Jennifer Slegg
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Jennifer Slegg

2013

Industry

Search Revenues Hit $8.7 Billion in First Half of 2013

The first half of 2013 was a record high for online advertising revenues, coming in at $20.1 billion, according to…

15 Oct 2013

Social

Pinterest Promoted Pins Debut

When you next log into Pinterest, you could see promoted pins in your pin stream. Pinterest announced that it has…

11 Oct 2013

Local

Google Doesn’t Consider Geolocation Techniques Spam

If you serve country-specific content to end users, you won't be penalized as long as you make sure that what…

10 Oct 2013

SEO

Is Google Getting Ready to Retire PageRank?

If you eagerly watch your PageRank bar to check for any tiny little fluctuation, you've probably noticed that it hardly…

10 Oct 2013

Industry

Validity of Bing It On Challenge Results Put Bing on Defense

According to Bing, in blind testing, users prefer Bing over Google. But a new survey has ignited a huge debate…

08 Oct 2013

Social

Instagram Ads Are Coming to Photo Stream

Instagram promises it will begin with only occasional ads. It will initially be U.S. only with a limited number of…

04 Oct 2013

Industry

Google Acquires Flutter, Creator of Hand Gesture Recognition Technology

Google has made another technology startup acquisition, with the very interesting acquisition of Flutter, a company that has created gesture…

03 Oct 2013

Social

Facebook Graph Search Now Lets You Search for Posts, Status Updates, Check-ins, Comments

Facebook's Graph Search has been updated to allow people to search in greater depth on Facebook. The new Graph Search…

03 Oct 2013

Local

Google Gives Advice on How to Expand Your Website to More Languages

Considering expansion into different countries and languages? Google's Maile Ohye offers some great advice and best practices for expanding into…

02 Oct 2013

SEO

Matt Cutts: You Don’t Have to Nofollow Internal Links

A recent Google webmaster help video from Google's Matt Cutts brings up an interesting question: should a webmaster nofollow internal…

02 Oct 2013