Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. Google’s web sites led the search market in September 2011 with 65.3 Google’s web sites led the search market in September 2011 with 65.3 comScore, Inc. search marketplace. More than 17.1

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Engineering comScore Yahoo Microsoft 95

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This last year Google brought a large number of algorithm changes to the table. In case you missed it through all the chaos, below lists all of the crazy Google changes that occurred in 2011and just what they all meant: Top 10 Google Algorithm Changes of 2011. Google claims the update “incorporates new signals.”

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Google Small Business Engineering Guidelines 176

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When you have to justify what you are doing, most likely it means you are showing up to meetings with data that isn’t impressive. Within the first few minutes of this episode, Matt Bailey, President of SiteLogic, will have you hooked as he cautions marketers to beware of trends and be confident when it comes to working with data.

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Engagement Training Apple Conference 131

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. (Happy Holidays! This is #1. This is probably my favorite post of the year. – Jay).

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Net-Savvy Executive

APRIL 15, 2014

Today''s announcement that Twitter is buying Gnip raises big questions about the market for social media data. While it''s too early to know how things will fall out, the deal changes the shape of the playing field for everyone involved—publishers, data resellers, software developers, and corporate customers.

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Trendrr Data Twitter Analysis 81

Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Already, some early Google Plus users have created 20 or more Circles to categorize their online relationships. But enough about that. SEOMOZ SEO Ranking Factors.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 17, 2011

According to a new report out from comScore , 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google -owned website. billion queries in March 2011. Google-owned websites are by far the top search destination in Latin America. Google-owned websites are by far the top search destination in Latin America.

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comScore Google StumbleUpon Microsoft 130

Proactive Report

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It’s taken us ten years to get the message that we should be listening to our customers and other stakeholders, but most PR practitioners are now using some form of social media monitoring, even if it is just Google alerts. Listening is one thing, analyzing the data and learning from the market is another. We know how to listen.

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Social Graph Skills Flickr Data 99

SocialFish

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Million Grant from Google to Aid Nonprofit Technology Adoption. &# The grant will support NTEN’s work to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work, and beyond that, to produce research and training on cloud technologies and data management, visualization, and collaboration.&#.

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Google Case Study Journal Collaboration 174

Kikolani

DECEMBER 6, 2011

What Your Analytics Software is Hiding From You – There are many reasons for confusing and missing data in Google Analytics. Here are just a few examples of the areas from which you might be getting conflicting data and the reasons why. The following should convince you to at least give Google+ pages a try.

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Analytics Research Real Estate Google 118

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The same reason that Google provides you personalized search results: to give you the experience you want. And as any growth hacker can tell you, data can help us give you a better experience , come back more often, and spend more time in our spaces. All this stuff and more is (anonymously) logged using RFID and Bluetooth.

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Data Startup Hotels Analysis 137

Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Already, some early Google Plus users have created 20 or more Circles to categorize their online relationships. But enough about that. SEOMOZ SEO Ranking Factors.

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Google Picasa Engineering Adwords 150

Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

This plugin connects your e-mail with social data to provide background information on the same screen as the message with pictures, job titles, recent Twitter messages, and more! Post on Google Buzz. Now imagine how useful it would be to replace those ads with information about the person you’re corresponding with. Tweet This!

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Startup Technorati StumbleUpon Digg 131

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. Pitching to Google’s Fresh New Algorithm via News, Blogs, Events & Google+ by Search Engine Watch. Small Business…Big Coverage! by Blogging PRWeb.

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Vocus Press Release Tips Blogger 188

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

This is where Google Analytics Advanced Segments come into play. Is Google+ Imperative For SEO? – We all know that Google has over 200 signals it uses when ranking content, but you know what Google loves to rank well when its relevant? Google stuff. Google stuff. Search Engines / SEO.

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Mashup Resources Press Release Adsense 146

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 18, 2012

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge. billion own a toothbrush.

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Social Media Statistics Mobile B2B 280

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 10, 2012

But before starting this, it is always good to look back at how 2011 has been for our different sites and then go on to predict how it would be in future. Our data sources for this article were Xposure and Nielson. UK Facebook statistics.

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Social Media Statistics MySpace Tumblr 273

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. I’d be curious to know if any of those signals and features include crawling Google’s search results. Evidently, Google thinks Bing could be doing something underhanded as well. That’s a bold claim.

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Google Press Release Case Study Small Business 79

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Sure it was good data, but I could have read it on my own. Get product ideas from Google and YouTube’s suggested search. Ask your readers what they want to know via Google Forms or SurveyMonkey. Why I Am Attending Blog World Expo 2011 Plus a 20% Off Discount Code. Create products from content you already have.

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Hotels iPad eBook Screencast 153

Bill Hartzer

MAY 13, 2011

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 65.4 Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 65.4 Google Sites led the U.S. Google Sites ranked first with 10.7 comScore, Inc.

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comScore Engineering Yahoo Microsoft 101

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. Participation, budgets and timing varies greatly for the sites in this group and I am not able to segment that in the reported data.

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StumbleUpon Sites Content Survey 172

Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Bad-Ass SEO Blogging Contest. This post will guide you to the right fields to optimize for the best possible search optimization of your social media profiles on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more! What’s at stake in this blogging contest?

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Analytics SEO Social Media Google 113

Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 9, 2012

Google has agreed to pay a $22.5 million dollar civil penalty to settle FTC (Federal Trade Commission) charges that Google misrepresented themselves when it came to the privacy of Apple users. Google told users of Apple’s Safari web browser that Google would not place tracking cookies or serve targeted ads to those users.

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Privacy Google Apple iPad 95

Twist Image

OCTOBER 23, 2017

That's up dramatically from 5 minutes a day in 2011, and 15 minutes in 2013. 42% of children have their own tablet device - up from 7% four years ago, and less than 1% in 2011 according to the study." We have close to no data/science on what this really does to children, because the tech is so new. The biggest problem?

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Mobile Apple Survey Data 73

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 22, 2013

The quarterly report analyzes aggregated client data from various industries on paid search marketing trends across search engines and devices on a year-over-year (YoY—Q4 2011 to Q4 2012) and quarter-over-quarter (QoQ—Q3 2012 to Q4 2012) basis. Google and Yahoo!-Bing Bing Network continue to see growth; Google leads in mobile.

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CPC Paid Search Retail Mobile 122

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

At least, that’s according to data reported on WebProNews recently. The data suggests that 19% of respondents rated promotional e-mails as influencing their visits to websites. Social media is being used not to drive traffic to a website, but to promote a brand and to collect e-mail data.

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Social Media Marketing Small Business Case Study 187

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 12, 2012

A comparison of Flurry’s mobile app data with web usage indicates that US consumers spend more time in apps than surfing the web via desktop. The average time spent (compiled using publicly available data from comScore and Alexa) on the web declined 2.4%, from 72 minutes to 70 minutes year-over-year.

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Mobile comScore Foursquare Statistics 173

The Way of the Web

AUGUST 29, 2014

One of the main benefits of signing up for a Google+ profile as a writer, blogger and author has been the Google Authorship program, which began back in 2011 with the launch of Google’s own social network. And you continue to link your Google+ page with your website. Why was it ended?

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Google Paid Search Blogger Publishing 52

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 20, 2012

What folks felt were their biggest measurement successes of 2011: and. And as for me, while I’ve learned a lot about Google Analytics I didn’t know before, I really want to complete the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) this year. We talked about: 1. That’s pretty cool, isn’t it?!

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Analytics Flickr Conference Google 140

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 17, 2015

Last week’s roundup featured a great post by co-founder of Market Motive and Google digital evangelist Avinash Kaushik. Interview with Avinash Kaushik, digital marketing evangelist for Google. Data in Digital Marketing – Thoughts from Avinash Kaushik. But reading just one post from Avinash is never enough.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2011

But the data is certainly encouraging and it is good to see evidence that social media press releases are performing well. Press Releases Do Get Shared on Google News. And as statisticians like to say correlation does not imply causation. Related posts: Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

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Press Release News Social Media Research 191

Firebelly

APRIL 11, 2011

The State of Community Management in 2011. From this data, we have proof that natural search and social media channels are vastly undervalued, while the effect of paid search is overstated. We’ll start with the basic/easy stuff and move up to more complicated things (Google Docs!

Social Media 181

Social Media API Paid Search Metrics 181

Pam Hughes

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These six helpful voice search SEO strategies will help you get more organic traffic from people using Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, and contribute to your overall SEO strategy. million Americans used voice search in 2021 Google Assistant supports 30,000 smart home devices 45.1% Android phones and devices use Google.

SEO 68

SEO Strategy Engineering Mobile 68

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Its stock has been almost cut in half, GM dropped a $10M ad deal, and Google is nipping at its heels with the purchase of Wildfire. Unlike Google, I am not on Facebook to look for products, hence I’ve never clicked on a Facebook ad. If you enjoyed it, be sure to connect with Shonali on Twitter , Facebook , or Google+.

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Sites Facebook Aggregator Mobile 256

Josh S Peters

MAY 24, 2012

The informational 1/2 is a list of sites / methods that you can use to get Twitter analytics data. Twitter needs to make more money, and a platform that wants to earn advertisers and marketers trust needs to provide data. Offer us more data and we’re more likely to open our budgets to you. and never got.

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Analytics Twitter Data Social Networking 150

Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The below graphs and data from Google Analytics say the rest. Data from August 19 – September 18: 6,528 visitors. Data from October 19 – November 18 in 2012: 8,236 visitors. Data from October 19 – November 18 in 2011: 12,547 visitors. The above subject says it all. 6,028 unique visitors.

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Quantcast Metrics Social Networking WordPress 161

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 19, 2013

I was first introduced to Topos’ work through a case study that Margy Waller presented at the 2011 Chorus America conference of work for the former Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund , now called ArtsWave. What kinds of analysis or data do you use to integrate community cool while holding the deluge of codswallop at bay? apologies, Shonali!).

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Communities Case Study Patterns Study 239