Archive for June, 2012

Chuck Norris Facts Featured in New Google Knowledge Graph Easter Egg

2012/06/13

Google users are being treated to a variety of fun “facts” about the television and movie actor via the Knowledge Graph feature. Among the Norris facts: “bullets dodge Chuck Norris” and “the quickest way to a man’s heart is Chuck Norris’s fist.”

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Google Trends Launches Massive Redesign

2012/06/13

Earlier yesterday, Google launched an update of the Google Trends homepage for their Hot Searches list, along with a massive redesign of the available data that it provides in Hot Trends.

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Cutts: Don’t Bother Suing Us For Negative Search Results

2012/06/13

Matt Cutts, the lead of the search spam team, posted in a Hacker News thread that is probably doesn’t make sense to sue Google over negative results.

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Analytics Means Action: A Love-Hate Story of Data Dumped

2012/06/13

Even though everyone measures, not everyone recommends and takes action.

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Google Engineers On Wifi Data Collection: “Don’t Look At Me”

2012/06/13

Denials Over Google Street View via the New York Times reports on some of the Google Street View engineers declarations when it came to the Wifi data collection done by Google’s Street View project. Reading those declarations you see engineers stating “it was not part of my… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Spy Vs. Spy: Search Marketing Competitive Analysis #SESTO

2012/06/13

SES Toronto was full of great content from the keynote from Avinash Kaushik where he took local companies to task with their search visibility and user experience to breakout sessions like the content marketing optimization panel I presented on and this one: Spy vs.

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Apple Maps Could Launch With More Business Listings Than Google

2012/06/13

If the two companies’ self-reported numbers are accurate, and if nothing changes between now and then, Apple’s new Maps product will launch later this year with more local business listings than Google. As Bloomberg points out, during Apple’s announcement on Monday, the company..

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6 Months with Panda: A Story of Complacency, Hard Decisions, and Recovery

2012/06/13

In the fall of 2011, I was contacted by the Director of Marketing for a B2B company.  The company’s website had been hammered by Panda, and he didn’t know what to do.  I could tell very quickly that his team was truly baffled.  The company and website have been around for a long time, the

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Paid & Subscription-Based Keyword Research Tools

2012/06/13

Insight into what people search for online is key for search marketing success. While several free keyword tools are available, paid and subscription-based services tend to offer more analysis, competitive data, support, and extra features

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Want to speak at #MozCon 2012?

2012/06/13

Posted by Erica McGillivray We're doing something we've never done before, opening up community speaker submissions for MozCon ! We're doing this because MozCon is for our community and because community pitches at our SearchChurch Meetup in Philly were phenomenal .

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