Archive for August, 2012

YouTube Hides Tags Due To Abuse

2012/08/20

Keane from YouTube announced in a YouTube Help thread that they decided to remove the tags from showing up on the video watch page because some are abusing it.

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7 Tips For Crafting Local Business Updates In Facebook

2012/08/20

Do you spit out status updates on Facebook for your local business without much thought? Carefully engineering your status updates can result in more effective targeting, better engagement with your audience, and improved EdgeRank to help more of your followers actually see your status updates…

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Google Seeks Ban on iPhone, iPad in Patent Lawsuit

2012/08/20

Google’s Motorola Mobility division is reportedly claiming that Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPad, infringe seven of its patents, including location reminders, email notifications, video players and Apple’s Siri voice assistant feature.

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Blekko SEO Tools Now Costs $99/Month

2012/08/20

Blekko has withdrawn free access to their SEO tools, opting instead for a subscription model that will cost SEOs $99 per month.

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5 Areas Where adCenter Beats AdWords

2012/08/20

To be honest, there isn’t much about adCenter that I like.

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16 Differences Between Google Mobile & Desktop Search Results In 2012

2012/08/20

Google continues to differentiate mobile results from desktop search results, having recently announced interactive answers for tablet and mobile and a test for smartphone icons in smartphone search results. Did you even know that Google mobile search results (whether tablet, feature phone or… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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7 Is The New 10? Google Showing Fewer Results & More From Same Domain

2012/08/20

It looks as if Google is testing a move away from showing the traditional 10 listings to only displaying seven, and it also appears that it’s even easier than ever for one site to dominates all those results. 7 Blue Links We started getting reports last week about the 7-results change last..

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Patent: Google Faking Search Results To Trick SEOs?

2012/08/20

A recently granted patent named ranking documents can be looked at as if it was a Penguin patent or maybe a patent on how to trick SEOs into thinking their pages are ranking or maybe both…

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A Glimpse into the Black Hole of the “Not Provided” Keyword Segment

2012/08/20

I think we have all started living in fear when Google Analytics introduced the “Not Provided” keyword segment. This still could be the end of keyword data as we know it.

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Bing Grows Search Market Share, Google Repeats High, Yahoo Halts Slide

2012/08/20

For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise.

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