For the record, my favorite failure is Topeka, Kansas changing it's name to Google, Kansas in an attempt to get Fiber in their city. Publish this page onto the client's website I'm writing a post about egobait for link building for Search Engine...
As Google CEO Larry Page himself said at Google I/O last month that “Technology should do the hard work so that people can get on with doing the things that make them happiest in life. With Google dominating mobile search and free Google tools like...
If Google and other Search Engines can see your Bio, Expertise, Company and Location categorized and ready for them to pull and deliver to a user, why wouldn't this be a good idea? You can see we also have breadcrumbs in search results in Bing...
Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook Graph Search, and Yahoo Local – to create a presence for your business and gain that all-important visibility. This means that Yahoo Local has a search engine...
One of the all-new chapters in the book, Optimizing for Local Search, introduces the importance of local search and how Google+ fits in. Jones then walks you through how to create and link up your Google+ business page for optimizing for local SEO.
Google seems to be doing a limited beta test of a new style of displaying local search results, such as restaurants, in a unique carousel style that allows a user to scroll sideways through the results.
It's just another way for Facebook to ensure the businesses it returns in the search results are followed by real users, that those users are actively engaging the Page's content, sharing its updates, etc.
In this regard, any business will gain a clear advantage in outranking their competitor in a local search, making it very important to unlock the full potential of Google+ Local. Although it's still premature to talk about "ranking" on Google Now's...
Google has experimented with seven results on many SERPs since last summer. Are you seeing less than 10 results in your Bing search results? Kohavi suggested this is simply the "first steps" in dynamically sizing the search results pages.
No More Quick View in Google Search – Google Operating SystemGoogle removes the ability to see PDF or Microsoft Office files from the search results. One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google.
Similar to Google Authorship, linking your Google+ page using the rel=publisher tag on your site not only helps you build relationships with friends and followers, but also gives Google information they can use to determine the relevancy of your...
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an...
Just as Google and major search engines frown on keyword stuffing on websites, stuffing the keyword field with unrelated keywords can get an app rejected from app stores, so play fair – stick with descriptive keywords that are relevant to the...
Google adds local safety alerts to search results – CNETA partnership between Google and tech startup Nixle will allow safety notifications from local authorities to appear at the top of search results.
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. If you already set up a Google+ Business page in...
Following Google’s decision to make Shopping a paid product, the number of shopping results showing in universal search has seen massive declines, according to a Searchmetrics study. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while...
Paid Search Beyond Google: Social Media, Bing & Retargeting Ads Google has done well at scaring webmasters to linking out fairly to other websites. When the abuse becomes too obvious, Google is forced to take measures.
A disclaimer on the flight search page explains, "Some airlines are not available on Google". After a long delay, Google Flight Search, its airline flight comparison service that has been available in the U.S.since September 2011, has finally...
The Search Agency has launched an automated alternative that lets search resellers get better results for small businesses doing local search – and make more money doing so. In the past, his company has either outsourced search to large companies...
I typed designer jeans into Google (for that is what people do when they watch TV). This is becoming more and more important with the convergence of second screen, or even local advertising, as people shop on the go.
