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Twitter’s Mobile Advertising Producing Majority of Revenues
Even as technology giants Facebook and Google struggle to adequately monetize mobile users, Twitter recently announced it is generating the majority of its total revenues...
Mobile Payments: Which Provider Will Win the Battle for Dominance?
With smartphone usage growing by leaps and bounds each year, payment providers are grappling to win control of the mobile payments market. Since total mobile...
A Crash Course in the New Google Trusted Stores Program
Officially moved out of beta on June 7, 2012, the Google Trusted Stores program makes it easier for online shoppers to purchase from trusted e-commerce stores....
Sony Outplays Nintendo in Console Browsing
Two of the biggest players in the video game console market, Nintendo and Sony, are competing hard to provide their customers with the best gaming...
Google+ Events Invites You to Help Make Evite Obsolete
In an effort to make Evite obsolete and turn the invitation service industry upside down, Google recently launched Google+ Events. The new product, which was...
Mystery Illness Causes Larry Page to Cancel Public Appearances
Larry Page, Google’s 39-year-old Chief Executive Officer, has been absent from the company’s annual meeting and will not be making any public appearances “for the...
Startup SEO – Lonely, Frustrating, and Sometimes Embarrassing…But It Doesn’t Have to Be
I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a number of startups during my career, and I have helped several with digital marketing strategy. If you’ve...
Inbound Marketing in Foreign Languages
Traditional “outbound” marketing techniques, such as advertising and telemarketing, involve reaching out to potential customers and grabbing their attention. Inbound marketing involves creating quality content...
The Problem with SEO: Mistaking Correlation for Causation
So you just saw a big jump in your natural search result rankings? Congratulations, that’s great news! But before you start patting yourself on the...
Facebook Email Fiasco: 900 Million+ Profile Updates Without Permission
Even though most Facebook users were not even aware that they had a Facebook email address, the social network recently changed the publicly displayed email...
Changing Jobs? Some Tips from Alan Bleiweiss
I have had lot of SEO/Internet marketing friends that have lost jobs or changed jobs and then had to move far away to a new...
Facebook “Find Friends Nearby” Feature Quietly Launches
Although Facebook has not yet officially announced it, the social network has quietly launched a new feature called “Find Friends Nearby.” The feature, which allows...
Your Step-by-Step Guide to AdWords
New to AdWords? Have clients who struggle to grasp PPC? Simply Business recently created this interactive step-by-step guide to setting up and using Google AdWords....
New Law Requires Sex Offenders to Post Criminal Status on Social Networks
On August 1st, a new Louisiana law that requires sex offenders and child predators to declare their criminal status on social networking sites will go...
Too Bad We Didn’t Write Optimize First
Kudos to Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing for beating me and SEO Stoney deGeyter to the punch. If the two of us had collaborated...
Human Development Center, The Non-Profit Marty Weintraub Supports
I talked to Marty Weintraub, AKA @aimClear, about the Human Development Center. I asked him to tell us about this fantastic organization and the help...
Google’s Endangered Languages Project Fights to Save 3,054 Languages
With languages disappearing at an unprecedented rate, linguistic experts are predicting that over 3,000 of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will become extinct in the...
Facebook Explains the “Report” Feature
When one of Facebook’s 900 million plus users clicks the “Report” button, the world’s largest social network has multiple security teams ready to take immediate...
12 Questions to Ask a Prospective Link Building or Contact Marketing Client
If you’re an SEO/SEM/inbound marketing/content marketing agency that offers link building or content marketing services independent of other services (such as keyword research, a technical...
10 Easy-Peasy Conversion Optimization Tips That Make Visitors Happy
If all our clients considered conversions to be as important as top search engine rankings, I think I would pass out. Or pass the beers!...
Announcing SEJ’s First Featured SEO Writer, Glenn Gabe
Search Engine Journal is excited to announce that Glenn Gabe, a regular contributor to SEJ, will be a “Featured SEO Columnist.” Glenn has been writing for SEJ...
Google Reports U.S. Government’s Censorship Request Volume “Alarming”
Google recently announced that the United States and several other Western governments drastically increased the number of censorship requests during the second half of 2011....
You Don’t Want a Google Disavow Links Option
Do you really want a disavow links option? I don’t. With the recent Penguin update, the SEO community has been talking a lot lately about...
Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit for $10 Million
Over the weekend, news broke that Facebook has agreed to pay $10 million in order to settle a lawsuit related to Sponsored Stories. The five...
YouTube Considering Paid Subscriptions
YouTube, the leading video website in the world, streams over 4 billion videos daily. Although the site is currently monetized through advertisements and site sponsorships,...
SEO for Facebook – New Video Revealed
Facebook is probably not the first place you would think to go for SEO advice. However, the social media giant is looking to change that. With...
Microsoft Bing Local Search Results Now Powered by Yelp
This morning, Yelp announced a new business partnership with Bing and unveiled its plan to provide Bing’s local search pages with trusted user reviews and...
The Non-Profits Pubcon’s Brett Tabke Supports
I contacted Brett Tabke, founder of Pubcon and WebMasterWorld, to find out if there was a specific non-profit he volunteers his time with. He doesn’t...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 6/13/2012
Check out the list of industry conferences coming up. There are plenty to attend this summer. If you have insight or feedback on some...
Facebook Launches New Plugin for WordPress & Simplifies Social Publishing
With WordPress powering more than 16% of all websites, people have been asking Facebook to release an official WordPress plugin for years. Yesterday, Facebook finally...