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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
For those of you who use the Bing Shopping portal, you will have noticed a few changes recently.
The recently upgraded portal promises a whole new online shopping experience including allowing you to link your shopping list back to Facebook to get a response from your friends. The Facebook link also gives you a quick reminder of any…
Continuing its acquisition spree Google has reportedly acquired TalkBin, a start-up company that is only 5 months old.
TalkBin is a consumer platform that allows users to give immediate feedback to local businesses via a mobile application. Businesses, in return, can respond to the user’s reviews by accessing the same platform through a web application. Sound pretty interesting and right…
A sudden drop in their Google Sitemaps index count has been reported by many webmasters. Does this include you?
Some sitemap index counts have reported to have dropped as low as zero and Google has pinpointed the reason as being a minor bug in the Google Webmaster Tool causing indexing count to be temporarily impacted.
The problem was first reported…
Initially Google only included its social search results in real time search, then Twitter feeds started making an appearance and now Google has upped the ante by including a range of new social media sites to its real time search.
Sites now included in real time search include Quora, Buzz, Gowalla, Facebook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca, and TwitArmy.…
A recent study by BrightEdge has revealed that the social profiles of most leading brands don’t rank well in Google.
While most of the leading consumer brands are investing a lot of time and money to increase their presence on the search engines they are doing very little to increase their social media presence by correctly optimizing their Facebook and…
Google’s recent decision to shut down its Google Videos service has left many users perplexed.
Google has been issuing emails to all its users since Friday 15th April asking them to transfer or download their videos from the site before the 29th April. Any videos still on Google Videos after this date will no longer be viewable.
While users won’t…
Google has begun integrating it’s instant preview feature to paid ads in its search engine results pages.
Until now, the instant page preview was only available for the organic search results on desktops and mobile searches but you can soon expect to see a landing page preview of the website being promoted through the paid Google ad without having to…
The importance of local search listings has been given even greater exposure with a recent study from UK firm BrightLocal.
The results of two online surveys about local consumer behaviour and local SEO found that Google Places is the most popular source for local searchers (not surprising).
The surveys were conducted in Q1 2011. There were more than…
Two new reports recently released have shared an insight into how businesses can make their Facebook page more successful by making their fans more engaged in the content shared.
The first report is from Buddy Media who collected data from 200 of its clients’ pages. It found that time is an important factor in determining the success of…
We might be getting a bit ahead of ourselves here, but the way Bing is increasing its search market share, it could well be the number one search engine in 2012.
According to a recent report from Hitwise, Bing dominated 30% of all searches conducted in the U.S. in March 2011. That’s an impressive 5% jump compared from…
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