 10 percent were mostly court orders.
Beware the Panda. According to a tweet from the official @Google Twitter account this morning, a new data refresh is rolling out today. This update, according to the notice, should only affect 1.2 percent of English language queries.
As they have for the past 7 years, Google honored Dr. King with a new Doodle. Coloring the Google logo in a mosaic-like pattern of purple, blues, and yellow, it prominently features a profile likeness of King as the first "o" in the Google logo.
Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads. This year, they've released an infographic that recounts all they have done over the past year to reduce the number of bad ads that appeared.
In the wake Facebook unveiling Graph Search, Bing is now adding more Facebook data into its social sidebar results. Bing has added status updates, links, comments, and images of relevant content that your Facebook friends have shared.
Google released new images to prove that a donkey was not in fact taking a dirt nap after being run over by a Google Street View car. Rather, trying to put conspiracy theories to rest, Google's images show the donkey was merely taking a dust bath.
Shashi Seth, Senior VP of the Connections business unit, has announced he's leaving Yahoo. During his three and a half years at Yahoo, Seth's responsibilities included overseeing Yahoo Search, Local, Shopping, Mail, Flickr, Answers, and many more.
Conducting a web search on Facebook will return a new search results page featuring a two-column layout. On the left, you'll find search results plus social details powered by Bing; on the right, sponsored ads and related searches will appear.
Google's Doodle today celebrates Frank Zamboni, the creator of the standard in ice cleaning and resurfacing for ice rinks the world over. You can both watch ice being resurfaced by a pixelated man on a Zamboni, or click the Doodle to play a game.
