As of yesterday, the Google Keyword Tool has officially been replaced with the Keyword Planner. But, if what people say on Twitter is any gauge, the SEM world isn’t exactly loving Google’s new keyword planner. When you look at the tweets over the past week, “Keyword Tool” yields a score of 59 on Topsy.com. Compare […]
Join +Joanna Smith for a chat with +Thor Mitchell and +Joel Kalmanowicz, the Product Managers who helped launch the Google+ Domains API last week. To watch more, visit Google Developers Youtube channel here.
This ad was spotted by Luke Alley from Avalaunch Media. It would seem that Alley has discovered a deep pit that teems with ad violations. All you need to do is do a Google search for the term “facebook support” and you’ll see quite a few AdWords policy violations. The ad shown uses “symbols, numbers, […]
comScore released the July 2013 US search market share data earlier today. The figures show that Google has seen some moderate growth, stasis for Bing and contraction for everyone else. Google has gone up from last month from their 67 percent market share, while Bing hangs in there at just under 18 percent. For Yahoo, […]
update to Google’s AdWords Editor, version 10.2 has been released, which supports upgraded sitelink management and several other smaller feature updates. Now called upgraded sitelinks, the new sitelinks have rolled out in June prior to the enhanced campaign roll-out. These updates are giving advertisers the ability to included more additional details for all […]
This morning, the head of Google’s search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video where he strongly recommends that anybody please placing widgets on their sites, or those who distribute widgets, should place a nofollow on the links within the widget code. Matt Cutts said, “I would recommend putting a nofollow, especially on widgets.” The reason […]
“Do you have a project with multiple components such as a server module and a mobile client? We’ll briefly discuss about the new cross-client authorization capabilities of Google’s OAuth 2.0 implementation and provide implementation details about improving your existing auth flow.” This video was live streamed on the GoogleDevelopers Youtube account.
This morning, Google is rolling out “in-depth” articles this morning. These newly introduced In-depth articles will exist for a number of different topics, such as censorship, secret societies, e-waste, Billy Zane, and so on. These articles will call out longer-form content from what seems to be recognized and higher quality sources around the net. Google […]
Matt Cutts answers this question: “Client got unnatural links warning in Sept’12 without any example links, 90% links removed, asked for examples in every RR but no reply, shouldnt it be better to have live/cached “list” of bad links or penalties in GWT? Think about genuine businesses.”
As of last week, the Google+ Local mobile app for iOS was killed by Google. According to Google, all of the same content was available in Google Maps for iOS. It was announced that the relaunch of the Zagat site and the mobile app for Android and iPhone was a-go. All of the content found […]