Today is Super Tuesday, which means that voters in 24 states are carefully reviewing their candidate research and doing last minute thoughtful analysis in preparation for voting in the primaries. Well, maybe that’s hopeful optimism, but in any case, the place these voters are turning to for information is increasingly the internet. Makes sense, as […]
Thanks to Gary Price for pointing out that Ask.com is offering its own round up of content and information related to the primaries via its core “Smart Answers” functionality in search results. Search for “Super Tuesday” and you get a host of links and a pull-down menu that sends users to more information for their […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google
Elections: Super Tuesday Map And Twitter Updates
Google’s LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today’s "Super Tuesday" US
presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map that
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Google’s LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today’s “Super Tuesday” US presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map that presents a range of content, including video, on election results — as Google has in the last couple of primaries. The map also features real-time Twitter updates from people voting or […]
Yahoo has had a morale problem for some time, according to anecdotal reports from company insiders. Jerry Yang and other executives at the company have been trying urgently to fix that and restore the company’s former, dare I say it, esprit de corps. I had been told by one Yahoo engineer informally last week that […]
For years I’ve seen a free and flowing stream of information and advice about how to build links, and as the engines have improved detection of the junk, the better link builders continued to thrive while those who sold crappy services to crappy content ran for cover. At least three of the most dependable link […]
Many people jump into social media marketing because they feel they “should be doing it”. Many times companies don’t take the time to identify their goals and why they want to engage in a campaign. Identifying and measuring social media metrics can be easy and inexpensive. […]
Matt McGee offers up a post over at Small Business SEM that makes it pretty clear Google Maps is on the way up in terms of usage. Despite my love of Yelp for local reviews, I find myself turning to Google Maps more and more often for brick and mortar business info. It’s the integrated […]
Listen to any commercial from a warehouse style store and they’ll tell you all about how you have to “cut out the middleman.” The middleman is bad, bad, bad. He mucks things up, he makes them more expensive and he keeps you from getting the absolute best deal on your appliances, mattresses and even your […]
Every SEO campaign has to start somewhere. Any good plan; whether you’re building a home, preparing for a family vacation or looking to optimize your website for search rankings, starts with research. Before you are ready to optimize your first piece of code you need to understand the landscape around you, which means you need […]