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Valentine’s Day 2012 Searches: Gifts.com, Yelp Win Big [Infographic]

In anticipation of Valentine's Day, Gifts.com appeared in the top five search results for 60 percent of non-geographic “gifts” keywords during January; RedEnvelope.com placed a distant second, with…

By Miranda Miller · 14 Feb 2012

SEO

Wikipedia Appears on Page 1 of Google for 99% of Searches [Study]

Google loves Wikipedia. Everyone knows it, and many aren’t that happy about it, especially when some of their poorly written content outranks…

By Danny Goodwin · 13 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Encrypted Search, Gmail, YouTube, Blocked in Iran

Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Videos, among…

By Danny Goodwin · 13 Feb 2012

SEO

Basic SEO Troubleshooting With XML Sitemaps

A quick overview of sitemap guidelines and limitations on Google and Bing and some sitemap optimization tips. Also learn a technique that…

By Ben Goodsell · 13 Feb 2012

Video

Richard Petty Driving Experience Revs Up Fan Engagement 700% on YouTube

Working closely with Google, the Richard Petty Driving Experience team implemented a “hugely successful” YouTube TrueView in-stream ad promotion that raised viewership…

By Greg Jarboe · 13 Feb 2012

Content

Power Guest Posting for SEO

Providing great content to authoritative people who are searching for it is a great way to build relationships with important people. This…

By Eric Enge · 12 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Readying Google Drive, Dropbox-Like Cloud Storage

Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow…

By Khidr Suleman · 11 Feb 2012

Industry

Yahoo Search Engine Market Share Slips in January 2012

A month after Bing surpassed Yahoo to became the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., Yahoo’s search share continued to decline…

By Danny Goodwin · 10 Feb 2012

Industry

Craig Silverstein, Larry & Sergey’s First Hire, Quits Google

Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who…

By Danny Goodwin · 10 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Retires Drop-Down Menu, Black Navigation Bar Returns

Google’s drop-down menu, which was introduced in late November as part of the “next stage” of its massive redesign, is history. Google…

By Danny Goodwin · 10 Feb 2012

Industry

Reputation Management and Social Monitoring Made Easy

Why spend money on monitoring and defending a brand when you can spend money promoting a brand? Let me introduce you to…

By Gary Adam Shannon · 10 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Users Dislike Personalized Search Results [Survey]

Should Google’s search results be personalized based on past searches and information from social networking sites? Forty-five percent of respondents to a…

By Danny Goodwin · 10 Feb 2012

PPC

adCenter Increases Ad Text Limit to 71; Adds Budget Overview, Mobile Targeting

To simplify importing ads for AdWords to adCenter and align with industry standards, adCenter has changed the allotted character count in ad…

By John Rampton · 09 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Screenwise Pays People to Search the Web With Chrome

A new Google project called Screenwise is offering web surfers the chance to get paid to surf the web and help "make…

By John Rampton · 09 Feb 2012

Mobile

DOJ to Approve Google’s Motorola Acquisition

Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility could soon be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ,) sources told the Wall Street…

By Shaun Nichols · 09 Feb 2012

SEO

New Signals to Search Engines Revisited

Search engines have evolved from primitive crawling technology and now have a very powerful combination of signals. This downloadable PDF “thought paper”…

By Mike Grehan · 09 Feb 2012

Social

Online Newsrooms: A Necessity for Search and Social Content Strategy

Think content. Think fresh content. Think Google loves content. Think social shares of content. Now when news breaks in a tweet and…

By Lisa Buyer · 09 Feb 2012

Social

Don’t Be A Wallflower! 3 Fundamentals Of Data Driven Community Outreach

Many (even most) corporate community managers are relatively passive, waiting for users to come to them. However there is a real power…

By Marty Weintraub · 09 Feb 2012

SEO

How to Use Government Data for Link Development

You can use data found on government websites to create compelling linkable material. This freely available material, in conjunction with your own…

By Justilien Gaspard · 09 Feb 2012

Industry

RIAA President: Google ‘Misused Its Power’ by Protesting SOPA

Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo and encouraged its millions of users base to…

By Danny Goodwin · 08 Feb 2012

Industry

Privacy Group Sues FTC to Stop New Google Privacy Policy

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy…

By Danny Goodwin · 08 Feb 2012

Mobile

Google Debuts Chrome for Android

The mobile version of Chrome runs on smartphones or tablets with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or above. Although Chrome for Android…

By Search Engine Watch · 08 Feb 2012

PPC

2 Non-Obvious PPC Split Tests

Simple PPC split testing can provide market insights that allow you to connect deeply and powerfully with your prospects. All that’s required…

By Howard Jacobson · 08 Feb 2012

Mobile

How to Take Advantage of Apple’s Rise to Mobile Market Dominance

Apple is the king of mobile. With an expanding market share, Apple is poised to break records yet again in 2012; though…

By Garry Przyklenk · 08 Feb 2012

Industry

Solve for X: Google’s Answer to All World Problems

Google believes that we can solve some of the world's greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be…

By John Rampton · 07 Feb 2012

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