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As the end of the 2010 years draws closers, I thought it was time to share what the ineedhits team predicts is in store for the online marketing space in 2011.
Here are our thoughts:
Customers and prospects are increasingly going online early in the buying cycle…
Almost a month ago we wrote about a major Google indexing issue that prevented thousands of new pages from being included in Google search results. Mostly impacting blogs, the Google bug prevented new content from being indexed across a whole range of sites including our own blog and major sites like cnn.com.
Shortly after reporting the issue,…
There’s a bit of buzz going around at the moment around Google’s latest project, Hotpot. The new feature is an early release of a location-based recommendation search engine powered by you and your friends.
Hotpot will make local search results for locations on Google more personal with relevant and trustworthy advice from your friends.
How? When you search for…
Google has rolled out a new AdSense interface to its 2 million publishers making it easier to set up, manage, optimize, and see reports on their ads.
Google has been testing this layout with limited publishers for the last year and now based on the users feedback the new look has been launched. It promises to give publishers better insight…
ineedhits has launched its “Holiday Sale” to give website owners a vital online boost during the critical holiday sales period.
Perth, Western Australia, November 19, 2010- Leading global search engine marketing company, ineedhits (http://www.ineedhits.com/) has launched their annual end of year sale. The “ineedhits Holiday Sale” lets website owners increase their site’s exposure while saving 20%…
There is some good news for advertisers in the US this week. Google has announced it is rolling out Product Listing Ads which allow advertisers to makes their ads more visually appealing in the search results.
These ads are available through each advertiser’s Google Merchant Center account and will feature rich product information such as the product image,…
We constantly emphasise the importance of submitting an XML sitemap to the search engines. It’s an easy way to inform Google, Bing and Yahoo! about which pages should be crawled and indexed for your website. But is having a HTML sitemap on your website still relevant?
This question was posed to Mr Google, Matt Cutts, recently who (as always) answered…
It’s a known fact that Google and Facebook have long been locked in a fight over controlling the popularity over internet. However, Google might have taken the lead because they have blocked Facebook’s access to Gmail contacts.
Until now, Facebook was using Google’s Contact API to import the contacts of their Gmail users to suggest common friends on their social…
In what might seem to be just a cosmetic change to many, Google has replaced the title of its AdWords ads from “Sponsored links” to just “Ads.”
Here is an example of the change in a Google search:
No matter what it is called, this product continues to be the chief revenue source the search giant who advised they…
Google has announced the launch of a new feature, Instant Previews.
We first told you about Google testing this feature in October and we guess it must have been a huge success because Google have now made it available for everyone.
Google Instant gives searchers a full page preview of the website with highlighted text containing your search…