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Bing and the Evolution of Social Search

One complaint that Internet users tend to lodge about Google is that the Web services company tries to force users into adopting all of its various properties to get the full range of benefits from using just one of them. Of course...

The Master List of SEO Tools

The catch-all term “SEO” is a bit misleading. This is because search engine optimization is actually the result of many different practices that are all done with one goal in mind: to improve the organic search result ranking...

New SEO Product Launches in the U.S.

To help facilitate the U.S. launch of its SEO software product, Hamburg, Germany-based SEOlytics is offering a free starter version for new customers. A full range of features and quality of data empower users to perform in-depth search...

Bing Redesigns for Better Results

Microsoft gave the Bing search results page a facelift yesterday, going for “a fresh, de-cluttered experience designed to help you find the results you want faster”, according to the Bing Search Blog. The redesign was based...

Bing Linked Pages Roll Out

Bing seems to have taken a page out of the Google personalization playbook (or at least deepened its relationship with Facebook) by releasing LinkedPages this week. The feature, which nicely complements Bing's previous effort last...

Bing's Search Share is Movin' on Up

Yahoo's search influence may be waning, but it seems to be all good news for Bing. In under three years, the Microsoft-owned Bing, which actually powers Yahoo Search, crept up to almost tie Yahoo's share of the search engine...

Meta Descriptions on Google and Bing

The use of meta description tags as a method of optimizing a site's placement in search engines has, for the most part, fallen by the wayside. If nothing else, it's not considered nearly as important as it once was in SEO....

Slingshot Study Shows Google SERP Superiority

Recently, Slingshot SEO conducted a study on user behavior in an attempt to determine the impact of page-one search engine rankings on organic click-through rates (CTRs). The results of said study were released in a white paper entitled...

Search Rankings Remain Steady – Explicit and Core

comScore released its monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace last week. Google Sites led the “explicit core search" market (searches occuring directly/explicitly at those destinations) in May with a 65.9 percent...

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Microdata Wins - Schema.org Brings Richer Web

Google, Bing and Yahoo jointly announced a new initiative today at Schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages in Microdata. For many years search engines have worked independently of...

Today Bing Forever Changes Search and SEO

Bing has made an announcement that might prove to be the biggest blow ever dealt to rival Google. Starting now, Bing will incorporate Facebook data into search results in the most personal and actionable social search to date. In short...

20 User Review Websites Critical to Small Business

According to an internal analysis of small business search results, Marchex – a provider of small business marketing products – found that more than 80 percent of results did not point to the websites of those businesses...

Natural Language Search at Bing Shopping

Consumers conducting queries (searching) on Bing Shopping will arguably receive a better (read more accurate) experience thanks to some improvements to how the search engine processes natural language queries - particuarly in regards...

What Google's Farmer Update Means to Your Business

Google announced what may ultimately be one of the biggest changes to their algorithm yet . From the Official Google Blog: " Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so...

Big Day for Bing: Massive Upgrades, Miniscule Gains

Microsoft’s Bing introduced a wide assortment of new search features on Wednesday, the same day that the latest report from comCast revealed slight gains by Bing for the month of November. In fact, though the overall movement...

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