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Mac OS X Mountain Lion Preview Takes .06% Share of all Mac OS X Traffic
Mac OS X, the Unix-based operating system running on all Apple computers since 2002 is a major part of the brand image, carefully cultured by...
Google Art Project Expanded to Include Digital Tour of White House & New Artwork
Recently, at The Art Institute of Chicago, Google announced an expansion of the Google Art Project initiative. The project, which launched in early 2011, initially...
Web Engineers Aren’t Fooling About Hacker Preparation
If you opened the printed paper of the New York Times’ business section on Saturday, your vision was breached with copious news of Internet hacking. ...
An Event Worth Saving Up for: Tim Ash’ Conversion Conference Chicago
In a recent article, Prashant Puri pointed out the need for SEO folks to start wearing another hat: that of user experience designers and conversion...
What Customer Services Can Learn from SEO
The principles guiding search engine optimisation are sound business goals for all areas of a company, including customer service. From showing off how local you...
Status Update: Could Facebook Analytics Help STD Information Go Viral?
Although many Facebook users already have concerns regarding their privacy, the social network’s large user base combined with the vast amount of data available continues...
Preparing for Link Armageddon
Many SEO’s have used blog and syndications networks at one time or another to take advantage of the controllable anchor text and ease of building...
Senator Al Franken Claims Free Market Incapable of Regulating Facebook and Google
U.S. Democratic Senator Al Franken, who is the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, recently accused Google and Facebook of...
The Tracking Tool That Monitors Your Guest Blogging Campaign Effectiveness
Trying to keep track of backlinks is one of the most miserable elements of being a guest blogger. Relying on the blog owner not to...
Social Video Marketing: A New Competitive Advantage
What do businesses mean when they say they do “social video”? Is it just about creating an interesting video and distributing it on YouTube and...
Update: Google Drive to Launch with 5 GB of Free Storage
As Search Engine Journal recently reported, the long-awaited Google Drive is expected to finally launch in the next several weeks. While our recent article suggested...
Five Huge Opportunities for Generating Traffic and Conversions to ecommerce Websites
Around half of the online marketing clients that I work with at GPMD are ecommerce, so we spend a lot of time thinking of new...
An Opinion on the Google “Deindexing Blog Networks” News
Let me start by saying that I am not targeting any blog network in particular. This is just my over all opinion for those that...
Google Account Activity Feature: Cool Analytics or Creepy Data Collection Exposed?
Yesterday, Google launched a new Account Activity feature that provides Google users access to certain reports detailing their usage of Google’s various services. The new...
How to Maintain a Good Relationship with Your SEO and Web Marketing Company
Side note, I am talking about reputable SEO & Web marketing companies and consultants in this post. Do your homework. If your business is considering...
Matt Cutts Says Do Not Block Googlebot From Crawling JavaScript and CSS
Matt starts by saying that this video is a short “Public Service Announcement” so I think you should pay close attention to everything he says....
Supreme Court Ruling: Tweeting Not Allowed from High Court
While the US Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the high court has decided that live-tweeting oral arguments is a...
Google Ducked Ad Spending Before But the Future May Go Differently
Success suits those who attain it. Imagine what Google Inc views look like. It’s likely you’d get pretty comfortable peering from the top. Times must...
Weekly Webinars and Upcoming Events 3/28/12
This week Hubspot kicks of a four parts Facebook for Business series if you are interested, although the webinars are spread out over four months...
GDrive Update: Google Drive Expected to Launch in Early April
Although Search Engine Journal has been covering rumors related to the long-awaited Google Drive since 2006, it appears that Google’s elusive cloud-based storage solution is...
ROI Driven SEO – 3 Powerful Tips to Effectively Convert Your SEO Traffic
In the past, SEOs and user experience or conversion scientists didn’t play well together. What was good for SEO was not typically great for conversions....
Targeting the Right Search Engine for Your Market
Most businesses and organizations recognize SEO as a vital part of any online marketing strategy. The closer you are to the coveted Number 1 ranking,...
Is AdWords Express Hurting Your Small Business?
I love AdWords. I recommend it for many businesses. It’s a powerful tool, and can be very profitable. In the right situation, if an expert is...
Court Orders Google Autocomplete Changes: Japanese Man Defamed by Algorithm
In a recent cyber-defamation case, a Japanese court ordered Google to suspend autocomplete searches queries related to a specific man’s name. The plaintiff has argued...
How Much Money Are Your Meetings Costing You?
I learned a great lesson from a friend long ago. She said I need to be able to track each hour of my day and...
Keyword Not Provided Percentage to Grow: Firefox Adding Default Encryption for Google Searches
Recently, Mozilla announced that they are testing default encrypted Google searches on the Firefox browser. The change, which is expected to reach all Firefox users...
Let’s Be Negative: An Efficient Approach to Negatives…
…That Will Save You (lots of) Money and (even more) Time! The topic of negative keywords is one of those things you learn in SEM...
StatCounter Data: Google Chrome Gaining Market Share from Internet Explorer
According to the Irish analytics firm StatCounter, Google’s Chrome browser recently became the world’s most popular PC browser for one day. The StatCounter data, which...
The 3-3-3 Online Marketing Investment Model
A few weeks ago I was thinking about how companies seem to haphazardly invest in various aspects of online marketing. Some throw their entire budget...
Skimlinks Launches New API Suite to Simplify Content Monetization
Skimlinks, a leading content monetization platform, attracted substantial media last month related to Pinterest’s use of their product. Now, the innovative affiliate company has launched...