Tactics emerge, spread, and then die or get banned. Opportunities from content marketing to GPS, local, and mobile optimization beckon and promise high ROI for brands. Rather than jettisoning their core competencies, SEOs should build upon their...
The augmented reality Google Glass eyewear isn't even available yet, but already a bar in Seattle has banned customers from using the futuristic headset due to privacy concerns. The 5 Point Café in Cedar Street, which is referred to as a "dive bar...
UK flower delivery site Interflora, banished from Google’s UK searches after it placed about 150 advertorials on regional news sites, is out of the penalty box after only 11 days – a timely return to the search results ahead of Mothering Sunday.
This is a practice that can a publisher banned all on it own. The purpose was to get links to drive search rankings. It served no other marketing purpose at all. This has led to large numbers of sites being hit by link penalties or new algorithms...
China, where Facebook remains officially banned, represents one obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide domination, while VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain popular in Russia.
By the numbers: million: The number of banned ads. The number of advertisers banned. Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads. This year, they've released an infographic (see below) that...
The site is officially banned in China but local sites are massive within the market. EMarketer predicts there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, representing a 19.2 percent increase over 2011 figures.
If you don't coordinate efforts, and you and other members on your team submit the infographic randomly and start voting it up, that can directly conflict with and impede your vendor’s efforts, and voting blocks from the same IP can get your...
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh have banned YouTube for not removing the firm already. Iran has a rather controlling attitude to the Internet and has already banned access to other online properties, including a rather hopeful sounding virtual U.S...
Under a settlement, those behind the scam are banned from trading in such a way again, and were forced to make repayments to the FTC. U.S.citizens who fell for a work from home scam that capitalized on the Google name are being refunded by the U.S.
When it was banned by UK ISPs its traffic increased and this new notoriety could have the same impact. Google will no longer suggest that visitors head to The Pirate Bay. The search giant has removed the website's name from its autocomplete...
In China (where both Facebook and Twitter are officially banned), Qzone rules the roost while VK (formerly Vkontakte) has a huge following in Russia. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing messages (if they ever were).
See the full list of banned/allowed weapons for the new Google Shopping, according to AdWords policy: Google last made changes to their AdWords policy for weapons in January 2012, when they banned those weapons classified as restricted, citing...
Marketers can pare down keyword lists by limiting character count, eliminating invalid/adult/banned terms, incorporating negative terms, choosing whether to include brand names, and specifying certain categories.
Because you'll get busted and banned if you don't! For marketers looking to take advantage of the holiday, Google and Microsoft adCenter have provided several ideas based on what users are already searching for.
A banned but deft commercial that will have you asking yourself how badly do you want kids? ZAZOO’s “Banned Commercial - Condoms" -- 694,413 shares all time. Those wild and crazy folks at Unruly are at it again.
Paid links are bad or buying links can get you banned in Google. Are you going to get banned on Google for strategic placements of paid links? In continuation to a relatively popular article I wrote last month on top web analytics myths, I thought...
The European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance, Google is providing an WiFi location opt-out service; Google has announced that it will delete 3.6 million Dutch WiFi SSIDs, and Google Analytics has been un-banned in...
When I say “high risk,” I’m not talking about the kind of high risk associated with the possibility of being banned/penalized in the search engines for such tactics as hacking, cloaking, spamming, etc.
It has also been made clear that they are linked to the "SL Police Department", who have been running an IP grabbing device (which throws media calls up against any viewer with a media filter) since before RedZone was banned, and apparently never...
