Archive for September, 2011

Bing Uses User Search History To Adapt Your Search Results

2011/09/20

Last week at SMX East, Bing announced Adaptive Search. It is a lot like how Google and event Bing users previous search but as an extended period of time.

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Yahoo’s Crawler Not Listening To Robots.txt Directive?

2011/09/20

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Yahoo may not be fully listening to the robots.txt directive to block their spider, Yahoo Slurp. The thing is..

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Facebook Traffic to Retail Up 92%, Twitter Shoppers Spend More Than Google

2011/09/20

The recently released Online Consumer Report from RichRelevance offers several valuable insights for online retailers in the lead up to the 2011 holiday shopping season. Data gleaned from over 200 million shopping sessions on major U.S

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Holiday Shopping, Search & Social: Which Traffic Converts Best? [Study]

2011/09/20

The recently released Online Consumer Report from RichRelevance offers several valuable insights for online retailers in the lead up to the 2011 holiday shopping season. Data gleaned from over 200 million shopping sessions on major U.S.

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Google Working on Propeller, a Flipboard Doppelgänger

2011/09/20

Google is working on a news and social reader tentatively named Propeller, AllThingsDigital has confirmed through “numerous sources close to the situation” after Robert Scoble kicked off rumors about the app in a Google+ post last…

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Link Building with OSE & a Host of Other Tools

2011/09/19

Posted by randfish In late August, I gave a free webinar called Link Building with Open Site Explorer . As is usual, I couldn’t limit myself to just a bunch of Moz tools (always feel a bit too self-promotional when I do that), so I ended up covering more than a few others as well.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2011

2011/09/19

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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3 New AdWords Tests: Clicks for This Search, Subscribe Button & 10 Links

2011/09/19

Three new Google AdWords experiments have been spotted in the wild in recent days. One annotates the number of “clicks for this search.” Another adds a subscribe form beneath ad creative

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Google Buys DailyDeal in Daily Deals ‘Arms Race’

2011/09/19

Google has bought DailyDeal, a Berlin, Germany-based daily deals website for between $150 million and $200 million. This is the third acquisition within a two-month span aimed at strengthening Google’s own daily deals offering, Google Offers…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 19, 2011

2011/09/19

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Wallet Now Live, But In Very Limited Availability As expected, Google has formally announced the first rollout of Google Wallet — the company’s… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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