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Experimental Google AdWords Format in Testing
For Google, AdWords represents the foundational advertising model, not to mention the primary mode of income. Billions are spent each year on advertising through Google, and with...
Finding Your Online Customer Base
It’s amazing; with the vastness of the Information Highway, there are still potholes to fill. An article on finding your online customer base is one...
Bings Unrolls Even More Facebook Features
For a long time, everyone was shouting that Facebook was Google’s biggest competitor. I scoffed at this, loudly vocalizing my opinion that Facebook was irrelevant...
Google News Gets a Facelift
Google News has become a trusted source for information on the web. The history of the service is of interest; it began as a response...
Google Reports $64B Economic Contribution to Businesses
Google is taking a moment to celebrate small business week (this week, that is), which may seem a little odd at first glance. After all,...
Google 301 Policy Update from Matt Cutts
One of the questions that’s brought to me on a semi-regular basis is whether or not 301 redirects diminish the amount of link juice passed by a...
Online Sentiment and Link Building
Some of us have a negative (or at least not fully glowing) mention in the top 30 rankings for our brand or name. My agency...
SEMPO Shows A Decline in SEO Spendings In 2011 (Should Be Good News for All)
This article is based on the data made available by the SEMPO State of Search Marketing Report 2011, published by Econsultancy. The SEMPO Report is...
Google Chromebooks Officially Announced
Google Chrome OS has received plenty of attention from us over the last few months. The idea of having an operating system that functions as...
Google Celebrates MIT’s 150th Anniversary
MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been around for a long time. In fact, at 150 years of age, MIT is older than the web,...
Watching the Google I/O Keynotes
Google I/O, which took place earlier this month, was packed. Not surprise there! Tickets sold out in under an hour. Nevertheless, the million-plus viewers who...
The Google “Filter Bubble” and Its Problems
If anyone had doubts that politics is involved in search engines, then the $5 million plus that Google spends on lobbyists each year should be...
Google Optimization: Site Redirects, Canonicals, and Link Juice
Over the years, our good friends over at Google (largely through the input of Matt Cutts through his webmaster Q&A videos), we’ve heard a lot of information...
Google Blogger Glitches, Posts Vanish
Google runs a lot of the electronically stored data for people these days. Beyond file storage in the new Google Docs, users get their email,...
Google Announces In-App Payments at I/O
It’s been a long time in coming, and now Google has finally released the in-app payment API for web app developers. This new set of code serves...
Google Ice Cream Sandwich Details
For the last few months, we’ve repeatedly mentioned the upcoming Google Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 2.4) operating system, almost always with the tag line “and we’ll find...
Blekko Sees 30% Increase in Unique Visitors for April
Every time Blekko starts to fade from the spotlight, it seems that another big group picks up the story. This time around its the almighty New York Times,...
Geo Targeting for Western Sites
One of the most popular questions which our potential customers usually ask is the following question: which domain name to choose for work with western...
Meet the New Version of AdWords Editor
If you manage multiple accounts with comprehensive campaign set up’s, you most likely utilize the AdWords Editor. Google just released version 9 of the tool...
Google Bolsters the Analytics Overview
Google never sites still. Like a fidgety child who’s diagnosed with ADHD but is really just too smart to be challenged by the class’s curriculum,...
New Google Chrome Ups the Ante on Visuals, Safety, & Privacy
With a standard six week release cycle, it’s hardly big news when Google Chrome releases a new beta version. However, this time around is different,...
Google Calendar Gets Simple Color-Coding
The Gmail team has released some news that has me a touch bitter: An organization system that I went through monumental effort to set up for myself not two...
6 Traits of a Lazy Link Builder
If you’ve ever tried building links to your site, you’ll have some idea how difficult they can be to acquire. People are always trying to...
Organic Search Traffic Brings Qualified Traffic! A Local Story
For the last year or so, I have done some very simple optimization for a local electrician with the goal in mind that he could...
Google’s Mother’s Day Doodle for 2011
Now, in the first few hours of Mother’s Day, I’m already thinking about my mom – wondering what the plans are for tomorrow (my family...
Moms at Google Give Mother’s Day Advice
Google has one of the more diverse employee-bases. Beyond having over 200 offices around the world, the female-malenratio on Google’s staff is more balanced than...
Bing’s Mother’s Day Guide
While flowers are the clear winner in the U.S. when it comes to Mother’s Day gifts, the exact searches vary from search engine to search...
Google News and the Death of Bin Laden
Google News has become one of the most widely used and recognized ways to search through web stories that are fresh off the presses. That...
Google’s Blogger Gets Geo-Location and More
With over 10 million users, Blogger is significantly more popular than WordPress, the second on the scale of in-demand blog-hosting services. That may be because...
Blekko Search Powers Topix
Blekko hasn’t been getting the same degree of media attention that it did in the anti-Google-spam blitz early this year. However,Blekko has continued its unique style of...