Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2012
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: Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 10, 2012 Busy week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable. Google provided the 17 search quality changes they made in January... Google Changes Navigation Bar Again As expected,... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Facebook to Launch Mobile Ads!
It has been announced that Facebook will be developing Mobile Ads in the coming weeks! Here at Clicky Media we’re keeping a close eye on the development so we can offer these to our clients as soon as they’re released. The advertising side of Facebook has proved to be very profitable, with a lot of users now accessing Facebook via their mobiles, the next natural step was advertising on... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 10, 2012
Busy week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable. Google provided the 17 search quality changes they made in January, one being a change to how they pipe in Panda into the overall algorithm. Webmasters are noticing major shifts in the Google rankings and traffic. Google also updated PageRank this week. Google is testing a new navigation bar. Bing has a new design for their search results -... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Friday Talk: Jeremiah Owyang About Social Media And Big Business
With 2012 just starting its interesting to see if predictions for 2011 came through or not. At LeWeb 2010, just before the end of the year, Jeremiah Owyang talked about trends for 2011. He talked about “Social Media And Big Business” in 2011. Was he right? What do you think? Author: Bas van den Beld [...] Related posts: Friday Talk: Pete Cashmore on the Future of Social Media How to build... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Google Changes Navigation Bar Again
As expected, Google has now changed back to a similar look for the Google bar from back in November. Why?Google said:Based on your feedback, we realized there were some elements of the new bar that we could improve, and with that in mind, we're introducing an updated version that we believe will provide a better experience.The new design retains many of the feature changes we made in November that... February 10th, 2012 by admin
More Goodness For Explore Dallas-Fort Worth Attendees
Getting ready for Explore Dallas-Fort Worth on Feb. 17 has been a lot of fun. Probably one of the best parts of the experience for me is finding great sponsors to bring something to the table for participants. We don’t just want vendors who come in, sell-sell-sell and then follow up with more sales emails and the like. We tried hard to identify companies that were going to bring value to you,... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Online Marketing News: Pinterest’s Sneaky Tactics, Keeping Leaders Honest, 100 Million Videos Watched Per Day
How Social Media Keeps Leaders Honest David Jones of Havas and Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore recently sat down to talk about the responsibilities of the leaders of today to respond to social media, and how it holds them accountable. “Google Clarifies: No, Ads Shouldn’t Help Rankings & No, SEO Isn’t Bad” Recent comments made by a new Google employee have some SEO’s up in arms. Apparently... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Tamar’s Friday #FailureToLaunch #16 – “Spam, spam, spam and the Super Bowl”
TweetWith the massive online buzz around the Super Bowl this week (tweets per second during the game hit a all-time high of 10,000, up from 4,000 last year) it was inevitable brands would be trying to muscle in on the action. Toyota wins the prize for the most inept attempt to leverage Super Bowl buzz with a series of spammy tweets about what it called the “Camry Effect a Friend’ Giveaway!”.... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Bug? Google Maps Drops Owner Uploaded Photos
This is pretty scary, if you go to your Google Maps business listing, any photos you may have uploaded seem to have been completely removed! This even happened on my business listing where I had a ton of photos uploaded by yours truly and they are all gone.Here is the backend where it shows I have zero photos uploaded: Here is a picture only showing pictures from the web and not pictures I've uploaded:Vanessa... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Google Search Requiring Cookies? Google Says No
There are several reports at WebmasterWorld where users using Firefox are claiming that the only way to search at Google is to turn on their cookies.I've personally tested this in a few Firefox browsers and cannot replicate it. I've turned off cookies but Google still lets me conduct my searches. But at this point, there are just too many people complaining about it to not raise an eyebrow. There... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Google AdSense Causing IE8 Security Warnings
There are reports at WebmasterWorld and Google AdSense Help of users of Internet Explorer 8 having issues viewing pages with Google AdSense on them.On user explained:Windows XP visitors using IE 8 on several of my Adsense sites see an error message "Internet Explorer has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors."Without AdSense loaded there is no error. Turns out... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Marcus Tober: “Users evolve with the Search Engines”
In less than two weeks the European Search World will gather in London to attend, network and share knowledge at SES London 2012. Like every year it promises to be a great event with a great line up of speakers. State of Search will off course be covering the event and in cooperation with our [...] Related posts: Richard Baxter: “I don’t think other search engines stand a chance” Special... February 10th, 2012 by admin
A Little Bit of Bing, in Numbers
Last week Freshegg had a #BingFriday. On this day they specifically looked at Bing and they specifically asked people to use Bing. I thought that was a very nice and smart idea. Bing can use the attention with all the talk about Google. We already saw the questions they asked Bing’s director Stefan Weitz yesterday. [...] Related posts: What Bing needs to bring to the table in 2011 Bing html 5... February 10th, 2012 by admin
Google Panda Explained [Infographic]
Since its release in Feb 2011, Google set Internet marketers into a spin trying to figure the new algorithm changes. While the premise of the update was to hit the spammy and poorer quality sites on the web the reality was not that straight forward. There have been league tables published listing ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ and many of the large poor quality content farms have been... February 10th, 2012 by admin
