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Million Short Search Engine Serves Up Nothing But Obscure Results
Ever wanted to find really random sites or articles, but when you search in Google all you get are results from the most popular…
Google Penguin Update: Impact of Anchor Text Diversity & Link Relevancy
Google’s Penguin Update, much like Panda last year, has angered SEOs and webmasters, most of whom say they have played by Google’s rules. Anchor…
Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google+ Discussion in U.S.
Three new features are coming to Google News in the U.S. Google is increasing the size of images on its main page, adding a…
Facebook Offers Rolls Out to Local U.S. Businesses
Facebook is rolling out its Offers marketing platform to local businesses in the U.S.. Before, Offers - which competes with Google's platform by the…
Facebook Privacy Controls Ignored by 13 Million Users [Report]
A new study indicates that 13 million Facebook users in the U.S. alone do not use or are unaware of the social network's privacy…
LinkedIn to Buy SlideShare for $120 Million
Professional social network LinkedIn is to acquire business presentation-sharing site SlideShare, an online storage website for users to share business presentations, for $118.8 million,…
Yahoo CEO Attacked for Embellishing Resume
Yahoo's leadership dramas refuse to die down. Recently appointed chief executive Scott Thompson may have embellished his resume by claiming to hold a degree…
May the Fourth Be With You; SEW’s Favorite Star Wars Parodies
Why does the Star Wars theme resonate so much with our industry? Try and deny it, young SEO. George Lucas is your father. Search…
Wil Wheaton Slams Google for Incessantly Pushing Google+
Wil Wheaton may no longer be the “mortal enemy” of fictional character Sheldon Cooper on the CBS TV Show "The Big Bang Theory", but…
Hit by Google Penguin? An In-House SEO Crisis Management Plan
What can in-house SEOs do if/when Google’s algorithm updates, such as Penguin, hit your website hard? Besides avoiding SEO shortcuts to get your site…
Too Little SEO? Some Characteristics of an Under Optimized Website
While SEOs and webmasters this side of China are busy analyzing what might constitute over-optimization and how to recover from Google Penguin, let's examine…
Percollate: Making Sense of Social Influence Scores [Review]
Despite some rough edges, Percollate (part social media monitoring tool, part meta-search for social scores) has value for any product manager, link builder or…
Greasing the Purchase Funnel With Consumer Research
Marketers and researchers who seek to act on a variety of digital marketing objectives should ask these types of questions via consumer surveys to…
Keith Haring Art Exhibited in Google Doodle
What began with chalk drawings on unused advertising panels in New York City subways ended with international superstardom and a life cut prematurely short,…
Yahoo Launches Marketing Dashboard for SMBs
Yahoo Small Business hopes to grow by offering small businesses an integrated marketing dashboard to manage and expand their digital marketing efforts. The dashboard…
On Foursquare, $10 Buys Instant Verification For Your Business
Foursquare will charge businesses a fee of $10 to instantly verify their page online. In the past, restaurants, bars, and shops have had to…
17 Ways SMBs Can Survive the Google Penguin Update Effect
"Google drives all my traffic, now I'm screwed!” It’s a familiar refrain among small- to medium-sized businesses in the wake of Google Penguin. Learn…
5 Invaluable (And Free!) Tools Every Online Marketer Should Get to Know
We live in a world with no shortage of tools. We’ve assembled a list of some of our in-shop favorites tools, ranging from streamlined…
Baidu Paid & Organic Search Starter Guide
How do start search marketing on Baidu? Here are some tips that provide insights into how to deal with Baidu on the paid search…
Is F-commerce a Flop? Why Retailers Aren’t Sold on Facebook
F-commerce seems on the decline among big brands, as major retailers forego selling through Facebook and redirect budget to their own e-commerce sites. Is…