Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2010
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Live Blogging BlueGlass Florida
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 2:56pm CET by rustybrick
Today and tomorrow I will be covering the BlueGlass Florida conference. I figured to streamline things and since I am the only live blogger covering it here, I thought I just stream my coverage in one blog post.
Below is a live stream of my coverage of the conference.
Sessions include:
Day One:
- Online PR – The Art of Getting Your Business Talked About * 9:00 – 10:15 AM
- How to Buy & Sell Web Companies (the right way) * 10:30 – 11:45 AM
- Domaining – The Evolving World of Domains * 1:00 – 2:15 PM
- SEO for Enterprise Level Businesses * 2:30 – 3:45 PM
- Online Reputation Management – Tactics on Running an ORM Campaign and Defending Your Brand in Search Results * 4:00 – 5:15 PMDay Two:
- Viral Marketing * 9:00 – 10:15 AM
- The Power of the Community – Leveraging and Mobilizing Organic Online Communities * 10:30 – 11:45 AM
- Advanced PPC Tactics : Styling & Profiling! * 1:00 – 2:15 PM
- Link Building : The Key Differentiation Point of Search Rankings * 2:30 – 3:45 PM
- Local Search : The Future of Search is Now and Its in the Local Box. * 4:00 – 5:15 PMI'll cover as many of them as I can. Here is our live blog coverage of the event, all below...
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Google Image Search Now Let's You Switch Back To Old Design
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 2:04pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
I am a bit surprised to see Google Images provide a way to go back to the old Google Image Search design. In July, Google came out with a new Google Image design, infinite scroll.
As you can imagine, not everyone were fans of the new design. Webmasters didn't like it cause it slowed people from visiting their site with the actual image. Searchers didn't all like it cause it was not what they were accustomed to. There were many bugs with it over the past months as well.
Today, I believe for the first time, there is a way to go back to the old Google Image search design.
If you scroll to the bottom of the images on the page, there is a new button that reads, "Switch to basic version." Clicking on it will take you to the old classic design. You can of course then switch back to the "Switch to standard version."
Google has slowly been giving searchers a way out of their bold new interfaces. When it came to Google News, they slowly are bringing back the old design. The Google fade in went away with Google Instant and so did their redesign. But when will Google Instant be reverted?
Jeff from the Google team is telling people about the new feature in the Google Web Search Help forum. He said:
You can switch back to the older version of Google Images by doing the following:
1) Perform any search on Google Images
2) Scroll to the bottom of the page
3) Click the "Switch to basic version" link at the bottom of the pageForum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
Update: This is old news and has been there since day one. Sorry for the false alarm.
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Report: Searcher Behavior Has Not Changed With Google Instant
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 1:57pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
So Google Instant has been live for a while now and Google said it would change how people search, make it faster, more efficient and help them search differently.
Conductor released a study that is showing otherwise. In short, Conductor is saying searcher behavior has not changed since Google Instant launched. Conductor said:
The data is telling in what it doesn’t show: if Instant was having a significant impact on searcher behavior we would expect to see things like a percentage of longer tail visits (4+ words) leaking back into the head (
By now, after looking at chart after chart of visitor metrics that appear nearly identical from one period to the next you are probably getting the sense that little has changed after Google rolled out Instant with much fanfare a little more than a month ago. The traffic data suggests searchers are searching the same way they always have and, with a month of getting used to Instant already behind them theres nothing that indicates that will change any time soon.
Not all webmasters agree, but from what I see and here - it seems most webmaster would agree. Search referrers, traffic, conversions and so on have not changed for the most part. Google is saying that searchers are finding search results faster, but ultimately I guess it isn't changing how they search.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.