If users and/or search engines cannot perceive that wonderful new custom feature or content you added to the site, then you wasted your time and effort in implementing it. In the case of a search on "jaguar", a user could be looking for the car...
Bing Places for Business is a place to connect your company with local consumers in a quick and easy way by simply listing your business with the search engine. 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.
As SEO experts, we want the search engines to provide robust, powerful and (preferably) free tools to help us get our jobs done. To meet this goal, Bing Places for Business includes a powerful bulk upload feature to manage multiple listings at once...
Target Search Page Location: This strategy will adjust bids to help you achieve a desired average position. Another new feature is called flexible bid strategies. Then again, what new feature is these days?
Google AdWords is introducing another new feature to encourage advertisers to convert their campaigns to enhanced campaigns. For example, here's how the new sitelink details look on a search for [ses san francisco]:
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...
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...
The feature article talks about mortgages and foreclosures in the San Francisco area and offers previously recorded video interviews of experts talking about the same issue. Instead of peppering links to the videos throughout the story, they place...
On every check we have made, Google's search engine gave us easy access to illegal goods, including websites which offer," Hood said. USA Today also reported the group Digital Citizens Alliance found Google was allowing ads on YouTube videos that...
Get the Lay of the Land with Search Queries The Search Queries area gives you both traffic and keyword information. But Google Webmaster Tools gives the advanced search expert another perspective on planning and evaluating his or her search efforts.
This week, Pinterest unveiled a helpful little feature that allows users to search for items they’ve pinnedin the past. As far as I can tell in my research, this feature doesn’t the ability to search your repins, only original pins.
And Greg Jarboe gives tips as well on how to use the feature here on Search Engine Watch. Recently, Twitter announced the launch a new feature for Cards that allows brands to collect opt-in email right in Twitter.
Once such feature is a new global search for Windows 8, powered by Bing. If you have Windows 8, Microsoft says it's going to revolutionize your search experience now that Windows 8.1 is landing. Last summer, Bing introduced a suite of search apps...
Facebook is getting into the verification business, borrowing a feature that Twitter first introduced almost four years ago. While verified pages and profiles will add some semblance of authenticity, brands aren’t exactly begging for the feature or...
Bing News has introduced an interesting feature – a visual carousel when users search for newsworthy people. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta. While ads used to appear either as either search ads or...
Google+ users have received an update with how Google Search interacts with their photos, and the photos of friends, while signed into Google+. To see what images you have uploaded, simply search for [my photos] on Google.com (English only) when...
These are not videos for search, but specifically designed for sharing," said Jon Steinberg, president and COO of BuzzFeed. The CNN channel won't feature any branded content at the start, Steinberg said.
Search engines practice good pagination practices as well, so take a page (or a post, if you will) out of Google's playbook. Despite the inherent "SEO value" of blogging, many blogs just aren't properly optimized for search, or aren't optimized to...
The search result below leads right to a Facebook help page, but – oops, looks like they haven't updated their meta descriptions. Outdated information still populates search result. Facebook has only rolled out this new feature to select accounts...
