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Black Friday Searches on Google Increased by 20%
Here’s some more Black Friday-related search statistics to digest. The Google Retail Advertising Blog (Yup, there is such a blog on Google) is reporting that...
Amazon is the Most Visited Website on Black Friday
Now that Black Friday is over and everyone is in the U.S. are probably busy finding the best Cyber Monday deals online, it’s interesting to...
Michael Jackson Tops Bing Searches in 2009
Although a little earlier than usually done by other search engines, Bing has released its top trending topics for 2009. “Michael Jackson” was the number...
Cyber Monday Deals Spark Online Shopping Season
Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season, starts tomorrow after a week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. Cyber Monday follows...
Google Says Spamming Other Sites Can Lower Site Ranking
The Google Webmaster Blog has this short post explaining how abusing sites’ comment fields by putting up comment containing links to the poster’s site can...
4 Tools to Tweet to Multiple Twitter Accounts
Nowadays it is a norm to run more than one blogs as well as Tweet to more than one Twitter accounts. By doing this we...
The Perfect SEO Pitch
Agency side, it’s not unusual to find yourself going up against a fellow SEO agency for new business. What factors will ensure you capture this...
Canadian, Australian Authorities Clear Microsoft/Yahoo Deal
Two down, two to go for the Microsoft-Yahoo search ads deal. Both the Canadian and Australiation anti-trust authorities have just cleared the controversial deal. In...
Black Friday Sales Ads Drive Traffic to Online Retailers
Online stores are probably raving right now with the current traffic spikes that their sites are getting this Thanksgiving week. According to Hitwise, online traffic...
Yahoo Improves its Search Assist Feature
While Google was busy working with more search ads formats, Yahoo on the other hand is busy improving their Search Assist feature. So, today Yahoo...
Product Extensions for U.S. AdWords Advertisers
Google has just rolled out a new feature of AdWords – product extensions which shall be available for all U.S. AdWords advertisers. Product extensions are...
Black Friday Ads Online : Sites to Check Out
Happy Thanksgiving Week to our American readers of Search Engine Journal. This week will be marked with stuffing ourselves on turkey & dressing, watching football,...
Google Product Search Prepares for the Holiday Shopping Season
By now everyone in the U.S. are probably busy looking out for the best consumer electronics deal that various stores, both online and brick and...
Google Acquires Display Ad Startup, Teracent
Black Friday sale is a few days away but Google went ahead on a shopping spree and acquired another company. This time it’s the startup...
SEO Epic Fail: Why Sutter Health Needs Proper SEO
I got a call today from a close friend that one of our other friends had a stroke earlier today and was in the hospital....
Will Microsoft Force Google to Pay for News Content?
NewsCorp’s Rupert Murdoch’s crusade against Google is definitely starting to sizzle. Mr. Murdoch’s assault against Google started last week when he said that he might...
Try Out Chrome OS on a Virtual Machine
So you’ve read all about it, seen all the video materials, the what’s not and what is – of the Chrome OS, that is. What’s...
Your Site Is Badly Indexed? What Can This Mean?
So you appear to do everything right: you have a fair amount of unique content and you seem to update your site regularly and Google...
Three Pages from the Same Domain in Google SERPs?
Andy Beal tweeted yesterday how he saw an interesting find. Google displaying THREE subpages in the SERPs. For as long as I can recall, Google...
Gmail Users Are More Social Network Friendly
There’s an interesting findings discovered by research company Rapleaf which made a study of around 120,000 webmail accounts from users of various webmail client including...
Google Updates News for Mobile
I just installed Google Mobile on my iPhone yesterday and was checking out the cool features that it offers. What’s good about this app is...
Google Chrome OS News Round-Up, What’s Your Take?
As soon as Google goes official with the Chrome OS, every tech people I know jumped into it. Each with his own comments, impressions and...
Google Releases the Chromium Open Source Project
For simple folks like me anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS any day now, sad to say you won’t get a taste of it...
Google Image Swirl Offers Fun Ways to Explore Images
After graduating the feature “Find Similar Images” in Google Labs, here’s a new experiment on finding and exploring images being offered by Google – Image...
Google Displays Site Hierarchies in Search Results
If you’re paying attention to the green URLs which Google appends at the bottom of each results, you may have noticed something different recently. Google...
A week worth of treats for SEO geeks
Welcome ot another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the...
Oxford English Dictionary 2009 Word of the Year : Unfriend
The Oxford English Dictionary has published its list of new words that have been added this year, with a major amount of them coming from...
Google Analytics Now Tracks Feed Item Clicks
Google Analytics has just added AdSense for Feeds and Google Feedburner data to the items it monitors and analyzes. So, if you are using either...
Google to Release Chrome OS Next Week?
There’s no doubt that many are anticipating the release of Google’s Chrome OS. In fact, we’ve seen several “alleged” screenshots and what-have-you’s relating to the...
Google Movie Search Becomes More Useful
Google has introduced some improvements to its movie search vertical by adding more movie-related information to help users decide what movie to see and where’s...