Google knows that people like the IRS site (when they need it), Wikipedia, or the NY Times. And we actually came up with a classifier to say, okay, IRS or Wikipedia or New York Times is over on this side, and the low-quality sites are over on this...
There was controversy a few years ago where the tilde sign was used with the word Scientology, and it also brought up a Wikipedia article for “cult”. When you placed the tilde sign immediately in front of a keyword, Google would also include...
So one of the first things you want to do, Beckman said, is to make sure that your brand has a profile on all the social networks, whether it's Google+, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so on.
The following properties have the highest likelihood of showing up for brand terms: Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. You can also include links from your Wikipedia page to your social profiles.
See the following thread about online piracy in the age of free sharing of information, as Wikipedia does. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales explains Wikipedia's stance in response. The more important message is that someone as influential as Jimmy...
Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
As you can see, miniature images of the president appear next to links to whitehouse.gov and Wikipedia. However, a check of the Wikipedia page does not bear the same fruit. That image URL is the same image listed in the Bing results page.
Image Credit: Wikipedia Since my task was to find the price point in which paid search breaks even, I assumed that the entire funnel is optimized and the company achieved optimal results (within reason).
You’ll need to incentivize them to create content for you but the information they provide will be far more useful than having someone who has never been to a location writing generic text based on a Wikipedia article for that place.
Once or twice called a “Wikipedia killer” Knol competed with Wikipedia, but offered a distinct difference in that Knol articles featured personal expertise by emphasizing authorship more similar to Squidoo and HubPages.
Unless you're Wikipedia, a #1 Search Position can't be guaranteed. When these tricks are practiced by either the buyer or the seller the economics of SEO fail, because the time and effort required to meet SEO expectations and results won't match.
Like Google, Bing Snapshots are primarily pulling data from Wikipedia and Freebase. Bing have added two new categories to their 'snapshot' search results - namely, people and landmarks. A boxed result akin to 'Snapshots' called 'Places' were...
The Knowledge Graph culled data from a variety of outside sources such as Wikipedia, Weather Underground, and Freebase.com to summarize key facts and images in a box in the right frame of the SERP. Although not a major change that directly impacted...
Google is more popular than Wikipedia or other online encyclopedia sites, YouTube or other social media sites, major news sites like The New York Times and CNN, and “traditional” sources of information (e.g.textbooks, print books, online databases...
But, as you can see, the third result in our SERPs is a Wikipedia page, which is a page related to the brand query, but that is not under control of the brand owner. What we found is that there is a good chance that the positioning of the Wikipedia...
Image credit: Wikipedia Content undoubtedly is the basis and the key to better results, but just adding content for the sake of adding content isn't enough. Certainly this kind of an added dimension to search results will make the SEOs put on their...
According to the Klout blog, if you have linked your Wikipedia account on Klout, your "profile will also be rewarded for the frequency [you] are searched on Bing. It started early in May when Bing introduced a Social Sidebar, adding Facebook...
When I tested it personally I got the following results from a purposely varied query set: hotels las vegas (selected result based on the display of rating) – Bing digital projector (selected results based on quick jump to shopping and review...
What do you see in addition to SEW’s main domain: Wikipedia. A big change seems to be underway on Google, most likely designed to give brands more control of the search results associated with their brand names.
There is obvious interest in his biography and his Wikipedia page; however the pinnacle of the interest is consumed by searches on his wife, again! The top search results are as follows: Should we be surprised or ashamed at the results?
