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  1. How to Avoid PR Disaster With a Social Media Policy

    Top 10 Questions Your Social Media Policy Should Answer What are the goals of your social media policy? Zen of a Social Media Policy How does your social media policy measure up? To mitigate that risk, develop a company-wide policy that clearly...

  2. Matt Cutts: Merchant Quality to Affect Google Search Rankings

    Features that will help you determine if a website is a true merchant include: a “view your shopping cart” link that stays on the same site.a shopping cart that updates when you add items to it.a return policy with a physical address.a shipping...

  3. SEMPO Appeals to FTC for Updated Search Engine Disclosure Guidelines

    In addition, SEMPO has offered “valuable insight and background to the Consumer Protection Bureau, both on the topic of a search engine guideline compliance review, and in presenting considerations for the transparency policy development process...

  4. 7 Stages of “Do Not Track” Grief: A Survival Guide for Analysts & Online Marketers

    Be sure to update your privacy policy and try to be completely transparent without sacrificing competitive advantage. Various legislative committees and governing bodies are interested in protecting the public’s privacy because fraud costs billions...

  5. Google Sued by Germany’s Former First Lady for Prostitution-Related Search Suggestions

    Kent Walker, a Google lawyer, wrote in a 2010 statement on the Google Public Policy blog, “.along with this new wave of creators come some bad apples who use the Internet to infringe copyright. Google is facing another lawsuit over their...

  6. Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests

    These requests aren’t always from the usual suspects either; Western democracies not typically associated with censorship are participating in the requested removal of political content, says Google’s Senior Policy Analyst, Dorothy Chou.

  7. Obama Beats Romney Early in Digital Marketing Race

    As much as we’d all like to believe that we vote based solely on our principles and a careful weighing of candidates’ policy positions, media and marketing messages cast enormous influence on the defining narratives of an election and can...

  8. GOP Goes Google for 2012 Republican National Convention

    By incorporating our tools and technology, we are offering a behind the scenes look at the convention process and allowing voters, delegates and viewers to shape the conversation,” said Susan Molinari, Google’s recently hired Vice President of...

  9. SEO Services Buyer’s Guide: Key Components of a Work Agreement

    A dispute resolution policy can help prevent problems from spiraling out of control and degenerating into a public argument that can harm both parties (especially true in the online world). They are good for that, it’s true.

  10. Last Ditch Efforts to Halt New Google Privacy Policy

    Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being implemented this Thursday, March 1. French regulators call the policy unlawful while privacy group EPIC continues its fight.