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What does 2012 hold in store for online marketing?
Where 2011, saw some major changes such as Google entering the social media world with Google+, Facebook and Twitter playing a large role in product promotions and an increase in mobile searches, experts predict more such changes in 2012.
In 2012 the Internet world will continue to dominate the marketing strategy…
Every couple of years the folks over at SEOmoz put together a list of search engine ranking factors. This year the results come from the opinions of 132 SEO professionals and an analysis of the top 30 results for over 10,000 different keywords.
While the full report has not been released some preliminary data has been made…
Over the last few years the search engine landscape has undergone some revolutionary changes. The focus has largely shifted from traditional, algorithm dependant result to people oriented results – it’s all about what the users want! Searching for anything over the internet never seemed so exciting and easy as it is today. It makes you think what’s coming next?
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Taking on Google in the search market is always going to be tough, but new search engine Blekko thinks they have what it takes.
After seeing other competitors like Cuil and Wikia fail, are they mad, or do they have a something special?
Blekko’s Background
Blekko has been in development for over 2 and a half…
It’s a new year, and accordingly the resolutions have begun. So if yours is to boost your website traffic via search engines – then Google’s Search Based keyword tool will be a valuable part of your toolset.
Google launched the Search Based Keyword Tool about 12 months ago as a beta service. The aim was to remove…
As the end of 2009 draws to a close, everyone starts sharing their predictions for the year ahead. So to get the ball rolling, Google’s Matt Cutts has weighed in with his predictions for search over the next 3 years.
In true Matt Cutt’s style, he has used video to provide his insights to a viewer’s…
It’s often difficult to get a simple answer on the impact that site architecture has on search engine performance and website traffic.
Accordingly there also a myriad of myths that circle the forums and blogs as to how the search engines treat various architecture scenarios and practices. Google have come to the rescue (for their search engine at least) with…
Did you know that your eyes are helping Google determine what their search results page should look like?
Google’s User Experience Research Team has unveiled some new technology that tracked test participants’ eyeballs as they scanned search results for the right link.
Below is a thermal image of the Google search results page showing the most widely viewed…
It seems the doom and gloom of the economic slowdown has not quite hit online advertising as hard as some other traditional marketing platforms. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that online marketing revenue increased 11.4% in quarter 3 of 2008 when compared to the same period in 2007.
David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, explains that…
On Friday, the Google webmaster central blog announced that the Google search spider will now attempt to fill out web forms to uncover new links and content. Google claims that the technology will help to uncover the “invisible web” that’s been hiding from search engines for many years.
The invisible web is a collection of webpage’s that…