Archive for September, 2011

EU Signaling It May Tolerate Google’s “Dominance” Of Search

2011/09/16

For quite some time European regulators seemed eager to crack down on Google simply because it was too big, too powerful. But now they may be signaling that bigness by itself may be legally acceptable, so long as regulators don’t find Google has “abused” that position. Yet abuse…

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Yahoo! Search Launches New Design and Features

2011/09/16

After launching an improved image search last month, Yahoo recently announced a makeover of the search results page.

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Google Logo For Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Oranges & Vitamin C

2011/09/16

Today, Google is honoring the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, the man who is credited with discovering vitamin C. He was born today on September 16, 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and in won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for discovering vitamin C and the components… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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4 Point Twitter Audit: Becoming A More Beloved B2B Brand

2011/09/16

Welcome back to the third and final installment of the B2B Community Manager’s Guide To Identifying True Twitter Friends. In our first two episodes, we explored hands-on tactics for locating target audiences on Twitter based on topical conversations, categories, content consumed, and respected…

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5 Ways SEOs Can Work with Social Media Managers

2011/09/16

As social media gets widely adopted across organizations of all sizes we’re starting to see social media and search marketing teams operating in silos. That is already the case in many organizations.

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17 Location-Based Marketing Tips To Drive Word of Mouth & Referrals

2011/09/16

Note from Lee: When I heard from Aaron Strout that he and Mike Schneider were writing a book,  Location-Based Marketing for Dummies , I knew it would be a great resource. We often do book reviews here on Online Marketing Blog but Aaron and I decided on this format instead, focusing on specific tips and tactics you can use today.

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Social Network Spam and Author/Agent Rank

2011/09/16

Posted by dohertyjf On Wednesday I presented at SMX on the panel called “Facebook, Twitter, and SEO”. I was excited to speak alongside Horst Joepen (SearchMetrics), Jim Yu (BrightEdge), and Michael Gray (Atlas Web Services). In my talk, I showed some information from patents that talked about how a search engine might detect a person’s topical relevance and authority and use a scale on which to pass link juice from their social shares or not

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Is it Really Possible to Improve Your AdWords Quality Score with Google +1?

2011/09/16

This week I have listened to some exciting presentations and had a few conversations with Google AdWords product evangelists regarding Google +1. The prospect for social integration with both SEO listings and paid search ads is intriguing and hold…

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Confirmed: Google Mass Rejecting Old AdWords API Developers

2011/09/16

Yesterday we reported on developers complaining their AdWords API tokens were not working any more. Truth is, this is a wide spread crack down by Google..

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