Google posted a 31 percent increase in year-over-year revenue for the first quarter of 2013. Sites made over $8 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2013. Motorola, Google's major acquisition from last year, failed to make much of a dent...
Across the six verticals studied, AdGooroo found 25,056 paid search advertisers on YBN receiving at least one first SERP ad impression, compared to 39,006 advertisers active on AdWords during the quarter.
CPC rates saw a general increase cross the board during the last quarter. Amazon Product Ads had the best conversion rates for Q4 2012, notably even beating its own numbers for the previous quarter. Q3 2012 marked Google Shopping first recorded...
Well, the social network's fourth quarter results show that around 23 percent of its total fourth quarter advertising revenue ($305 million) came from mobile. Facebook reported Q4 revenues of $1.59 billion, up from the year ago quarter of $1.13...
The stock has lost more than a quarter of its value in the following weeks. Investors seemed pleased despite Facebook’s $59 million loss, compared to a $227 million profit for the same quarter in 2011, before they became a public company.
For example, in the first three months you might map out to produce 40 pieces of content total that is divided into blog posts and social media messages and set a goal for the 2nd quarter to increase by 25 percent.
Thirty-five percent of retailers’ full year spend on paid search in 2011 was concentrated in the fourth quarter, with the top 50 largest retailers spending closer to 45 percent of their annual budget for search in those last three months...
Tablet devices accounted for 52.2 percent of the total mobile search advertising budget for the quarter, which is a decrease compared to last quarter (60 percent). Mobile search spend increased 17 percent over the previous quarter and for the first...
Advertising revenue represented 86 percent of total revenue and a 36 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Investors seemed pleased despite Facebook’s $59 million loss, compared to a $227 million profit for the same quarter in 2011...
Google’s costs-per-click fell for the fourth quarter straight, for a 15 percent loss YoY, as searchers continue to move to mobile, but advertisers refuse to pay desktop rates. Google CEO Larry Page shared select bits of his vision for Google in the...
As we reported last quarter, this was to be the first reporting period with Motorola completely factored in. The reported Q3 2012 $14.10 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 45 percent increase over the same quarter last year.
Their recent analysis of "tens of millions" of consumer-generated search engine results pages from the last quarter of 2011 highlights a few interesting insights for marketers. In search marketing, the difference between a first and second place...
English is still the most commonly used language online but it still represents only just over a quarter of total usage. According to Google mobile searches quadrupled in the U.S.last year. The first week of the games saw a tenfold increase in...
However, international clicks can cost a quarter as much as the USA or less, so the bot percentage may be somewhere between acceptable and better than America net. They’re the ones who get freaked out when it looks they’ve been ripped off by a...
The second quarter of 2012 looked a lot better than the first for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Facebook as a direct selling tool. The first quarter of this year saw that rise to 17.7 percent and settle at its current high of 22.1...
The report comes a week after the firm reported its first public earnings, which revealed a loss of $157 million for the quarter, sending its share price plummeting by almost 10 percent to its lowest price since it hit the market in May.
According to Facebook, revenue from advertising was $992 million, representing 84 percent of total revenue and a 28 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Payments and other fees revenue for the second quarter was $192 million.
The Q2 2012 $12.21 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 35 percent increase over the same quarter last year, when Motorola is factored in. Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $5.96 billion, representing 54...
However, more than a quarter of images (28 percent) with internal links we analyzed did not have alt text. Given the important but less-talked-about significance of internal links for ranking, and based on feedback after last month’s article asking...
The report also shows that fourth quarter revenue for 2011 totaled $9 billion, a 20 percent year-over-year increase compared to $7.4 billion in 2010. Paid search remained the dominant ad revenue driver in 2011, accounting for $14.8 billion of the...
