Archive for January, 2015

MCC Accounts: Google AdWords Bid Simulator Keyword Report Didn’t Work

2015/01/10

Almost 10 months ago, Google AdWords launched a new report set of columns that gave you the ability to show Bid Simulator columns in your reports. Well, for the passed 10 months, it only worked on individual accounts

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Google: Upper Or Lower Case In Your Disavow Both Work Fine

2015/01/10

Google’s disavow tool is still a hot topic amongst SEOs and will be as long as Google is at war on links. Marie Haynes asked Google’s John Mueller a question on Twitter about the tool that I’ve never seen asked. Does the case of your words in the disavow file matter..

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Instagram The Fastest Growing Social Network, Facebook The Most Engaged, + More Stats by @mattsouthern

2015/01/10

New data from Pew Research Internet Project finds that while Facebook is still the most popular social media site, Instagram is by far the fastest growing.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 9, 2015

2015/01/10

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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Are Your Video Ads Actually Being Seen? Google Will Soon Report On Video Ad Viewability by @mattsouthern

2015/01/10

Google will soon let advertisers and publishers know whether or not their video ads delivered via the DoubleClick ad services are actually being watched by customers, Bloomberg reports. This news was announced by Neal Mohan, Google’s vice president of display and video advertising, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. In keeping with the Media Ratings Council’s standard, Google will let advertisers know what percentage of their videos were at least 50% in a customer’s view for at least two seconds or more

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Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon

2015/01/09

As Google prepares to get into the car insurance business, those search results will get a shake up seen in other verticals The post Google Results For “Car Insurance” Could Look Different Very Soon appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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SearchCap: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users, Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Local Algorithm & More

2015/01/09

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users, Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Local Algorithm & More appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Google: Make Sure To Match Up Your rel=canonical & hreflang pairs

2015/01/09

Google’s John Mueller posted on Google+ a heads up to those sites implementing hreflang for international support, that they must implement the rel=canonical properly or it will be as if none of the mark up is there…

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Report: Yahoo Search Losing Firefox Users Who “Switchback” To Google

2015/01/09

Relying on recently released StatCounter data we previously reported Yahoo search gains in the wake of the Firefox “default search” deal announced earlier this year. However a subsequent analysis by RKG’s Mark Ballard argues that many Firefox 34 users are switching back to Google… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 9, 2015

2015/01/09

This week in search, I report how Googleâs engineers working on the Penguin algorithm is letting it settle down a bit. I posted the monthly Google webmaster…

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