The search giant cited the first amendment on the U.S. Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S.government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in the PRISM scandal.
With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which...
The new offering integrates Yahoo Local, which enables business owners to submit basic or enhanced listing information that is displayed in Yahoo's local search results, with location data provided by Yext.
A public relations strategy is a big part of successful search campaigns. You can also use tools like LinkedIn and search for "editorial" or "columnist" within the publication's list of employees. If you need a refresher or an overview on this...
Over the last 12 months we have witnessed a content marketing explosion and a rapid evolution in search and social media marketing techniques. Marketers now leverage the power of schema.org mark ups in a cost effective way to drive higher CTRs and...
Ever since the news hit about the NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them. Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy...
Just last week, Inside Facebook revealed sponsored search results were among the features to be cut. Advertisers can still buy search products with ads on search results pages, according to the report.
Another month and another new release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S.for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines.
A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts brings up a topic that most webmasters don’t think about – whether stock photography versus original photography has any impact on search engine rankings.
Did you catch Google's recent post on its webmaster blog regarding mobile website infrastructure and search results? Failure to fix annoying mobile experiences will now actively hinder your efforts to rank well within search results.
Many paid search marketers often go about their business of optimizing their accounts without really caring about what else might be happening in the digital space around them. The most obvious of these integration points is between paid and...
The search giant made $32.73 billion in net digital ad revenue in 2012, equivalent to nearly 31.5 percent of total worldwide digital ad spending that year,” eMarketer said in its report. Google will take home more than half of all mobile...
Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results. A quick hashtag search for #Facebook pulled up the following: Facebook announced hashtags last week, giving validation to everyone...
Numerous "search results" pages were indexed and driving loads of traffic but no sales. Increase in "good" organic search traffic. Sometimes there is cause to remove "bad content" from the search engines' indexes.
His intentions are clearly good (i.e.wanting better search results for end-users), but is he pushing the costs of SEO out of reach for small businesses? As the Penguin 2.0 dust settles the SEO pundits are racing to interpret what Google has done...
In another example, he showed how you can do a search for a type of restaurant, such as “Chinese Restaurant”. John Gagnon, Bing Ads Evangelist at Microsoft, jumped into his morning keynote at SES Toronto talking about changing technology and how...
They want to go beyond being a search engine returning relevant websites and become an information provider, social tool, and really, world changer. I’ve had great experiences involving local link building throughout campaigns, gaining traction...
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...
But what's interesting is that Google is fracturing our cherished idea of discoverability, especially in relation to unbranded keywords, into search and exploration. Riley Newman, Head of Analytics at Airbnb, recently published a fun and geeky...
In Estimating the Impact of iOS 6 Organic Search Data Loss s important to take into account all variables (shown below), seemingly complicated, but worth taking the time for an accurate estimate. MR = Percentage of iOS 6 Search Traffic without...
