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.
By now all you Google Realtime Search users will have realized that the feature has gone missing and your search query produces a 404 error page. This is because Google’s Realtime Search was recently disabled due to the termination of its agreement with Twitter who also happened to be the main source of real-time ...
Google took a stringent measure to clean up all the malware on its SERP’s by blocking and annihilating some 11 million odd sites, belonging to the co.cc domains. Google describes Co.cc domain (owned by a Korean company) as a “freehost” which offers free or really cheap priced domains often in bulks. So spammers are naturally attracted ...
Yahoo! have just announced that will be shutting down their much loved Yahoo! Site Explorer tool later this year as they finalise the merger of Bing and Yahoo! organic results. Personally, I find it disappointing to see the end for site explorer which has been one of my most frequently used link checking tools for ineedhits.com ...
Some things are just difficult to get over! And Google's ‘PageRank’ metric or PR is something that webmasters refuse to get over even though the feature was removed from the Google webmasters tool two years ago! PageRank, in the past, was one of the 200 signals that Google used to crawl, index and rank web ...
Getting your homepage indexed in Google is only the 1st step to your SEO success. It’s important that all your key web pages are indexed and appearing for relevant searches. For new websites (or poorly promoted websites), they often suffer from poor indexing which means you’re getting limited value from your Google exposure. Below are 5 tips ...
The “First Moment of Truth,” or FMoT is a marketing term signifying the moment when all the advertising a consumer has seen for a brand will either pay off with a purchase, or not. It is the 6-7 second window in which the product will either be bought or abandoned. It’s one of three widely-accepted “moments ...
The last we heard of Hulu were talks about the company issuing an IPO worth $2billion but it seems that idea has been scrapped in favour of a buyout by one of the internet's biggest players. The rumour goes like this: After Yahoo! Inc and Microsoft Corp, Hulu is in ‘serious’ discussions with Google who is very ...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, then you would have heard what practically everyone (and I mean everyone!) is talking about, Google+. The search giant last week released a brand new social network and it wasn’t long before it was given the label of ‘the Facebook killer”. But will this really be ...
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 ...
"As the dramatic growth of the mobile web changes the way people consume content, it’s becoming increasingly important for publishers to provide a good mobile experience.” This was recently quoted by Google software engineer, Luciano Cheng in the announcement that Google has updated the Google Sites service with automatic mobile rendering for iOS 3.0+ and Android ...