August 2012: Bing added Facebook Friend Tagging to search, Quora, and Facebook photo search Bing announced the ability to comment on Facebook directly from the Bing Social Sidebar. This means you will be allowed to directly engage with your...
You can easily see this displayed in the SERPs when the listing includes "liked by {friend name here}". I'm glad Facebook launched Graph Search, since I often joked that the previous search functionality was so bad, you could barely find yourself.
For some insights on those questions, as well as how to attain search and social synergy, I interviewed my friend Rob Garner, former VP of strategy at iCrossing, member of the board of directors and vice president at SEMPO, and author of "Search t...
John Lee, Clix Marketing and SEW contributor, spoke on A Friend of a Friend: PPC for Facebook. Facebook Ads are the hot topic these days (well, other than enhanced campaigns). With the tracking, optimized CPM has evolved to include off Facebook...
EE: You could screw it up just like you would screw up any friendship: by being a bad friend. EE: How would you make a friend? Some people in the client’s company may not understand 100 percent about how best to use the social channels but they...
Take for example a mobile user who shares content from a mobile site with a friend on Facebook who then accesses that content using a desktop, which results in that user viewing a stripped down mobile site on their desktop.
Open up your mind about how retargeting and third party audience modeling matters to community managers and content marketing and build new key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring social media efforts, including “friend leads” and conversion.
Instead of revealing just the closest sushi places to a user on a mobile device, search should help tap into a user's social networks to provide more granular information, such as a friend's reviews. We all have multiple personalities that are...
I've had one client come on board after his friend read one of my articles. With analytics, you can dig into how long people from Facebook tend to stay on your site vs.people from Twitter, for example, so even if you add in some purely social-type...
Still, the results they see are based on friend activity, check-ins, reviews, personal preferences as determined by Facebook, and more. A recent global update to Facebook’s Nearby mobile check-in made it possible for iOS and Android users to...
Have you ever woken up after a night out with new numbers in your phone under names like “Ryan from concert”, “Sarah Cute Dress”, or “April Sam’s Friend”? You might also text some friends, post a Facebook message asking for suggestions, or run a...
How about a LinkedIn connection or a Facebook friend, or repeated interaction on Quora or Empire Avenue? As such, it reflects my opinion of the direction search is going, not where it necessarily is today.
Just as you have to earn the trust of a friend, you have to earn good links these days. Twitter has been around since 2006 and currently has about 500 million users, half that of Facebook. Last example: My agency runs a local news site and we've...
Calling it "five times more" friend contnent, Bing wants you to be able to make better decisions on what you're looking for. Combining search results with friend recommendations provides the framework for friend recommendations in search results...
And, truthfully, to see the ad was like welcoming back an old friend. It was a Facebook ad for HitTail, saying SEO Is Dead, which got my attention at the beginning of this year. Exactly a year ago today, you may have spotted the relaunch of HitTail...
And it’s always fun to watch your friend struggle to complete a puzzle you’ve already solved. Acceptable methods of entry can include tweeting a certain phrase, using a certain hashtag, or sharing the page on Facebook.
Research shows that people who write down goals, share that information with a friend, and send weekly updates to that friend are 33 percent more successful in accomplishing goals than those who merely formulated goals.
I was the last person to talk to my friend and will spend the rest of my life wondering why Danny Rollings randomly chose his beautiful and innocent victims. I know what that’s like too, since Rollings also killed Tracy’s roommate, Manny, another...
Potentially relevant comments from "friends of friends" on a friend's post are also factored into the results. If you are in the US you will soon start to see friends, experts and enthusiasts from leading networks including Facebook, Twitter...
The more Likes a brand on Facebook has, the more likely a searcher will see a friend’s endorsement on Bing. Encourage your Facebook fans to be your brand advocates so their photos, information, and posts appear in the Bing Sidebar (again, taking...
