In the last few years, former Hootie & the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker has been refashioning himself as a country music artist. And a recent performance and the surprising reaction on Twitter led Rucker to express disbelief at the racism [...]
Microsoft announced the launch of The Bing Ads Traffic Quality Resource Center today, a website designed to give advertisers and publishers visibility into the traffic quality protection systems of the Yahoo! Bing Network.The site includes sections that cover terminology, network [...]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.Where Have All The Linkers Gone?A unique combination of factors is having a profound effect on the “link graph” being created [...]
Google has quietly added support for six additional data types to the data highlighter rich snippet markup tool they introduced back in December.Google initially launched a visual rich snippet markup tool in December to allow less tech-savvy webmasters to markup [...]
Google rolled out a new version of Adwords Editor today. The latest version features more ways to make bulk changes to enhanced campaigns.New capabilities include:Bid adjustments for placements, topics, and audiencesMobile bid adjustments at the ad group levelUpgrade campaigns in [...]
Google has quietly dropped the “Translated Foreign Pages” search filter from the Google search options menu.Google tells us the option was removed due to lack of use, but they say they are still committed to making the Web available to [...]
The latest large brand to be hit with a user-generated content spam penalty notification is Sprint, the large US wireless communications company.Similar to Mozilla’s penalty and BBC’s penalty, Sprint was penalized for user-generated content spam on a portion of their [...]
There are seven voice commands built in to this first “Explorers” edition of Google Glass. Two of those six are search-related: “google…” and “get directions to….” The others are “take a photo,” “record a video,” “send a message to,” “make [...]
Google will be rolling out “flexible bid strategies” in enhanced campaigns in the next couple of weeks. Flexible bid strategies will allow advertisers to override automated bidding and apply manual bidding strategies within a single campaign or across multiple campaigns.The [...]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.Enhanced Campaigns: “Flexible Bid Strategies” Launching SoonGoogle will be rolling out “flexible bid strategies” in enhanced campaigns in the next couple [...]
