Twitter To Team Up With Stripe To Insert A ‘Buy Now’ Button Into Tweets
In January, Re/code reported that Twitter and Stripe were in talks to work together on something but nothing had been finalized at that time. Sources...
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Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s degree in communications, Matt specializes in gathering details, checking facts, and making complex subjects easy to understand. In addition to writing articles, Matt oversees strategy development for SEJ’s news department.
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Popular Marketing Event #EpicDinner Faces Cancellation
Marketing juggernaut conference Pubcon Las Vegas is less than two months away. If you’ve been to Pubcon before, you may have seen SEO expert Alan Bleiweiss in action:...
Google Acquires Gecko Design, Designers Of The Original Fitbit
TechCruch reports that Google has acquired Gecko Design, the firm responsible for the mechanical design of the original version of the fitness tracking device Fitbit....
Instagram Becomes A Serious Business Tool With A Suite Of Useful New Features
Instagram says inspiring and empowering brands to create beautiful imagery that engages its 200 million members is something the company is always striving for. It’s...
Speak To Google’s Search App In Multiple Languages And It Will Now Understand You
More than half the world’s population speaks two or more languages, Google stated in a post on the Inside Search blog today. Google can now...
2014 Inc 5000 Rankings Released, Here Are The Top Search Companies
The publication Inc has released their annual Inc 5000 rankings for 2014 — every year Inc Inc ranks the fastest-growing privately held companies. The rankings are...
Patent Shows Possible New Google Glass Design, Would You Wear These?
Pictures from a patent granted on August 12th show that Google glass may one day look more like ordinary glasses. That patent, detailing a possible...
Twitter’s Vine Now Allows You To Import Existing Videos, Plus New Editing Features
Twitter’s Vine, the popular six second video sharing service introduced two powerful new features today — advanced video editing and the ability to import existing...
Twitter To Start Showing You Tweets From People You Don’t Follow
Prepare yourself to start seeing tweets in your timeline from people you don’t follow. A change to Twitter’s timeline is going to start pulling in...
Google’s Amit Singhal Shares The Top 10 Search Milestones Of The Past Decade
Amit Singhal, Google’s head of search, posted about his 14-year work anniversary on Google+ today and also shared what he feels are the 10 biggest Google...
Squidoo To Move Content Over To HubPages After Being Acquired
Seth Godin, prolific marketer and founder of Squidoo, announced late last week that his content platform is getting acquired by HubPages. Popular content on Squidoo...
Track Ad Clicks That Lead To Phone Calls With AdWords’ Website Call Conversions
Seventy percent of all mobile searchers have called a business directly from search ads, Google says, but what about those searchers that call a business...
Google Ends Exact and Phrase Keyword Match Ability in AdWords; Now Applying Close Variant Keyword Matching
At least 7% of Google searches contain a misspelling, according to a new post on Google’s Inside AdWords blog. However, people still want to find...
Conversational Search Comes To Bing
Bing recently announced they are now offer conversational search, and it works very much the same way as Google’s conversational search. You can ask a...
Search Engine Ask.com Acquires Q&A Social Network Ask.fm
Venture Beat reports that search engine Ask.com has acquired popular question and answer service Ask.fm. The purchased was made for an undisclosed sum. Ask.com is a unique...
Facebook Introduces Cross-Device Reporting For Facebook Ads
Facebook has announced the launch of cross-device reporting for Facebook ads. For the first time, advertisers will be able to see how people are moving...
Promoted Video Comes To Twitter, Upload And Distribute Native Video On Twitter
Today, Twitter announced a beta test of new Promoted Video ad units. Twitter has been experimenting with these new ads for the past few months,...
Twitter Reveals How Many Active Users Are Bots, The Number May Be Higher Than You Think
Twitter revealed how many of its monthly active users are bots in a report just filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The report indicates...
Facebook Bans Like-Gating, No More Incentivizing Users To Like Pages
Facebook recently published a small but important update on their developer blog where they effectively put the ban on like-gating content. According to Facebook themselves,...
Google Tests New Ads For Music Searches
The Wall Street Journal spotted Google testing new “listen now” ad units for music searches, in conjunction with Spotify, Rhapsody and Beats Music. When you...
Contextual Search Engine Vurb Receives $8 Million In Funding
Redpoint Ventures has announced they’ve led an $8 million Series A round in Vurb, which has a unique, multi-functional search app in private beta. Vurb...
Pinterest Messaging Arrives, Send Private Messages With Other Pinterest Users
Over two million pins are sent out every day, Pinterest said in an announcement. In an effort to get more conversations started around those pins,...
WordPress 3.9.2 Security Release Out, Immediate Update Recommended
WordPress 3.9.2 has just been rolled out as a security release for all previous versions. WordPress strongly recommends that you update your sites immediately. This...
Encrypted Websites Will Now Get A Boost In Google Search Rankings
Google wants to make the Internet a safer place and has worked hard to improve their own security over the years. Today Google announced they’re...
Now You Can Delete Properties In Google Analytics With New Update
Google announced a new update to Google Analytics that will allow users to delete properties within their own accounts. To bring everyone up to speed on...
Google Makes It Easier Than Ever To Unsubscribe From Unwanted Emails
Today, Google announced a new feature for Gmail that will make it easier than ever to unsubscribe from unwanted emails. Now, instead of scrolling to...
Gmail Now Supports Email Addresses With Non-Latin Characters
Ever since you’ve been able to get an email address you have been required to sign up using non-accented latin characters. That won’t always have to...
Optimize Your Content For Google News With Google News Publisher Center
Today, Google announced something new for content publishers that will allow them to have more control over how content shows up in Google News. The newly...
Twitter To Ramp Up Their Image Search Capabilities With Acquisition Of Madbits
Twitter looks to be ramping up its image search capabilities, if the acquisition of one of a rising startup in the field of image search are...
Embed A Tweet Within A Tweet On Twitter For Desktop
A feature that recently became available on Twitter’s mobile apps is now available on desktop, which is the ability to embed a tweet within a...