Mobile is movin’ on up as a preferred device for consumers to perform research on and purchase with in the U.S. This, according to findings in the 2013 Mobile Path-to-Purchase study by Telmetrics and xAd.
Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products, images, maps, and reviews into what was once traditional organic search...
A couple of years ago, Scott Stratten of "Unmarketing" book fame (a great read) was asked his best SEO tip. His answer: write "awesome frickin' content"! Since then Panda iterations have had SEO practitioners reinforcing similar "content is king...
At SES New York in March, I organized the first Girls' Night Out for some of the female SES speakers. Not only was a great way to put finally put faces to names, it was an opportunity for us to really hone in on the root of this sexism in tech debate.
Google’s Active View viewability measurement solution has been given the nod from the Media Rating Council. Active View, introduced in 2012, lets advertisers reserve inventory on the Google Display Network and pay only for those that meet the...
Google will close the Meebo toolbar on June 6 and hopes that users will switch to Google+ and its single sign on. Google acquired Meebo for about $100 million last summer. The firm encouraged websites to adopt the Meebo bar when it decided that its...
The full SES Toronto 2013 conference agenda is now online. SES Toronto, taking place at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre on June 12-14, will provide experienced marketing and advertising professionals with the knowledge and tools needed...
One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center. And it sure was hard not to see Eric Schmidt. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the...
Has search lost its luster? Global search spending continues to grow, but costs-per-click (CPC) may be stagnating, according to Kenshoo's Global Search Advertising Trends report. The report found that, globally, search spending for Q1 2013 is up 15...
The latest data from the comScore Video Metrix service shows that 182.5 million Americans watched 39.3 billion online content videos in March 2013, while the number of video ad views reached an all-time high at 13.2 billion that month.
You may be reading this because, like me, you usually spend a few minutes each day making sure you've trawled the main SEO news publications for new, useful thought pieces on organic search, analytics, or other aspects of online marketing.
When it comes to social media, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ dominate the conversation. After all, they have large numbers of users and are still growing, thanks in part to innovations on each platform.
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis "wrong". All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social...
Today's Google Doodle for Earth Day 2013 has a lot to experience. So much, in fact, Google created a "sightseeing checklist" to make sure you don't miss anything. All four seasons, animals, and weather that you control are among the natural wonders...
It's that time again when we ask you, our valued Search Engine Watch audience, to give us your feedback in our annual SEW Reader Survey. For those of you who totally and completely honestly finish the survey, we will enter you into a prize drawing...
Increasingly, your audience is spending time interacting with your brand on mobile devices every year. And hopefully your company has at least started to build out a mobile strategy to provide a better experience for your users.
Google posted a 31 percent increase in year-over-year revenue for the first quarter of 2013. The search giant reported revenues of over $13 billion for Q1 2013. As revenues rise year-over-year, company CEO Larry Page put the focus on future...
Smart marketers have known the way to a fan's heart is through their eyes for some time, but recent changes to the Facebook network underscored the importance of visuals even further. Facebook wants stories shared through their platform to be more...
A month after hitting its highest U.S.search market share in February (67.5 percent), Google saw both Bing and Yahoo steal away what essentially amounts to crumbs from the giant pie that is Google's dominance, according to comScore.
Unruly, a video technology company, today launched a real-time analytics dashboard that allows advertisers to gauge the social impact of their current and previous social video strategies versus their competitors.