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Valbona Gjini

Weekly Review: A Matt Cutts Video, Yahoo to buy Tumblr and SMX London Recaps

Google was all over the news last week: Matt Cutts published a new video to announce the changes we’re going to see in the next months and G+ released some new features. Company logos will now appear on Google’s search results while Bing’s results are always becoming more social. Also, more
Valbona Gjini

Weekly Review: Yahoo tries to brake up with Bing, YouTube launches Paid Channels Pilot

feature One of last week’s biggest news – not officially confirmed yet – is that Yahoo is trying to break its contract with Bing, it looks like they are aiming at Google. Bing on the other hand is trying its best to prove they are better than Google, launching a “Bing It more
Clarissa Sajbl

Weekly Review: Bing has changed its SERPs, LinkedIn got more social & More

Bing_feat Last week we saw some valuable insights on how to start optimising for Baidu to enter the ever growing Chinese economy. We also learnt that 70% of brand engagement on the photo sharing site Pinterest is actually user generated – showing that brands are currently missing out.
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Weekly Review: Google buys Wavii, Mozilla hit by spam penalty

wavii1 Last week Google stole Wavii, the natural language technology startup, from Apple. Mozilla was hit by a spam penalty due to some users’ comments on one of their blogs. Social proof is a great e-commerce tactic, Search Engine Watch published an interesting interview of Guy Kawasaki. Twitter Music reveals to more
James Chant

Weekly Review: Social Media Reaction to Boston Bombings, #ionSearch and More

Obama Last week news of the Boston bombings spread around the globe. And in our modern world that meant widespread use of social media and everything that comes with it, good and bad. Plus, in SEO news, we visited the ionSearch conference in Leeds and listened to some great talks on more
James Chant

Weekly Review: BrightonSEO, Industry Updates and the Week Ahead

BrightonSEO Every Friday afternoon for the past six months we’ve posted a recap of the latest news and best articles. But going forward we want to change the format slightly. Instead of recapping the news on a Friday, we’re going to prepare you for the week ahead on a Monday morning. We’ll still more
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Weekly Recap: SES New York, Content Marketing’s Future and Google’s Achilles’ Heel

seny Weekly Recap 1st – 5th April The first – freezing – week of April brought news from SES New York, with a video of our Client Services Director, Collette Easton, being interviewed by Dixon Jones. Content marketing is still on everyone’s lips, we look at the limits of Facebook Graph Search, more
James Chant

Weekly Recap: Yahoo Acquires Summly, Plus Updates from SES New York

Summly 22nd – 28th March 2013 The recap is a day early this week, on account of a four-day Easter break! But that doesn’t mean news just stops. Actually quite a lot happened over the past few days. Leave a comment and let us know what stood out for you this week, more
Valbona Gjini

Weekly Recap: Baidu opens to the West and Bing tests “Subjectship”

featpic 18 March – 22 March This week was RIMC, the Icelandic conference on Digital Marketing. Of course the Linkdex team was there, ready to introduce our new product: Linkdex Networks. In other news, big opportunities are coming for international brands; Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, reaches the West. And talking more
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Weekly Recap: More Panda Updates on the Way and Google Reader to be Shut Down

2013-03-15_1739 March Week 11 started with SMX West in San Jose, which gave us a lot to talk about. Matt Cutts, invited as a speaker at the panel discussions, announced more Panda and Penguin updates. In another session Matt and other prestigious speakers discussed what you need to make...