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Top 10 High Impact Google AdWords Innovations to Watch Now

In the future world of Google AdWords, ads will contain dynamic features and ads will create themselves. Searchers can become more interactive with ads by watching video, getting…

By Lisa Raehsler · 03 Oct 2012

Industry

Google Birthday Doodle Gives Power to the Poople

By now, most Google users are accustomed to seeing Google celebrate the birthdays of famous artists, scientists, and holidays or events. Today,…

By Danny Goodwin · 27 Sep 2012

Development

Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool Gets New Name, Design, Languages

Google announced changes to the rich snippets testing tool late last week, including new languages and a new name, the Structured Data…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Sep 2012

Social

Facebook Adding Search History to Activity Log

Facebook has announced that it will be rolling out a personal search history record within the Activity Log over the coming weeks,…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Sep 2012

Social

Google’s Anatomy

CEO Larry Page referred to Google+ as the company’s “social spine” in an earnings call earlier this year. If Google+ is the…

By Jiyan Wei · 20 Sep 2012

Development

A Call To Search Engines to Reduce Dependence on Microformats

If websites that invest tens of millions of dollars per year in driving traffic cannot get simple semantic markups implemented correctly, how…

By Adam Dorfman · 20 Sep 2012

Local

Local Search Insights: What Are Consumers in Your Local Area Searching For?

Learn which business categories and verticals are most popular among mobile searchers, how mobile search compares to online for local searches, and…

By Miranda Miller · 18 Sep 2012

Social

Bing Tries to Make Search Sexy to College Women

Bing wanted to show young women that it's worth checking out, so when it threw down the gauntlet encouraging people to test…

By Kate Kaye · 12 Sep 2012

Industry

Google Sued by Germany’s Former First Lady for Prostitution-Related Search Suggestions

Germany’s Bettina Wulff is taking Google to court over suggestions she is a prostitute in Google autocomplete results. Google can remove piracy…

By Miranda Miller · 11 Sep 2012

Social

Tumblr: A Growing Search Acquisition Opportunity for Brands

Desktop unique visitors to Tumblr may be up 100% year over year, and mobile visitors to Tumblr may be up 50% since…

By Eli Goodman · 10 Sep 2012

Industry

Bing It On! Bing Goes Toe-to-Toe Against Google

A recent study conducted by Microsoft showed people prefer Bing search results nearly 2-to-1 over Google's results. According to the survey, even…

By Thom Craver · 06 Sep 2012

Mobile

New Baidu Mobile Browser Takes Aim at Google, Apple

The browser seems to take Google Chrome's approach to web apps and the ability to watch video without having to download external…

By Lawrence Latif · 05 Sep 2012

PPC

How to Create a Successful Global PPC Campaign

Traditional SEO through localization techniques can be slow to yield conversions. Pay-per-click campaigns can offer a quick and cost-effective way to break…

By Christian Arno · 31 Aug 2012

PPC

How to Make Call to Actions More Effective

CTAs tend to perform differently across verticals –there is not a one-size fits-all approach for selecting the highest performers. Keeping an eye…

By Thi Thumasathit · 30 Aug 2012

PPC

Eliminating Ambiguity in PPC

In PPC, the context is in the mind of the searcher. When we search for something, we know what we mean, but…

By Melissa Mackey · 28 Aug 2012

Industry

Google Fighting German Publishers Over Copyright

Google is firing back at German lawmakers, who are bowing to the demands of major publishers with draft legislation that would make…

By Miranda Miller · 24 Aug 2012

Analytics

Bing Adds Percent Change Metrics to Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools now allows you to select a date range and then visually compare the results - and percent change -…

By Thom Craver · 24 Aug 2012

SEO

Organic vs. Paid Search Results: Organic Wins 94% of Time

Search engine users overwhelmingly click on organic results on Google and Bing by a margin of 94 percent to 6 percent. That’s…

By Danny Goodwin · 23 Aug 2012

Social

PRWEb and PitchEngine: SEO Smart/SMO Sexy Newsmakers

While news consumption continues its shift to search engines and social media, content marketers using publishing and distribution platforms beyond the press…

By Lisa Buyer · 23 Aug 2012

Industry

Google Will Remain Opera’s Default Search Engine Through 2014

Opera will continue using Google as its default search engine for its mobile and desktop web browser through August 2014. The firms…

By Dave Neal · 22 Aug 2012

Content

4 Ways to Fatten Up Your Affiliate Site

Attention affiliates: the keyword-rich domain name + perfect anchor text links formula is officially outdated. Here's how affiliates can update and fatten…

By Jeff Slipko · 22 Aug 2012

SEO

Blekko SEO Tools Now Costs $99/Month

Blekko has withdrawn free access to their SEO tools, opting instead for a subscription model that will cost SEOs $99 per month.…

By Miranda Miller · 20 Aug 2012

Industry

Bing Grows Search Market Share, Google Repeats High, Yahoo Halts Slide

For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its…

By Danny Goodwin · 20 Aug 2012

PPC

6 Types of Retargeting Every Marketer Should Know

When it comes to retargeting, most marketers instantly think of search retargeting. But highly effective marketers explore other types of retargeting. Here…

By Noran El Shinnawy · 20 Aug 2012

SEO

Non-Content Based Link Opportunities Are Often Missed

What do you do when you can't create endless amounts of "great content" in your niche? Here are a few linking strategies…

By Eric Ward · 16 Aug 2012

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