Tim Cook: We blew it with iOS Maps, so try Bing Maps instead

Apple CEO Tim Cook: We blew it with iOS Maps, so try Bing Maps instead
Computerworld (blog)
They're likely celebrating at Microsoft today, because when Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for the iOS Maps fiasco, his first recommendation for an alternative is Bing Maps. In his apology, Cook didn't go into details about just how badly iOS Maps works ...

Microsoft takes a stake in Klout and adds its data to Bing
CNET
This new partnership is related to Microsoft's ongoing work to integrate social-search results into itsBing search engine via the sidebar panel, the same way that it does with Quora and foursquare. Your reaction to this news probably indicates a lot ...

Media.net Partners with Yahoo! Bing to Provide Context Ads
Search Engine Journal
Bing Network. Thanks to a partnership with Media.net, web publishers can now create and customized highly relevant, targeted contextual advertising units for their websites from among the ads running on the Yahoo! Bing Network. Here are the key ...

XXX search engine specializes in porn results
Mother Nature Network
To set the Bing and Google Search filters to "strict," go into your search settings by clicking on the gear icon. Choose "search settings" to see your filter options and set to "strict." That's it for Bing, but Google also lets you lock in your choice ...
 
Mother Nature Network

Apple: Little Likelihood of Ditching Google Search, Says Bernstein, But Fun to ...
Barron's (blog)
Apple has three options, in Sacconaghi's view: “Continue with Google,” make Microsoft's (MSFT)Bing the default search in iOS, or “do (traditional) search on its own.” Sacconaghi's sense is Apple won't move away from Google, for a number of reasons: On ...

Facebook Unwraps Gifts; Porn Search Engine; Intel, Partners Showcase Win 8 ...
PC Magazine
According to ICM, the new search engine rummages through only .XXX domain-based porn, while sites like Google or Bing allegedly de-rank adult sites to filter out content. Pages crawled by Search.xxx are scanned daily by McAfee and can be modified to ...

SEO: Putting Navigation to Work
Practical Ecommerce
Search engine optimization professionals like to call that lifeblood “link juice.” To keep the site healthy and able to rank for the most keyword phrases possible, that lifeblood link juice has to be distributed throughout the site to feed every page ...

Microsoft's Bing Gets Klout | Fast Company
By Christina Chaey
Microsoft is helping Klout grow its influence with a new strategic investment and a multi-year agreement to mesh the social influence measurer with Bing. Now, under Bing's "People Who Know" portion of its social sidebar, you'll see experts' ...
Fast Company

Bing Partners With Klout, Marrying Search and Influence
By Peter Pachal
Microsoft and Klout have announced a new partnership between the two companies, which will see Klout's data get incorporated into the Bing search engine. At the same time, Klout scores will begin to take into account Bing search results ...
Mashable » Startups

Bing and Klout team up to put social influence scores into search ...
By Eliza Kern
Microsoft's search engine Bing and Klout announced a strategic partnership Thursday that will allow Microsoft to invest in the site that attempts to measure internet influence and display Klout scores within Bing search results. In a blog post ...
GigaOM

Twitter Ad Revenue Play: Now Allowing More Search Engine Indexing
By Miranda Miller
Specifically, Google, Bing, Yandex and others will now have access to Twitter's search results pages, which display Promoted Tweets where available. The modification was first noticed by The Sociable, who offered a look at Twitter's robots.txt ...
Search Engine Watch

Search.xxx Porn Search Engine Launches (Because It's So Hard To ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... on the Internet, there's now a search engine exclusively for smut. Search.xxx, which bills itself as "The Search Engine For Porn," searches for sites with the suffix .xxx, which, as one may have posited, are adult-themed. ... like Google and Bing by allowing users to filter results by sexual orientation. Queries in Search.xxx aren't recorded in users' Google search history, so worries about potentially embarrassing previously-searched terms showing up at inopportune times are alleviated.
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Bing Bing and Klout Partner to Strengthen Social Search and Online ...
In May we introduced sidebar, bringing you relevant information from friends, experts and enthusiasts across social networks to help you find anything from ...
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Google Without Google?

Google Without Google, Replacement Google Are What Search Looks Like On ...
Geekosystem
Google Without Google, meanwhile, takes the recent minimalist design trend to its logical conclusion, replacing the Google front page with a blank white screen, populated by just a single blinking cursor. It is weird and beautiful, and essentially the ...

New search engine for porn advances master plan for .xxx economy
The Verge
The company that administers the .xxx domain just launched a porn-only search engine, Search.xxx, after a year of development. The search engine is ostensibly an effort to promote the new X-rated ecosystem of .xxx sites while countering attempts by ...

Yahoo joins Bing for contextual ads
San Francisco Chronicle
Yahoo is getting back into the contextual advertising marketplace Thursday with the launch of a service that ties into the search engine's collaboration with Microsoft's Bing. Yahoo announced a long-term agreement with contextual ad service Media.net ...

Are Your SEO Techniques Up to Date?
ADOTAS
Search engine optimization (SEO) has undergone quite a transformation over the last year. Optimization techniques that used to be good are now bad; optimization techniques used to be marginal are now central. As a consequence, firms that have failed to ...

Understanding SEO Friendly URL Syntax Practices
Search Engine Land
Poor URL structure is a frequent SEO issue, one that can impair rankings, keep pages out of the search engine indexes, and suck ranking authority from your other pages or even the entire websites. Some content management systems bake poor URL ...

Search Engine Land

Microsoft's Bing bods exploit fanbois' Apple maps misery
Register
Apple's decision to shoot itself in the foot over maps could be a seminal moment for Bing Maps. Microsoft has been painstakingly building and buffing Bing Maps for six years, from distinguishing the look to Google Maps to integrating it with Bing ...

Sorry, Google: Why Yahoo Remains Stuck With Microsoft's Bing
ReadWriteWeb
Under the agreement approved in 2010, Microsoft's Bing powers Yahoo's own search engine on Yahoo's sites, while Microsoft gets an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's search technology. Yahoo receives 88% of all the revenues from search ads on its site ...

Google Street View underwater maps: Search engine's interactive panorama ...
WPTV
Google Street View underwater maps: Search engine's interactive panorama feature goes nautical. Video; Photo. google_maps_20120927055212_JPG. Google Street View, the interactive panorama feature within Google Maps, is going underwater.

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SEO Desk hits the jackpot with new client Triple Seven Resources
Equities.com
Up and coming gambling recruitment specialists, Triple Seven Resources, have announced a new partnership with Search Engine Optimisation firm, SEO Desk, in a bid to increase their internet marketing presence. The Croydon based recruitment firm, now in ...

Why Microsoft Is Tying B&N's Nook to Windows, Office And Bing
ReadWriteWeb
A new job posting from Barnes & Noble indicates that the Nook e-reader will be tied into the Microsoft platform, including Windows, Office and the company's Bing search engine. It's an indication that e-books mean more than just another item to sell ...

ReadWriteWeb

If You Miss Google Maps On iOS, Bing Thinks You Should Use Bing Maps
WebProNews
Google Maps and its disappearance from iOS have been in the news a lot over the past week or so, and lots of other companies are stepping up pointing to their own maps offerings. Microsoft is the latest, and is now going around reminding people that ...

The pornonly search engine is coming - The Next Web
By Emil Protalinski
ICM Registry, the company behind the pornographic .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD), plans to launch a search engine designed solely for it. The goal is simple: drive more traffic to .xxx websites while also giving porn watchers a more ...
The Next Web

#Facebook Fakes: Did You Lose Fans? | Search Engine Journal
By Michelle Stinson Ross
inLinks · Text Link Brokers · SEO Reseller · $5 Business Services. Search Engine Journal “SEJ” helps companies improve their interactive marketing, and helps marketers to succeed in a challenging career. Launched in 2003, SEJ is unique in ...
Search Engine Journal

International SEO: Dropping the Information Dust | SEOmoz
By gfiorelli1
... market one of their main goals. In this post, I try to solve the possible doubts you may have about this facet of your job as an SEO, explain best practices, give some tips, and explain why companies should invest more of their budget in competing in the foreign arena. ... If you use Google Translate (or Babylon, WordLingo, or Bing Translate), you will have just one of the many variants of that keyword possible all over the Spanish variations map: Venta de coches (Spain); Venta de ...
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

There's Going to Be a Porn Search Engine and It Might Change ...
By Casey Chan
Yes. You already search freaky sex terms on porn tube sites but that's not a full-fledged search engine. This porn search engine will clean up the nasty side of online porn (viruses, malware, etc.) by delivering only official .xxx results—the whole ...
Gizmodo

Search.xxx, the porn-only search engine, makes its premiere ...
By Natt Garun
A new search engine that will only provide pornographic links launches today, spelling an end to embarrassing Google search history. ... When reports emerged last year that the company behind .xxx web domains aimed to launch a porn-only search engine, the public reaction was fairly mixed. On one hand, some people greeted the idea with intrigue, saying it was finally time to have a place to consolidate and separate private searches from ordinary searches on Google or Bing.

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SEO is not dead, long live SEO!

SEO is not dead, long live SEO!
The Guardian (blog)
It is a mathematical relationship that goes: if search query equals A then return B. The mistake many make is that they think search engine optimisation is a practice limited to websites and search portals such as Google. It isn't. Search engine ...

The Guardian (blog)

In-House SEO Interview: The Hidden Heroes of Search
Search Engine Watch
So I thought it was time to chat with a couple in-house SEOs and get their take on SEO from their perspective. Robin Aguilar Francis is the Senior Manager, Search & Social, for Autodesk 3D design software, and John Cole is the Director of Search ...

US Senate Committee Asks Google, Yahoo & Bing To Fight Bait-And-Switch ...
Search Engine Land
The timing is important, because Google's Penguin Update launched in late April was a change Google introduced to its search engine designed precisely to prevent sites using some of the spam tactics described in the Senate report from ranking well.

.xxx to Launch Porn Search Engine
CIO
IDG News Service (Washington, D.C., Bureau) — The company behind the .xxx top-level domain plans to launch a search engine in an effort to drive more traffic to .xxx websites and give pornography fans a more satisfying search experience. ... "You may ...

Search Engine Optimization is NOT a One-Time Thing
Business 2 Community
I know what you're thinking – search engine optimization (SEO) is just another thing to add to my list – who has the time to do this? Most people do not realize they should be following up on their online marketing strategy. They assume SEO is a ...

Business 2 Community

Happy Birthday, DuckDuckGo: Homegrown Search Engine Turns 4
Search Engine Watch
Why the media interest in a search engine that, by all commonly used metrics, lives in the shadows of Goliaths like Google and Bing? DuckDuckGo's founder is on a mission; it speaks to his experience that he foresaw privacy as a growing concern among ...

Iran blocks Google search, email
UPI.com
"Google search website is accessible, but is not functioning properly," the BBC's Persian service reported. "Google services which need a secure SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] connection are out of reach in Iran." The unsecured version of the search engine ...

JM Internet Announces Small Business SEO Course With Free Intro Webinar
Daily Markets
That's what Search Engine Optimization, or “SEO,” is all about. The company's online SEOcourses offer hands-on, step-by-step instructions on how to get to the top of Google for businesses and marketers. Most companies do not realize the basic steps to ...

Social Media Is The New SEO - Deal With It!
Business 2 Community
Last week, a person looking for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) services for his new business left a post asking for advice on Google+. He mentioned that he was looking for someone to help him create backlinks as quickly as possible. He also mentioned ...

Google Search Goes Down -- For Some
By Lance Ulanoff
Update 5:22 PM ET: Google search and services appear to be 100% back online. We also ... Web surfers got an unpleasant surprise Tuesday as many of them found their favorite search engine, Google, offline or nearly un-responsive. Others ...
Mashable » Tech

What A Facebook Social Search Engine May Look Like
By Dave Copeland
But it could be an entirely different search engine than that of Google and the myriad copycat competitors that have tried to dent Mountain View's massive market share. While Google crawls the Web and combines what it finds with your search ...
ReadWriteWeb

Bing Targets iPhone Users
By Alex Wilhelm
That opening, combined with the fact that Bing is hungry for mobile market share – its own platform, Windows Phone, controls around 2% of the smartphone market – made for what felt like a beautiful opportunity for the search engine and its ...
The Next Web

Cool Infographics - Blog - How Much Does SEO Cost?
By Randy
How much does SEO cost? How much time do you have to discuss the various models and prices out there! However, a new survey sheds some light on the subject. Over 500 people and companies who offer search engine optimization ...
Cool Infographics

Google Search: Video game sales predicted from queries
By Raymond Wong
What do Google (GOOG) searches and video games sales have in common? More than we thought. According to a report called "Understanding the Modern Gamer,
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How to Get Your Video Found, Watched and Shared

YouTube 101: How to Get Your Video Found, Watched and Shared
Huffington Post
YouTube has become one of the most popular social sharing platforms on the Internet. It is a focal point that people either aspire to be like or try to emulate. You will more often than not hear, "How do I make my video popular on YouTube?" rather than ...

How To Expand Your Keyword Portfolio For Global Leads & Sales
Search Engine Land
Last time, we looked at the process of A Minimalist Approach To Global Keyword Expansion & Monitoring, which is the bare minimum a company should do in an overseas market. This essentially solves for the first phrase of the typical purchase cycle ...

Search Engine Land

Beyond SEO: Inbound Marketing in a Post-Google World
Business Insider
We need to expand beyond search engine optimization because search engines aren't the only way people discover or consume content anymore. For informational queries (where is it, what is it, where can I buy one, what's that movie where John Candy ...

A Guide to Making Your Business Video SEO Friendly
Search Engine Journal
Because sites like Google can't “read” a video, it's important to focus on providing keywords and utilizing other strategies to pull your business videos into search results. Below are a few strategies you can employ to make your video SEO-friendly: ...

Microsoft Improves 'Bing Ads' To Capitalize On Bing's Momentum
Forbes
Overall, we think that Microsoft is taking all the right steps in trying to rebrand its search engine. This could be a make or break time for the platform as it must capitalize on positive momentum gained form “Bing it On” ad campaign and its addition ...

Deadly Mistakes Made When Conducting SEO Keyword Research
Business 2 Community
One of the first things you need to do when building a website that attracts targeted traffic is to conduct SEO keyword research to find the keywords and phrases that people are searching for, have commercial intent and are not overly competitive ...

Google's search data reveals how the digital era has changed video game ...
VentureBeat
More Software. Remote Desktop Software · Scheduling Software · SEO Software · Shopping Cart Software · Web Design Software · Web Hosting Software. Footer Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Home · About · Contact · Advertise ...

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Search-engine finds results you once had and lost
The Providence Journal (blog)
Search engine plug-in finds results you once had and lost. Search engine plug-in finds results you once had and lost. Comments | Recommend. September 25, 2012 8:11 am. By Sheila Lennon · Seen Before: A search engine for what you have seen before ...

Google Search and Gmail censored in Iran
Daily Star Online
The unsecured version of the search engine, which is much easier to eavesdrop on, remains accessible. The BBC Persian service says: "Google search website is accessible, but is not functioning properly. Google services which need a secure SSL [Secure ...

Google would love to bounce Bing from Yahoo — Cloud Computing ...
By Barb Darrow
Would Google chairman Eric Schmidt like his company's search engine to replace Microsoft Bing as the default search in Yahoo.com? Do you really have to ask? If so, the answer is yes, according to reports out of Japan.
GigaOM

10 SEO Myths Debunked
By StevePlunkett
Check out these 10 Social Media and SEO Myths debunked… 1. Search Engine Optimization is something where we get as much information from as many SEO vendors as possible and hand it off to our IT people to do SEO with that info ...
Social Fresh

Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool Gets New Name, Design ...
By Miranda Miller
Search Engine Watch author Thom Craver offers a solution. The most basic form of authentication for HTTP can be done by using a username and password in the URL, he said. Make your dev. environment publicly online, but behind a ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

SEO for Law Firms and Attorneys
Home → Services → Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ... and it's a proven fact that higher rankings on major search engine like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! leads to higher ... Google Penguin: Why External Links Aren't All You Should Look At ...
www.thesearchninjas.com/.../seo-for-law-firms-and-attorneys

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How to Launch an Ad Campaign on YouTube

How to Launch an Ad Campaign on YouTube for the Holidays ...
By Greg Jarboe
And according to Google Campaign Insights, YouTube video ads, on average, drive a 20 percent increase in traffic to a company's website and a 5 percent increase in searches for that business. So,YouTube video ads get results. Even small businesses are discovering that ad ... a YouTubeAdvertising Campaign. For starters, marketers need to make a video. They can shoot some videothemselves and use My Business Story's channel to add their clips and give them style for free.
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SEO Demystified: SEO Doesn't Confuse People – People Confuse People
Business 2 Community
What is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is the process of maximizing a web page's chance of being found and highly ranked for specific keywords by the search engines (i.e. Google and Bing).

Business 2 Community

12 Questions to Ask Before Taking on SEO Clients
Search Engine Journal
In too many cases, SEO consultants get lumped into a single group: “Those guys who do Google stuff to improve your website.” In fact, there's a wide range of different SEO solutions out there, from one-man shops to large agencies, all of which have ...

iPhone 5 Won't Change Mobile Search, But Can Nokia?
Search Engine Land
Of course, as with any phone, you can install the search engine of your choice when you activate and configure your new phone. But with Bing's tight integration in the device, and the fact that Bing holds its own against Google for ... With Bing's new ...

Search Engine Land

The Stratosphere View: 4 Musts for Defining Successful SEO
Forbes
One of the challenges of managing a search engine optimization (SEO) program effectively is convincing colleagues across your organization to understand, at the highest level, what the outcomes of a well-executed SEO campaign are. What defines success ...

Forbes

Using Share Of Voice To Measure SEO Results
Search Engine Land
We talk about rankings, but we know rankings mean diddley squat. We point at ROI, but no one believes us. We try to lobby for changes like text-based navigation, but we're told “We can't risk the brand!” There's a better way, particularly for any SEO ...

Search Engine Land

Pass Options for SMX East; Sessions, Networking and More – Starts Next Tuesday!
Search Engine Land
Participate in a smorgasbord of cutting-edge sessions and keynotes covering SEO, paid search advertising, social media marketing and other internet marketing topics, presented by an expert faculty of over 120 speakers. Attend the networking ... Getting ...

Conductor upgrades Searchlight SEO solution
BtoB Magazine
New York—Search engine optimization technology company Conductor Inc. has released a new version of its SEO platform that includes upgraded data analytics capabilities, reporting and business intelligence tools. Among the new features in Conductor ...

The Big App Cleanup: 5 Tools I Really Need as a Blogger
Search Engine Journal (blog)
Google and Bing news, Google Insights, trending tweets, the most popular and recent Diggs, YouTube top rated videos, blog posts, and more—isn't that awesome? And don't even try to persuade me that the properly customized Google Alerts would bring the ...

How to Quickly Identify Duplicate Content With a Site Crawl - Search ...
By Ben Goodsell
This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using an SEO site crawler to quickly identify duplicate content. There are many tools out there, but Screaming Frog is definitely one of the most popular/powerful scrapers and it is the spider ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest

Five Simple And Actionable Local SEO Tools | Small Business Trends
By Tom Demers
Tracking Google Local, Bing Local and Yahoo Local, the BrightLocal's Local Search Rank Checker provides you with a comprehensive report analyzing your business' local rankings, showing you your previous ranking for both the local and standard search engines. Additionally, this tool tracks ... Tom Demers is a co-founder and managing partner with Measured SEM, a search engine marketing consulting firm specializing in paid and organic search marketing. Learn more about Tom ...
Small Business Trends

Would You Like Facebook As a Search Engine?
By Frank Reed
Would You Like Facebook As a Search Engine? posted on September 24, 2012. Facebook is saving your searches in your activity log. It was announced by Facebook on Friday. Starting today, in addition to your other activity, you'll be able to ...
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SEO Marketing 6 Things to Understand

SEO Marketing 6 Things to Understand | Inc.com
SEO marketing myths: Your understanding of the way Google and Bing work depends on how ...Don't get stuck with old ideas about search engine optimization.
www.inc.com/michael-mothner/seo-marketing-myths.html

Aligning SEO Strategy & Social Media Activity to Build Links
Search Engine Watch
It's no secret that social media has become increasingly important from an SEOstandpoint as the engines have incorporated social signals (e.g., likes, shares, views, etc.) into their ranking algorithm. And as Google+ has become integrated into Google...

Search Engine Watch

Low Forward P/E, Solid Dividend Yield and Growth Prospects Make Microsoft A ...
Seeking Alpha
The company's most recent failure was Bing, a failed attempt to enter the search engine market. In fact, aside from its Xbox products, Microsoft has hardly had any success in its recently-launched products. We believe that the Surface tablet and the ...

James Schramko Updates Followers about the New Facebook Search App ...
Equities.com
In his latest SEO news update, SuperFastBusiness CEO and online business expert James Schramko reports on recent developments in relation to last week's discussion about Facebook becoming a social search engine. “This week, there are websites like ...

How to make search engine ? | DaniWeb
By bikashjit
Just take one simple example, of dictionary websites like http://dictionary.reference.com when you search any word it searches that word and show you the meaning. just like that, my search engine will search my blog topic and also show me ...
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SEO Quick Start Guide to Customer Retention Marketing

The SEO's Quick Start Guide to Customer Retention Marketing
Business Insider
Do you value and retain your customers? Purna Virji, Online Marketing Manager at Stroll, shares five quick steps to customer retention marketing success. Purna wears many marketing hats, speaks a half a dozen languages, and when she isn't driving sales ...

Bing Beats Google, If You're Looking to Kill Yourself
WebProNews
Oh well, all of that is beside the point, except to frame the background for this: Bing totally bestsGoogle's search results, if your search queries involve suicide. Check out this comparison of Google and Bing results for the search “how to commit ...

#SocialChat Discusses the Synergy of Search and Social
Search Engine Journal
Jim has been involved in the online marketing industry since 1998 and a SEO since 1999. ... Social feels conversational, while SEO is about achievement As a marketer, social is about attraction while search is about visibility. Social helps me do my job.

SEO Ranking Forecast: 74 and Sunny
Practical Ecommerce
One of the hardest aspects of search engine optimization is determining whether changes in your site's organic search results are based on changes to your own site or external influences like algorithm changes. SEOmoz created MozCast weather report to ...
 
Practical Ecommerce

"SEO is Rocky Balboa."
Direct Marketing News
Gaining customers' attention online can sometimes feel like an underdog trying to win a prize fight. “Rocky Balboa is SEO. SEO is Rocky Balboa,” Jeff Herbst, director of organic search for 2tor, said during his presentation at the C3 conference in New ...

Direct Marketing News

Microsoft Tells Apple Users To Use Bing Over Google Due To Privacy Concerns
Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft is targeting Google is a marketing campaign for Apple Safari users and others to switch to Bing from Google because of privacy reasons. The campaign can be found at bing.com/privacy-protection and it

Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Ads Simplifies Geotargeting (Because You Can't Mail Weapons To New York)
Marketing Vox News
"Will it play in Peoria?" is an old saw meaning, how will an ad, song, politician appeal to mainstream America? (Peoria, by the way, is in central Illinois.) Chances are, ads for a Manhattan pizzeria would play poorly there, hence, geographic targeting ...

12 Perspectives on How B2B SEO Can Better Support PR ...
By Derek Edmond
Social media has a greater impact on search engine optimization (SEO) as well, both on the website and pointing to the website. SEO professionals need to identify and network with key influencer's in their client's target markets, to develop ...
Search Engine Watch

Microsoft Confirms Bing Push Using Google's Safari Privacy Fiasco
By Emil Protalinski
Last night I wrote a post titled “Microsoft to Safari users: Hey, try Bing (because Google is evil and breached your privacy). If you're just tuning in now, a new landing page suggested that Microsoft was using Google's record FTC $22.5 million ...
The Next Web

Google Can Read Dynamic FAQs - SEO Chat
So from a human usability perspective, dynamic FAQs are a great idea. But what about from a search engine and SEO perspective? Does Google understand and appreciate this kind of page? Will it see the answers, or just the questions?
SEO Chat - Search Engine Optimization...

SPONSOR MESSAGE: 10 Great Mobile ... - Search Engine Land
By Search Engine Land
About The Author: Search Engine Land is a news and information site covering search enginemarketing, searching issues and the search engine industry. Special site announcements and occasional sponsor messages are posted by Search ...
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Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing - Slashdot
more privacy oriented Bing search engine (Score:5, Insightful) .... done on GOOGLE to Microsoft, and results chosen from the GOOGLE search to Microsoft.
tech.slashdot.org/.../microsoft-urging-safari-users-to-use-bing

Microsoft to Safari Users: Google Breached Your Privacy, Use Bing
If you're a Safari user, Microsoft is urging you to use Bing because Google doesn' t take your privacy seriously. No, I'm not joking, take a look at this webpage, ...
thenextweb.com/.../microsoft-tells-safari-users-use-bing-since-...

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An Effective Video SEO Strategy On YouTube

How To Implement An Effective Video SEO Strategy On YouTube
Business 2 Community
With web video and search engine optimization playing an integral part in the online marketing strategies of established businesses, bloggers and SME's around the world, we thought it was high time we tackled exactly how the everyday user can implement ...

How To Leverage PPC To Discover High-Converting Keywords For SEO
Search Engine Land
When starting out with a new search effort or performing a keyword refresh for an existing website, the options for discovering new keywords are limited only by theSEO's imagination. From the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, to digging through analytics, ...

Search Engine Land

'Penguin' and 'Panda' Change the Digital Landscape in New Zealand with 'White ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Pure SEO, New Zealand's leading search engine optimisation company, releases results of their digital marketing survey conducted among the businesses impacted by the Panda and Penguin updates. Google's recent updates have had a significant impact...

San Francisco Chronicle

A Democratic Mayor and Republican Governor Cooperate to Revive Detroit
Huffington Post (blog)
On September 12th, Detroit's brave Democratic Mayor Dave Bing and Michigan's pragmatic Republican Governor Rick Snyder agreed to refurbish Belle Isle Park, a neglected cultural gem in the shadows of a once great city. The magnificent two-mile long ...

Things People Shouldn't Say About Your SEO
Search Engine Journal
Everybody thinks their SEO is the best. Guess what? It's not. Not yours, not mine, not anybody's. I didn't say your SEO strategies aren't good, but there is always room for improvement. In light of that, here are some things you don't want someone to ...

Million Short Launches It's Version Of “Bing It On” Challenge (Million Short ...
WebProNews
Did you have fun with the Bing's Bing It On Challenge? Well, welcome to the arena MillionShort It On, a similar offering from alternative search engine Million Short. We reported on Million Short a while back. It's an experimental search engine that ...

As Google Maps Disappears In iOS 6, Google ... - Search Engine Land
By Danny Sullivan
About The Author: Danny Sullivan is editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land. He's a widely cited authority on search ... Danny also oversees Search Engine Land's SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series. He maintains a personal blog ...
Search Engine Land: News & Info...

Microsoft to Apple Safari Users: Use Bing Since Google Is Evil
By Emil Protalinski
The fifth step is simple: you should try Bing. When you click the big orange button, it runs a Bingsearch for “google record ftc fine.” Interestingly, the string of that URL has “SAFARITEST” and “SAFARI_BING_BUTTON,” which shows that the ...
The Next Web

The Essentials of Guest-Blogging Strategy for SEO, Traffic, and ...
By Sonia Simone
Building high-quality links is one of the trickiest elements of effective SEO. Guest posting allows you to get a relevant, natural link, using the anchor text of your choice, on a site that has excellentsearch engine authority. Just remember: as ...
Copyblogger

Peretti: Human Curation Beats SEO in the Social Web | PandoDaily
By Erin Griffith
Peretti: Human Curation Beats SEO in the Social Web. Post navigation. ← Previous. The Huffington Post has taken plenty of flack for the way it games Google with its tricked-out, super search engine optimized pages. “Stories” on the news ...
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Using AdWords Data for SEO

Using AdWords Data for SEO: Unlocking the Ultimate Keyword Research ...
SEOmoz (blog)
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, today's post will show you how to unlock a secret treasure trove of SEO keyword research data from your own company's AdWords account! Avast! Unlocking the Ultimate Keyword Research Treasure Trove ...

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New search engine offers better access to Congress
Boston.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress unveiled a new search engine Wednesday to help politicos, lobbyists, researchers, students and any other interested citizens find legislation working its way through the House and Senate to become new laws. The Library of ...

How SEO Metrics Impact HSN's Merchandizing Strategy at Conductor #C3NY
Search Engine Watch
Enterprise SEO teams often fall into the trap of looking at high-level metrics and missing context, according to Hugo Guzman, Senior Manager of Online Marketing for HSN (Home Shopping Network's eCommerce site, HSN.com). Speaking to SEW on the ...

SEO Competitive Analysis: Beating The Other Guys
Business 2 Community
Now that you have used your free tools to see how your SEO competitors stack up, it's time to dig a little deeper into their brand's website for deeper competitive analysis. There are several things you need to look for in order to best assess what is ...

Innovative Search Engine Appliance Supports IMO Partners' International ...
Sacramento Bee
18, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. (IMO), developer of the most widely-used medical terminology within electronic health records (EHR) systems, announced today the release of its new search engine appliance with comprehensive ...

Bing Maps Can Pinpoint Your House In High Resolution, But Still Can't Show ...
WebProNews
Bing Maps are by far the best thing to come out of Microsoft's insistence to take on Google in search. The maps and ... The Bing maps provide a much better view of really close up shots, but Google trumps that advantage with their impressive Street View.

Search engine Bing puts Delaware's natural beauty out front in the hit parade
Cape Gazette
Recently, millions of internet users paged into the natural beauty of Trussum Pond and its bald cypress trees as a gateway destination to Delaware's many resources and rich history, when thesearch engine Bing, www.bing.com, featured a panoramic photo ...

Senuke XCr with Crowd Source Technology for Link Building, SEO and Page ...
Equities.com
Senuke XCr promotes Google Places, giving Google what it wants. The outcome is a great improvement in the search results. There are many other features and benefits of this tremendous system that increases the rankings and enhances the SEO process.

InmanNext | Decoding Common SEO Acronyms
By Carrie Gable
This is especially true when it comes to SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Much is made of how you can boost your search engine presence and get that coveted spot on page one of Google. Many of you may already know about the tactics ...
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Rock Your SEO with Structured Social Sharing - #MozCon - SEOmoz
By Dana Lookadoo
PRO TIP: This structured markup makes a difference for SEO! I'm sharing the .... A worthy by-product of the "Structured Social Sharing Formula" is that it enhances results for Google's Search Appliance for in-site search results. So if your site ...
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Google Puts Interior Business Photos On The Map - Search Engine ...
By Matt McGee
His web career continues to include a small number of SEO and social media consulting clients, as well as regular speaking engagements at marketing events around the U.S. He blogs at Small Business Search Marketing and can be found on ... Google Search On Android, Despite What FairSearch & Microsoft Want You To Believe; Emma Watson: Most Dangerous Celebrity Search Object, McAfee Says; Zuckerberg On Search: "At Some Point, We'll Do It" & Be "Uniquely Positioned" ...
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Bing Ads Launches Keyword Suggestions | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
“On the Bing Ads Opportunities page, we now provide you with exact match keyword suggestions that we think are relevant to your campaigns and will help your ads serve more often,” says Microsoft's Manu Aery. “The suggestions are based ...
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Could Social Media Be Slowly Eroding Search Engine Traffic?
By Cynthia Boris
Every marketer would like to see their brand land in the top spot on a search engine, but is top ... ...Bing and Yahoo increased their year-over-year percentage but Google lost 5%. Unfortunately, the two charts are a little apples and oranges ...
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Ways Social Media Impacts SEO

Ways Social Media Impacts SEO
Search Engine Journal
Local SEO has been all the rage for local businesses for some time now. Most SEOs are very skilled at optimizing a website for local using on-page, backlink anchor text, and Google Places pages. At the same time, Social Media has become a critical ...

Who Competes With Google Search? Just Amazon, Apple And Facebook
Forbes
While a year or two ago, Google's main competition in search might have been Bing and Yahoo, today it's Apple and Amazon, and tomorrow it may be Facebook. The market is almost certainly broader than general search engines as we normally think of them ...

How to Set Up Your Company in Bing Business Portal
Search Engine Journal
If you run a business with a brick and mortar location, then you already know the importance of localSEO. ... I've outlined the steps below for setting up your business in Bing Business Portal, so you can start your local SEO optimization initiative ...

How a Facebook Search Engine Could Change the Way People Find Your ...
Entrepreneur (blog)
Given that Facebook's search capabilities will be based around people, places and businesses, it's reasonable to assume that any future incarnation of a Facebooksearch engine will exist as an expansion of the company's existing internal search toolbar ...

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Personal Cloud Search Engine CloudMagic Gets Overhauled: Adds Facebook ...
TechCrunch
CloudMagic, the cross-platform cloud search utility, is one of those little undiscovered gems that has turned into an app that I now launch every day. The service, which started back in 2010 as a browser extension for faster Gmail search, later ...

Chinese search engine plants digital flag on island in Japan-China dispute
GMA News
But an executive of the search engine Baidu told a tech site that the move is aimed to prevent violence by encouraging people to air their patriotism in a peaceful way. “The overwhelming majority of Baidu's employees and users clearly feel very ...

KeywordTool.com Offers Comprehensive SEO Analysis Suite at Zero Cost
Equities.com
Ms. Cruz says that “the SEO analysis suite is a very helpful tool for visitors who are already familiar with our keyword research tools. To do search engine optimization properly, webmasters have to look beyond simply keyword research and begin ...

Bing It On
MediaPost Communications
The catch if that they don't know which search engine is on which side and the order is never consistent. (Sometimes, Bing is on the left and sometimes on the right.) I took the test. Google won 4-0 with a fifth tied. My initial reaction was to beat up ...

Google is 'No Longer a Black Box' at BrightEdge #Share12
Search Engine Watch
Whilst an enhanced user experience may not be optimal for SEO, we continue to build for users and optimize for the robot (Google's crawler) by working with cross functional teams" At Macy's the creative team manage copy, the merchandising team get the ...

Chinese search engine fined $15000 over piracy
TwoCircles.net
Beijing : China's biggest search engine Baidu has been penalised with a 95,800 yuan (around $15,000) fine for publishing the country's bestselling authors's three books online and offering downloads without his permission. According to Shanghai Daily, ...

Google Rolls Out Car Insurance Comparison ... - Search Engine Watch
By Miranda Miller
Google's search visibility for car insurance comparison grew from 0 to 75 percent in the first two days the new comparison product became available, according to Econsultancy. Until now, the three most visible car insurance advertisers were ...
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Bing News Expands To Your Facebook Feed ... - Search Engine Land
By Matt McGee
Bing News wants to be your go-to place for finding out what's going on in the world today, whether it be the sports world, financial world, or your local w. ... out our Tumblr! See us on Pinterest · GetSearch Engine Land on your mobile device!
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Google Panda Update: Refresh Is Rolling Out | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Google Panda Update: Refresh Is Rolling Out. Google announced that a data refresh is rolling out for Panda, and that webmasters should expect “some flux” over the next few days. Here's a tweet Google just posted: Follow @google ...
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BBC's SEO - SEO - eWallstreeter
BBC's SEO. From: Search Engine Roundtable - 8:30am - September 18, 2012. BBC's Duncan Bloor, a producer in the User Building team at the BBC, wrote a blog post on the BBC blog named A Journey through Search Engine Optimisation.
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Bing trumps Google in new Kindle Fire

Bing trumps Google in new Kindle Fire
MSN Money
If Apple removes Google as the default search engine from its phones (which is likely since it will be removing the native Youtube app and Google maps going forward), we could see the Bing platform gain search market share. While the segment is ...

The Successor to Traditional SEO
Forbes
Search engine optimization (SEO) is evolving. Presently, there are two basic forms of SEO. One entails designing a website so that it ranks high on the various search engines. The other form, which also capitalizes on social media, involves putting ...

Facebook Search Engine Would Capture Quarter of Search Market
KoMarketing Associates
If Facebook were to launch its own search engine at any time in the near future, a Greenlight Digital research report indicates it would capture nearly a quarter of the current search engine market. Statistics show Google accounts for 66.7 percent of ...

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Google to Begin Transforming Kansas City into a Gigabit City
Search Engine Journal
With the announcement that Google would begin construction on the first gigabit-speed fiberhood this October, it seems that the search engine giant is indeed offering the “coolest thing on the bock.” So what exactly is Google doing in Kansas City? Here ...

Google+ Authorship and SEO
Business 2 Community
After you confirmed and linked your Google+ profile to your blogs/sites, in a few weeks your author photo, Google+ profile and number of circles will start to show up in Google's search results. Go tosearch engine land today to know more about how to ...

Algorithm Updates, Duplicate Content & A ... - Search Engine Watch
By Josh McCoy
boulder-in-road Like many in search engine optimization, I watch the major algorithmic updates or “boulders” roll down the hill from the Googleplex and see which of us will be knocked down. For those of us who get squashed, we stand back ...
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5 Outstanding SEO Personalities in a Quick ... - Search Engine Journal
By Inessa Bokhan
Today, we decided to ask some of the remarkable Internet Marketing gurus worldwide about their current view of the SEO industry and a few other SEO-related subjects. Welcome Ann Smarty, Neil Patel, Aleh Barysevich, Peter Attia, and ...
Search Engine Journal

How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine - How-To ...
By Chris Hoffman
Have you ever wanted to create a custom Google search engine that searches only specific websites? You can easily do this with Google's Custom Search Engine tool. You can bookmark your search engine and even share it with other ...
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Avoid duplicate content penalties and improve SEO
By huyenlt
Unless you've been vital underneath a stone for a past year and a half, afterwards you'll almost have listened of a extinction that Google Panda has left in a wake. Affiliate marketers and SEO agencies participating in reduction than kosher ...
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Bare Minimum SEO-- 3 Things You Must Do

Bare Minimum SEO: 3 Things You Must Do
Search Engine Watch
(Footnote 2: Definitely check the indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools instead of using the "site:" query operator in a Google search, because the Webmaster Tools number is the "real number" and what you get from a site:query is not.) Step 2 ...

My Bing News on Facebook
LiveSide
Do you spend a lot of time in Facebook? If so, Bing has just released a new app that can get you caught up on the latest news, follow trends, and set up your own categories to keep you up on all the latest, all from within Facebook and powered by Bing.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Google Search Fun
Guardian Express
Google has a reputation for bringing back the obscure and having a little fun on their famed search engine. If you require examples, simply type Zerg Rush or do a barrel roll into a Google search. Now, Google has gone a step further and added a Six ...

Guardian Express

SEO Budgets Grow, Google Tells You What To Avoid
WebProNews
“Although the practices of search engine and digital marketing may have changed significantly as new tools, algorithms and platforms have come into play, the survey depicts very much the same goals in place.” Survey respondents have increased their SEO ...

Google introduces Bacon Number, a search engine for 'Six Degrees of Kevin ...
Examiner.com
Now, Google has introduced the Bacon Number search engine to make it easier to figure out how many degrees certain actors are separated from Kevin Bacon. According to an article in the Vancouver Sun, users go to the Google search engine and type in ...

Survey Suggests Facebook Search Engine Could Instantly Grab 22% Market ...
WebProNews
There's an interesting report (pdf) out from Greenlight Digital (via AllFacebook) about a survey asking respondents if they would use a Facebook search engine. The survey took responses from 500 people with a wide variety of job titles from all around ...

Bing Launches Bing News App For Facebook
WebProNews
“Integration with Facebook makes it easy to check the news while you're checking in on your friends, and easy to share what you find with others,” says Nathan Penner, Senior Program Manager on theBing News team. “You're in control over what and how ...

Google Panda Update: Some Wonder If One Just Happened
WebProNews
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable, who regularly monitors the forums, points to some discussion in WebmaterWorld, with one webmaster saying they saw a 50% increase in Google referrals to a “heavy panda'd site” on Thursday. “It has been hit by ...

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