Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products, images, maps, and reviews into what was once traditional organic search...
Links from news pages: News items can really be a few different opportunities since most universities have a few separate news streams. School news page: epidemiology.pitt.edu/News/news.asp And like the general news sections at universities, many...
Google Now also offers personalized news feeds, such as scores and updates on a user's favourite sports teams and leagues. Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple's iOS. The company is bringing the platform to Apple's...
Site managers and marketers can become complacent with their sites, viewing the same top level and product/service pages, blog pages, news pages, and so on. Looking at your entire index through the lens of a website indexation audit will allow you...
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. He was on CBS news yesterday (here's a recap by CNET). Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App...
Similarly to GoogleNews, when Google includes Image search results within its regular search results, it would be labeled "Google Image Search": GoogleNews Results specifying a date web pages should no longer appear; and prevent the display of...
That's not necessarily news, but comScore data also reveals the number of unique searchers by industry category. What our advertisers often don't think about and what makes us different, is our significant, distinct audience of 47 million unique...
Back in the day, this would be filtered through a few key sources like magazines, news outlets and a limited number of field experts. Lastly, with Google authorship taking a strong foothold on rankings and the comments coming from Eric Schmidt...
I'm sure you're all by now aware of Google Reader's demise; to many of you this story will have barely warranted a second glance, but for an SEO news addict like me it is a serious pain in the ass. The good news was Google allowed me to get a...
All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has...
Not indexing quickly or often enough means your site could miss some big organic search opportunities, especially if your site relies on current affairs or breaking news. Why this is good for SEO: WordPress’ default setting sets all pages to run...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook):
percent of users' time spent on News Feed
million photos uploaded daily
billion Likes every day
million pages with 10+ Likes
million...
If you triangulate Facebook's moves with Nearby/Local Search, Graph Search, and mobile news feed ads, there's an opportunity to connect buyers and sellers in locally relevant ways. With Cover Feed, which gives you News Feed updates on your home...
The good news is you can choose which side of the sword to be on. Ever since last year’s rollout of the new product listing ad (PLA) system from Google, there’s been an ongoing debate about whether PLAs steal from paid search.
But Google's exit is good news for competitive affiliate networks and affiliate program management companies, which have leapt to snap up the business dropped by Googliath. More important was channel conflict, as Google began to compete directly...
Further, this shows that while it's important for Bing Ads to keep up with Google to facilitate the flow of ad spend across AdWords and Bing Ads, it does not mean they will stop innovating – which is great news, because to improve their share of...
According to "two people briefed on the agreement," the agreement means that Google must clearly label search results for its own services such as GoogleNews or Google+, but it won't involve any changes to Google's search algorithm.
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape – VentureBeatPulse, a news reader app, has 30 million users and aggregates updates from social...
During a keynote, Paul Feng, product management director, Google AdWords, shared a couple pieces of news during his afternoon keynote: Google AdWords New Enhanced Campaigns Connect Ads With Multi-Device Consumers
No Google Glass competitor is imminent from Baidu, though apparently all the tech news sites didn't get the word. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U...