Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S.government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in the PRISM scandal. Since news of PRISM broke earlier this month, tech giants such as...
In April 2013, Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 154.6 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 62.7 million, VEVO with 52.9 million, NDN with 45.3 million...
Google's Penguin/Panda algorithm changes combined with the sheer volume of content being produced, makes PR a much larger component to effective SEO. Google wants quality content that is highly vetted.
Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its search market share to 66.7 percent, up from...
And, the "goals" that had been set up in Google Analytics did little to provide actionable information to really know what's going on, or whether things were "good". As I'm sitting here, I am awaiting a response from a client on renewal of their...
The quote involves Google Glass, the latest hot item from Google X: Parviz wants the world to see Glass in the context of Google X: It’s aimed at making access to knowledge so fast and seamless that it “fundamentally changes the meaning of knowing...
To make it a little easier, pull the number of iOS Google Organic visits from analytics, then simply apply these numbers to the formula given.iOSA = Actual iOS Google Organic Traffic: This is unknown and will be the end result after the completing...
Google has reached an agreement to buy navigation app maker Waze in a deal believed to be valued upwards of $1 billion, beating rivals Facebook and Apple, which were also rumored to be mulling a bid for the startup.
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. Separately, Google is warning that if you have a bad mobile website, your search rankings will soon be hurting.
On the Google Display Network, all keywords are considered broad match only. Negative keywords work on the Google Display Network. According to Google, an exception to this is compound keywords: For example "baby spinach.
For the record, my favorite failure is Topeka, Kansas changing it's name to Google, Kansas in an attempt to get Fiber in their city. Egobait exists for one main purpose: to increase visibility (which will hopefully generate links).
Google makes it pretty clear that using the disavow tool is an act of last resort. John Mueller from Google has said that you don't need to use third-party (backlink) tools and that Google Webmaster Tools (alone) is fine.
Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search advertising with Google AdWords and the Yahoo Bing Network in 2012, according to AdGooroo data (disclosure: I work there) making retail the most robust category for paid search in terms of ad...
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst. For example, Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, etc.
Top Google Website Optimization Resources Have you ever entered a website while researching a product or service, only to be confronted with massive amounts of content on a poorly designed website? This probably resulted in not only a frustrating...
Placement targeting on the Google Display Network can be very powerful, allowing you to reach your target audience all across the web. You can use the following simple five-step plan to create a brand awareness campaign on the Google Display Network.
Ninety percent of daily media interactions are screen-based as sequential or simultaneous sessions on smartphones, laptop/PCs, tablets, and televisions; with the remaining 10 percent via radio, newspaper, or magazines according to Google: The New...
Google has launched a new nutrition search that provides accurate and up to date information on a wide variety of food and drinks. You can also query Google for other nutrition information such as how much protein, carbs, sodium and other...
Google's Penguin update grabbed the majority of online marketing headlines over the past two weeks with Matt Cutts, hyperbole, and fear motivating many SEO practitioners to expect the worst before the worst even materialized.
Before anyone hires you, they Google you (and Facebook you and Twitter you and Linkedin you, etc). So Google yourself first. Matt Cutts (Google, webspam) If you Google Kris Carr, the two personal branding phrases that jump out are "wellness...
