First Thoughts On Google’s New Tabbed Sitelinks
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in SEOmoz
On the 6th of July I accidentally came across (what could be any time soon) Google’s new tabular mega sitelinks. They became available to me purely by coincidence but the unique opportunity to see something which was unavailable to most searchers was more than welcome. I must admit that I instantly found the tabbed sitelinks [...]
‘Help I’m freaking out with all these Google Local Changes’ Mario Brown’s Webinar July 14
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in IM News Watch
lang=”en-US” Mario Brown is hosting a webinar on Saturday, July 14 at 1.00 pm EDT. Webinar Details Organizer: Mario Brown Topic: Help I’m freaking out with all these Google Local Changes Day/Date: Saturday, July 14 Time: 1.00 pm EDT – Time Zone Converter Register for webinar details. ‘Help I’m freaking out with all these Google Local Changes’ Webinar [...]
SEMrush GEO Helps You Find SEO Clients in Your Area
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
One of the most challenging tasks for many SEO experts is to find customers. This is especially true for those with newer companies that don’t have the reputation of Bruce Clay, WebiMax, and BlueGlass Interactive, for example. For them, SEMrush GEO, a new feature added to the already popular SEMrush professional SEO software, may be [...]
New Alerts For Crawl Errors Via Google Webmaster Tools
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Land
Google announced they are now sending out Google Webmaster Tools alerts for crawl errors. Google grouped the errors in two buckets. (1) Site Error alerts for major site-wide problems (2) URL Error anomaly alerts for potentially less critical issues The Site-Wide Problems Alerts Can Include: Your DNS server is down or misconfigured. Your web server [...]
Paid Search Growth Slows, Mobile Spikes in Q2 2012
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Watch
Paid search spend growth is relatively steady, but slowing from the impressive rates seen over the previous few quarters. U.S. mobile paid search spend increased astronomically, while organic search visits from mobile, mobile as a percentage of total search spend, and mobile clicks and impressions all rose. Q2 Paid Search Spend Up But Growth Rate [...]
Study Shows Men Notice Ads at Malls, Bars and . . . Medical Offices?
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Marketing Pilgrim
AdAge Insights has just published a new report called “Dudes to Dads: U.S. Men’s Attitudes Toward Life, Family, Work.” A portion of the report looks at how men of different ages view all types of advertising and the results were mostly predictable except for this: Millennials report they pay considerable interest in the ads they [...]
Twitter Launches Age-Proofing System for Booze Brands
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Clickz
UPDATE:Twitter does not appear to have access to age data as suggested in the original article. Although the privacy terms displayed in the @absolutvodka_us age verifiation form suggest otherwise, a Twitter spokesperson told ClickZ the privacy policy terms “are Buddy’s [Buddy Media] terms and we have no plans to use this information at the current [...]
Digg Sold for $500,000
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Webmaster World
Wow. I had to blink twice when in saw the $500k figure. The story of a web site and community which had so much potential and yet decided to ignore the wishes of their users who wanted a rollback. I recall Kevin Rose claiming that rolling back to the previous version was impossible and that [...]
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2012
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in SE Round Table
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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google: Aggregated Statistics Is Not Great Content I’ve been following a Google Webmaster Help thread about a site that offers statistics on hockey related [...]
A French open source software specialist woos U.S. e-retailers
Posted on 13. Jul, 2012 by admin in Internet Retailer
France-based e-commerce platform provider PrestaShop seeks to expand in the U.S. Having opened a Miami office in 2011, it provides software for about 6,000 U.S. e-commerce stores—roughly six times as many as last year. “The goal is really to gain market share here as we did in lots of countries,” says PrestaShop co-founder and CEO [...]
