Archive for May, 2011

New: Google Showing Recent Stories From News Sites With News Snippet

2011/05/05

Search for [news] or [new york times] or [fox news] or other queries that would bring up a popular news site and you will see a new search snippet displayed within the search results for these news sites. As you can see from the screen shot above, Google is displaying in the search results some…

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Breaking News: Google Adds News Headlines to Search Results

2011/05/05

People searching for news, breaking news, or mainstream newspapers or cable television news channels on Google are now being served clickable news headlines rather than a site description.

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Who Started The “Dear Yahoo, I’ve Never Heard Anyone Say ‘Let’s Yahoo It’ Sincerely Google” Twitter Joke?

2011/05/05

As you might expect, I monitor a number of search-related topics being discussed on Twitter. Over the past few days, there’s been spike in funny bit of advice that Google is giving Yahoo — that no one says, “Let’s Yahoo It.” But how did that get started? Let’s..

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Google Forcing AdWords Advertisers To Set Up SSL & Privacy/Opt Out Policies

2011/05/05

Google announced they will begin requiring many of their advertisers to ensure their web site practices and technology is in accordance with rules to make the AdWords marketplace “safe, fair, and trusted marketplace” for their searches. The new rules will require..

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Google Announces Local “Business Photos”

2011/05/05

Today at the Social-Loco conference in San Francisco Google’s Doyenne of Local Marissa Mayer formally announced Google Business Photos. This is not a new product but the formalization of an offering that has been available in a more limited way since last year

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Google Search Globe: See Searches Happening Visually Around The World

2011/05/05

Google announced a neat new visual display of Google’s search volume by search query language. The tool is named the Google Search Globe.

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5 Social Media ROI & Measurement Books to Grow Your Social Business

2011/05/05

One of the most compelling challenges for companies entering the world of social business is measurement . The ability to attribute cause and effect directly can be elusive when it comes to measuring business outcomes like increased sales, improved customer retention and lowered support costs

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BrightEdge Sharpen Competitive SEO Tactics with comScore Data

2011/05/05

BrightEdge, an SEO software platform which prides itself on having an open technology platform has teamed up with comScore to bring panel-based competitive data to it’s SEO tool set. BrightEdge has offered competitive analytics for SEO for a while now.

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Tactics To Beat The Link Buyers

2011/05/05

A nice WebmasterWorld thread asks other SEOs how they go about competing against sites who use link buying as a tactic. You own a site…

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Google Analytics Now Tracks Page Load Speed

2011/05/05

Posted by Tom Critchlow Improving site speed is crucially important, Craig at Distilled recently wrote a phenomenal post

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