Archive for November, 2013

Thanksgiving 2013 Google Logo Wishes Everyone A Happy Holiday With Banjo Music & Dancing Animals

2013/11/28

To celebrate the holiday, today’s Google homepage includes a Thanksgiving themed logo complete with a banjo-playing fox, a dancing turkey and slew of forest animals building their very own vegetarian holiday meal. Clicking the play button in the middle of the logo starts a brief interactive…

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Google Partners Cake

2013/11/28

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Apple Updates App Store Search Engine To Handle Spelling Errors

2013/11/28

As I reported on Search Engine Land via TechCrunch, Apple has made some updates to their App Store search engine recently. The most noticeable update is that the App Store will now return search results that have misspellings, typos…

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Identifying and Recovering From Google Penalties: Interview With Brian McDowell by @johnrampton

2013/11/28

As part of our SEJ interview series, Brian McDowell of Conductor discusses how to recover from Google penalties. A lot of sites are getting hit with penalties lately as Google cracks down on negative SEO. Website owners want answers and Brian is here to provide them

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 27, 2013

2013/11/27

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

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 27, 2013

2013/11/27

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 Keyword Planner Now Shows Trademarked Terms At some point recently, Google started to indicate terms that are trademarked in the Keyword Planner with the… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Avoiding Penalties From Google’s Penguin Update: Interview With Russ Jones by @johnrampton

2013/11/27

As part of our SEJ interview series, Russ Jones of Virante  discusses how to avoid penalties from Google’s Penguin algorithm update. After Penguin 2.1 came out, Russ’s company Virante came out with something called the Open Penguin Data project to gain more insight about this algorithm update to help SEOs and website owners. There’s no […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, and PPC expert

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Google AdWords Poaching Clients Again?

2013/11/27

A senior Google AdWords advertiser and consultant, Whitey, posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he has seen new cases of Google AdWords employees stealing or trying to poach clients away from AdWords agencies…

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The Real Future of Social is Search by @texasgirlerin

2013/11/27

I’m sure a lot of people would argue that it’s the other way around – that search’s future is social. Either way, the two fields are converging, and with billions of dollars riding on them, it’s going to be important to address the two as a dynamic duo

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Google Keyword Planner Now Shows Trademarked Terms

2013/11/27

At some point recently, Google started to indicate terms that are trademarked in the Keyword Planner with the TM mark. Dan Shure of Evolving SEO tweeted about the new feature, noting that McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” tagline is not marked as trademarked while…

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