Archive for July, 2012

Google Bans Weapon-Related Listings From Google Shopping

2012/07/02

Google has begun notifying merchants that it won’t allow them to continue to listing weapons-related items for sale in Google Shopping. Searches in Google Shopping for things like “pistol grip shotgun” (above), “gun scopes,” “shotgun shells” and many other… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2012

2012/07/02

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 2, 2012

2012/07/02

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Amazon Buys UpNext, Will We Soon See Kindle Maps? Amazon has done a really interesting thing: it just bought mapping app UpNext.

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Amazon Buys UpNext, Will We Soon See Kindle Maps?

2012/07/02

Amazon has done a really interesting thing: it just bought mapping app UpNext. UpNext is a 3D mapping company that started on the PC in 2007 and more recently shifted its focus substantially to smartphones and the iPad. While UpNext has not received the same attention as other mapping startups the..

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Fake Google Webmaster Support Phone Calls

2012/07/02

SEOs and webmasters have asked for phone support for webmaster related issues for a long time and I don’t plan on Google to offer it anytime soon.

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Google Search By Image Gets Smarter & Faster

2012/07/02

Google announced that they have made a few improvements to Search by Image on Google Image search. The improvements include enhancing the best guesses, adding the knowledge graph to image results and adding fresher content to the image search results

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The Big Cat Habitat, the Non Profit Melissa Fach Supports

2012/07/02

An interview with the managing editor of Search Engine Journal. How did you get introduced to The Big Cat Habitat

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Report: Google Makes Offer To Europeans To Prevent Antitrust Action

2012/07/02

According to an article appearing in Bloomberg this morning, Google has complied with the European Commission’s July 2 deadline and made concessions to address it’s four antitrust “concerns.” Details of the offer and potential Google concessions weren’t revealed:… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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5 Ways To Fail Fast Using Paid Search

2012/07/02

Let’s face it. Nobody ever learned a valuable lesson from success. Sure, succeeding feels great, and we can often look back at success and credit a number of meaningful contributing factors.

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Google: No Nofollow Linking Penalty

2012/07/02

Do you have an awful lot of sites linking to you with the nofollow attribute appended to the link? Are you worried Google uses that as a signal to not trust your site…

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