Archive for May, 2014

Search In Pics: Google Bike To Work Day, YouTube Subway Ads & Google No Pants Day

2014/05/09

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. No Pants Day At Google Montreal: Source: Google+ Google Visitor Sign Down:…

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Online Marketing News – Instagram is 120x Better Than Twitter, Foursquare Removes Check-ins, YouTube Gives You 3-Seconds

2014/05/09

Vine Website Relaunches With New Features, Search, Better Discovery –  Vine, the short video mobile sharing app that was acquired by Twitter in 2012, has debuted a new look for their website, with new features and a greater emphasis on discovery. AllTwitter 1/2 Older Mobile Users Now Own Smartphones – Just over half (51%) of mobile phone owners over the age of 55 now have smartphones, up 10% from 1Q13, according to a recent report from Nielsen.

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How BuzzFeed Piggybacked on Mobile & Social to Quickly Build a Massive Audience

2014/05/09

BuzzFeed’s impressive growth is mainly due to successfully leveraging social platforms – particularly Facebook – to help drive traffic. While desktop traffic for BuzzFeed has roughly doubled in the past year, mobile traffic is up nearly five times!

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Searchmetrics X SEJ Interview Series: John Doherty of HotPads by @wonderwall7

2014/05/09

As you may know from my other interviews with Anne Ahola Ward of CircleClick and Eli Schwartz of SurveyMonkey, Search Engine Journal has partnered with Searchmetrics to host a one-day, invite-only executive marketing event in San Francisco called SEO, Content Marketing, & Analytics: The Three Pillars of Online Marketing Success in 2014. My third interview is with John Doherty, the Head of Online Marketing at HotPads, a rentals subsidiary of Zillow. He will be on the keynote AMA-style panel

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Google Shows Ratings Snippet 8 Out Of 11?

2014/05/09

Dan Barker spotted a fun rich snippet in Google where the ratings displayed for an IMDB movie result was 8 out of 11. Out of 11, not 10…

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10 Tactics to Improve Blog Readership – Whiteboard Friday

2014/05/09

Posted by randfish If you’re looking to increase traffic to your blog, there are many tactics that can significantly boost your progress. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand lays a roadmap for the journey, offering 10 of the best tactics for you to keep in mind along the way. For reference, here’s a still of this week’s whiteboard! Video transcription Howdy, Moz fans and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2014

2014/05/08

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…

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Learn More About Your Business’s Target Audience With Facebook Audience Insights by @mattsouthern

2014/05/08

Today, Facebook announced the launch of a new tool, called audience insights, that Page owners can use to learn more about who their target audience is by gathering geographic information, demographic information, past purchase history, and more all into one panel. Audience Insights is similar in a lot of ways to Page Insights, but different in terms of the type of information it collects.

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SearchCap: Yahoo News Digest, Bing XBox Music Search & Google Parents Search Double

2014/05/08

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 Says New Parents Perform Twice As Many Searches As Non-Parents According to a recent survey conducted by Google’s Think Insights, new and expecting… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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