Who’s Tops? Bud Light Is Unseated As Number One Super Bowl Advertiser On Google And Bing
It looks like we have an upset. Bud Light appeared to be the clear front runner among Super Bowl advertisers running paid search ads on Google and Bing, It turns out the King of Beer’s less filling counterpart is merely the runner up on both search engines. Volkswagen has garnered the top…
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Matt Cutts Confirms That Article Directories Are Toxic To the Health of Your Site
Over recent years we have seen the rise and fall of all kinds of link building techniques, many of which that have never been outside the area of breaching Google guidelines however Google are stepping up their defences and are finally taking action on…
More Brands Lose Brand Rankings As Google Takes Action – Music Magpie Just One Casualty
With the release of the new data in SearchMetrics.com we can confirm that there are a number of people that will be suffering from a huge headache this week following the loss of their own brand search terms, a clear indication that they have received a penalisation from Google. With
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Google: “We Are Taking Action Against French Link Network”
Google have clearly upped their ante when it comes to the penalisation of link networks over recent months with a number of popular link selling platforms being found and destroyed and they have done it again with the news that they have identified a French network that is in breach
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A Study In Quantity: Sometimes Less Is More
There are generally two schools of thought when it comes to quantity. As a certain group of hilarious phone-peddling kids would tell you, more is better. Image Source This makes sense. More of something (well, something good anyway) is better than less of that thing. However, as a certain insurance-mongering lizard tells me on my […]
Google May Be Forced To Pay $1 Billion To Patent Troll
A New York-based “patent troll” called Vringo, through its subsidiary I/P engine, successfully sued Google, Microsoft, AOL and others using two patents related to search advertising. The plaintiff won approximately $30 million at trial in 2012. Google was asked to pay $15.8 million of…
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DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or a…
Google’s Latest Search Trick: “As The Crow Flies” Distance Calculation
Move over, pandas. Fly away, hummingbirds. Waddle away, penguins. Google has a new animal friend: crows. But unlike its past associations with the animal world, this one isn’t about SEO or algorithms — it’s a new search trick that adds distance calculation to Google’s OneBox…
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Yes, Google and Gmail Were Down
Gmail and Google were shortly down today, a rare happening.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
Yes, Google and Gmail Were Down
A Former Googler’s Routine For AdWords Management
It’s been seven months since we launched Optmyzr’s first tool at SMX Advanced in Seattle – the Quality Score Tracker – and we’ve been busy adding tools, reports and optimizations since then. Now, one of the most common questions we get is when to use various…
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Irwin Mitchell Suffer Google Whiplash As Google Penalty Knocks Them Out of Index
Google have been firm and consistent when it comes to taking action against sites that have broken their guidelines and once again there is another large scale company that will be waking up with a headache as soon as they realise the fact that Google …
Google Loses Again In AdWords Patent Infringement Case
A judge has determined patent-holding company Vringo is entitled to additional royalties from Google in a patent infringement case involving Google AdWords. The order stems from a case brought by Vringo subsidiary I/P Engine in 2011 that claimed filter…
Google Adds A Knowledge Graph Popup To Search Results, But Is It Good For Site Owners?
Google has announced the formal rollout of a test that some searchers have been seeing for a few days now — a test that associates a Knowledge Graph popup with certain web pages in desktop search results. The popup adds more information about certain search results, which sounds like it…
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Matt Cutts Says Guest Blogging for SEO Is Dead
There are often changes to the way that Google see various practices undertaken by people looking to improve their organic rankings and yesterday we heard from Matt Cutts that guest posting is now the latest strategy to be placed under the Google micro…
Marin: 40 Percent Of Google PLA Clicks To Come From Smartphones By Dec 2014
By now it’s clear that retailers made record investments in Google product listing ads (PLAs) in Q4 2013, as reports from Covario, RKG and IgnitionOne have each shown. Today, Marin Software released its own findings which reinforce the general consensus that PLA performance this past holiday…
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Outing Black Hat SEO; Should we, or should we not?
Should we, or should we not reveal agencies or companies that do black hat SEO? Who are we helping by outing others? State of Digital debates the issue.
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Outing Black Hat SEO; Should we, or should we not?
Google Remarketing Ads Found To Violate Canadian Privacy Law; To Revamp Ad Review System By June
Google has agreed to several concessions after an investigation by Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner found Google in violation of Canada’s privacy rights for the use of sensitive health history in remarketing campaigns. The investigation began last January, when a man…
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AdWords Cross-Device Conversions: How 1-800-FLOWERS Is Using The Data To Be More Customer Centric
Yesterday, we got an early preview of the first case study Google will publish on the use of estimated cross-device conversions in AdWords. It features 1-800-Flowers and also addresses the company’s use of click-t0-call. When Google first announced the release of estimated cross-device…
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Part Three: Paid & Organic Report Data
AdWords came out with the paid and organic report in late August. The paid and organic report had the potential to provide data that is no longer available in Google analytics due to the Google secure search update (not provided). Getting data back would be great for both SEO and for SEO-PPC integration. I wrote two posts […]
RKG Report: PLAs Fuel AdWords Growth, Bing Ads Spend Rises Sharply In Q4
RKG has released its Q4 2013 Digital Marketing Report, and as other reports have indicated, paid search saw solid year-over-year growth in the holiday quarter. Paid search spend among RKG’s retail-heavy client set rose 23 percent year-over-year. Overall click volume increased 19 percent, and…
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