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2011 Mobile Advertising Expected to Exceed $1 Billion
Earlier today, eMarketer released a study that estimates advertisers will spend $1.23 billion on mobile advertising in the U.S. market in 2011. This year will...
Google Launches Trusted Stores Program
Yesterday, Google launched a new program – Google Trusted Sites. The program, which is aimed at reducing the risks associated with online shopping, will help...
Google’s YouTube Partners with Hollywood to Produce Content for New Channels
Google Inc. recently fronted $100 million in order to have original video content produced for dozens of new YouTube channels. The technology giant is finalizing...
Google to Battle Traditional Media for Advertising Revenues
Google, the world’s largest search engine, has been working with Best Buy, Macy’s, and other retailers to develop a “web-based circular” similar to the weekly...
Google Maps Takes Flight: Google Maps Launches Helicopter View of User’s Route
On Sunday Google’s LatLong Blog announced a 3D “helicopter view” feature for Google Maps. This view provides Google Maps users the option of having an...
Apple Accident: Welcome E-mails to Apple iCloud Sent Sooner than Forecasted
At this week’s “Let’s talk iPhone” event in Cupertino, CA, Apple is anticipated to announce the launch of the iPhone 5 and newest version of...
Crushing Barriers to Launching an SEO Firm — Part 3: Strategy
Build a comprehensive, solid strategy, and then break it down into bite-size, actionable steps.
Google Chrome to Beat Out Mozilla Firefox by December
According to a recent report by the StatCounter web analytics firm, Google Chrome is on track to pass Mozilla Firefox’s number of users by December...
Premium Google Analytics with a Premium Price Tag
Yesterday afternoon, Enrique Munoz Torres, the Product Manager of the Google Analytics team, announced a new Premium version of Google Analytics. Initially, the product will...
Crushing Barriers to Launching an SEO Firm — Part 2: Experience
The more experience you have, the easier it is to acquire clients. But that doesn’t mean that you need 10 years of C-level experience.
Scrapers and the Panda Update – A Match Made in Heaven
I have an associate that runs a very large and heretofore successful content site. He’s an experienced and competent entrepreneur and CEO. For several years,...
$30 Million in Funding for Blekko: Blekko Has More Cash to Slash the Web
On Wednesday, search engine startup Blekko received $30 million in funding from various investors including Yandex, Russia’s top search engine. Trailing only behind Google, Bing,...
US Congressmen Requesting FTC Investigation of Facebook Cookies
Last weekend, Australian technology blogger and hacker Nik Cubrilovic posted that Facebook cookies were tracking users in an unconventional manner. Even after a user had...
Groupon Rewards: Groupon Customers Rewarded for Merchant Loyalty
When deciding whether or not to offer a Groupon, many merchants struggle with wondering if they will gain repeat business or simply offer deeply discounted...
Twitter Revenue Projections: A Mixed Report
According to a recent eMarketer report, Twitter’s 2011 advertising revenues will fall short of the earlier $150 million projection. However, when compared to Twitter’s $45...
Kindle Fire: New Amazon Tablet Fires a Shot at Apple iPad
This morning, Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, introduced the Kindle Fire. The brand new Android-based tablet weighs only 14.6 ounces and features a dual-core processor...
Twitter is a Mobile Whale: 45% of Daily Tweets from Mobile Devices
Yesterday, at the 2011 Mobilize conference, Twitter’s VP of engineering Michael Abbot spoke with Om Malik regarding Twitter’s overall growth and the role mobile devices...
Effective Link Building Using Event Blogging
Photo Credit You can attend a conference or local event, blog about it, and people will link to it. Having blogged recaps to many different...
SEO Shortcuts Take You Nowhere Fast
In our modern world, every second counts. How long does it take to get around the Starbucks drive-through? How fast can you text? How quickly...
GE Google Electric: Google Invests in Residential Solar Energy
On Tuesday, Google announced that it is investing $75 million into a fund with Clean Power Finance Inc. to help install solar panels for up...
Google+ Reaches 50 Million Users
Last Tuesday, the Google Blog announced that Google+, which had been “invitation only,” was changing to “open access.” According to data from Experian Hitwise, since...
Facebook PAC: Which 2012 Candidate Will Facebook Like?
On Monday, Facebook filed the necessary paperwork to form the political action committee FB PAC. With Facebook’s increasingly dominant web presence and ever-growing user base...
Google Birthday: Tech Giant Celebrates 13th Birthday
Today, Google’s homepage is featuring a Google doodle with the Google letters celebrating Google’s thirteenth birthday. The doodle, which is not animated and has a...
Bing Deals: Microsoft Enters Daily Deal Space
On Friday, Microsoft launched a new version of Bing Deals that will aggregate over 200,000 of the best local deals from Groupon, LivingSocial, other deal...
Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?
On Saturday afternoon, a rumor leaked that is likely to have the Dropbox team feeling hung over as they report to work this morning. According...
Script Kiddies Hack USA Today Twitter Account
The Script Kiddies, which is the same group that recently hacked the NBC Twitter account, struck again Sunday evening. The hacker group, which hacked the...
Yahoo News Activity Automatically Shares News with Friends
Yahoo News Activity, which was announced Thursday at the Facebook f8 conference, enables Facebook users to effortlessly find news that is important to their friends....
Facebook’s Open Graph Provides Marketers with New Opportunities
At the recent Facebook f8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled two new features: Timeline and Open Graph. Timeline, which is replacing the current profile pages, will...
Crushing Barriers to Launching an SEO Firm — Part 1: Opportunity
Search marketing is an adventure, but never more so than when you decide to kickstart your own firm. Here are some obstacles you’ll hit and...
Open Graph: Facebook Becomes a More Social Network
At Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph. Described as a whole new class of apps, Open Graph will...