What a year! I would have to say that this past year we saw more exciting developments in our industry than in the last 3 years. From Google Caffeine to Groupon’s rejection of Google, the Search Marketing landscape had some incredible stories this year.
We are not the only ones sharing the top stories from the past year. Before scrolling down, see how the World Searched with Google in 2010:
In the Search Marketing world, this past year’s headlines were dominated by the Search Engine Giant:
Google Mayday Update, Google Caffeine Launch, Google Instant, Google Boost, Google Tags and Google Place Search.
We also saw Bing and Yahoo finally make a deal, Facebook got an email system, Sphinn said good bye to voting, conversation rate optimization became the new black and a whole lot more!
Below you will find all the top search engine marketing stories from 2010:
- December
- Groupon rejects Google’s offer; will stay independent
- Being bad to your customers is bad for business
- How The New Facebook Messages & Email System Works
- Google News Asking Publishers To Tell The Truth With New Syndication Tags
- Beyond Instant results: Instant Previews
- 2010 Industry Survey Results, Infographic & Surprising Trends
- New Place Search Shows Google’s Commitment To Local
- Google Place Search – What is it & How Do I Survive?
- Google Q3: $7.29 Billion, Display And Mobile Showing “Momentum”
- Bing Uses Click Through Rate In Ranking Algorithm
- Impact of Google Instant
- Google’s New SEO Starter Guide
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Google’s Rankings are Remarkably Well Correlated
- Google Rankings and LDA
- Google Instant!
- Sphinn Says Goodbye To Voting
- 44 Local Link Building Queries for Citation Prospecting and Opportunity Analysis
- Google Now Lets Businesses Respond To Reviews On Places
- Official: Google Changes AdWords Color to Pale Purple
- Screen Shot: I Am Seeing Bing Results on Yahoo
- The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation
- Link Building with the Experts – 2010 Edition
- Local Search Ranking Factors 2010
- Our new search index: Caffeine
- We Bought Links and It Worked!!
- Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic
- Google gets Pac-Man fever
- Google MAYDAY Update Hitting Long Tail Ranking?
- Google Makes Drastic Change To User Interface, Many Hate It
- SEO: One size doesn’t fit all
- Introducing Google Places
- Google Caffeine Unofficially Live on 80% of Google Data Centers?
- Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads
- Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor
- SEO’s Now Critique TopSEOs.com
- Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts
- An Illustrated Guide to Matt Cutts’ Comments on Crawling & Indexation
- How we made $1 million for SEOmoz—with one landing page and a few emails
- Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too
- Yahoo & Microsoft Receive Go Ahead To Implement Search Deal
- How We Got a Link from The New York Times
- It’s a Feeding Frenzy for Keyword-Rich Domains
- 10 questions to evaluate an SEO
- Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
- Study Looks At Personalization’s Impact On Search Results
- Using Jquery and Google Analytics events to track form abandonment.
- Search is getting more social
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