Leo Mirani is on a roll he wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the new gtlds with co author David Yanofsky He is out today with a piece entitled, "Why Google wants to give you 101 alternatives to .com" Mike has spoken in the past that Google is a big wildcard with regards to what extensions they end up with and how they distribute them. Google giving away domains for free could be something … [Read more...]
Building Your Business on Google +
If you have been looking to improve you Google + account and use it for your business. I know a lot of people don't love Google + but there are some who have been looking to get more active. Google + has made it available now to get custom urls instread of that ugly long string of numbers. You can see how to do that here. Plus Your Business is a site that is providing free training courses … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School Study: Display Ads Drive Search Clicks After Two Weeks
Greg Sterling wrote an article on Search Engine Land today that related to a study showing display ads drive search clicks with a delayed effect. The study was conducted by Harvard and Ozyegin University researchers. Ozyegin is located in Turkey. From the article: The conclusions and insights are useful, however, and can be boiled down to the following: Display advertising does indeed … [Read more...]
Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft noticed a drop in Expedia’s traffic today and posted about it on Twitter. If you look at their decline today, it looks like Google has penalized Expedia in … [Read more...]
Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop
Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more … [Read more...]
Google Removed 350 Million Bad Ads in 2013
Google is out with their bad ads advertising report for 2013. On their blog they reported: Stopping more bad ads from fewer bad sources We removed more than 350 million bad ads from our systems in 2013. To put that in perspective, if someone looked at each of these for one second, it would take them more than ten years to see them all. This was a significant increase from approximately 220 … [Read more...]
Google Unveils Publisher Plugin For Publishers to Monetize With Adsense
The Next Web reported that Google has come out with a WordPress plugin Here’s what Google says you can do with the plugin: Google AdSense: Earn money by placing ads on your website. The plugin links your WordPress site to your AdSense account and makes it easier to place ads on your site — without needing to manually modify any HTML code. Google Webmaster Tools: Webmaster Tools provides … [Read more...]