Archive for June, 2012

Owner Responses On Google Maps Broken Again

2012/06/30

Jade from the Google Maps team posted in the Google Business Help thread saying that owner responses are not working again. This would be the fifth or so time that this feature has stopped working since it launched about two years ago. We had issues at least a few times that we..

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Google Ad Referrer Changes In August

2012/06/30

Google announced they are making changes to the ad click referrer to help speed up the click and make it more consistent from property to property that ads run on…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 29, 2012

2012/06/30

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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Piper Jaffray “Street Test” Of Google vs. Siri Misses The Point

2012/06/29

No sooner did I hit “publish” on my earlier post, Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice, than people on Twitter started responding that I was out of my mind. A couple of people cited a Piper Jaffray study, published yesterday, comparing the…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 2012

2012/06/29

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search…

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Official: Google Ignores Links From Updowner.com

2012/06/29

Recently there has been a lot of concern in the SEO space about a site named Updowner.com. Scan through some of these threads and you will see the concern..

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Google’s “Voice Assistant” Not Quite Siri-Smart But Most People Won’t Notice

2012/06/29

At Google I/O this week Google introduced spoken search results, which mimic Siri’s functionality on the iPhone. Siri had been a major point of differentiation between Android handsets and the iPhone, despite Google’s preexisting voice search. The new Google female voice actually sounds…

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Newest Version Of AdWords Editor Released

2012/06/29

It’s time again to update your AdWords Editor desktop software. Google today released version 9.8.1 which will now let users add and edit dynamic search ads and product listing ads. Each of these ad formats now has its own tab, and these types of ads can now be managed on two new targeting..

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