Archive for October, 2013

The Future of Search: 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors Released

2013/10/01

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Every two years, Moz surveys over 100 top industry professionals to compile our biennial Search Engine Ranking Factors. For 2013, we’ve supplemented the survey with real-world correlation data from a scientific examination of over 17,000 keyword search results by Dr.

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Google Web Designer Beta Launches for Advertisers

2013/10/01

Google has announced the launch of the Google Web Designer, which was released as a public beta. The free tool enables advertisers to create HTML 5 advertisements and comes with default layouts for DoubleClick rich media ads and AdMob mobile ads

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 1, 2013

2013/10/01

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Maps Roundup: Google Avoids Waze Antitrust Fight, Scout Social Mapping, deCarta Route Patent Google spent just over $1 billion to take Waze away from Facebook,..

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Google Fixes Webmaster Tools Bug, Missing Search Query Data to Return

2013/10/01

Webmasters can breathe a sigh of relief. The missing keyword data in Google Webmaster Tools was simply a bug, Google has confirmed.

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Search Facebook Posts & Status Updates

2013/10/01

Last night, Facebook announced you can now search posts and status updates directly in Facebook with their Graph Search. Now this is what Facebook users have been asking for

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Maps Roundup: Google Avoids Waze Antitrust Fight, Scout Social Mapping, deCarta Route Patent

2013/10/01

Google spent just over $1 billion to take Waze away from Facebook, Apple or Nokia and Microsoft.

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Yelp on Fake Reviews: We Filter 25% of Reviews for Being Suspicious

2013/10/01

Yelp says that up to a quarter of the reviews the company receives may be fake, and that its automated review filter suppresses about 25 percent of reviews it deems as being suspicious. However, Yelp admits that the system isn’t completely accurate.

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Yelp: About 25% of Our Reviews are Fake

2013/10/01

Yelp says that up to a quarter of the reviews the company receives are fake, and that its automated review filter suppresses about 25 percent of reviews it deems as being suspicious.

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Interview From #SESSF: Erick Mott of Creatorbase On Getting Started With Crowd Funding by @johnrampton

2013/10/01

In an interview conducted at SES 2013 in San Francisco, Erick Mott from Creatorbase discusses how to get started with crowd funding.

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Removing a 16 Month Google Penalty – There is Hope Yet by @matthewbarby

2013/10/01

Disclaimer: Due to privacy agreements I cannot share the exact name of the client that I’m going to be discussing within the post. Ever since the first Penguin update on April 24th 2012, the way we approach link building has completely changed.

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