Bing For Schools Offers Ad-Free Search Experience, SafeSearch Filtered Content & Lesson Plans
Bing announced Bing For Schools today, a new program designed for K-12 US schools, scheduled to launch later this year. In an effort to help schools teach digital literacy skills, Bing For Schools will offer an ad-free search experience with SafeSearch…
Google Waze Buy Faces Antitrust Review
Iit’s unlikely the FTC will conclude that Google’s Waze buyout will significant harm other mapping services such as Bing Maps and Tomtom. But the FTC will consider whether Google is buying Waze to eliminate a potential future competitor.
Google Rolls Out AdWords Dynamic Retargeting For Retailers
In another move to beef up its retargeting offerings–and take on retargeting platforms like Adroll, Retargeter and Mediaforge–Google is rolling out dynamic retargeting to all AdWords retail customers with Google Merchant Feeds. The company is also piloting dynamic retargeting in the…
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Google Grants Cannabis Group $240,000 in AdWords Money & Other Products
According to Michigan Compassion, a medical cannabis nonprofit, Google awarded the group $240,000 annually in AdWords advertising through Google Grants, as well as the use of other Google products for nonprofits.
Google Grants Cannabis Group $240,000 in AdWords Money
Google’s got $5 on it … er, make that $240,000. This is according to last week’s announcement from medical cannabis nonprofit Michigan Compassion. The nonprofit said $240,000 in AdWords grants had been given by the Google Grants program.
If we only had 9 minutes to talk about Google Analytics, DistilledLive video discussion
The new Analytics module has just gone live over in DistilledU so what better way to celebrate than with a free DistilledLive video on the very same topic! This week, London consultants Dave Sottimano and Paddy Moogan [there is only one] take you through the topic Continue reading »
Google Takes Street View Images From The Tallest Building In The World At Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
Google Maps adds another first today with Street View images from Burj Khalifa, the Dubai skyscraper that sands at 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall, making it the tallest man-made structure in the world. According to Google not only is this their first-eve…
Google Celebrates 2013 Gay Pride Month With Rainbox Encased Search Box For LGBT Related Searches
For a number of years, Google has recognized Gay Pride Month by adding gay pride-inspired art to the Google search box on the results page of LGBT searches. This year, Google is marking Gay Pride Month 2013 with a 3D-styled rainbow encasing the search box: Google’s past support for Gay Pride…
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RSS No Longer Supported By Twitter Search
Seems like a week or two ago, Twitter has done away with their support for RSS.
Taylor Singletary from Twitter support said in a Twitter Help thread…
Screen Shots Of The New Google Webmaster Tools Structured Data Error Report
Google is now inviting webmasters to try out the new Webmaster Tools structured data error reports.
I signed up for the beta a few weeks ago and was invited yesterday to check out the reports. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for you…
New Local Carousel
Google announced they rolled out their local carousel results on desktops in categories like hotels, dining & nightlife for US English search queries. The ranking factors driving local rank are aligned with the same ones that were driving the old 7…
Local Search Key Vendors, Best Practices & Steps to Success
The local search landscape continues to evolve quickly. New vendors and local optimization tactics are emerging almost daily. Here’s a recap of the state of local search, the key players, and how to chart your way forward in this complex area.
Preview Google’s New Structured Data Dashboard Beta
A couple weeks ago, we reported Google opened up invite requests to join a beta of the structure data dashboard. I signed up immediately and yesterday, I, along with other webmasters received my welcome email to take a look at the report. To sign up, you can do so at over here – I am […]
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Google Drops Another Search Operator: Tilde For Synonyms
Google has quietly dropped another search operator, the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator. Google Operating System blog noticed the lack of support for the tilde operator over the weekend. Reportedly, Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist at Google, co…
How To Evaluate A Potential Website Acquisition
There are a number of things to take into consideration when buying a website. For purposes of this article, I don’t mean the usual business considerations such as price, terms, etc. Let’s dig into how you need to look at this from an SEO perspective. You can also use this thinking to…
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Internet Statistics Compendium
Econsultancy’s Internet Statistics Compendium is a collection of the most recent statistics and market data publicly available on online marketing, e-commerce, the internet and related digital media.
The compendium is available as 11 main reports, across the following topics:
- Advertising
- Content
- Customer Experience
- Web Analytics
- Demographics and Technology Adoption
- Ecommerce
- Email and eCRM
- Mobile
- Search
- Social
- Strategy and Operations
Updated monthly, each document is a comprehensive compilation of internet, statistics and online market research with data, facts, charts and figures.The reports have been collated from information available to the public, which we have aggregated together in one place to help you quickly find the internet statistics you need, to help make your pitch or internal report up to date.
There are all sorts of internet statistics which you can slot into your next presentation, report or client pitch.
Those looking for B2B-specific data should consult our B2B Internet Statistics Compendium.
Regions covered in each document (where available) are:
- Global
- UK
- North America
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- Europe
- Latin America
- MENA
A sample of the Internet Statistics Compendium is available for free, with various statistics included and a full table of contents, to show you what you’re missing.
Search Marketing Statistics
The Search Marketing Statistics documents are part of Econsultancy’s Internet Statistics Compendium package, a comprehensive compilation of internet statistics and online market research with data, facts, charts and figures that are ideal for presentations, business cases or client pitches, RFPs and understanding the marketplace as a whole.
We have aggregated as much data, research and resources together in this one place, to help you quickly find the relevant statistics or information about search marketing that you need for your next presentation, report or client pitch.
The document contains statistics divided into the following regions (where statistics from that area are available):
- Global
- UK
- North America
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- Europe
- Latin America
- MENA
A sample of the Internet Statistics Compendium is available for free, with various statistics included and a full table of contents, to show you what you’re missing.
How to Build Your Search Marketing Agency for the Future
As more companies enter the digital age and look to generate demand for their products and services, the need for digital marketing services is growing exponentially. Here are seven things every agency should consider to ensure future success.
Google AdWords Inventory-Aware Campaigns Scares Some Advertisers
Google announced that the DoubleClick Search inventory management feature announced in August of last year is now integrated with Google AdWords – if you want.
Basically it integrates with your AdWords campaigns and your Merchant Center feed and build…
Google AdSense Requiring Publishers To Resubmit Tax Information
Last week, I logged into my AdSense account to see the Pong game and noticed my payments were on hold because I needed to resubmit my IRS tax information…