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Microsoft certainly isn’t new to being accused of poor advertising campaigns. However, the newest Microsoft campaign is possibly the worst one they’ve released to date.
Chances are pretty good that you’ve viewed it. In fact, Microsoft has made every effort to go out of their way to make sure that everyone has seen it. It is called Scroogled. In this campaign, Microsoft creates a picture …
When it comes to finding media you can trust, there is a fine between traditional television news and online news hubs. Interestingly enough, it has been determined that people put just as much faith and trust in information they acquire from search engines as they do from information broadcasted on television or printed in newspaper media.
According to data released by the 2013 Edelman Trust …
When most people think about Google, they think about the head honcho of search engines. This is because everywhere you turn you see Google. Google owns a lot of different websites on the Internet! Furthermore, when individuals say they are searching for something on the Internet – it is fairly common for individuals to use the word “Google” or “Googling” in place of the words …
This is perhaps the biggest search news to break so far in 2013! Google’s main rival in Russian, Yandex, has built a secret search engine for Facebook.
Yandex is Russia’s biggest search engine and has lent its support Facebook by producing a voice-activated visual search engine codenamed “Wonder”. According to TechCrunch, Wonder is a mobile app that allows people to ask what businesses friends …
Blekko, a user contribution friendly search engine, officially released a new set of SEO tools, allowing developers and websites access to incomparable data, primarily for the purpose of improving their web traffic.
The Blekko suite also introduced a new user friendly interface to match the new features. Blekko’s new features include SEO report cards, page analysis, full link reports and instant SEO access from …
A while ago, Google was fined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the amount of $22.5 million for the ‘mistake’ of tracking Safari users, when Google did say they would not do such a thing. The “mistake” was a breach of security and users privacy and while it is in the past, Google is still paying for the mistake via a campaign from Microsoft. …
If you’re to believe Experian Hitwise then the days of making sure your website is at the top of the search engines is all but over.
Experian Hitwise UK just released some interesting results which show that there is a slow decline in the number of people using search engines across the board. The results indicate that overall visits are down by 40 million since …
For the third month running Bing has grown its search engine market share at the expense of both Google and Yahoo.
The results produced by comScore show that Bing rose .2% from 15.7% in July to 15.9% in August, Google fell .4% from 66.8% to 66.4%, while Yahoo! continues to its downward spiral dropping .2% from 13% to 12.8%. Rounding out the top 5 – …
Most link building efforts arent focused on a specific strategy but if you’re a local company then what use is it targeting your link building nationally or internationally.
How can you focus your link building on a local strategy? It’s not as easy as it might sound but here are 4 often overlooked strategies to help get you started.
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Most people who own a website will have heard about the latest Google Panda and Penguin algorithm updates, which have upset the SEO apple cart.
Some of the biggest changes have come from Google cracking down on keyword spammers and on link farms, which are sites that exist only to improve back linking numbers for websites. Despite Google’s statements that these updates do not represent …