Bing has added alerts to their search results when someone triggers a search for a pharmaceutical with other keywords that shows intentions to purchase it. When you click the “learn more” page, it takes you to the landing page for the Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies, a consumer protection group supporting legitimate pharmacies online. While […]
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Facebook Adds Video Insights for Facebook Pages
If you post videos to your Facebook Page, you will be happy to know that Facebook has added new Video Insights to their Insights tab. When viewing the Video Insights Page, it details the number of times your video was viewed for 3+ seconds, for 30+ seconds, and a third section that details the most […]
Panda Refresh in “Soon” Phase; No ETA for Technical Reasons
Another week has gone by in the wait for the Panda update, and it is still coming “soon.” Gary Illyes from Google made the comment on Twitter that Panda is still coming but it is still in the “soon phase” and is unable to give an ETA due to technical reasons. @thebesthostnews heyya, it's still […]
Bing Suggesting Brands For Highly Competitive Unbranded Search Queries
How would you feel if someone searched for “health insurance” or “payday loans” and Bing showed a nice box for your company, essentially a free ad for your brand? Bing is doing just that for multiple high value search queries. Here is an example for “payday loans”, a very competitive search query. Along with the […]
Online Video Presentations: Why Some Companies Are Failing While Others Surge Ahead
According to the Content Marketing Institute, online presentations are one of the 10 most effective tactics used by B2C marketers. And a lot has been going on in the online presentations segment of the business video market over the last couple of days. Here’s the story: Two major incumbents in the video presentation market — […]
Google Revises Blog Post About Not Asking for Links
Google released a blog post on the Portuguese Webmaster Blog earlier this week, with one statement that many found interesting – they said that webmasters should not ask for links. While Google has long held a stance that links should be earned naturally, they haven’t officially said that webmasters should not ask for links and […]
Is Google’s Relationship With The Webmaster Community Becoming Fractured?
For those who follow the SEO community, there have been many changes this year with Google’s outreach to SEOs and webmasters, starting when Matt Cutts went on leave. While one could make the argument that Google’s effort at increased communication and transparency with webmasters has been sincere, many things have been botched so magnificently over […]
Bing Suggesting Additional Searches With Drop Down When Scrolling Up
Bing has added a new feature to make it easier to keep a Bing searcher on Bing, rather than perhaps abandoning it for another search engine when a searcher can’t find exactly what they are looking for. If you do a search on Bing and scroll down until you reach the end of the search […]
Still Want Emojis in the Google Search Results? Use Google+
There is a teeny loophole within the Google search results that still allows you to get emojis into titles… but it isn’t the most effective way to be able to spam them. If you make a post on Google+ that includes emojis, then those emojis will still show up in the Google search results. It […]
Google’s Large Product Listing Ad & Knowledge Panel Hybrid Ads
Google is testing an unusual new Product Listing Ad (aka shopping ad) and it is the largest ad that has ever appeared in their search results. The PLA is a cross between a Knowledge Panel and a PLA and it completely dominates the right hand side of the search results for the searches it appears […]