Law firm that used contest to solicit Google reviews sees all but one disappear

Incentivizing reviews individually or ‘in bulk’ is a bad idea. The post Law firm that used contest to solicit Google reviews sees all but one disappear appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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Newly-granted Google patent sheds light on how the search engine sees entities

Columnist Dave Davies explains a recent Google patent which hints at how the search engine processes entity information to answer questions. This can provide hints into how SEOs can structure their content to be deemed relevant. The post Newly-granted Google patent sheds light on how the search…

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Yahoo Sees Big 1.6 Percent Monthly Search Share Gain At Google’s Expense In New comScore Data

Measurement firm comScore just released its December search market share report for the US. Last week the firm mistakenly posted the data early and quickly depublished the page. In the earlier release comScore showed Google losing 0.5 percent points vs November 2014. Beneficiaries of that loss were…

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Yahoo Sees Big Search Bump From Firefox “Default” Relationship

Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is now paying dividends for Yahoo according to new data from StatCounter released earlier today. The analytics firm said that “Yahoo search was…

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