All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has...
Apple and Yahoo said to be in talks for deeper iPhone partnership – Los Angeles TimesYahoo wants to open up more sports and news content to Siri on iPhones and iPads. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past...
Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but still lose search share to Google and Microsoft.
Additionally, both Google and Yahoo will display the portions of your URL that match the search term entered in bold in the SERPs. For the most part this advice still stands as the Google announcement pertained only to the news_keywords meta tag...
In their “Just the Ticket” blog post, Yahoo announced special search parameters that produce election-related features, including Polls Direct Display to follow real-time results. The Yahoo search terms to trigger election-related features are:
News/Mags . What you might not know about Tabke is that he is a news junkie. Not so breaking news from Tabke: "The days of the single task 'SEO and done' marketing are over. Biggest tech loser for 2012: Yahoo, Groupon
You can see metrics for social media, social bookmarking, and social news sites. The SEOBook Toolbar offers a wealth of website data including Google PageRank, backlinks count from Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, Blekko, Yahoo.
Bing offers clean, easy to read results that can be sorted by all, news, videos, images, shopping, local and deals. This search brings up results for the latest game score in National Hockey first and then lists the latest news headlines.
However, Yahoo's search results are even more cluttered up with ads, shopping results, and even local results and a map. Specifically, Google is under antitrust scrutiny for the way it displays links to its own vertical search services (e.g...
These properties include the Yahoo Front Page, News, OMG, and Shine. As of May 22, 2012, global adoption was only at about 0.68 percent of the total Internet population but, according to Jason Fesler, Distinguished Architect at Yahoo, that number...
A Parkersburg News s question that stumped the author: “Why does a link for a fiery accident on I-77 from 2011 pop up when I do a simple Yahoo search for ‘The Marietta Times’? Obituaries, Local News, Local Sports, etc.as seen here:
The destination also includes news and advice from the recently launched Yahoo Small Business Advisor content site and 24/7 free customer support. The Yahoo Marketing Dashboard provides a consolidated view of a business’s marketing results and...
Local Paid Inclusion is a Google, Yahoo and Bing official service that is offered as an approved official contracted program in cooperation with those search engines. Universal Business Listing denies any association with articles and news reports...
Leverage the diversity of Google universal search results mixed with videos, images, shopping, books, maps (local), and news. Submit specialized XML sitemaps (image, video, news, local, etc.to ensure these resources are adequately indexed and apply...
The real time web is the ultimate barometer for news and events. Yahoo shows video and image results at the top of its SERPs, and Google and Bing are showing multi-format results (video, images, tweets) on their first SERP.
And that's the good news. Keep in mind Bing (and once upon a time Yahoo) use PageRank -- it's not just a Google thang anyway. These are considered the holy grail of user feedback, but often very hard to get because people generally aren’t...
And search engines have responded by returning a variety of different types of results in one place, such as news, local results, images, video, blog posts and yes, even comparison shopping results. But they're not doing anything that, apparently...
News stories being highlighted on the main search results page are different, but neither really has an advantage here (both search engines highlight latest news stories on searches for “Hurricane Irene” at the top of their search result pages).
These partnerships allow Bing to provide real-time updates to stock values, show online conversations (especially Twitter conversations) on a given stock, display recent news about any given company, and show "data, tools, and analysis currently...
In terms of how these local search portals differ from international engines such as Google and Yahoo, which feature paid and search results, local SERPs of popular keywords are filled with keyword ads and shopping links that each portal serves...
