Facebook Adds Popular News Articles To Search Results
It’s sort of a baby step in Facebook’s efforts to improve its search results, but certainly worth noting here: Facebook is now showing news articles in its search results and ranking them by how many “likes” and “shares” the articles have received from Facebook users. The All Facebook blog says the number of friends who [...]
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Power Guest Posting for SEO – Search Engine Watch
February 12, 2012 - 8:26 am
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Power Guest Posting for SEOSearch Engine WatchPromotional plans that use only old fashioned link building are flawed in today's SEO environment. A website may build a great link profile, but an optimal website is frequently mentioned in social media and searched for by its brand name. View full post on SEO – Google News
Most Popular Jan. 2012 Articles on SEJ
February 11, 2012 - 10:04 am
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We have a lot of very talented people writing for SEJ. As a thank you to them I want to highlight their January articles. The articles below are the top 15 most visited posts that were not news related. I want to present them one more time in case you missed them. Also, keep tabs [...]
Weekly Wrap-up: Not on Facebook, Google Drive and Path’s Privacy Issues
February 11, 2012 - 8:55 am
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Alicia Eler explores the “Not On Facebook” movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive won’t be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of [...]
[Data Visualization] How Yahoo’s Homepage Delivers Personalized News to 700 Million People
February 10, 2012 - 7:55 pm
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With all the attention focused on Facebook and Google, it’s sometimes easy to forget how many people visit Yahoo on a typical day. The site has over 700 million users and gets a massive amount of page views each day. As the company struggles to figure out what its future focus should be, one thing [...]
[STUDY] Your Facebook Friends Influence How You Feel
February 10, 2012 - 3:55 pm
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“A cute baby dolphin for your weekend-viewing pleasure” a Facebook friend of mine writes. Under the text, I see a link to an imgur-hosted image of that amazingly adorable marine mammal. Suddenly, my day is feeling a lot better. Did I just catch a mood… on Facebook? A new study by Facebook data scientists shows [...]
Yahoo Search Engine Market Share Slips in January 2012
February 10, 2012 - 3:28 pm
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A month after Bing surpassed Yahoo to became the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., Yahoo’s search share continued to decline in the New Year, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Google climbed past a 66 percent share of the search market. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
This App Tells You All About Your Facebook Friends, But Will It Make You Smarter?
February 10, 2012 - 2:55 pm
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In the two weeks I have been using Wisdom, an iPad and iPhone app that gives you detailed demographic data about your Facebook friends, the number of users has gone from just over 4 million to just under 6 million. Part of that rapid growth is most likely attributable to an extensive advertising campaign on [...]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 - 2:08 pm
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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: Now, Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like Bing & Google Problem Perhaps Google may finally have to figure out a “fix” for Rick Santorum’s… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full [...]
Zuck Voting for Mitt? How Facebook “Like” Makes Things Ambiguous
February 10, 2012 - 12:55 pm
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Sometimes the “Like” button is not as clear cut as it seems. Even Zuck would agree. ZDNet reports that a Facebook design flaw has accidentally convinced some readers that Zuckerberg is endorsing Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The awkward “Liking” took place earlier this week. Zuck “liked” a story by Salon.com’s Farhad Manjoo, who [...]
8 Search and Social Takeaways from Covario INFLECTIONPoint 2012
February 10, 2012 - 11:28 am
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How to be smart with a strict budget, the importance of timing and levity in social media, retaining value in SEO, content marketing, and the convergance of search and social were among the hot topics, tips, and takeaways at INFLECTIONPoint 2012. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest