Every year Larry Page and Sergey Brin write a founder's letter to update shareholders about what's going on. This year Larry let new Google CEO, Sundar Pichai do most of the talking. While Google is obviously a player in the domain space there was not one word about domains. Sundar did speak about something that long term could affect domains. The move to a world of virtual reality and … [Read more...]
77 of the 100 Most Expensive U.K. Keywords are Gambling Related
Chris Lake wrote an article on Clickz that looked at the most expensive keywords for the U.K. After looking at the data it is clear that Google would love to see online gambling legal in the U.S. SEMRush compiled data for Lake and showed 77 of the 100 most expensive keywords are gambling related. The report noted 3 of the top 25 are typos of Roulette. … [Read more...]
As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Dan Bagby wrote a good article on these changes and provided some insight into keyword research. From the article: Removing the ads from the right rail of Google search results pages was a long time coming (well, a long time for … [Read more...]
Alphabet and Verizon considering buyout of Yahoo according to report
Greg Sterling published an article on Marketing Land that Yahoo is in play and that Alphabet and Verizon are both interested in acquiring the company. Sterling pieced together a couple recent reports along with data from comScore. Below is a look at the top digital properties according to unique visitors. Read the full story on Marketing Land … [Read more...]
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]
Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015
Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O'Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharmaceutical ads violating Google’s healthcare policy, which doesn’t allow misleading claims or products that haven’t been approved. Scammers – more than … [Read more...]