Thom Craver
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2012

Industry

Bing It On! Bing Goes Toe-to-Toe Against Google

A recent study conducted by Microsoft showed people prefer Bing search results nearly 2-to-1 over Google's results. According to the…

06 Sep 2012

SEO

Is Google Search Really Only 18.5% Organic Results?

Does the default "above the fold" area of a Google search result page contain only 18 percent “actual search results”?…

05 Sep 2012

Analytics

Top 5 Micro-Conversions You Should Measure

Micro-conversions are goals, just like the ones you're currently measuring. But micro-conversions typically help build relationships with your site visitors…

05 Sep 2012

Social

Bing Adds Facebook Photo Search

Remember that cool photo your friend shared on Facebook last week? Can't find all his pictures from last week's party?…

31 Aug 2012

Analytics

Bing Adds Percent Change Metrics to Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools now allows you to select a date range and then visually compare the results - and percent…

24 Aug 2012

Social

Bing Gets More Social, Adds Quora to Social Sidebar

If you are logged into Bing, you will begin to see answers to questions given by top contributors to the…

23 Aug 2012

Mobile

Bing Releases Windows 8 App

Windows 8 is set for an Oct. 26 release date, but Microsoft has already introduced its Bing for Windows 8…

21 Aug 2012

Analytics

How To Make Good Use of Big Data

Your web analytics data should account for visitors from each channel (online and offline), the cost of acquisition, sales, leads,…

09 Aug 2012

Social

Bing Adds Facebook Friend Tagging to Search

Bing has launched a new social search feature that lets you tag your Facebook friends. Bing’s goal is to make…

01 Aug 2012

Analytics

Google Improves Content Experiments in Analytics

Google Analytics users now have access to several helpful and time-saving improvements to the content experiments tool. You can now…

26 Jul 2012