Archive for June, 2014

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2014

2014/06/06

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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SearchCap: Google On Site Moves, Google Shopping API, Greece Okays Google Maps Street Views

2014/06/06

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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Google Takes Down Japan’s Honinbo Shusaku Doodle On Google UK On D-Day, Offers Apology

2014/06/06

The Telegraph reports Google has taken down a Google Doodle, aka Google Logo, from Google UK and some other countries, out of respect for D-Day.

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Google Car Search Discontinued

2014/06/06

Dan Barker posted on Twitter that google.com/cars no longer works.

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Pinterest To Open Up Promoted Pins To More Users by @mattsouthern

2014/06/06

Last month we reported that Pinterest was starting to roll out their new advertising unit, Promoted Pins. At that time, Pinterest was looking to get big brands to buy into Pinterest advertising campaigns to the tune of $1 million or more per campaign. Obviously, that immediately ruled out the chances of small to medium sized businesses being able to promote themselves on Pinterest.

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Where’d Everything Go? Navigating the New Facebook Page Redesign by @thebigdebowski

2014/06/06

The new Facebook business page redesign finally made a major rollout last week. While it doesn’t appear to have yet transitioned for 100% of fanpages, most have now crossed over

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 6, 2014

2014/06/06

This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable, I post the monthly Google webmaster report.

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Google Releases An In-Depth Guide To Googlebot-Friendly Site Moves by @mattsouthern

2014/06/06

Google announced on their Webmaster Central blog today that they have released an in-depth guide to Googlebot-friendly site movies. “Few topics confuse and scare webmasters more than site moves,” Google says. So to make things less scary they have created this guide that explains how to handle site moves and stay on Google’s good side

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Google Introduces New Content API For Google Shopping

2014/06/06

Today, Google introduced a new version of the API that allows retailers to manage product feed content programmatically, as opposed to through manual updates to Google Merchant Center. It’s the first version update of the API since Google first launched it in 2010, before Google Shopping… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Right To Be Forgotten “Small Thing” Vs. Copyright Takedowns Says EU Commissioner

2014/06/06

European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding was quoted in a BBC interview saying that the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) will be relatively easy for Google to administer. She asserted that, compared to the millions of copyright removal requests Google deals with, the thousands of RTBF requests… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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