Archive for February, 2014

Live @ SMX West: Making Sense Of The Local Landscape

2014/02/20

If the changes going on in local search are giving you a headache, you’re not alone. Google Places is still transitioning to Google+ Local, and there are several types of local listings being created in the process.

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Google AdSense Testing Extremely Wide Arrows

2014/02/20

Google recently changed the format for the arrows on AdSense ads to be a thin arrow on a block background color. Google is constantly messing with the AdSense design in order to keep click-through-rates higher on those ads

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Google AdSense Testing Extremely Wide Arrows

2014/02/20

Google recently changed the format for the arrows on AdSense ads to be a thin arrow on a block background color. Google is constantly messing with the AdSense design in order to keep click-through-rates higher on those ads

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 19, 2014

2014/02/20

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

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Facebook To Acquire WhatsApp For $19 Billion in Cash and Stock by @mattsouthern

2014/02/19

News broke this evening via a regulatory filing that Facebook is acquiring mobile messenger WhatsApp for $19 Billion in cash and company stock. Specifically, WhatsApp will be acquired for $4 billion in cash, approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares, and $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders. Facebook has detailed the reasoning […] Author information Matt Southern Matt Southern is a marketing, communications and public relations professional

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#MozCon 2014: Everything You Want to Know (Including the Kitchen Sink)

2014/02/19

Posted by EricaMcGillivray MozCon is five months away! What?! And besides my daily countdown to MozCon, provided by the lovely Sha Menz , many of you out there have asked for the juicy details of what we’re planning this year.

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Google Penalizes Social Video Advertising Site Virool

2014/02/19

Virool, a self-service social video advertising platform, has confirmed it was hit with a Google spam penalty. The backlink profile reveals a high number of suspect links received in a short period of time, built by its SEO company

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 19, 2014

2014/02/19

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Google Maps Comes Out Of Preview Today Roughly last May at Google’s “I/O” developer conference, the company introduced an updated version of its desktop Maps..

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Why Yahoo Wants to Move Into Contextual Search and How it Might Work For Them

2014/02/19

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, has been commenting a lot recently about how she wants to get Yahoo back into the search game, with contextual search being one of the focuses. Will Yahoo be able to topple Google when it comes to contextual search?

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