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Yandex.Webmaster Now Available in English

Russian search engine Yandex recently translated its Yandex.Webmaster service to English. While similar to other tools offered by both Google and Bing, Yandex.Webmaster takes the service a bit…

By Thom Craver · 19 Jul 2011

Industry

Google News Badges: Now Searching News Has Gone Social

Google News has announced a gaming-inspired program, offering badges for using Google News as your portal for primary news. Google now lets…

By Thom Craver · 18 Jul 2011

PPC

AdWords Adds Top vs. Side Reporting

To help AdWords users get more accurate feedback on how their ads are performing, Google is adding a new data table option…

By Rob D Young · 18 Jul 2011

SEO

How to Optimize 3 Important Internal Link Structures

Your goal is to help users find information and search engines determine relevancy. Ensure you’re using the optimal link text for the…

By Catfish Comstock · 18 Jul 2011

Industry

Killer Technology: Gutenberg to Zuckerberg and Beyond

Each new technology that comes about is a killer of this or that is a direct result of sensationalism surrounding – unfortunately…

By Garry Przyklenk · 18 Jul 2011

Local

Understanding the 98 Google Local Ranking Factors

David Mihm has released his annual Local Search Ranking Factors list, which compiles feedback from 33 local optimization experts. The 98 resulting…

By Rob D Young · 18 Jul 2011

Industry

Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows

It appears Facebook is getting aggressive in the ad department and may be feeling the heat from Google’s social project. Facebook has…

By Frank Watson · 18 Jul 2011

Industry

SEO is More Alive Than Ever

SEO is dead? Long live SEO! Search engine optimization is evolving, extremely dynamic, and more alive than ever. The proof: over the…

By Mark Jackson · 17 Jul 2011

Social

The Google+ Controversy & Virtual Worlds – A Question Of Identity

The Google+ rules say to sign up using "the name your friends, family, or co-workers usually call you." Seems Google was shortsighted…

By Avril Korman · 16 Jul 2011

Industry

Google Product Search Insights: The Impact of UPCs on Customer Conversions

Google Product Search has released new Unique Product Identifier (UPI) requirements and data feed requirements. The requirements are an attempt by Google…

By Andrew Davis · 15 Jul 2011

Mobile

Google Graduates AdWords Tablet Targeting

In a world where more and more users are accessing the web on the go, mobile targeting is more than sensible: it's…

By Rob D Young · 15 Jul 2011

Industry

Is Schmidt Batting Cleanup for Google on the Hill at Antitrust Hearings?

Answering the call of the U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee, Google will have Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to testify on their behalf in…

By Frank Watson · 15 Jul 2011

Industry

In China, Baidu Continues Search Market Domination Over Google

Google’s share of China’s 4.3 billion yuan ($665.9 milllion) search market dropped once again in Q2, according to numerous reports citing data…

By Danny Goodwin · 15 Jul 2011

SEO

HubPages Adds Subdomains, Claims Google Panda Recovery, But…

User-generated article site HubPages was one of the thousands of websites hit hardest by Google’s Panda update. But now they claim to…

By Danny Goodwin · 15 Jul 2011

Local

Local Online Business Listing Hijacking: Protecting Your Identity

Listings hijackers and spammers create chaos for legitimate local businesses and the local search industry. Some statistics provide insight on the size…

By Jeff Beard · 15 Jul 2011

Local

Bing Maps Updates Interface and Road Map Style

While Bing has released many competitive features in the past, one of their more successful is Bing Maps. Microsoft is continuing its…

By Rob D Young · 15 Jul 2011

Industry

Google at 92%; Facebook at 54% Industry Share in UK

Google and Facebook are dominant players in their respective fields, but that supremacy is more notable in specific areas. A recent Hitwise…

By Rob D Young · 15 Jul 2011

Industry

Visual.ly Infographic Search & Data Visualization Tools Launch Publicly

In the world of a highly visual web, data has remained largely static and visually uninteresting. Visual.ly aims to change that with…

By Rob D Young · 15 Jul 2011

Industry

Google Reports Q2 2011 Earnings, Record $9 Billion Revenue

With lower than expected earnings in Q1, growing concerns over spending, and a decline in Google’s stock price since Larry Page was…

By Danny Goodwin · 14 Jul 2011

Industry

June 2011 Search Engine Market Share from comScore, Hitwise

Bing was the only search engine to see its share of searches increase in June 2011, according to the latest comScore and…

By Danny Goodwin · 14 Jul 2011

Industry

New York Times & Digital Due Diligence Target Google’s Local SEO Spam Problem

Shady SEO tactics are once again in the mainstream spotlight, as a report shows Google's local search results are being gamed by…

By Frank Watson · 14 Jul 2011

SEO

Link Building by Starting a Market Research Firm

One successful link building strategy is to start a market research firm for your specific industry. This strategy is so great because…

By Peter Van Der Graaf · 14 Jul 2011

Industry

A Starter’s Guide to Search in Korea

Examining what South Korea’s top search engines Naver and Daum offer. Also: an overview of one of the few search markets where…

By Adaline Lau · 14 Jul 2011

Mobile

Google’s Photovine Goes Live

Photovine, a Google project that's been rumored for several weeks, has officially gone live. Once a mystery project, we now know Photovine…

By Rob D Young · 13 Jul 2011

Industry

Google Makes Big Changes to Product Search Feeds

E-commerce sites that have their products listed on Google Product Search need to pay attention: A big sweep of updates to the…

By Rob D Young · 13 Jul 2011

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