Given that simply signing up for a Google+ account doesn't say a lot about the extent to which authors recognize the growing influence of the network, next we looked to see: Of the authors who have a Google+ account, what percentage actually went...
In January this year in an interview with Bloomberg, Mayer talked about creating powerful personalization technologies through the “interest graph,” and says of dominating organizations such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, “there’s always...
Your first stop is Google AdWords. If you already have an AdWords account, then go to adwords.google.com/video to create a new video ad campaign. You won't pay Google unless the viewer watches your ads all the way through.
Also, if you haven't already, make sure to use Yoast's Google Analytics plugin. Use Google Libraries http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/use-google-libraries/ This very simple plugin that substitutes JavaScript libraries called locally on your own...
Or, Google could possibly extend images next to search results, similar to what is currently done for authors using authorship markup. That changes today as Google announced a new schema that supports company logos.
Google has confirmed earlier rumors that it was working on a streaming music service. The company yesterday announced Google Play Music All Access at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Google Play Music All Access offers its catalogue of...
Between now and the next few weeks, Google is rolling out ad group level mobile adjustments. A whirlwind of upgrades, information, and new features have been spilling out of Google AdWords of late. Google's new Display Planner has the look and feel...
A new Easter egg turns Google Images into a playable classic arcade game with a Google twist. Head to Google Images and type "Atari breakout" to fire up "Image Breakout" and start destroying rows of images by bouncing a ball into them.
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
While Google and Bing's tools are good for giving you an idea of what those engines see as your backlinks, you'll probably be better off using a more robust link tool for analysis, as they don't give you all the information that you might want.
But you can expect the next Penguin in the next few weeks, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has confirmed. There has been much speculation this week about some kind of major Google update. Google Penguin 2.0 was not the blame.
As the SEO rumor mill spun this week with murmurs of the arrival of yet another significant Google update, I began to think back on all this year's changes and then back to all the algorithm changes of years past and it started me thinking about...
Google+ is becoming the next big social network for business. Feeding content to Google+ from a YouTube channel or Pinterest board is a good idea. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and YouTube each offer B2B marketers value.
Even Google noted last year that 65 percent of online searches began on a smartphone. They're at restaurants, on buses, or even in stores – often with only seconds to check out (and not necessarily "checkout") a product out before moving on to the...
Before you get too cozy with a new Google product, you may want to mosey on over to Gwern.net, a site that published data attempting to predict Google product shutdowns. The data could be intriguing to the many marketers who've embraced a new...
Yahoo and Microsoft may have just extended their revenue-per-search guarantee, but Yahoo has apparently been trying to escape its 10-year search deal with Microsoft in order to join forces with Google, according to reports.
Additional Activity: Notifications of activity (Comments and subscriptions) from subscribed channels and Google+ activity . Similarly, it is likely that users engaged with comments and on Google+ will see content of that vain higher as well.
Just like Google's algorithm, some of the factors carry a lot of weight, while others might contribute, but aren't a driving force. To learn more about my findings, and how to track Graph Search keyword data in Google Analytics, you can read my...
Calling it the next wave of the Bing It On Challenge, Bing has tossed out a lot of data suggesting that people continue to be surprised when they realize they choose Bing over Google and how "impressed" they are with Bing's results.
With the increased popularity of Adobe TypeKit and Google Web Fonts, typographers are alive and well online today. Disciplines That Can Make or Break Your Next Web Design Good luck on your next design project!
