Everyone using Facebook's mobile app has a mechanism for researching and checking into a place called Local Search (on iOS) and Nearby (on Android). Users can also rate places they checked into by using Nearby in their Facebook mobile app (now...
Enhanced campaigns improvements for Google+ and mobile apps – Inside AdWordsEnhanced campaigns now automatically include social annotation (number of Google+ followers) "when they can improve ad performance", if you have recent "high-quality...
Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
The world of mobile apps is foreign territory to most online marketers. The SEO difference for mobile apps is that the page on which the app lives is what needs to be optimized, not the app itself. Mobile app creation forces marketers to understand...
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. The forward path of mobile search, increased...
He quoted the following statistics:
percent of media consumption is screen based
percent of media consumption is on smartphones (according toGoogle)
percent of Google searches are on mobile devices
percent of Bing searches are on mobile.
Advertisers will continue to be charged for a standard ad click every time a mobile user clicks on the forwarding phone number link or "Call" button (this is not a new charge), both of which can be seen in this screenshot:
MobileGoogle maps the query to Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel (the official name). Examples include; social platform profiles, YouTube videos, Google+ Local profiles, LinkedIn, owned images and / or news.
Instagram: Check out the new Instagram feed at official 2013 CES mobile app. As of Monday, the top 3 ads for mobile handsets over the past seven days were: Facebook: CES’s Google+ page for updates, information, exclusive content and hang-outs...
There's also a mobile app. Google Trends: There's so much to look at in Google Trends. Google Adwords' Keyword Tool is fantastic for giving you paid search data on keywords so you can find the most popular variations of your keywords.
Although not a major change that directly impacted the actual contents of the search results like many of the other changes rolled out in 2012, the shift reflects Google’s ongoing willingness to tinker with layout and user experience in the SERPs...
While there is certainly a great deal of cross-over for local and mobile search updates from Google, its work on improving image search results is notable. Image, mobile, and local search have received nearly equal algorithmic attention this year.
Google, has released a standalone YouTube app for Apple's iOS 6 around a month after Apple dropped the app from its mobile operating system. For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can't get enough YouTube on your mobile, we've got some...
The support is well worth it for non-profits, she said, noting that, “.if we invest in mobile-friendly, optimized changes, we’ve found that the payoff is exponential. So we're also introducing the Google for Nonprofits Marketplace, which connects...
Dai Pham and Adam Grunewald of Google's mobile ads marketing team said the figures underlined the new way in which users consume information. The use of mobile applications to keep track of the Olympics is also huge, with the chief information...
Official stats released in February showed the country has more than 1 billion mobile subscribers. China is now the world’s largest mobile market. This means Sina’s mobile website would be integrated into Baidu’s mobile web search services...
A new mobile browser beta feature called Handwrite allows mobile and tablet users to “write” their search query into the browser, rather than typing on the keyboard when they’re on the go. Software engineer Rui Ueyama wrote of the new setting in an...
At long last, the Google Analytics team has announced an officialGoogle Analytics mobile app. With their newly release app, you can now check your mobile app's analytics with the Google Analytics mobile app.
Recently, PCWorld had a mobile search face off between the search apps on Android, so it’s only fitting that the iPhone follows behind with one too – taking a look at features like multitasking, copy paste, voice search, making consistent phone...
When you connect to the Internet, your computer or mobile device is assigned an IP address. As mobile device adoption continues to expand rapidly, surpassing that of desktop usage by the end of 2013, it’s easy to see why this is a problem.