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.
Late last week, reports emerged that Google was sending out 'account closure' emails to AdSense advertisers who were arbitraging the system with "made for AdSense" websites. These accounts will reportedly be disabled on June 1st, with all outstanding payouts to be made on this date.Firstly, let's take a look at what exactly defines AdSense Arbitrage. ...
The search heavyweights have all been busy on the acquisition front trying to secure their piece of the top end online advertising market. Microsoft is the last of the search trinity to flex its acquisition muscle, picking up aQuantive for a mere $6 billion.After Google's recent purchase of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, and Yahoo!'s less ...
At the recent Searchology press conference held at Google headquarters, Google unveiled its latest search enhancement, appropriately titled "Universal Search".Universal Search will see Google updating its algorithm and interface to integrate all its various search verticals into one results page. So now when you enter a search query, relevant results from Google Maps, Google Images, ...
Late last week a digg post got a lot of attention with users claiming the search giant Google was sexist. The post relates to the search results of the phrase "she invented" with Google suggesting a 'sexist' alternative.While browsing digg last week a story caught my eye that claimed Google discriminated against women when certain ...
Getting traffic to your website is only the first step. Once visitors arrive at your website, the aim is to convert them into making a 'sale'. A sale doesn't have to be a purchase from your website, it's simply used to represent the desired action you would like the user to take. For example, this ...
The other day I was chatting to a friend of mine from West Seneca, New York and he shared with me his experience using Google Local to find a pest control business in his area. It really highlights the growing importance of Local Search and the real value of an enhanced listing for local businesses.He ...
It's not often we think about online companies contributing excesses of greenhouse gas emissions or pollutants - more often big mining organizations, logging companies and factories are held responsible for the overall desecration of our environment! However, Google and Yahoo!, forever the fierce competitors, are now battling over who has the greater social conscience - ...
Google unveiled the latest enhancement to their free website analytics service (Google Analytics) at the recent Emetrics Summit in San Francisco. The improvements are based around better controls and sharing of data, and should be visible to Google Analytics users in the coming weeks.When Google launched the free Google Analytics service, it was a great ...
Google are starting to pay their top YouTube users for the video content they submit! The revenue sharing, partner program, will see creators getting a cut of the AdSense revenue generated by their videos. "A select group of content creators will get promotion on the YouTube platform, and we will help them monetize their content," ...
The Google Enterprise blog recently featured the Volkswagon website for using new Google features to power a search box on their website. At the time, Google was unaware the major car manufacturer was actually search spamming, but as Danny Sullivan revealed, the website was using hidden text.Below is the hidden text as reported by Search ...