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Google Outage: Web Traffic Dips 40% During 5 Minute Blackout

Global Internet traffic dipped by 40 percent when Google experienced a complete blackout, web analytics firms have claimed. All of Google's services including Search, Gmail and Youtube went…

By Lee Bell · 19 Aug 2013

Development

4 Ways to Find Out Why Your Website Traffic Died After a Relaunch

If done improperly, a site redesign, relaunch, or update can have disastrous consequences. What has gone wrong? Why are you experiencing a…

By Josh Mccoy · 19 Aug 2013

SEO

How Long Should You Wait Before Submitting a Reconsideration Request?

A website is in trouble with Google for unnatural links. After identifying and removing spammy links, and disavowing those that couldn't be…

By Eric Ward · 19 Aug 2013

Industry

Google’s Search Market Share Shoots Back to 67%

Google is once again gathering more search market share and remains the uncontested top search engine in the U.S. In July comScore…

By Jessica Lee · 16 Aug 2013

Industry

Google Search Now More Personal: Ask Google About Your Travel, Purchases, Plans, Photos

Using Google Voice search, you can ask Google questions such as “Is my flight on time?” or “what are my plans for…

By Jennifer Slegg · 16 Aug 2013

Development

5 New Website Vulnerabilities Straight from Black Hat & DEF CON

Protecting your online presence keeps getting harder. Here's what to do to protect your site from exploits due to advertising security holes,…

By Kristine Schachinger · 16 Aug 2013

Industry

Google AdWords Keyword Planner vs. Keyword Tool: SEO & PPC Feature Comparison

With the approaching consolidation of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator into the Keyword Planner, SEO and PPC professionals should become…

By Andre Alpar · 16 Aug 2013

Content

How to Find Free Images With Google’s Advanced Image Search

There are several benefits to complementing your blog posts with a little visual appeal, but photos must make sense and not infringe…

By Matt Morgan · 16 Aug 2013

PPC

How to Create YouTube Video Ad Campaigns for Direct Marketing

By understanding each YouTube video ad campaign type, how these ad units function, and understanding proper campaign segmentation, direct marketers can leverage…

By John Lee · 15 Aug 2013

Video

Oklahoma Uses YouTube TrueView Ads to Boost Tourism for a Song [Case Study]

Oklahoma's Tourism and Recreation Department, using only 20 percent of its marketing budget on YouTube TrueView ads, increased website visits by 486…

By Greg Jarboe · 14 Aug 2013

Local

Google Maps ‘Doctor Who’ Easter Egg Lets You Explore TARDIS

If you're a big fan of "Doctor Who", then you'll love the new Google Maps Easter egg. When you go to the…

By Jennifer Slegg · 14 Aug 2013

SEO

How and When to Use 301 Redirects vs. Canonical

This post will focus on the two main methods of managing the redirection of a single page on your website – the…

By Brad Miller · 14 Aug 2013

Content

3 Ways to Find Great Link Building Opportunities in Boring Industries

Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Any industry, no matter how boring on the surface, has interesting stories just waiting…

By Ken Mcgaffin · 14 Aug 2013

SEO

The 5 Stages of Google Update Grief

Someone going through a difficult time, such as rebuilding after a major Google update, will go through a basic, universal grieving process…

By Jennifer Van Iderstyne · 14 Aug 2013

Industry

The United States of Google: Mapping Google Usage by State

A new study by online advertising company Chitika maps Google search engine usage by state and its correlation to variables like median…

By Jessica Lee · 13 Aug 2013

Social

Social Ratings, Reviews, and the Power of Groupthink [Study]

The concept of “groupthink” is alive and well in social situations and rating sites online, according to the findings in a new…

By Jessica Lee · 13 Aug 2013

SEO

Matt Cutts Advises When to nofollow Widgets, Infographics

If you're creating infographics, or other pieces of embeddable code for things such as widgets, counters, and badges, how should you link…

By Jennifer Slegg · 13 Aug 2013

Analytics

3 Places to Source Data Beyond Google Analytics

Google Analytics provides invaluable tools that help us make sense of data. But multiple non-Google platforms provide opportunities to gain important insights.…

By Adria Saracino · 13 Aug 2013

SEO

Time for a New Definition of SEO

SEO in the digital marketing mix is here to stay. Standardizing a definition of SEO will help buyers better understand the importance…

By Krista Lariviere · 13 Aug 2013

PPC

Got 99 Problems? Missed Paid Search Opportunities Shouldn’t Be One

What does Jay Z's new album have to do with paid search? Two things: It brought light to how much songs can…

By Jason Tabeling · 13 Aug 2013

Content

Google’s Patrick Thomas Talks Controversial Content Ahead of SES San Francisco Keynote

Google has had sight of 60 trillion unique URLs, up from 30 trillion last year at this time. How can your content…

By Danny Goodwin · 12 Aug 2013

Industry

Google Doodle Honors Schrödinger’s Cat Creator Erwin Schrödinger

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Erwin Schrödinger, a Nobel Prize winning Austrian quantum physicist. He is most notably famous for…

By Jennifer Slegg · 12 Aug 2013

SEO

Vince: The Google Update We Should Be Talking About

Panda? Penguin? No. Understanding Google's Vince update – which gave more preference to "big brands" in Google’s search results – is perhaps…

By Mark Jackson · 12 Aug 2013

SEO

Small Business SEO Tactics: Risk vs. Security

SEO is currently in a "flight to quality". This is what most columnists and bloggers mean by the "new" SEO. Sure, it's…

By Adam Stetzer · 12 Aug 2013

SEO

A Brief History of Google Search, as Demonstrated by Stephen Colbert

As Google continues its worldwide dominance of search, we take a quick glance at the major events since a couple of kids…

By Simon Heseltine · 12 Aug 2013

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