The "pizza in Denver" results showed the map result received 32 percent of the clicks, followed by the first image in the carousel at 17 percent, and then the first organic result at 11 percent. Two search agencies independently conducted...
Image Credit: Joe Loong/Flickr With the rise of smartphones and mapping apps we're living in the era of local search and discovery. Rio Local: Pretty much focused on larger companies with multiple locations, Rio has the only complete hosted local...
Nothing draws a customer's eyes to your listing better than an image. As SEO experts, we want the search engines to provide robust, powerful and (preferably) free tools to help us get our jobs done. Additionally, with the recent announcement of...
Resembling a sort of inline image slide show, you find it in the Bing Social Sidebar for certain searches. Continuing to experiment with ways to change and improve the search experience, Bing has introduced a new experiment called Bing Boards.
You may remember the launch of Izik in January, which brought users tablet-friendly search courtesy of Blekko that's geared toward gesture-controlled navigation and image-focused results. In its announcement, Blekko illustrated a scenario where...
Image credit: EMC Image Credit: Computerworld Let's hone in on the use of data in the context of e-business, social media, search and digital marketing. The value of social media and unstructured data has clearly been on the radar of search engines...
One of the positive things to this new carousel style for local results is that businesses who might not rank in the top two or three required to see the results above the fold, can now see their business featured very prominently, complete with...
Include an image: This was highly stressed. The vast majority of publications require an image. Therefore, it's not completely illogical to assume the columnist can find an image that properly represents your content, or your idea.
Who knows maybe original image sites might be higher quality whereas a site that just repeat the same stock photos over and over again might not be nearly as high quality. A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts...
Debra Mastaler: I'd have the Mayor and Town Council photographed eating there and use the image (with their permission) in a press release and article to the local paper. Image Credit: 123RF Stock Photos
There is an extremely helpful report in Google Analytics that can help determine if your website falls into the first or second image of the mice/maze picture above: the Visitors Flow report. Perhaps the differing viewpoints of your website aren't...
And AdWords is expanding their reach with the search results ads by now allowing advertisers to use image extensions with their ads so that images may show up along with the AdWords ads. Google says that one in six searches give results with visual...
As the above image shows, Yahoo has ditched the tabs that were introduced in the company's 2011 redesign, and now has simple text links to Yahoo's other properties, much like Google, and a left navigation menu similar to the one Marissa Mayer...
Provide a Game Plan give them a fresh background and profile image – and show them who they should be following, how to find other people to follow, how to use Twitter search and other tools, and help them get their feet wet so they feel...
Image search has the potential to drive more incremental visits than you might expect. The result is a rather large piece of real estate that includes your follower count and a link with image to your latest post.
Image Credit: simpartners.com Although Yahoo is no longer the search engine giant it once was, Yahoo Local is a great supplement to your online local strategy. Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook...
Image Credit: Bigstock While online marketing is still a major tool for bringing new customers into your sales funnel, many business transactions are still the result of customers seeing your brand offline and doing a quick online search to find...
When you search for a specific person in Bing News, you will be presented with an image carousel linking to relevant news stories and pages about that person. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta.
As production began on new, traditional ad units to a website, we noticed a significant change to the suggested image size as recommended in Facebook's Create Flow (the web UI for Facebook Ads). Facebook is now suggesting images of 308x308 pixels...
Image credit: Rimm-Kaufman Group Image Credit: Rimm-Kaufman Group The good news is search ad providers are acting to give advertisers the tools to remain profitable despite this disparity in performance.
