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The ad revenue generated from mobile users may not be where Google shines, but it is an area that is continuing to grow. Whatever the exact earning numbers might be at this time, records do indicate that Google has taken over 50% of them.
Figures show that Google mobile advertising revenue has tripled from what it was in 2011 to an estimated 4.61 billion dollars. …
Cyber Monday shopping is well and truly over, so how did the online retailers fair?
It’s good news for retailers with more people than ever going online on Monday 26th November to purchase Christmas gifts at heavily discounted prices.
Here’s a rundown of the official stats:
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Early last week, a security breach was discovered in Google Webmaster Tools that allowed those who once had access to certain sites to be able to access them again, and dozens of site owners were reporting changes to their sites that they had not made.
This breach had allowed former users of these sites, such as previous employees, IT staff, and others to access some …
Are you focusing your PR efforts to only a certain channel? Perhaps only offline or just through press submission sites? If so, you’re missing out on a vital area of exposure in the form of social media sites.
Of course the big two, Facebook and Twitter, should be your main focus, but which network is actually better?
Let’s take a look at PR Web’s advice …
Have you ever had a problem finding something, and no matter what you typed into the search engine box, you just were not getting the results you wanted? How frustrating was it to not find what you needed, and how much extra time did you spend trying to use the exact keywords in an effort to find the information? Well, you can say goodbye to …
Twitter and Facebook allow you to create an account with your own personalized URL, so why not Google+? In news just in… you now can – well, soon anyway!
Google has announced that users and businesses will slowly be given the ability to create a vanity or custom URL for their Google+ profile. The vanity URLs are short, easy-to-remember web addresses that link directly to …
A new alliance has been created between Google, IAB, AOL, Twitter and Facebook against ads that include badware. They have created a new group called Ads Integrity Alliance that is intended to protect all of the users of these websites from these advertisements. This initiative was recently announced by the organization that runs the website, StopBadware.org.
According to the organization, the alliance is designed so …
These days it seems a new social media website is popping up daily. This can be overwhelming to the average small business owners as they try to work out which network they should focus their time and efforts on.
While it’s good to have a presence across as many social media sites as possible, maintaining this presence can be time-consuming. The best bang-for-your-buck is going …
According to a recent study by SMB DigitalScape & BIA Kelsey almost two-thirds of websites are missing contact details.
This is a worrying figure – how are you supposed to get new customers if they have no way of contacting you?
The study surveyed 1 million SMB websites from the US and here’s what they found:
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Through an unexpected source, namely Twitter, Google has officially announced the release of the latest update to its ranking algorithm, Panda 3.4.
This update, which rolled out on March 24, is targeting low-quality websites. The update was specifically a “refresh”, so it seems no new signals or algorithm changes were made. This has resulted in very little impact to the majority of websites.
Google confirmed …