In a move designed to "dramatically streamline" the user experience, Google Analytics announced a redesign of the administration panel. According to the Google Analytics team: Google's aim is for a more simplified navigation area so that you can...
At Google I/O 2013, huge changes to the user experience of Maps were announced. Google Maps (and its Yelp-like counterpart, Google+ Local) have undergone significant changes since they were first launched in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries is now live. In addition, just as site speed has played a part in Google’s web search ranking algorithm since 2010, you can expect...
Last week, Google announced the launch of a specific API for Content Experiments. Google Analytics revamped Content Experiments last summer. The new content experiments API allows developers to pick and choose from all the features available within...
Using Google Analytics to Track Visitors from Pinterest Even though Pinterest can't yet compete with Facebook, it is growing exponentially and in three short years is now one of the top six largest social media networks, alongside Twitter, LinkedIn...
At the recent Google I/O conference, several new categories were announced, including music, video games, books, TV episodes, public transportation, and research cards – a custom category based on specific niche topics you've shown interest in by...
Comparatively, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and the majority of other services that allow single sign-in are social sharing based. Amazon has announced a new sign-in service, Login with Amazon. As an ecommerce driven company, this is an interesting...
Yahoo announced its brand new look today – one that includes a Google-like navigation bar, and search results that appear higher on the page and seem to load faster. Taking some inspiration from Google, Yahoo's search results have gotten a makeover.
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.
Adult App Store Mikandi released the first pornographic app for Google Glass on Monday and it was promptly banned just hours after launch. Google moved swiftly to get rid of the app. Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography.
You can't help but think this sounds a lot like the integrated Google search app for Android 4 devices. Taking cues from the Bing for iPad search app and borrowing from the tiled, "Metro" theme of Windows 8, Bing announced they would take search...
Last week, the Google Analytics team announced a new, more streamlined way to measure your goals. If you're a website owner who tracks visitors' actions using Google Analytics, you're likely using goals.
The tool will currently ping both Bing and Google whenever the sitemaps are updated. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta. Bing has been busy in recent days. Bing Ads advertisers have a new resource with the...
The explanation provided by Google in this blog post specifically calls out altering your bid for the top of the page or climbing onto the first page of results. You might end up seeing Google continuously raise your bid into the top position to...
This is a far cry from the rumored $4 billion Google was willing to spend on Hulu back in 2011. With Google unlikely to let go of Youtube any time soon and Netflix doing very well for itself, Hulu is perhaps the only chance to get a significant...
Google also announced another feature that allows users to visualize Hot Searches, which basically covers typed queries in a colorful wrapper. Google has launched Top Charts, allowing users to visualize and share the most-searched people, places...
Google, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property in April 2013 with 154.6 million unique viewers in the U.S. Nearly 39 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google sites...
What about the other changes Google announced are coming this summer (which I will just term, the "no one is home" penalties for lack of a better term)? Content marketing has been around since SEO on Google has been called SEO.
When Google announced Enhanced Campaigns they said that mobile device bids would now be controlled by a multiplier on the base bid. Google Display Network The Google Display Network (GDN) has its own version.
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the...
