Archive for September, 2013

Bing News Updates: Adaptive Design, Trending & Facebook & Twitter Content

2013/09/09

Bing announced a major overhaul of the Bing News portal. The first thing you will notice is the new look. The new design is very basic, but allows for an “adaptive design,” so that it works on all devices

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Using Google Keyword Planner (and Other Tools Instead) for Keyword Volume

2013/09/09

Posted by Ruth_Burr While far from a perfect tool (seriously skewed toward “commercial intent,” not always inclusive of trend data, difficult to drill down into local terms), the Google Keyword Tool was one of the best keyword research tools available.

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Google Joins Udacity, Others to Create Open Education Alliance by @wonderwall7

2013/09/09

As announced at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco event today, Udacity has joined with Google, AT&T, Georgia Tech, and others to create the Open Education Alliance, which has been built with the focus of providing secondary education to post-college graduates and others looking for further their career in the technology industry. With the popularity of […] Author information Kelsey Jones Search & Social Consultant at MoxieDot. Kelsey Jones helps clients around the world grow their social media, content, and search marketing presence

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2013

2013/09/09

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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google Offering Links To Yell, Yelp..

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 9, 2013

2013/09/09

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 Adds Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into the Google search results by adding automatic..

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Google Adds Automatic Authorship With Google+ Sign In

2013/09/09

Google announced an even easier way to get your picture into the Google search results by adding automatic author attribution through Google+ signin. Google has integrated Google+ Sign-In with Google’s authorship program.

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Foursquare Adds Menu Items To Search Capability

2013/09/09

Foursquare has added the ability to search for particular menu items. The underlying menu data come from partners Locu and SinglePlatform, now owned by GoDaddy and Constant Contact respectively. The company says that there are more than 500,000 places and 43 million menu items that can be searched…

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Matt Cutts Answers Whether Or Not Nofollow Links Can Hurt Your Site by @mattsouthern

2013/09/09

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, published a video response today to a question about whether or not nofollow links can hurt a website when it comes to Google search penalties. The question was asked by an individual building links to drive traffic back to his website. He was concerned about an abundance of nofollow links […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional.

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Nofollow Links Won’t Hurt You Unless You Are Spamming At A Huge Scale

2013/09/09

In a video released today on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts said: typically, links that are nofollowed can’t hurt your rankings in Google. That being said, while most cases are that links that have the nofollow attribute on them will…

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How Google Collects Search Quality Data On Your Site by @LeadersWin

2013/09/09

It’s little known that Google was never meant to be a company. In fact, in 1998 Vinod Khosla (one of the first investors in Google) managed to convince Larry Page and Sergey Brin to sell their technology to Lycos, Excite, or Yahoo, the leading search engines of the time, for a paltry million dollars so […] Author information Johann Beishline Co-founder at Lezal Marketing Johann Beishline is the co-founder of Lezal Marketing – an Internet marketing firm in Phoenix, AZ. He is an avid runner & coffee drinker.

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