Another month and another new release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S.for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines.
Google will take home more than half of all mobile advertising dollars this year as the company is poised to see record revenues for 2013. Research firm eMarketer said that Google is on pace to set a new record after more than tripling its mobile...
Mobile and social have been among the most talked-about subjects for the last couple of years. But did you know that email plays a very important role with both of those from an engagement, brand, and conversion perspective?
Egobait exists for one main purpose: to increase visibility (which will hopefully generate links). Designed to appeal to the ego of an influencer, it's a concept that has some negative connotations, due to the whole "ego" bit.
According to Nielsen's State of the Media: Social Media Report 2012, Pinterest has over 27 million active users as of July 2012, and has shown explosive growth in the last three years, as seen from the graph below:
It has now been 18 days since Penguin 2.0 rolled out on May 22, 2013. In the aftermath of that rollout, webmasters that were affected are now desperate to recover. Some are looking to toward the Disavow Links tool to bail them out.
Who doesn't love a good movie? Searches on Google tell us that moviegoers are actively engaged in search and use the results to make decision on what movie to see. Not only has Google found a way to quantify movie search intent, but also predict...
Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search advertising with Google AdWords and the Yahoo Bing Network in 2012, according to AdGooroo data (disclosure: I work there) making retail the most robust category for paid search in terms of ad...
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst. With the release of the much-anticipated algorithm update, many in the industry wondered how bad the damage would...
Before anyone hires you, they Google you (and Facebook you and Twitter you and Linkedin you, etc). So Google yourself first. Do you like the results that come up on the first two pages of search results?
You may be doing everything correct in multilingual search – from translating your content properly to localizing your keywords and putting proper canonical tags on the pages – and still find out that you can’t seem to sell anything online in...
Since Google's announcement of enhanced campaigns, all eyes have been on mobile. Advertisers who have felt the pain of lower ROI are left wondering, "Are enhanced campaigns going to help me win in Google mobile – or are they designed to help Google...
The comScore Video Metrix service has just released data that shows 181.9 million Americans watched 38.8 billion online content videos in April 2013, while the number of video ad views reached an all-time high of 13.2 billion.
Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the 2012 Penguin release, which put a hurting on websites with number of manipulative links in their profile.
Today's Google Doodle may be the most moving logo Google has ever posted. The Doodle was created by a 12th grade Wisconsin student in honor of her best day: the day she was reunited with her father who returned home from Iraq after 18 months of...
Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with Microsoft and Yahoo slightly edging up, according to comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings. Google dropped 0.6 percent in April, dropping from March's 67.1 percent to 66.5 percent.
In June 2011, Google introduced author information in the SERPs. Since doing so, much has been written about the importance of ensuring search marketers have taken steps to set up authorship in Google+.
Yahoo announced last week a partnership with Twitter to integrate tweets directly into its newsfeed. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer calls it #bestoftheweb, and says it will “seamlessly include relevant and personalized Tweets alongside stories from Yahoo!
Mobile isn’t just for finding local merchants to start the shopping experience. Recent data from Google shows mobile is a shopping companion while consumers are in the store looking to buy. In a new study, “Mobile In-Store Research: How in-store...
Google+ is struggling to attract brands, and the brands they do attract are neglecting their pages, according to a Reuters analysis published this week. The analysis called out Domino's Pizza as one big example, since the company hasn't updated its...
