edrisali1990: SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 12, 2012

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

VP Debate Spurs Searches Like ?Shirtless? (Ryan), ?Laughing? (Biden) Other ?Malarkey?
There?s a kind of Pavlovian response that happens with major national events in the U.S. (and probably elsewhere): internet users taking to the web to comment on and/or learn more about what they?re experiencing. As expected, conversation spiked on social networking sites during the Vice Presidential debate last night. Twitter says there were 3.5 million [...]
Search In Pics: Google Truck Containers, Chrome Switch Ball Google Docks
In this week?s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Shipping Containers: Source: Flickr Google+ Swag Phone Kickstand: Source: Google+ Chrome Switch Ball: Source: Google+ [...]
IAB: Search Still On Top, Accounting For Nearly Half Of Interactive Ad Spending
Spending on Search Marketing continues to be the biggest contributor to online advertising revenues in the U.S., according to the latest report on the first half of 2012 released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Search ads represented 48% of the overall interactive advertising market in the first six months of 2012, bringing [...]
Rediscovering The Google AdWords Editor Keyword Opportunities Tool
Google?s Keyword Opportunities (Beta) tool is a gem of a keyword idea tool integrated into AdWords Editor. I recently rediscovered this tool and have been tearing through my clients? accounts, adding keywords. The tool generates suggestions similar to the Web-based tool, but is integrated into Editor quite nicely. Suggested use: Launch AdWords Editor and open [...]
YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor
The YouTube Blog announced they have adjusted their ranking algorithm to include the time a video was watched. YouTube said they experimented with this ranking factor with suggested videos and it lead to ?less clicking? and ?more watching? and thus feels it is a good idea to add to the overall YouTube Search ranking algorithm. [...]
10 Simple Tips To Make Your Excel Charts Sexier
Having covered all the basics of how to make tabular data tell a story using custom cell formatting and conditional formatting for both static tables and pivot tables, we?re now going to jump into the really fun stuff: charting data out in Excel. I?m not going to cover the basics of creating charts in this [...]
2 Days Left to Save $400 on SMX Social Media Marketing
SMX Social Media Marketing Super Early Bird rates ? the lowest offered ? expire tomorrow, Saturday, October 13. Register now. Here?s all you get: Exceptional content: 2 days featuring tactic-packed sessions and keynotes 100% focused on paid, earned and owned social media Invaluable connections: Meet other?s like you and the expert speakers pre-show and in-person [...]
As VP Debate Nears, Search Interest In Ryan Outpaces Biden
Vice President Joe Biden and vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan are a little more than an hour away from their first and only debate of this election year, and search activity around the debate is heating up ? largely surrounding Ryan, the Republican nominee. We?ll begin with this tweet from Yahoo Search, which reports that there?s [...]

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Treating SEO Colds While Ignoring SEO Cancer, Local SEO Guide
Are You Still Making These Six Senseless SEO Mistakes?, blueglass.com
Dealing with the Flood of Site Search Pages in Travel, Rimm Kaufman
Enterprise Search: Google Webmaster Tools Index Status Tutorial, Hugo Guzman
Getting On-Page SEO Right in 2012 and Beyond ? Whiteboard Friday, SEOmoz
Little blog scores big rankings: A Schema Creator case study, raventools.com
New AdWords Conflicting Negatives Tool, Jordon Meyer
Release Announcement: Bing Ads, Yahoo! Bing Network, Targeting Enhancements and More, Bing Ads Blog
Using Campaign Trends to Write Better PPC Ads, PPC Hero
Video: Google Penguin Page Layout Update, New Mobile UI, AdWords Credit Card Bing Malicious Links, Search Engine Roundtable
WTF ? Was NickLeRoy.com Hit By Panda 20?, Nick LeRoy
Your Burning Questions About Google Grants for Nonprofits and SEO ? Answered, Search Marketing Sage

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