As SEOs, we’re constantly buried in news, opinions, theories, strategies, and anything and everything else related to Google. After awhile, it’s hard to even remember how a “normal” user interacts with the Big G. That’s why we ran a couple of surveys to get some perspective on how people feel about Google’s privacy policies, the… Read more »
Post Category: Search Engine Marketing
Bing Showing Insurance Ads For Link Building Searches?
While attempting to test out the new social Bing, I did a search for link building, and was surprised to see 3 ads for insurance amongst the PPC results: My first thought, was how in the world is that happening? (After further thought, I’m still wondering how in the world this happens.) I tried some… Read more »
Around the Web: The Buzz on Google+ Pages
While Facebook has been the social network stronghold for the better part of a decade, the new kid on the block has a competitive streak and it’s brought a new social media marketing platform to the table. I’m talking, of course, about the new Google+ Pages for business and brands. Released yesterday, this new feature… Read more »
AdCenter is pulling a “Google” by closing PPC Accounts
Much like Google Adwords, Microsoft AdCenter is now closing ppc accounts that they say violate their terms without giving the precise reason for closure of the account. More details in the email below: Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM Subject: SRXXXXXXXXXXXID – Microsoft Advertising Support To: @gmail.com Dear XXXX, Based on our investigation,… Read more »
Google Now Showing YouTube Video Thumbnails in Ads
As seen in the below screen shot taken this morning, Google Adwords appears to be experimenting with showing a thumbnail of an advertiser’s YouTube video along with their Adwords ad: It would not be surprising if ads with these YouTube thumbnails have higher click-through-rates which would be a win-win-win for Google, the user and advertiser.
Quick Thoughts on Seo v PPC
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) v. PPC (Pay-per-Click) – SEO is the process of engineering and marketing a website so that it will appear in the search engine free (organic) results. These results show on the left-center of the page. Pay-per-click (paid) listings appear on the right and sometimes at the top of the search results…. Read more »
Google Keyword Tool Now Excludes Many Terms
The Google Keyword Tool no longer shows keywords that Google deems “non-commercial”.
Are Google SERP Personalizations “relatively minor”?
Stephan Spencer just posted an article at Search Engine Land, where he said that: Although it is true that Google personalizes search results based on the user’s search history (and now you don’t even have to be logged in to Google for this personalization to take place), the differences between personalized results and non-personalized results… Read more »
Google Testing Search with Results from “Your Social Circle”
I noticed this morning that Google is experimenting with their search results yet again as they continue to set the pace for innovation. While signed into my Google account, I searched for “web hosting”. As you can see from the screenshot below, instead of showing the expected news, blog, or book results at the bottom of the 1st page, Google is taking integration and customization to the next level by showing related content from my online contacts.
101 Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites
Here’s a list of 101 dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites with Google PageRank of 1+. For your convenience, we sorted them by PageRank.