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Facebook To Allow Users To Delete Search Activity

Facebook announced users will soon be able to delete their search activity under their “Activity Log.” The feature is being released over the next couple weeks to all Facebook users. Currently, Facebook users are able to delete other activity, like status updates, under the...
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Enter the 2020 Search Engine Land Awards — it’s your turn to win!

Categories range from small business SEM to enterprise-level SEO to Search Marketer of the Year and so much more! What is the all-out best search campaign you’ve pulled off this year? Do the people work with every day continue to knock it out of the park time and time again? Who...
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Walmart CEO: We Had To Become More Digital

“We had to learn to work in different ways to become more digital and to put data to work in different ways,” says Walmart CEO Doug McMillon as he reflected on the release of their blowout financial results. “Basically, to create a seamless experience for customers. We don’t want...
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Google Ad Grants changes and your PPC strategy: Where to go from here

Is your nonprofit organization involved with the Google Ad Grants Program? Contributor Pauline Jakober shows how you can benefit from the recent ad changes with a few creative tips and workarounds. This past December, Google communicated changes to its Google Ad Grant...
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eBay a Takeover Target For Intercontinental Exchange

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange “has made a takeover offer for eBay Inc.” ICE has been interested in buying eBay before, and has now approached the e-commerce giant once again, although the WSJ...
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Bing confirms testing Twitter results in search results listings

Bing is testing a partnership with Twitter to show tweets in their search results listing pages, similar to how Google displays them. A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they are indeed testing displaying tweets, Twitter results, in the Bing search...
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Google now enables GMB profile edits from Search and Maps [updated]

The company is seeking more SMB engagement by making updates easier and more accessible. Until now, local businesses or their agencies had to use the Google My Business (GMB) site or mobile app to update business information. But the company is making it possible to edit or...
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Reddit AMA Reveals Graph Search Has Been In The Works Since Early 2011 & Specs On How It Works

Last Friday, Lars Rasmussen, Facebook’s Director of Engineering, did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit to discuss the ins-and-outs of Graph Search. Lars answered 20 questions from fellow Redditors shedding some light on the history, importance and technology behind Graph Search....
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A Google Search bug wreaked havoc on the search results Monday night

The issue lasted several hours yesterday, putting the SEO community in a bit of panic mode. Monday afternoon, the SEO community began to notice massive ranking changes in the Google search results. Initially it looked like the Google algorithm updates from the old days but as...
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Driving calls with PPC: 5 mistakes most search marketers make

Most search marketers want the same thing out of their pay-per-click campaigns: driving conversions up and cost per conversion down. Things get a little more complicated when the goal of your PPC spending is to drive calls to your business. Using PPC to drive calls is a common...