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.
Social media is probably already a key part of your marketing strategy (if it’s not…crawl out from under that rock).
But as many of you will attest, doing social media marketing effectively is a rather time consuming process. And when time’s a commodity that many small business owners lack, it helps to have tools to streamline the process.
Now before…
How do you measure the success of your online campaigns?
Profit, Revenue, Sales Numbers….
Ultimately all businesses measure their campaign success based on dollars and cents, but sometimes focusing purely on immediate ROI means you’ll miss valuable acquisition opportunities.
Remember, not everyone is going to feel comfortable buying from you straight away…so why not use a less confronting…
After giving us a sneak peak of the +1 button back in March this year, Google has now finally launched their social widget Google +1.
Google explains the new launch…
“+1 is the digital shorthand for ‘this is pretty cool.’ To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These
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When was the last time you remembered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agreeing on something? Well don’t think too hard because it just happened! In a rare display of mutual consensus, the three search giants got together to announce the launch of schema.org a website created in support of a common language for structured data markup on web pages.
As told…
Just after a week of launching Google Wallet Google has launched it’s much anticipated Google Offers in Portland with selected local businesses offering customers some great deals to avail.
Google Offers, touted as a potential Groupon killer, came into existence after Google’s ambitious attempt to buy out Groupon failed last year. Soon after, Google announced that it was…
With many businesses having both an offline, as well as an online presence, much of the time the two operate as 2 separate entities. Having the two elements work hand in hand can really give your business a boost, as what the customer sees in one area will be reinforced in full on the other.
I’ve outlined 7 handy tips…
When you do a search for your business name, how many pages appearing in the Top 10 of Google do you directly control?
Effectively controlling the Top 10 listing in Google can help convert more customers, as many people use search engines to learn more about your company. The more pages that you control means that you can direct the…
Google has created a new tool ‘Google Correlate’ that makes data mining more interesting. Google Correlate allows users to predict search patterns that correspond to the real world search trends.
While Google already has tools like Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, these tools only help researchers to see the current ‘trend’ of search and compare the…
Shortly after Google announced the launch of their contactless payment feature ‘Google Wallet’ they were faced by a major lawsuit by the online payment giant PayPal.
Paypal alleged that two of their ex-employees (now senior executives at Google) had violated their contractual obligations to their former employer by giving out some highly confidential PayPal information to…
It wont be long before you wont have to fumble for cards, cash and coupons in your wallet to pay for your purchases. Google is set to change the way you shop and pay by announcing the official launch of Google Wallet.
Google Wallet is an Android app based on NFC (Near Field Communication technology) that converts your…