Archive for September, 2011

Newspaper Inspired Facebook Layout Will Deliver More Interesting Stories & A Real-Time Ticker

2011/09/20

In a move that shouldn’t surprise anyone, Facebook is re-organizing users’ homepages.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 20, 2011

2011/09/20

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Google+ Search It seemed pretty odd that a social network from the leading search company, Google, didn’t offer a way to search through all…

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SPONSORED MESSAGE: Forrester Research: Creating the right mobile strategy

2011/09/20

A research bundle on mobile trends and best practices This mobile research bundle includes: Forrester’s research on key mobile trends to watch be research on consumer mobile usage How marketers are measuring mobile campaign ROI Download Now Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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How to Help SEO Customers Who Aren’t Always Right

2011/09/20

All too often SEO professionals end up meeting with people who don’t understand the industry but have been told to get an agency on board. It can be a challenge to pitch the explanation at the right level – informing without alienating..

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Up Close With Google+ Search

2011/09/20

It seemed pretty odd that a social network from the leading search company, Google, didn’t offer a way to search through all its posts. But that oddity is over.

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Bing Holiday Travel Report: Domestic Travel Prices Expected to Fall

2011/09/20

Earlier today, Bing Travel issued its preliminary 2011 holiday travel predictions. The search engine uses a comprehensive dataset that includes future airfares, past airfares, and search data to perform the predictive analysis. Some of the interesting statistics Bing Travel released in its report include: Domestic airfare fell 1.4% to $302 on average 3 and 4 star hotels are approximately the same price 5 star hotels have decreased in price 8% on average Airfare to Asia has increased by 15% to $1,226 on average Airfare to Europe has increased by 9% to $936 on average Kari Dilloo of Bing Travel said: “Given this summer’s sharp increases, it’s a relief to see travel prices normalize this holiday

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Adobe Partners with OptiMine in Improved SeachCenter+

2011/09/20

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a partnership with OptiMine Software Inc., adding keyword performance predictive analytics to the Adobe SearchCenter+ search marketing management system. This latest feature follows the July release of Adob…

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Google Places Bug With "Areas Served"

2011/09/20

Nyagoslav notified me of a bug with Google Places areas served feature. In short, when you try to update your Google Places business profile to include specific areas that your business serves..

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Yandex Expands To Turkey, First Shots Fired In New Google, Baidu & Yandex Stand Off

2011/09/20

Did you think the search engine war was over and that Google had won?

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Google Panda 2.5 Hits?

2011/09/20

Tedster started a thread at WebmasterWorld asking, “I’m hearing some reports of site-wide ranking demotions over the weekend that have a similar pattern to what we saw with Panda. That is, lots of keywords affected, but the demotions are not at all uniform the way we often see in a site-wide penalty.”

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