Archive for September, 2010

YouTube Updates Search Bar Design

2010/09/30

Some people are noticing a new search bar on Google’s YouTube. Here are before and after pictures: Before: After: At the time I wrote this post, which was on September 27th, I did not see the new one

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Last Call – SMX East Starts Next Monday

2010/09/30

Time’s up! Search Marketing Expo – SMX East begins next Monday at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. Register now to reserve your place

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How to: Use B2B Social Media for Lead Generation

2010/09/30

Kipp Bodnar of HubSpot This post is one of a series of liveblogs from the 2010 MIMA Summit. B2B social media can be surprisingly successful with a specific focus on lead generation.  If social media is to be taken seriously for B2B by marketing decision makers, it needs to maintain a focus on business objectives and driving sales vs.

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PPC Testing Part 4: Google’s AdWords Campaign Experiments Tool

2010/09/30

For those of you just getting into paid search, count yourselves lucky. You’re lucky not only to have landed in one of the hottest fields in marketing, but also lucky not to have gone though some of the major workflow frustrations that have now been addressed and fixed in the first ten years of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Google Instant Expands, Adds Keyboard Navigation

2010/09/29

Google Instant is expanding. The company has just announced new features and wider availability of the search-as-you-type feature.

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Google Sends Mixed Signals On China: Hiring But Future “Uncertain”

2010/09/29

Ross LaJeunesse, Google’s Asia government affairs chief told an audience in Hong Kong that Google remains “committed to China and to our Chinese users” but added that its future in Mainland China is “uncertain.” At the same time, Google has reportedly been hiring people to protect its shrinking share in the world’s largest internet market. Google *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 29, 2010

2010/09/29

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Your Inhouse Social Program Win Awards? Recently I decided to delve deeper into social media than I ever have

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Programming Note: September 30 & October 1

2010/09/29

I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, September 30th & October 1st, I won’t be providing normal coverage here.

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How to Turn Google Analytics Into Your Own Rank Tracker using Custom Variables

2010/09/29

Posted by MikeCP Today I want to talk about tracking organic ranking in Google Analytics. Previously, we were able to determine the page from which a Google organic click was coming from (detailed on the Distilled blog by Will Critchlow). This was nice because we could append this to the end of our keywords in Google Analytics for some interesting data (Andr

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2010

2010/09/29

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

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