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The Bing search engine has recently undergone an overhaul and its partnership with Facebook has made the interface a lot more social. It offers the best of Bing’s search features with the perspectives of people who a searcher knows, likes and trusts. Here’s a rundown on the main features directly from Bing: Finding people who can help: ...
Google Places has a new look which many users are saying is long overdue. Boasting a must more intuitive dashboard, users will now be able to find and fix listing errors a lot more quickly and easily If you happen to be a business owner who has numerous locations, you may have avoided uploading or correcting the ...
Facebook already has the social media market cornered and is even throwing its hat into the Wall Street arena, but any plans to create a Facebook search engine could be a bone of contention. Greenlight’s Search & Social Survey 2011-12 asked 500 people their opinion on whether Facebook should start a search engine similar to Google ...
Google's Penguin Update has been a hot topic in the SEO world for around three weeks now. With widespread reports of ranking penalties and false positives, Google's Matt Cutts has chimed in on the debate labelling the Penguin Update a success. "It's been a success from our standpoint", Cutts said. When asked about the issues of false ...
We’ve written many times about the does and don’t of creating a landing page that will convert. But a recent article from the team at Kiss Metrics caught my attention when it outlined 11 elements of a page that are often overlooked. It certainly made me look twice at the most popular pages on our own ...
Google has recently announced a significant change to AdWords. Advertisements on AdWords will now be limited to thirty days. Before this announcement, advertisements could stay on a site for an indefinite amount of time. As the recent Panda and Penguin updates suggest, Google is making a strong push to get rid of spam and to encourage ...
Here’s something new from Yahoo: a centralized location where business owners can get quick overviews of the effectiveness of their marketing strategies. Dubbed The Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, it’s a one-stop-shop for small businesses to track their marketing and includes the following features: Reputation Tracker: This feature scans over 8000 sites across the web to see what customers ...
Late last Friday, Google announced over 50 new changes that are set to change how search results are displayed in some big ways. The big topics of focus with this update are on how Google handles spelling errors, classifies keyword stuffing, focuses more on freshness being factored into SERPs and adding a larger website index size. ...
The animosity between Yahoo! and Facebook is picking up pace once again as Yahoo! adds two more infringement claims against Facebook taking the total to 12. These claims come just when the social networking giant is busy with its initial public offering slated for release later this month. For those who don't know, about a month back ...
Google recently announced that AdWords for Video is out of Beta and has been given its very own platform in YouTube for anyone who wishes to cash in on their video. For those who are unaware, AdWords for Video follows in the footsteps of its counterpart on Google search, the only difference here being that you ...