New Labs Feature Brings Google Search Inside Gmail
Gmail Labs has rolled out yet another useful feature. This time, it’s bringing Google Search right smack into your Gmail account. From then on you...
Six Hurdles to Clear When Exercising Your Brand In-House
You’ve decided that it’s time to give your brand some exercise on the web. And doing this in-house is the best way to do it....
Google AdSense, Analytics Integration Now Available to All Publishers
Google AdSense has just made the AdSense-Analytics integration available to all publishers. This feature which was gradually rolled out to selected AdSense publishers the past...
10 Ways to Turn Google Calendar into an Effective Time Management & Productivity Tool
Google calendar is an awesome, multi-feature and easy-to-use productivity tool. Let’s see how we can make it even better: Google Calender Feature Enhances Go offline:...
Google Book Search Deal Investigated by Justice Department
The US Department of Justice has launched an inquiry into the deals that Google set up with authors and publishers with its Google Book Search...
An Interview with Luis Pereira, Founder of Stumpedia
Launched in February 2008, Stumpedia a human-powered search engine, was very well received in the blogosphere. It was reviewed by quite a few popular blogs...
10 Ways to Be a Great SEO
Most of us see the same tweets, read the same blogs and know the same case studies. We know to optimize titles and anchor text,...
4 Ways to Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google Search
Last week we published a cheat list of 50+ Google and Yahoo shortcuts. Today I am following up with a smaller but also useful list...
Live Search Adds Traffic Updates to 411 Service
Live Search in partnership with traffic provider INRIX has added live traffic reporting updates to Live Search 411. If you will recall, Live Search 411...
Low Hanging Fruit and PPC Keyword Opportunities
We could call it Target Market Proximity, ROI Proximity, or Persuasive Distance. How closely your offering fits the search query comes heavily into play in...
Google Launches Digg Style Social Voting Service : What’s Popular
If you can’t beat them (or don’t feel like putting out the cash to acquire them), then join them! Google has implemented a new Digg...
How Google Treats Punctuation
Using punctuation in Google search results is the reason for constant misunderstanding and rumors. Meaningful punctuation, like the “#” in C#, hyphens and apostrophes can...
“Pushed” SEO Case Studies – Does “Old-School” SEO Still Work?
Google gets smarter and less easy to trick,… or does it only seem to? We’ve seen so many discussions that black-hat SEO is dying and...
Google Now Displays Links to Google Profiles
Recently, Google has started including link to individual Google profiles when users search for their names. Whereas before, Google search would only display 10 of...
How to SEO FireFox Right Click Context Menu
The FireFox context menu is one that appears when you right-click on any page in the browser window. By default, you are given the following...
Microsoft’s AdSense-Like PubCenter Goes into Public Beta
Microsoft is finally making its PubCenter ad publishing tool available to the public after some months of being under close private beta mode. Public beta...
Yes, You’re An Attack Site That Contains Malware, Now Here’s What To Do About It
It’s undeniable how powerful search traffic can be from Google. In addition, search marketers understand how important a specific listing can be in the SERPs....
Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder...
Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Going local is one of the most effective ways to build links and connections. I have already looked at a few ways to search for...
Yahoo Q1 Earnings Report, Not Looking Better
After Google reported on its financial conditions recently, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report how bad the company is doing in terms of its finances....
How Huge Sites like CNN.com & Digg Are Integrating Twitter
Twitter is the first social media site the rise and evolution of which I’ve witnessed from the very start. I mean I remember how Facebook...
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” I find this definition the best one because it can be...
Google Labs Launches Similar Images and Google News Timeline
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard about exciting innovations from Google Labs, but today two new products are being launched – Similar Images and Google...
KnowEm.com Launches : Check & Register Usernames on 100+ Social Media Sites
KnowEm.com (formerly CheckUserNames.com) launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of social media sites for social media identity theft, helping brands to secure...
Think-Tanks & Team Building In The PPC & Full Service Interactive Agency
One of the benefits of an active interactive agency department with multiple PPC experts is that multiple people bring new insights to the table. Both...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Demystifying Google Quality Score & the Click Thru Rate Factor
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about Quality Score (for search networks) lately. I usually don’t think much about quality score (QS) and over...
KIDO’Z Operating System for Kids : A No Kidding Business Proposition
If for the sake of argument, anyone could present you with a perfect model for targeted development and marketing, would you follow it or argue...
Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
Over-Used Marketing Tactics May Still Work Like a Charm
I find it amazing how some tactics just never stop working. It seems literally everyone is using them and everyone says they are sick and...