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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.
This is a warning to any advertisers using Google’s click to call service – an advertiser of Google AdWords recently claimed that his click to call campaign is receiving invalid or fraudulent calls.
According to the advertisers Webmaster World post:
I’ve been happy with bid-to-call. It’s super cheap and some of the calls are good. Most are not potential customers,
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We knew it would take long… Google has landed in even more controversy with its new personalized search initiative “Search Plus Your World”.
The service, which was unveiled just last month, has already received some stern criticism from various online privacy communities and SEO/webmasters groups. Now a poll by market researcher, Ask Your Target Market, has found that…
The January search rankings are out and Bing should be pretty happy.
In Dec 2011 When Bing claimed the number 2 spot in December 2011, many speculated that it wouldn’t last. However, the January 2012 statistics have rolled around and guess what…? It has retained the number 2 position with its market share at over 15.1% now, while Yahoo remains…
Although Search Plus Your World dominated Google ‘s improvements in January there were quite a few minor but still important improvements that you should know about.
Here’s a full list of them:
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Google have been quick to release some search statistics on the volume and type of searches done during the Super Bowl and the top search queries are quite surprising.
The top searches were not for the game itself but instead for Madonna’s half time performance. In fact searches for the game itself failed to make it to the…
Google is trying hard to salvage its reputation after one of its employees, Jonathan Rockway, got the company into some unwanted controversy by posting two controversial comments on Hacker News.
The first comment by Mr Rockway was:
Instead of being able to SEO the entire Internet, businesses can now only affect the search results for a tiny percentage of users.
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There is no doubt that Google continues to make changes in its search algorithm to return more and more accurate results. This is evident by the latest change – the ‘Top Search Queries’ feature has been updated so that it lives up to the expectations of its users.
With this update Google has given a new definition to the “average…
Over the past week many webmasters have noticed a sudden change in their rankings & traffic levels giving rise to speculations that Google might have done a date refresh.
Google has now confirmed this speculations saying that Panda 3.2 was released just last week, however it is simply a data refresh of the algorithm with no additional signals or algorithmic…
Edit: As predicted, Facebook did file for an IPO on Wednesday 1st February. It is expected that the company will be valued somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Eight years back when Mark Zuckerberg made the significant decision of launching his social networking website, little did he know that the decision was going to pay off in such…
When Bing passed Yahoo! to become the 2nd ranked search engine in the U.S last month it seems the company also got the confidence to shed its “decision engine” label and re-launch as an ad platform with a new tagline ‘Bing is for Doing’.
The main aim for this change is the hope that it will get people to give…
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