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Google Down 1 Billion PC Searches From 2014, But Mobile Volumes Likely Way Up   Jan 22, 2016 by Greg Sterling December desktop search rankings from comScore came out yesterday. Bing gained slightly versus November; most others are off a fraction of a point. Google has lost market share and volume versus a year ago, when it had a share of 65.4 percent.

From Search Engine Land

3 Methods For Defining Your SEO Content Needs   Jan 22, 2016 by Casie Gillette Don’t waste your time creating content for content’s sake! Columnist Casie Gillette explains how to focus your efforts by analyzing search results, evaluating existing content and talking to customers.

Local SEO For WordPress Websites   Jan 22, 2016 by Marcus Miller Thinking about using WordPress for your local business website? If so, check out columnist Marcus Miller’s handy guide on how to do local SEO with this popular CMS.

Search In Pics: Google Dance Shirts, Google’s Micro Library & Revealing Screen Shot   Jan 22, 2016 by Barry Schwartz In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Penguin Awareness Day: Source: Google+ The Google Dance T-Shirts: Source: Instagram Google Madrid’s Micro Library: Source: […]

Create A Killer PPC Strategy With This 3-Step Process   Jan 22, 2016 by Jeff Baum Columnist Jeff Baum shares his approach to creating a search marketing strategy that will keep your tactics focused and tied to larger business goals.

Wilbur Scoville Google Doodle Marks 151st Birthday Of Man Behind The Scoville Scale   Jan 22, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Scoville, a pharmacologist and author of “The Art of Compounding,” created the Organoleptic Test to measure a pepper’s heat-level.

Court Documents Show Google Paid Apple $1 Billion For Safari Default Placement   Jan 22, 2016 by Greg Sterling In 2013, Morgan Stanley and Macquarie Capital estimated that Google was paying Apple around $1 billion annually for the privilege of being the Safari default search engine. Turns out they were right. According to a Bloomberg report citing court documents and testimony in Oracle’s copyright suit against Google, “Apple received $1 billion from its rival in […]

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LG Enlists Liam Neeson To Star In Its Debut Super Bowl 50 Ad: #ManFromTheFuture

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Twitter To Up The Ad Ante With 30-Second Skippable Pre-Roll Ads

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Industry

Amit Singh of Google for Work: A Respectful Clash of Ideas, New York Times

Google in Talks to Settle European Tax Disputes, Wall Street Journal

Local & Maps

Apple expands Maps capabilities with new Flyover, Nearby and Traffic location data, appleinsider.com

Link Building

How To Get Backlinks by 'Stealing' From Your Competitors, ahrefs.com

Searching

Google Cache Now HTTPS For HTTPS Sites, Search Engine Roundtable

SEO

Google Cache Showing Wrong Site? It May Think The Site Is Duplicate., Search Engine Roundtable

Is There Such a Thing as Too Many Pages for SEO?, thesempost.com

SEO finally comes to organic Facebook posts, blog.arhg.net

SEO Website Redesign Checklist: Don’t Mess Up Your Site Traffic, Seer Interactive

SEM / Paid Search

The Secret Math Behind Google Shopping, Feedonomics

Search Marketing

Modern Internet Marketing Strategies Video: 90s SEOs Ammon Johns, Bill Slawski, Bruce Clay, Christine Churchill & Kim Krause Berg, BruceClay.com

Creating the Right Marketing Mix - Whiteboard Friday, Moz

Video: Google Core Algorithm, SEO Tracking & Google Cares, Search Engine Roundtable

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