Microsoft’s Bing stops working for some users, spits out useless error message (Update: Fixed) – The Next WebBrief technical difficulties. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center.
Google repeated its earlier statements that the data was collected in error and never used. Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars.
So if there's a problem that's going to happen before the app crashes you can say "let's throw a more friendly error and slowly direct users somewhere else. And hopefully your company has at least started to build out a mobile strategy to provide a...
My hunch is mobile invalid clicks come more from actual users with multiple clicks, or user error vs.actual purposefully fraudulent activity. Over the past week I've been reading articles about how display is riddled with fraud and costing...
Everyone who has ever made a purchase online has probably experienced the following in some form: you've just finished filling out a purchase form and clicked buy, only to see that an error has been thrown because you didn't check a "how did you...
Monitor usage and look out for patterns such as SEO error distribution. SEO professionals can also analyze error distribution, identify common SEO errors and the source of these errors, and take corrective action.
A few stats to back this up: percent say that they’ve encountered a website that was too slow to load on a mobile device.percent of mobile Internet users visited a website that crashed, froze, or resulted in an error.percent of mobile users have...
Microsoft blamed this on a technical error, but its excuse wasn't enough to avoid a steep fine and the honor of becoming the first company to fail to comply with an EC antitrust agreement. The European Commission (EC) hit Microsoft with a €561...
If you leave the default setting, your page and post titles will end up too long and cause an error. WordPress is fantastic, free, and open source. It can be installed, up and running in a matter of minutes.
The biggest error I've seen is assuming we can read the hidden intentions of any other individual, and especially those of a corporation. As I’m writing this, the area that I live in (Kansas City) is getting nailed by a tremendous snow storm.
Error on landing page: You may see an increase in CTR but conversion rate doesn't follow due to a tracking error. When managing PPC campaigns, specific trends and statistics can be in direct conflict.
As you can see in the graph (Google purposely removed for context), Yandex began passing Microsoft in November, but the difference was tiny and initially it could have perceived looking like a statistical error.
Counter this by at least serving a custom 404 page providing an apology for the error, showing the standard page template with main navigation as well as including links and messaging to visit top areas of the site.
Google has already admitted to tracking Safari users, saying that it was a bug and an error and should not have happened. Google is facing some delayed legal action in the UK over having tracked iPhone and Safari users without their knowledge.
As of now any new users trying to sign up to Wonder with their Facebook account receive a notification by Facebook: “An error occurred. Russian search giant Yandex has found its Wonder app barred from searching on Facebook's social graph hours...
Like many things, social media is trial and error to some extent. However, unless you've seen it grow from the ground up, it's not an immediately clear concept – you and your clients may not be on the same wavelength.
This impact on performance isn’t indicative of a downward trend, but rather it’s simply an error. Optimizing PPC campaigns with faulty data is like driving with an upside down map. You’ll end up in the exact opposite direction of your destination.
In my years of writing here at Search Engine Watch, I have learned (often times through trial and error) what differentiates this site and its core audience from other related sites in the same space.
Investigate why the error is occurring if it is still occurring checking the difference between the Last crawled and First detected dates. Such errors are server-related – 500 is indicative of an internal server error; 502 indicates that the server...
Generally, these can be fixed easily – in the case of a 404 error with a 301 permanent redirect or a server check for what is causing the 500 errors. You're awesome. Your site is fantastic. You have great content.
