43 Percent Of Total Google Search Queries Are Local

Study: 43 Percent Of Total Google Search Queries Are Local
By Greg Sterling
Ad network Chitika has just released some new data -- you're seeing it here first -- that compares local search volumes on Google, Yahoo and Bing. The stud.
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Report: Bing Users Disproportionately Affected By Malware Redirects
TechCrunch
View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. sophos_logo_300px_rgb. Using blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) to get unsuspecting web surfers to go to malicious websites isn't exactly new and it's a problem that the major search engines are very aware of.

Bing throws journalists a bone with promotion in search sidebar
VentureBeat
Bing introduced the new search sidebar in May of this year. The Facebook-connected entity, somewhat akin to Google's Search Plus Your World, is meant to socially enhance the search experience by connecting searchers to Facebook friends, experts, and ...

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Bing Adds News Authors To Sidebar
WebProNews
Bing announced today that it has launched a new section for the Bing sidebar to showcase journalists, writers and authors of news stories. Now, when you search for any given topic on Bing, along with the Facebook-powered social results, you'll see ...

You're Already Doing SEO: It's Called Inbound Marketing
ADOTAS
Yep, they are all major players in your brand's search engine optimization efforts. Surprise, you've turned into an online marketer! A recent article confirms that it's time to admit that you are already spending money for SEO efforts whether you know ...

Should SEO Departments be Renamed "Content Marketing" Departments?
Search Engine Watch
During an event that launched Econsultancy's first Content Marketing Survey of 1,300 industry agencies, brands and publishers, one guest speaker stated that "SEO departments should be renamed content marketing departments" and that "it's not a ...

The EMD Update: Like Panda & Penguin, Expect Further Refreshes To Come
Search Engine Land
Last week, Google announced the EMD Update, a new filter that tries to ensure that low-quality sites don't rise high in Google's search results simply because they have search terms in their domain names. Similar to other filters like Panda, Google ...

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Addressing Client Participation Expectations is Crucial in Effective Link Building
Search Engine Journal
Like all SEO firms, ours has seen a big shift in recent years regarding the level of participation required from a client to execute a successful campaign. The links that an SEO client can help obtain are often the most valuable. This is because they ...

Beginner's Guide to SEO Marketing (Part 2/3)
Business 2 Community
Link Building is the most important way to improve your SEO. It is the best way to rank higher on anysearch engine. While on-site SEO is still very important, if Google were to only use on-site SEOthan it would just be a battle of who can get the ...

Google's Knowledge Graph: Implications for Search & SEO - Search ...
By Bharati Ahuja
Recently, Matt Cutts delivered the opening keynote for SES San Francisco (August 2012) where he clearly mentioned that one of the key focuses for Google is to move away from being a search engineand focus on becoming a knowledge engine. Google is so committed to this that Google's SearchQuality team has been renamed to Google's Knowledge Team. Google has been working hard on creating the vast database of structured knowledge that powers the features. Today, the ...
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Bing Adds Journalists To Its Social Sidebar | TechCrunch
By Frederic Lardinois
Microsoft's Bing just announced that it is adding a section for news authors to its social sidebar. “Much of the information we consume and search for relates to current events,” says the Bing Team, “and the most recent and accurate information ...
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20th Google Panda Algorithm Update - Search Engine Roundtable
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Google Panda 20 Yesterday we broke the news that there was an other update that overlapped the EMD update that we had on friday targeting exact match domains. I wasn't sure what that update was, so I emailed our friends at Google and ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Yahoo, Bing Partner With Media.net for Contextual Advertising ...
By Annie Pilon
With the help of Microsoft and Media.net, the search engine wants to chip away at some of Google AdSense's market share by offering a similar advertising product to both businesses and web publishers. The Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual ...
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