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Industry

New Google Privacy Policy Combines User Data From All Google Services

A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March. The big change: Google clearly states that it will combine information from…

By Danny Goodwin · 26 Jan 2012

SEO

Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic

There is nothing worse for a webmaster/site owner than to wake up one day and find Google Armageddon has taken out all…

By David Harry · 25 Jan 2012

PPC

3 Ways Local Small Businesses Can Use PPC

Local small businesses rarely use Google AdWords to its full potential. AdWords can be a powerful tool to generate instant traffic. You…

By Howard Jacobson · 25 Jan 2012

Analytics

Google Analytics Alternatives: Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Solutions

While Google Analytics has its own set of merits, there are drawbacks. Many people don’t want to continue to feed Google more…

By Thom Craver · 25 Jan 2012

Social

Why Google+ Now Allows Pseudonyms, But Still Requires Real Names

Google’s announcement that they will allow pseudonyms still requires identity verification. Q. Why is anyone surprised that a certified identity provider needs…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Jan 2012

Video

YouTube Now Serving 4 Billion Videos Daily

Ready for some more crazy YouTube stats? In the next minute, 60 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube, and by…

By Danny Goodwin · 24 Jan 2012

Industry

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…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Jan 2012

Mobile

Google AdMob: A Performance Marketer’s Opinion

Unless your products are extremely broad appeal or you're selling mobile download bale goods (e.g., apps, books, music or video), let me…

By Marc Poirier · 24 Jan 2012

Industry

Google Upgrades Punctuation Search Results

Google has updated its search results for queries involving punctuation marks and symbols. Though not perfect, searching for the symbol equivalent of…

By Danny Goodwin · 23 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