Earth Day Logos From Google & Bing While Chinese Search Engines Show Earthquake Logos
Today is Earth Day throughout the world and Google, Bing, Ask.com, and also YouTube have special logos or themes today for the day. But as many of you know, China had a major earthquake yesterday killing almost 200 people and injuring an astonishing 1…
Google Captures Murder: Body Being Dragged Into Lake?
There are these internet rumors going around that Google Maps Satellite view captured a man dragging a body into a lake in broad daylight.
You can see the satellite imagery yourself on Google Maps at 52.376552…
Samuru: A Search Engine Designed By An SEO
Brandon Wirtz, an SEO who started his own search engine named Samuru…
Can User Generated Comments Cause A Google Penalty
There is this theory going around by “giveaway bloggers” that non-spammy comments can cause a Google penalty. You can read about it over here and over here – where you can see that an SEO told this site that they are penalized in Google because of the…
Google Creates iOS App To Manage Your Google Places Listing
iClarified spotted that Google released (too early) an iOS app that lets businesses manage their Google Maps listings.
I am not kidding you…
Yahoo iPhone App Gets Story Summaries, Better Video & Image Search
Yahoo has launched an iPhone app using Summly’s technology less than a month after buying the firm for $30 million. The Yahoo app allows users to search for news topics they are interested in and displays summarized versions of chosen articles.
Quick Tips That Will Improve Your Writing
As an SEO, I do a lot of reading and writing. Blog posts, How-Tos, outreach messages, content audits… In fact, I probably spend about 95% of my work day reading and writing. It’s fantastic. I love it. But I have a confession to make: I am a devoted member of the Grammar Police Force, and […]
Facebook Home Hits 500,000 Downloads, Getting Negative User Reviews
With 500,000 downloads in nine days, only about 0.05 percent of Facebook’s user base is using the service. Facebook Home hasn’t had great initial reviews on the Google Play store from the majority of users. The app has a lowly two star rating.
Germany Fines Google €145,000 for Street View Data Collection
Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. Germany calls it “one of the most serious cases of violation of data protection regulations”.
Eric Schmidt on Google’s UK Tax Record: ‘We Fully Comply With the Law’
Eric Schmidt has defended Google’s UK tax payments, saying the firm operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of spend in the country. The Public Accounts Committee says Google paid £6 million in taxes from revenues of £396 million
Ecommerce Forum Link Building with Don Rhoades (Part 2)
About 7 months ago Don Rhoades wrote up a fantastic post on Downtown Ecommerce about building links with forums for ecommerce websites. If you’re in Ecommerce and you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you do before you go any further.
A month or two ago I got a chance to meet up with Don in person, and I caught myself asking a few different questions that weren’t answered in his post. I …
Ecommerce Forum Link Building with Don Rhoades (Part 2) is a post from: Point Blank SEO
I’m Not a Rapper, I just SEO a lot
There are many route to market your content, it sometimes a good idea to make sure you have used a number of mediums to get the maximum exposure.
Post from Neil Walker on State of Search
I’m Not a Rapper, I just SEO a lot
Search & Social Synergy: Build Buzz, Get Links, Grow Your Brand
A look at where social is headed, what rightful place social has in the mix – along with PR, web design, promotional marketing, and search engine optimization – and some tactical considerations for what you may want to incorporate into your plans.
Google Experimenting With New Related Image Search Interface
Google appears to be trying on a new look for its related image search interface. While the standard interface for related image searches includes a list of the related image queries that only show image thumbnails when you mouse over the related searc…
Happy Earth Day! Google Celebrates With A New Doodle
Today’s Google logo celebrates Earth Day with a new interactive doodle highlighting the the many wonders of nature. The logo comes comes with its very own checklist of things to see, making sure users catch every detail. Google is spelled with different elements of nature from the field of…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Pinterest Best Practice Tips for Brands
Pinterest is seeing explosive growth. It is being adopted by brands, as well as users following these brands. Here are the latest statistics, best practices, and some tactical strategies for one of the hottest and fastest-growing social platforms.
UbiquiTV: Video Fragmentation is the New Reality
Digital video helps build reach beyond what TV can cost-effectively achieve alone among prized demographic segments. Marketers who quickly develop the competency to optimize across channels will have a significant advantage over the competition.
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings
Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find about the app, and as best I can tell, the iClarified blog was first to report on it. The…
Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Weekly Rundown: Lost Google Image Search Traffic, Facebook Search Ads & More
Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis “wrong”. Here’s a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week.
Future of Digital Marketing Malaysia 2013
The next will be the now in about 18 months.
Digital marketing moves faster than any other market on earth. That makes peering into the future a kind of mission-critical activity.
But by ‘the future’ we don’t mean 5 years away – that would be ridiculous. We mean the next 12-18 months. A timescale you can do something about; a timescale you can build into your plans.
The Future of Digital Marketing (FODM), now in Asia, is the only place where senior digital marketers (client-side and agency) can do four things:
- Visionary keynotes and presentations on what’s coming up on the digital horizon
- Get a quick, concentrated dose of insight into what’s around the corner
- Compare notes with the most ambitious, innovative and interesting marketers in the game.
- Get a potent shot of adrenalin to take back to the office.
… all topped off by relaxed networking at our evening drinks reception.
FODM takes senior digital marketing strategists on a fast-forward tour of the tactics and technologies that will change the way they engage with their audiences.
The Future, served up in three big chunks:
Setting the Scene:
We’re currently in teh age of the digitally-savvy consumer, and here’s what they have come to expect…
Keeping Up with the Accelerated Change:
These days we’re really trying to keep up with teh Jetsons after having said our goodbyes to the Flintstones. Its all moving so fast… how do we make it work across our business?
Figuring Out How to Make It Work:
As we follow the rainbow all the way, how do we make this digital stuff work a whole lot better, and we can ensure there’s a gleaming pot of gold at the end to keep our customers content?
Give us just one day – learn about the changing landscape, the use of digital marketing & media, the future of digital marketing from those leading the way. Get inside the minds of expert practitioners and leading thinkers to find out what needs to be in your development plans if you’re to be amongst the best.
The Bottom Line: Miss FODM and you’ll wonder what everyone’s chatting about as they zoom past you.