Baidu Eye Was An April Fool Gone Wild, But With ‘A Kernel Of Truth’ Based On A Real Internal Project - TechCrunch Bing hits back on AdWords enhanced campaigns. Lots of advertising revenue forecasts. A new Google Places for Business interface rolls...
If you click on that "city", then click on Traffic Sources or Content and you'll get a special April Fool's message: You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to...
In 2004, Copernicus was the inspiration of an April Fool’s Day joke from Google, which announced it was interviewing candidates for engineering positions at the Copernicus Center, a lunar hosting and research center, set to open in the spring of...
I like the philosophy of never making a fool out of someone who's already doing a dandy job of it all alone. In SEO circles, we're never lacking for buzzwords or the new, hot item. In fact, it can make your head spin just trying to keep up with...
As mentioned above, by not being too aggressive, and only bidding on extended brand terms, you may be able to fool them that you're actually only bidding on phrase and broad match terms and getting matched to their branded queries.
So while the top-line visitation numbers may remain strong on desktop computers, don’t let it fool you from thinking that this shift isn’t happening. Many of you may remember playing the educational game “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
There's flopping in basketball, which is basically a lie designed to fool a referee. You can't fool a librarian. What exactly does "trust" mean? Isn't it context specific? In the context of relationships, trust is earned via a number of ways, among...
Simultaneously, we'll compare the search tendencies of ourselves as individuals, all while raising the all-important question: how simple is it to fool us? We all believe that we live within a great nation, and we are correct.
Many brands believe that moving up their organic search rankings is a fool's errand – thinking the effort will run up against an "iron ceiling" because it is costly and difficult. If you're a major company in the retail or e-commerce space looking...
It did work for a while a few years ago, to fool the search engines into thinking a site had more unique content than it actually had. Here are a few highlights from their interview. Avoiding Duplicating Content Isn’t Enough; Google Looks for...
As if photographing our homes and then taking to the skies wasn't enough, though, Google also announced a portable version of its photography equipment that can be worn when walking or skiing so no terrain to remote or arduous is off-limits...
Article spinning is a technique designed to fool Googlebot into thinking that hundreds of pages are linking to a particular website - however every page published is machine written junk or pure gibberish.
What about some poor fool that buys a domain without knowing to check backlinks? That others can indeed affect your rankings with bad links. Otherwise known as "negative SEO. And this time it's going to be damned hard to get the worms back into the...
Links for the sake of manipulated rank is a fool's game. Who is the fool? Link marketing must be viewed more as a PR function and less of an SEO function. Many in the industry have tolerated my preaching through the years at search conferences...
Viggle is one of the newest apps on the block, but don’t let the newness fool you – Viggle is all business and their business is good. They’re breaking Twitter records during awards shows and hammering hashtags during shows like “Glee”, “Gossip...
Marketers who engage in fake reviews, falsified comments, puppet accounts and misleading tactics don't just hurt the consumers they may fool, they also damage the field of Internet Marketing itself. Mike Essex hopes to spur SEOs into action with...
Well, Google Insights for Search forecasts that web search interest in April Fool’s Day, Earth Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Christmas will spike in the United States on those holidays in 2012.
Otherwise, it’s just making a fool of yourself in public. Getting into the link bait debate always gets controversial. In fact I often regret it because it seems as though everyone has distinct, borderline passionate, feelings on the subject.
Killer Facebook Ads" by Marty Weintraub was officially unveiled at SES San Francisco this week but don’t let the name fool you. If the social media book fits; buy it, download it, read it and share it.
Basil, a religions eccentric – or “holy fool” – who was one of Ivan’s biggest critics. A Google Doodle today is marking the 450th anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia. The famous Russian landmark, which features nine multi-colored onion...
