Archive for August, 2013

Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks “What Is Bing Doing?”

2013/08/01

Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says he’s “disappointed” with Bing’s development and “expected more” from Microsoft’s search engine. As Geekwire reports, Etzioni made his comments to an audience last night at a…

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Changes Afoot At Search Engine Land & Marketing Land Columns

2013/08/01

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve made some changes in our columns line-up to better showcase the great work contributed by our talented columnist-practitioners.

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German Publishers Opt-In To Google News — For The Moment

2013/08/01

Following the enactment of a controversial copyright law in Germany, Google said that it would require publishers to formally “opt-in” to Google News or be excluded from results. Accordingly major German publishers have decided to do so — for now

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Tubular Labs Crunches Big Data to Create Audience Dashboard for YouTube

2013/08/01

Attention brands, digital studios, and video creators: You now have a new tool to gain insights into your YouTube channel’s performance. The Tubular analytics suite enables you to identify and engage superfans and influencers, and grow your audience.

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Google Tests Sitelinks That Expand Out

2013/08/01

Two SEOs spotted Google testing a new design for Google Sitelinks. The new design has sitelinks that expand and show sub-sitelinks in a gray background area. Google tested something similar on mobile sitelinks a few months ago…

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5 Marketing Tips from NASCAR

2013/08/01

NASCAR, also known as the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is loved by many people from all over the world. Their races are broadcast in over 150 different countries and are ranked second when talking about television ratings among professional sports in the U.S., being right behind the National Football League.

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Maria Mitchell Google Doodle Honors First Female Astronomer

2013/08/01

American astronomer Maria Mitchell is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. Born 195 years ago, she discovered a new comet in 1847, which later became known as Miss Mitchell’s Comet

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Why SMB’s Should Invest In Email Marketing

2013/08/01

As the world is progressing towards virtual world, businesses have also inclined their promotion and endorsement efforts towards digital world. According to research, it has been a very profitable platform not just for big brands, but as well as for mid to small sized businesses. Here are the present statistics for businesses investing in digital Author information Marry Warner The post Why SMB’s Should Invest In Email Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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What is ‘Pure Spam’? 10 Examples From Google

2013/08/01

We all have our own definition of “pure spam”, but what’s more important is understanding what Google means by it. Here’s a look at 10 websites Google has kicked out of its search results so you can understand what qualifies as “pure spam”.

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Rejoice! Safari Is Once Again Providing Google Referral Information In iOS

2013/08/01

Since last September, people using Safari on iOS devices and searching on Google have appeared to publishers as if they came directly to their sites, not via Google. Now, the problem has ended, with iOS now apparently having been upgraded to support the “meta referrer” tag

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