Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Insanity: Google Sends New Link Warnings, Then Says You Can Ignore Them
Google’s war on bad links officially became insane today. For months, Google’s sending out warnings about bad links and telling publishers they should act on those, lest they get penalized. Today, Google said the latest round of warnings sent out this week can be safely ignored. That’s not “more transparency” as Google posted. That’s more […]
- Confirmed: Units Resembling Product Listing Ads Appearing On Bing
Microsoft has been fast-following Google AdWords with new features in adCenter recently, so it’s not a huge surprise that some have spotted what look like Product Listing Ads (PLAs) in Bing Results. Mark Ballard from Rimm Kaufmann Group (RKG’s) posted of seeing such listings and, while we haven’t been able to replicate this, we did […]
- SMX East Super Early Bird Rates Expire this Week – Save Up to $400
Unending algorithm and quality score changes. “Negative” SEO penalties. Retargeting and real-time bidding. Mobile apps and voice search. Attend Search Marketing Expo – SMX East, October 2-4 in New York City, and you’ll get the latest tactics, tips and advice from marketing experts who succeed in this ever-evolving search marketing space. Super Early Bird rates […]
- Microsoft Hires Hillary Clinton’s Former Campaign Chief Mark Penn For Bing Strategy Role
By all accounts Microsoft is struggling. It’s true that Bing is growing, but only slightly, while partner Yahoo continues to lose search share (to Bing) keeping the “Search Alliance” in the doldrums. Microsoft also recently took $6+ billion write-down on its 2007 aQuantive acquisition, resulting in a loss for its most recent fiscal quarter. Its […]
- 5 Ways To Better Integrate Social Media & Enterprise SEO
Social media has a direct and indirect impact on SEO but few large organizations are integrating the two as well as they should. At the enterprise level, the two disciplines actually have a lot in common beyond the strategic and tactical crossover. Like SEO, social media cannot be segmented as a separate activity or fully […]
- Yes, Feature Phones DO Still Matter In Mobile SEO
Google recently released an addendum to their guidelines for optimizing for smartphones that gives more detail around how to optimize for feature phones as well. I know some of you are thinking, “Feature phones? What is this, 2005? Let me pull out my Razr and look for ringtones on WAP sites. Why on Earth would […]
- Head vs. Tail – How To Shift Your Priorities For Each Type Of Account
“There aren’t enough hours in a day” is an old – but true – refrain about the nature of an SEM’s job. The list of things we could be doing in any given day to optimize accounts is a daunting one. Agreed? Fantastic. As long as we’re on the same page, and already slinging the […]
- Politwoops: A Search Engine For Deleted Tweets From Policitians
At the beginning of the year I wrote about PolitickerUSA, a free tool that allows users to quickly and easily read tweets from members of congress and other political leaders. Today, I want to point out another free service named Politwoops that launched at the end of May. Here, users can access and read tweets […]
Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing:
- Summer Brings New Traffic To Travel Industry Sites [comScore Data]
- Washington Post Triples Engagement Rate With Twitter’s New Targeted Ads
- 10 LinkedIn Shortcuts For A Post-Twitter World
- How Dynamic Are You?
Search News From Around The Web:
Business Issues
- Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared, AllThingsD
- Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast, TIME.com
- Baidu Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results, MarketWatch
- Facebook triples its lobbying spending from last year, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
- Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon, Wired
- Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application – From 6 Years Ago, Read/Write Web
- One Week of Mayer at Yahoo: Whither Ross? New Old Yahoos? More Search?, AllThingsD
- Scott Thompson on Life After Yahoo, BusinessWeek
- Yahoo’s Big Question – What Is It?, New York Times
Local, Maps & Mobile
- Forty years of our planet, from space, Google LatLong
- How Waze Can Beat Apple and Google at Realtime Maps, PandoDaily
Paid Search & Contextual
- Australia Spends $1.75 Billion on Facebook, Google, LinkedIn Ads, Wall Street Journal
Searching
SEM Industry
- SEO Threatens Google’s Web Spam Team, Search Engine Roundtable
SEO & SEM
- 8 Experiments to Restore Your Faith in PPC Ad Testing, Search Engine Watch
- A 6 Step Process for Keyword Research, Search Engine Watch
- Google Doesn’t Recommend You Wait For Penalties to Expire, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to Recover After the Google Panda and Penguin Update?, Search Engine People
- SEO for the Product That Doesn’t Exist Yet, Search Marketing Sage
- SEO, Blogging and the User Experience, BruceClay.com
- Trends in Google AdWords Clicks per Device by Hour of Day, periscopix.co.uk
Social Media
- That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening, Nieman Journalism Lab