Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This year, though, I thought that I would come up with a new list, the Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders of 2011. Overstock.com was penalized for their shady search engine optimization tactics, JC Penney was caught gaming the search engine optimization system, and Google penalized Forbes.com for selling links on their website.

Engineering 137

Engineering Yahoo SEO Discount 137

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

Small Business 161

Small Business Press Release Social Bookmarking How To 161

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

» Google Linking Webmaster Tools And Google Analytics There have been several significant improvements made to Google’s Webmaster Tools over this past week. One feature that has been added is the ability to link your Google Analytics data to your Webmaster Tools account. Is your web site optimized for mobile?

Analytics 161

Analytics Google Tools Case Study 161

Adam Sherk

APRIL 24, 2012

It has been a couple years now since page speed has been an official Google ranking factor and one year since the launch of PageSpeed Online , the Web-based version of Google’s tool for analyzing site performance. So I thought I’d check in on the PageSpeed scores for a selection of major news sites.

Sites 187

Sites News Yahoo Comparison 187

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are 11 concrete ways I think the environment in which B2B Marketers operate will evolve in 2011. After 9 years of Search Engine Marketing – I think it is safe to say any keyword you are going to buy is maxed out when it comes to the Google AdWords auction process. So stop thinking of it as a micro site and making it all fancy.

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B2B Marketing Mobile CPM 279

Bill Hartzer

JUNE 10, 2011

As always, Google ‘s web sites led the search market again in May 2011 with 65.5 comScore notest that the May 2011 data represents the second month of results that include the impact of Yahoo! According to comScore, web sites owned by Google “led the U.S. Sites with 15.9 percent.&#.

Engineering 124

Engineering comScore Yahoo Microsoft 124

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I received a very cute email in my Inbox from Google. This is what it said: Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Heads up, Google!

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Google Open Source Project Data 193

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

Social Media Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Getting high quality links to a website is the best way to enhance site quality and visibility on search engine. But after Google first updated on 23 Feb 2011, all website owners and SEO experts are very strict to create back-links for a website. Because these kind of website penalized by Google any time.

Google 161

Google Tips Domain Name How To 161

Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Google’s web sites led the search market in September 2011 with 65.3 billion searches were conducted in September 2011, and Google Sites ranked first with 11.2 billion search queries during the month of September 2011, followed by Microsoft with 2.5 search marketplace. More than 17.1

Engineering 94

Engineering comScore Yahoo Microsoft 94

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2012

Web Traffic Tracking Alternatives to Google Analytics by uber.la. ” Top 50 WordPress Plugins for 2011 to Zoom SEO, SMO & Audience Engagement by Zoom Factor. Not too surprisingly, All in One SEO Pack, Akismet and Google XML Sitemaps top the list. 14 WordPress Plugins Worth Considering by JT Pedersen.

WordPress 184

WordPress Movable Type Review AJAX 184

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2012

So, since it’s January 2012, we are now seeing the search engine market share for December 2011. Google’s web sites led the core search market in December 2011 with 65.9 Google has 65.9 Google has 65.9 Microsoft’s web sites now has 15.1 ’s web sites have 14.5 ”

Engineering 99

Engineering comScore Yahoo Microsoft 99

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2011

Google does that automatically for you based on your IP address, or based on your personalized settings if you are a user of Google’s personalized search features. I’m pretty certain, and I’m sure Frank would agree, that Google Places will be the main focus on Google’s local efforts far into the future.

Small Business 170

Small Business Google Case Study Press Release 170

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 3, 2011

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Ellen writes for Fast Company magazine and helps run the 30 Second MBA site. Allison Mooney. allimooney. Ambal Balakrishnan. Ellen McGirt. Elise Segar.

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Twitter Pharmaceuticals B2B Biotechnology 279

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.)

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Google Class Creative Commons Yahoo 254

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, here are my top 10 posts of 2011 by pageviews: Which NBA Teams Have Seen the Most Growth on Twitter and Facebook? Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag. Looking at my 2011 posts, it is interesting that a sports topic got the top slot since that’s not a major focus for me.

SEO 119

SEO Publishing Press Release Social Media 119

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News?

News 274

News Google SEO Postrank 274

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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Google Content Case Study Press Release 150

Twist Image

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holiday break, Facebook was named the most visited site in 2010. beating out Google (according to Experian Hitwise )! Avinash Kaushik , the analytics evangelist for Google and the bestselling author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0 Vancouver Sun - A 2011 digital marketing reboot. blackberry.

Hitwise 111

Hitwise Findability Domain Name Wikipedia 111

Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 3, 2011

He never Googled anything; he never went to any other site; his entire web experience was confined to YouTube videos. This is different, and powerful- YouTube is the next Google. Google buying YouTube awhile back might have seemed curious to some but now it looks like a brilliant move. YouTube as a search engine.

Trends 221

Trends YouTube Engineering Video 221

Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2020

Facebook becomes the 3 rd largest web company in the US behind Google and Amazon, where it still sits in 2020. Hashtags don’t exist for the first few months (they don’t make their debut on Instagram until 2011). Facebook introduces liking individual comments. Honorable Mentions. Let us know in the comments! Contact us here.

MySpace 134

MySpace Instagram Social Networking YouTube 134

Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2011

They go online and they search news sites. They share news with one another on social sites like Facebook and Twitter. Just this week Facebook surpassed Google and is now the number one site visited on the Internet. Facebook drives 3x more traffic to news sites than Google News. source: Hitwise).

News 95

News Content Hitwise Smart Phone 95

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.

comScore 129

comScore Google StumbleUpon Microsoft 129

Bill Hartzer

MARCH 17, 2011

comScore has released the online video rankings for the month of February, 2011 in the United States. Internet users watched online video content in February 2011 for an average of 13.6 Google’s web sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com , ranked as the top online video content property in February with 141.1

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Video comScore Yahoo StumbleUpon 92

Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

However, it can be a pain to post those cute baby pictures on a host of social networks and check each site for comments. The User Submission Site ‘This or That’ This or That is a totally user-centric submission site where you can compare pretty much anything you want to. Post on Google Buzz. Instagr.am

Startup 131

Startup Technorati StumbleUpon Digg 131

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 22, 2011

How To Increase Your Twitter Followers » Q&A Sites And Competitive Intelligence I’ve discussed the value and virtues of Q&A sites before. You can often learn a thing or two about the competition from these types of questions on these sites. Q&A sites are not necessarily time wasters.

Small Business 87

Small Business Sites Case Study Press Release 87

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. That means the proportion of the UK total population registered with the site is fast approaching 50%. Our data sources for this article were Xposure and Nielson. The losers.

Social Media 273

Social Media Statistics MySpace Tumblr 273

Absolute PA

DECEMBER 17, 2011

2011 was a busy year for me: As I approached my third year in business I changed direction, practically starting from scratch and re-branded. Before I head off, I wanted to reflect on the year with a walk down memory lane with you, and share the most popular posts of 2011. 7 Steps to setting up Your Twitter account (November 2011).

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Twitter Hashtag Facebook Features 65

Bill Hartzer

MAY 13, 2011

Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 65.4 Google Sites led the U.S. Sites with 15.9 percentage points) and Microsoft Sites with 14.1 Google Sites ranked first with 10.7 Sites with 2.6 billion, Microsoft Sites with 2.3 Google Sites accounted for 64.2

comScore 100

comScore Engineering Yahoo Microsoft 100

Absolute PA

DECEMBER 17, 2011

2011 was a busy year for me: As I approached my third year in business I changed direction, practically starting from scratch and re-branded. Before I head off, I wanted to reflect on the year with a walk down memory lane with you, and share the most popular posts of 2011. 7 Steps to setting up Your Twitter account (November 2011).

Twitter 58

Twitter Hashtag Facebook Features 58

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

And some multi-author blogs have morphed into hybrid portal/news/blog sites that are difficult to categorize. Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. What are the best practices for pitching journalists in this new environment? .”

Vocus 188

Vocus Press Release Tips Blogger 188

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

All Your Writing Clips on One Site: Cuttings.me 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.

Mashup 146

Mashup Resources Press Release Adsense 146

yMarketingMatters

APRIL 15, 2013

There are many ways to go mobile: Sending out mobile-optimized emails , enabling your website for mobile visitors, undertaking mobile advertising, Google Adwords for mobile and mobile SEO. An impressive increase from 35% in 2011 and 44% in 2012. Currently, 31% of Americans own a tablet compared to 11% in 2011 and 22% in 2012.

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Mobile Smart Phone Marketing Adwords 231

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.

Google 79

Google Press Release Case Study Small Business 79

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. Why do I like it?

Tools 247

Tools Adwords Marketing Class 247

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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Hotels 153

Hotels iPad eBook Screencast 153

Firebelly

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature. By Sarah Perez It looks like Google+ is adding a feature that will allow users to “check-in” via the Google+ mobile application in order to receive a time-sensitive deal or discount. 30 Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips From 2011.

Social Media 168

Social Media Blogosphere Foursquare Discount 168