Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren’t Targeted To Your Queries – TechCrunchThe ads "use standard Facebook targeting and retargeting, look like its sidebar ads, and appear at the bottom of the page — and only if there is more...
Separate from Bing's social sidebar efforts, the folks over at Bing have added a "Pin it" button to the Bing Images search results. The group was tasked with better understanding each of the bloggers' search and social media habits.
This type of content can be pulled into your web pages via a sidebar or somewhere else easily accessible on the page. It could be anything from comparison tools, to buying guides to social icons, to videos or photos of the product, and more.
Steer clear of site-wide links or sidebar links or footer links. Call it ego stroking, but by adding this component, you might be able to double link outreach and social sharing success rates. Now, the importance of on-topic links and contextual...
They introduced the 3-column layout with their social sidebar last year. SEOs have been saying that authorship markup and other rich snippets are the future of SEO. The underlyings of authorship markup on Google link directly to Google+, where your...
In fact, Weitz had this to say about why they separated social results into their Social Sidebar: In fact, I think of rel=author as the markup/signal that Google created for the purpose of finding a meaningful way to extract useful ranking data out...
Bing continues to augment Social Sidebar and are now expanding Bing Tags. According to Bing, allowing you to tag friends - or yourself - in search results helped you tap into the resources and "wisdom of your social network" to get you the answers...
Last year, Bing introduced its social sidebar. Since then, there have been numerous updates from Bing expanding the sidebar to include content from other social networks, like Klout and Quora. In the wake Facebook unveiling Graph Search, Bing is...
Bing has been getting more social interactions into their social sidebar for the past several years, something expected to continue to grow throughout the foreseeable future. The first column contains results that are displayed quite similar to a...
Scores of drop-list controls in a sidebar to the right will act as filters to find just the people you're looking for. To eliminate the confusion of how to perform such complicated searches, a set of drop-lists and controls will persistently stay...
Bing has taken a different tack, and social data can cause you to show up in their social sidebar, but doesn’t appear to directly impact the traditional web search results. What about social you ask? Social media isn’t yet a major driver of SEO...
Bing Sidebar Search and social strategies to build links Learn More percent of tech consumers use social media Social, Content and influence Over the next couple of weeks, some of the top expert from SEW will share insights, yearly reviews, and...
Following yesterday's update to Snapshots, Bing cleaned up their social sidebar today. It's almost too many blue links now and with the more visual social sidebar winning the competition for attention, the ads are now too easy to miss - you can...
Bing is looking for and showcasing positive social signals, whether it's the inclusion of a thumbs up next to an organic link on a Bing SERP (indicating one of your Facebook friends has liked a page), your Facebook friends’ Likes in the Bing...
Display awards on their sidebar in hopes of appearing legitimate. Social proof is one of the best ways to qualify yourself. Marketers oftentimes get caught up in a campaign idea that they know "readers are just going to love.
Klout and Bing have teamed up to include Klout Scores and influential topics into the Social Sidebar. After performing a Bing search, the "People Who Know" section of the Social Sidebar will now include people Klout believes to be influential about...
Twitter doesn’t have sidebar ads, so having search engines crawl and index tweets may draw in users, but doesn’t make them any money. By January, Twitter had come out with guns blazing against Google’s announcement of Search Plus Your World, which...
This new feature is actually an expansion of the photo features that launched with the social sidebar in May. Initially, friend photos relevant to your search query were shown in the sidebar along side results.
Social question-and-answer site Quora has been added to Bing's social sidebar. If you're logged into Bing, you'll begin to see answers to questions given by top contributors to the social network Quora in the social sidebar of your results.
It’s been only a short time since Bing added their social sidebar to search. Bing has taken yet another step to make search more social. Tagging friends, says Bing, will help users easily share search results with their friends to ask for...
