A simple snapshot of organic search traffic trends pulled from Google Analytics provides a useful graph to see how SEO efforts have grown traffic over time. What if you could see this data in a single graph with just the push of a button?
FTC also brings up social listings, such as the ones you see in Facebook’s Graph Search, or even Google+ influenced personalized results where some listings are displayed more prominently because of someone in that users personal network.
Google's Knowledge Graph - showing information directly on the search results page -and the presence of the 'Carousel' results are just two of the game changers making local SEO a moving target. With the rise of smartphones and mapping apps we're...
Facebook Graph Search and EdgeRank Facebook Graph Search is also becoming increasingly important, since Facebook is one of the top ranked and indexed sites on the web. So with Facebook Graph Search the results are based on both users' and brands...
Over the last 10 years the social graph has grown extensively when compared to the link graph. Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques.
Pete at Moz wrote a fantastic post about the effect of SERP crowding for organic spots, due to features such as local listings, advertisements, the knowledge graph, rich snippets, etc. I’ve had great experiences involving local link building...
Things like SERP personalization and Google's Knowledge Graph are two examples of how the simple search function is becoming more and more exploratory than about search. But what's interesting is that Google is fracturing our cherished idea of...
Now if you were to chart everything I just told you, you'd likely get a graph more complicated than this Local Search Ecosystem chart. Until recently, after the visitor signed up for a free account, I didn't focus any of my paid search efforts on...
I use WordPress exclusively and I always recommend Yoast's WordPress SEO for adding Open Graph and breadcrumb markup to your site. You can see we also have breadcrumbs in search results in Bing organic listings:
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. Although Yahoo is no longer the search engine...
Results are curated from Blekko's own original search index, Dynamic Inference Graph (DIG) algorithm and editorial evaluation. Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching...
Derived from Google’s Knowledge Graph, the data is featured in Google Trends and updates dynamically. First, Hot Searches highlights queries that jumped significantly in traffic, whereas Top Charts highlights topics with high overall search volume.
On the social search side, results from Facebook’s Graph Search are generated entirely from a searcher’s social network and other information available publicly on Facebook. Today, each and every brand should harness the power of social signals if...
Following this step my recommendation would be to hold a brainstorming session focused on the topics identified as a priority in the graph above, but that's a topic that could take up a series of posts in itself!
This follows its moves with Nearby and Graph Search, not to mention coming days after Foursquare's revamped desktop SMB pages. Facebook's Graph Search will have the relevance – and a strong form of relevance governed by the aggregated sentiment of...
How will we optimize for this new kind of search and the Google Knowledge Graph? The results, Wright said, are from the Knowledge Graph. The Knowledge Graph knows that Santa Cruz is a place, and that this list of places are related to Santa Cruz"
Google's post specifically mentions Knowledge Graph results as an example of where your organization's logo may be used. This change is likely an indication that Google may be expanding their Knowledge Graph results in the near future.
While it certainly can contribute to their Graph, that's merely a collateral benefit. At first glance, one might think that Google found this to be a powerful tool to assist in building out its Knowledge Graph.
It allows customers to check-in to wherever they are and then post that check-in to Facebook for all of their friends to see (this is now more important than ever thanks to the Facebook Graph Search).
On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious search engine. I'm glad Facebook launched Graph Search, since I often joked that the previous search functionality was so bad, you could...
