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Should Potential Employers be Allowed to Ask an Interviewee for Their Facebook Password?
Social media is no longer confined to the Internet. It lives in our everyday lives – at home, and even in the work environment. As...
The Game of Business
What would you do if you had a Google in your vertical? Would you patiently abide the pecking order? Would you beef up your stock,...
“Something” is Wrong with Google (since 2004)
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty – Ronald Reagan It never ceases to amaze me how Google has become such an integral...
Google Seeks Partners to Help Make Self-Driving Car a Production Vehicle
On Wednesday, Google visited Detroit automakers that can help make Google’s prototype of a self-driving car a production vehicle. Anthony Levandowski, who is the product...
DNS Changer Malware: FBI Reports 300,000 Computers May Lose Web Access
In November of 2011, six Estonian nationals were arrested by the FBI for creating malware that infected computers worldwide. The malware, which was named DNS...
Chinese Search Market Update: Baidu Predicts Growth Slowdown
Baidu, the leading Chinese-language Internet search provider, recently reported a strong year-over-year rise in first-quarter earnings. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the Chinese...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 4/25/2012
Today I’m posting these webinars while attending a small online markeing conference. Now, when I say small that refers to the amount of attendees not...
Study: iOS CTR Higher than Android; iPad Users Most Likely to Engage with Mobile Ads
Mobile devices have emerged as one of the major means for consumers to access, share, and manipulate information on the web – and it shows...
Dropbox Nightmare Confirmed: Google Drive is Live!
After enduring launch rumors for over six years, the Google Drive has finally launched! Sundar Pichai, the Senior Vice-President of Chrome and Apps, made the...
SEC Filing: Facebook Discloses Negative Financial Data Ahead of IPO
Facebook, which is on the verge of the long-awaited and hyped initial public offering (IPO), recently disclosed that their net income fell 12% in the...
Google Adwords for Video Launches, Here’s What They Can Do Better
Google today took their Adwords for Video program out of beta and announced their “official” launch, integrating their paid search advertising model with video content,...
How to Use Personas to Write Effective SEO Content
Writing content for a website is easy. Writing good, search-engine-friendly content for a website is hard. Writing great search and user-friendly content for your website...
Google Billionaires Fund Asteroid Mining Company
Google billionaires Eric Schmidt and Larry Page have decided to provide funding for an interesting space exploration start-up named Planetary Resources. The new company, which...
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Is the Internet Hurting the Earth? [Infographic] #Earthday
This Sunday is Earth Day 2012, when we earthlings devote the entire day to hugging trees and recycling plastic water bottles in retribution for the...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google and Apple
As a result of allegedly entering an illegal anti-poaching agreement that prohibited the hiring of each other’s employees, some of the top technology companies in...
IT Brands Must Make Peace with Green Operations
We (the people of online marketing) are in a good position. We’re online each day; so, it may be hard to notice that more businesses...
Facebook IPO Rumor: Instagram Source Says Social Networking Giant Worth $104 Billion!
With Facebook allegedly targeting May 17th for the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), there has been widespread speculation regarding the social networking company’s valuation...
Google Announces New Online Advertising Metrics
This morning, Google announced the new ‘Brand Activate’ advertising program, which will provide brands with useful metrics related to quantifying the benefits of online ad...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 4/18/2012
There are a variety of conferences in the industry. I’d be happy to add a review or two each week regarding upcoming events. If you...
Linking 2012 – Effective Link Building Techniques in 2012
With Google’s constant effort to improve their search results, their algorithm is evolving to better understand and compliment organic versus spam link building. Since links...
Cost of Facebook Advertising Rapidly Increasing
TBG Digital, who is one of the biggest spenders on Facebook advertising, recently released their first quarterly Global Facebook Advertising Report of 2012. The report,...
Optimize This! 10 Q&As on Customer-Centric Marketing with Lee Odden
I interviewed veteran Internet Marketer Lee Odden for his new book, Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and...
Quick Wins To Impact Your Bottom Line While Building Rankings In The SERPs
Anyone who has done some SEO for more than sixty days knows that this type of marketing is a long term play. Unless your organization...
Guest Blogging Tools and Advice: Interview with James Agate
The combination of several blog networks recently being deindexed along with anticipation related to the upcoming over-optimization penalty has many businesses looking to diversify their...
Report: MSIE Sees Greatest Traffic During Work Day; Chrome Picks up in Evenings
The last year has been a wild ride in the world of web browsers. Chrome has been quickly gaining on Microsoft Internet Explorer’s (MSIE) market...
Google’s “Fresh” Video SEO Tips for Website Product Pages
Google wants to always be featuring the freshest and relevant product information; and does so with their “freshness algorithm’ – originally released last fall as...
How to Track Off-Site Clicks as Goals in Google Analytics
On the Single Grain blog, we’ve talked a lot about the power of Google Analytics in general terms with the following posts: Google Analytics...
Judge Demands Lower Court Reconsider Rosetta Stone Lawsuit Against Google
Prior to 2009, Google AdWords prohibited advertisers from bidding on trademark protected phrases and keywords. Due to the implementation of an advanced algorithm allegedly capable...
Are Patents the New Black for Tech Companies?
Google recently ogled at a plethora of new patents; so, it’s likely its competitors will follow suit, as Microsoft has done on Monday, purchasing more...
Level Up: 3 Tricks to Try When Your Content Marketing Plateaus
If you’ve been playing the SEO game for a year or more, odds are you’ve got the basics down by now. By “basics,” I mean...