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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
Over the last week, claims have emerged that Google has been giving big brands a helping hand in their SEO efforts. The Google ranking algorithm apparently now includes branding in its ranking calculations.
The discussion started when Aaron Wall, one the industries most respected SEO proponents, released a lengthy blog post titled “Google”s New Search Engine…
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Who was it that said Yahoo! is done and dusted? Well whoever it was, it certainly doesn”t appear that way. Just last week Yahoo! introduced Yahoo! Mobile and now they have announced a new set of online ad targeting services. The WSJ broke the news first. They reported that Joanne Bradford and Michael Walrath, Yahoo!…
Google have expanded their local business listings on Google Maps to boost the number of clickable search results from ten to hundreds of businesses. Instead of just plotting the first ten search results on the map, Google now includes hundreds of other businesses across the map using small red circles.
For example, the search for “coffee in…
Although its name lacks creativity, Yahoo has announced an exciting new mobile experienced called Yahoo! Mobile.
It will be available on the mobile Web, as an application developed for the Apple iPhone and for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile.
“We believe the new Yahoo! Mobile…
Tracking the clicks and conversions on your website just doesn’t seem enough these days for the team from Google Analytics (GA).
They have released two new add-ons to GA which allow you to track your phone leads and live chats.
Teaming up with Mongoose Metrics, Google Analytics will now track the phone number called, the duration and…
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It’s almost as rare as hen’s teeth to hear that Yahoo! and Microsoft did better than Google at anything – but alas, January’s “share of search” results are one of those occasions.
Now before anyone gets too carried away, they haven’t overtaken Google in terms of search share – they just gained some ground in a month where Google dropped…
Well you have to give them credit for trying… Yahoo have just released an enhancement to their paid search advertising service – Rich Ads in Search.
While the functionality is not exactly groundbreaking, it does push paid search in an interesting direction. Yahoo!’s hoping the enhancement to their paid search advertising will help them more effectively compete with…
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As we all know, Google is by far the most popular search engine, clearly beating its main rivals Yahoo! & MSN. But what if Yahoo! or MSN provided better search results, would you switch?
This is the question that was asked by J.P. Morgan recently in a poll to determine what it would take for searchers to switch to an…
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Although the deal was pretty well signed, sealed and delivered back in November last year, it is now official: Microsoft has trumped Google and Yahoo! to be the search engine of choice for Verizon.
Microsoft CEO made the announcement on the partnership at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
“I’m also thrilled to announce a new…
Google has let us in on the inner working of its search engine in a recent blog post.
Understandably, Google has to be quite secretive about the “Google crown jewels” – the ranking algorithms. This is due to not wanting competitors stealing or copying it and also Google doesn’t want web sites cheating the system. But,…
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