If SES San Francisco will be the first search and social marketing conference you’ve ever attended, you’ve made a great investment. One must-attend event during the conference is Search Bash. Those of us who have been to an SES conference before...
The theory I think holds the most water is Frank Watson’s, who contributed to this article. Much of the search marketing industry is up in arms over notifications from Google Webmaster Tools warning users that they’ve fallen from Google’s graces...
The search marketing industry is losing one of its longest members, someone many may not know, but a person who has contributed to the success of what we all do. Marilyn Crafts, the Senior Program Director at Incisive Media, has been the invaluable...
Frank Watson also contributed to this post. If you thought today's Google Doodle looked a little creepy or kooky or even mysterious and spooky, you would be right. The cartoonist who created The Addams Family has been honored with a Google Doodle...
Last year Google launched meta tags for sites where a multilingual "template (i.e.side navigation, footer) is machine-translated into various languages but the "main content remains unchanged, creating largely duplicate pages.
Google is looking to create "a service that would let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day for a low fee," the Wall Street Journal reported. The move is a direct challenge to Amazon Prime - their membership program...
A year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized 82 domains - mostly sellers of knock-off products, but this included a couple of torrent sharing sites.
In a patent application approved Tuesday, Google used the review/comments systems used by Amazon and Slashdot to support their method and gain approval for their "invention". The problem is the critical thinking applied to the limits of the other...
Bloomberg reported that the Silver Lake consortium - which includes Microsoft - has offered $16.60 per share for a minority stake in Yahoo, much lower than the $31 per share tender made in 2008. Silver Lake, working with Microsoft Corp.venture...
How appropriate that in a month that a Google Doodle featured Halley's Comet that Google would follow up by celebrating Mark Twain's 176th birthday with a panoramic Doodle depicting one of the most famous characters he created, Tom Sawyer.
If you've received an email offering you access to the Google Wallet for Business beta recently, beware: it's a phishing attempt to get your credit card information. Like most of these scams, the email looks like official; in this case, an email...
You may have received a pile of Groupon offers yesterday, but one sale the company did not want you to see was their stock 50 percent off their first day highs and well below the initial IPO price of $20.
The Silver Lake consortium is one of a number of parties bidding for a minority stake in Yahoo, but their offer has a number of factors that makes them a major contender. The consortium includes Microsoft - that already is working with Yahoo - and...
Today, Egyptians began voting in the first election since dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted. To mark the occasion, Google Egypt posted a Doodle with a design similar to logos Google has posted in other countries to draw attention to elections.
In what is being called the third installment of their "off-season spring cleaning series", Google announced more products are being terminated or integrated in to other products. Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly...
Ecommerce sites face their busiest days at the end of the week, so before we break for turkey, it's a smart idea to go through a basic checklist to make sure you're ready. Have you added changes to homepage announcing your specials?
Google last week tweeted another of their algorithm Weather Reports. While it's supposed to only affect less than 1 percent of searches, the results could be more impactful than that small number suggests.
An Australian doctor has brought a defamation suit against Google over Ripoff Report listings claiming she stalked psychics, the Australian reported. Dr Janice Duffy, a former senior South Australian Health Department researcher, told the newspaper...
With the demise of Yahoo Site Explorer today, SEOs and online marketers will be wondering where to go now for free access to the invaluable information it provided over the past 6 years. The companies that sell this information as part of their...
The battle between promoters of HTML5 and Flash is trying to coattail on the current popularity of the Occupy movement with two websites: OccupyFlash.org and its counter OccupyHTML.org. OccupyFlash was the first site and claims that Flash "makes...
