A Microsoft account is anything you use to sign in to Hotmail, SkyDrive, or Xbox LIVE. Enter your information and then hit "search" to see if anything appears. If nothing does, it will ask you to moderate your search or click "add new business.
When you placed the tilde sign immediately in front of a keyword, Google would also include synonyms for that word in their search results. Unfortunately, Google has quietly dropped support for the tilde sign in Google search results.
This is such a severe warning Google has a live generated feed of sites being removed for it. Thanks to Google's Inside Search site, we find Google very clearly defines what those penalty (a.k.a.manual action) emails are telling you.
Target Search Page Location: This strategy will adjust bids to help you achieve a desired average position. Unlike any bidding functionality that has come before, flexible bid strategies live in the AdWords Shared Library.
Bing maps can deliver results not only for where you are currently, but it also knows you are headed home so it will also show results for those restaurants also near where you live. In another example, he showed how you can do a search for a type...
He cautioned that some consumers just don't just engage in email, but instead they're on social, mobile, search, on your website, etc. Most brands do not have huge teams of people working on email; rather, it's usually two or three people in a...
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. Separately, Google is warning that if you have a bad mobile website, your search rankings will soon be hurting.
I'll compile all of this for a post that should be live on SEW on June 11th, so if you could get this back to me by June 1st I'd greatly appreciate it. I give them dates for when I need their responses and when the post will go live.
Russian-based search engine Yandex announced a revolutionary way for users to interact with the search results, giving them the ability to buy movie tickets, check flight status, make restaurant reservations, pay bills and more, without ever...
Social signals impact SEO as well, so social content sharing and authorship of valuable optimized content assist marketing teams in gaining organic search visibility. Content can take the forms of live audio, video capture and creation, and...
It's now been one week since Google Penguin 2.0 went live. Both saw massive search visibility drops (though it's not clear whether they have taken an equivalent traffic hit). Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of...
and in a subsequent search, asks, "Where does she live? Google unveiled conversational search at Google I/O last week, and began rolling it out on the latest version of Chrome this week. The "OK Google" search prompt we heard about at I/O isn't...
It's been less than 24 hours since Google Penguin 2.0 went live, but there are already several reports of big changes. The URL of the search result that demonstrates the problem. There are also many reports that, despite Penguin, Google is still...
Long Live Online Marketing This prospect creates fear for many small businesses who depend on search engine optimization (SEO) for their livelihoods. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than...
Webmasters have been watching for Penguin 2.0 to hit the Google search results since Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts first announced that there would be the next generation of Penguin. Then in a Google Webmaster Help video, Cutts went...
Two hours and 45 minutes into a 3-hour keynote, Page took the stage giving what almost could be described as an elevator pitch or Google infomercial followed by over a half hour of live question and answer with the audience.
What there hasn’t been – other than whatever search engines might be using on their own – is a way for a marketers to be measuring it. Co-founded by an ex-Googler and search quality team member, BloomReach and its CQM technology has been used in...
When your content is placed on Google+ it has the chance to rank higher because the content is fed into the personal search results of your Google+ circles. Google+, as a Google product, means it will undoubtedly be integrated into other developing...
As I explained in my blog post about BeastRank (right before Graph Search went live), I fully believe that likes, shares, comments, etc.could impact Local Graph Search rankings. On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the...
Bing followed it up with man-on-the-street live tests in front of rolling cameras in the San Francisco Bay area. Based on a comparison of web search results pane only; excludes ads, Bing's Snapshot and Social Search panes and Google's Knowledge Graph.