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Don’t Be Evil Tool: Focus on the User Builds a ‘More Relevant Google’

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social media networks have created a Chrome bookmarklet and website to reveal the bias in Google’s personalized search results. Their Focus on the…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Jan 2012

PPC

How Google Made $37.9 Billion in 2011

How does Google make money? A new analysis by Wordstream looks at who contributed the most to Google’s 2011 revenues, based on…

By Miranda Miller · 23 Jan 2012

Industry

Chinese New Year 2012: Google & Search Engines Welcome Year of the Dragon

January 23 is Chinese New Year, and heralds the Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon. The dragon is perceived as a…

By Adaline Lau · 23 Jan 2012

Social

Twitter to Acquire News Aggregator Summify

To boost its news management capabilities, Twitter will acquire Summify, a site which allows users to collect and summarize news items into…

By Shaun Nichols · 21 Jan 2012

Industry

Fifth Annual Doodle 4 Google Contest Kicks Off

Children in grades K-12 in the U.S. are invited to enter the fifth annual Google's Doodle 4 Google contest. The theme for…

By John Rampton · 21 Jan 2012

Industry

Google Slowed Crawl Rate to Aid Websites Protesting SOPA

Bing may have seen a bit of a boost in the fresh results department as a result of their slightly faster crawl…

By Miranda Miller · 20 Jan 2012

Mobile

New Mobile AdWords Targeting Options: WiFi & OS Version

Google AdWords advertisers can now target campaigns to mobile devices that have a high-speed WiFi connection. Advertisers can also now target specific…

By John Rampton · 20 Jan 2012

Industry

New Gmail, YouTube, Blogger Users Join Google+ by Default

In another move designed to get Google product users into their identity provider program, Google now requires all new Google account users,…

By Miranda Miller · 20 Jan 2012

SEO

Google’s New Page Layout Update Targets Sites With Too Many Ads

Is your website ad heavy? You may be in trouble. Google has announced a new algorithm tweak that will lower the rankings…

By Danny Goodwin · 20 Jan 2012

Local

Tools to Monitor Online Reputation Across Different Languages

The Internet has provided unprecedented opportunities and opened new markets for businesses, but misinformation and rumors can spread quickly, making reputation management…

By Christian Arno · 20 Jan 2012

Industry

Google Reports Q4 2011 Earnings, $10.58 Billion in Revenue; 90M Google+ Users

Google revenues topped $10 billion for the first time, but it wasn’t good enough for investors, who were let down by the…

By Danny Goodwin · 19 Jan 2012

Industry

Google Protest Adds 4.5 Million SOPA Opponents

By blacking out its logo and urging its users to “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!” Google yesterday added 4.5 million…

By Danny Goodwin · 19 Jan 2012

PPC

AdWords Search and Display Networks Will Soon Get Impression Share Metrics

Google will soon add impression share metrics for its search and display networks – a long awaited addition. Impression share is the…

By John Rampton · 19 Jan 2012

SEO

Search Engines & Opinions: Just How Trustworthy Are Search Results?

Search results on Google, Bing, and elsewhere hold immense power and are becoming extremely influential – especially when few question the accuracy…

By Peter Van Der Graaf · 19 Jan 2012

PPC

Why Search Marketers Must Use AdWords Ad Extensions

In the world of SEM, you have to juggle many methods to make sure a PPC account is running efficiently. Throwing Ad…

By Dave Ragals · 19 Jan 2012

Industry

SOPA Explained: Why It’s Bad for the Web & How to #StopSOPA

Rep. Lamar Smith promises to revive the SOPA bill in February. Here’s what has happened to date, who created the piracy problem,…

By Miranda Miller · 18 Jan 2012

Video

Average Viewer Watched 23.2 Hours of Online Video Content in December

According to comScore, 182 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in December 2011 for an average of 23.2 hours per…

By Greg Jarboe · 18 Jan 2012

Industry

Google’s Call to Action: Tell Congress to Vote NO on #SOPA

To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through…

By Danny Goodwin · 18 Jan 2012

Industry

5 Things That Haven’t Changed Online Since 1997 & 5 Lessons for Marketers

Things have evolved and changed, but the Internet is the same as it always was and is a society evolving. Facebook is…

By Sarah Carling · 18 Jan 2012

SEO

10 Elements of a Perfectly Optimized Page

One area that search engines have made a number of significant advancements in recent years is in how they evaluate content on…

By Gareth Owen · 18 Jan 2012

Industry

Google to Protest SOPA on Home Page Tomorrow

Millions of people visiting Google’s home page tomorrow will be greeted with a link demonstrating the company’s opposition to controversial anti-piracy bill…

By Danny Goodwin · 17 Jan 2012

PPC

Google Dominates Global Paid Search as 2011 Holiday Online Shopping Sets New Records

2011 saw the biggest retail e-commerce holiday spend in history, totalling $37.2 billion, with paid search budgets and CTRs up significantly over…

By Miranda Miller · 17 Jan 2012

PPC

How to Win the PPC Championship

In PPC, it’s great to grab one of the premium positions above the search results – but you can still score (i.e.…

By Melissa Mackey · 17 Jan 2012

Local

Newest International SEO Challenge: Hreflang & Canonical Tags

Google is telling us that we should use a regional subtag on each URL to help Google’s spider figure out what kind…

By Michael Bonfils · 17 Jan 2012

Analytics

5 Stages of Coping with Loss of Search Query Data

Unfortunately, there isn't a silver bullet that will compensate for losing a rising percentage of keyword data in analytics. There are several…

By Ben Goodsell · 16 Jan 2012

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