The FTC sent out letters to what they considered the primary general-purpose search engines, which includes AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo. Back in 2002, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established guidelines for the...
With basic SEO out of the way, you now need to think about straightening out your business listings and optimizing your off-site local pages like Google+, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, and many others. In general, SEOs agree the key factors driving local...
The emphasis of unstructured data by search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo is reinforced by their emphasis on the relationship of social data to websites and domains. Coincidentally, Google, Bing and Yahoo are placing greater emphasis on...
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.
This means that Yahoo Local has a search engine results page. Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook Graph Search, and Yahoo Local – to create a presence for your business and gain that all...
Reports First Quarter 2013 Results – Yahoo Investor RelationsYahoo reported revenue of $1.14 billion. Yahoo! On the earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo had more than 300 million monthly mobile users.
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. Silicon Valley's Mouthwatering Tax Break – The Wall Street JournalA couple...
Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up...
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. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach...
If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and combines it with purchasing insights from Taobao and ETao to create Aliyun as a “best of breed” engine for searching, it will be a serious threat to traditional search players like Baidu and Google...
Additionally, both Google and Yahoo will display the portions of your URL that match the search term entered in bold in the SERPs. Optimizing your title tag and the description meta tag can be extremely useful however in providing additional...
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:
Schema.org was created last year to create a common language between major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo that identifies types of content given to search engines via websites. Markup and microformats are becoming extremely important to...
Yahoo and each of these sites take different approaches to aggregating and organizing local business data. For instance, Yahoo pulls content from various vertical and niche sites. Given this, Yahoo has to reformat each site’s content to match their...
Two search technologists previously from Yahoo and Powerset have teamed up to create an app designed to turn searching on its head. Jybe, founded by Arnab Bhattacharjee (who previously ran the Yahoo! Personally, whilst I think Mobile Search is...
Biggest tech loser for 2012: Yahoo, Groupon If you know Tabke, you may know that he coined the SEO term SERP (search engine results page) and is a founding board member of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization).
The SEOBook Toolbar offers a wealth of website data including Google PageRank, backlinks count from Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, Blekko, Yahoo. See exactly where you rank in Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Make sure you're listed in all the local services like Yahoo Local and Google Places. There are loads of tools that can help with this (my favorite is Icerocket) but simply going to Twitter and searching for a keyword in the same way that you...
Merchants using Pricegrabber also have the added advantage of sending their product listings to Yahoo Shopping. TheFind (Free) – Shopping search engine displays product information, coupons, and local searches for merchant listings.
However, if you tap the pin icon to the right of that, you get a large list of local search options, such as Restaurants, ATMs safe search” on and off and go to the desktop view of Yahoo search. Yahoo search has a very different look from the others.
