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How to Know if You’re Censoring the Internet (This One’s for You, China)
As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States’ accusations of Internet censorship are baseless. Perhaps, China just needs a…
China: Censorship Accusations are Groundless
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against Chinese Internet censorship at a speech she gave at The Newseum in Washington,…
Pass the popcorn; YouTube is launching movie rentals
A couple of days ago, YouTube announced that it was going to begin testing movie rentals starting today with movies from the Sundance Film…
New Twitter Recommendation Feature Helps You Find A-List Tweeple
Twitter has released a new recommendation feature in which you can find people to follow according to topic. The Tweeple listed are A-listers with…
YouTube Unveils New Look for Video Pages; Begins Supporting HTML5
YouTube has given a makeover to the individual video pages that reside on their site. The new look is available to those who opt-in…
Apple/Google Turf Battle Rages On: Mobile Search on the Block
Bing could replace Google as the default iPhone search engine. What impact might this have on mobile local search?
Virtual Pageviews — Ways to Measure so Much More With Analytics
Virtual pageviews and more detailed event tracking now allows Web site owners to get granular and create data to use when making design, marketing,…
GoDaddy Superbowl Ads Under Attack From Morality in Media
It is Superbowl time again soon (go Jets) and in what seems to be the viral marketing method of GoDaddy, their ads are under…
Google Revenue Up 17% in Q4 2009
Google has released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the news is positive. Revenue for the Mountain View, CA -based company…
Baidu Accuses U.S. Domain Name Registry of Hacking
Chinese search engine Baidu was down for a bit last week, and they’re blaming it on blocked access due to hackers. Users were instead…
I’ll take mine heavy on the paid and hold the organic please.
I was moderating a keynote discussion session at SES Berlin in November of last year. I talked to Lars Lehne, Country Director for Google,…
Google AdWords Enables Mobile Device and Carrier Targeting, Plus Special Link for Mobile Apps
If search ads for mobile search on full internet browsers is part of your overall search campaign, you’ll be glad to know that Google…
Put your PPC on a Diet
Small changes over time make the difference, not a bunch of big changes all at once. If you're looking for long-term, sustained paid search…
Google Earth Updates Winter Olympics Venue Imagery
The Google Boulder office has been working hard on developing models of venues for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver this February. Now, you…
Google Offers Fun Test Of Your Webmaster Skills
Google’s Webmaster Central blog announced a test for webmasters to see how good their knowledge of how Google interacts with their websites. The quiz…
Dear Avinash: Kaushik answers search, SEO metrics, and analytics questions
Back on January 12, 2010, Avinash Kaushik, co-founder of Market Motive Inc. and best-selling author of Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, was the…
Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley on YouTube, too
By now, everyone knows that Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in yesterday’s special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S.…
Special deal from our colleagues at Online Marketing Summit.
SES and ClickZ have a strong business relationship with the organizers of the Online Marketing Summit (OMS). This is why you’ll see an OMS…
Click Fraud Increases in Q4 2009
Both Anchor Intelligence and Click Forensics released their quarterly click fraud reports this week. Each report showed the click fraud rate rising in the…
44% of Visitors to Google News Just Scan Headlines
Outsell has released data showing the continuing demise of print newspapers in favor of digital technology. They surveyed 2,787 US news consumers to get…