There seems to be a storm brewing about a site that has not been in active in close to 3 years. The site did not even bother to get its own domain name opting for a free blogspot blog. The site in question is SexyExecs.blogspot.com. Sexy Execs made blog posts over a two year period. They would post a pic of an executive, some of these were user submitter pics, and then they made some snarky and … [Read more...]
MediaPost: “Google Holds Right Cards for the Horizontal Market”
Gord Hotchkiss did a piece today about Google and the mobile market. As Hotchkiss sees it Google holds all the cards to take advantage of everything coming down the pike. He notes Google is pushing hard to make Android the default operating system in the Open Automotive Alliance. Google is basically looking to turn cars into really big mobile devices. Laurie Sullivan covered this for … [Read more...]
Google May Not Be Showing Your Desired Ad To Put More Money in Their Pocket
Alan Mitchell of Calculate Marketing wrote over a year ago that many may be paying too much for their Google Adwords clicks. In an article on Search Engine People he gave this example: To see why, let's suppose you have four Google AdWords keywords: red bikes red bikes sydney men's red bikes men's red bikes sydney All four of your keywords are set to phrase match, meaning that they … [Read more...]
Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question dealt with expired domains with penalties from Google Hello I purchased a new domain name last month. When I'm searching on Google, I can't … [Read more...]
Mamma Mia ! Italy Passes the Google Tax
M Italy passes the Google Tax. In what seems to be a law that violates European Union rules the Italian Senate has passed a law that will require companies to purchase their Internet ads locally. Forbes covered it here From the article: The Italian Senate has now passed the “Google Tax” and Italian lawmakers really do seem to be entirely blind to the fact that this law is illegal under … [Read more...]
Google+ profile links work with bunch of Google domains like Google.me
Google has been rolling out the availability of vanity urls for a little while now. One thing that was picked up by Search Engine Roundtable back in October was the terms. Google actually mentioned they may one day charge a fee. TechWhack.co posted an article yesterday that included this tip: If you have gotten yours, here is a cool tip. You do not need to use it with plus.google.com … [Read more...]
Google Releases Their Transparency Report
Google reported today on their blog that requests from governments to remove content continues to rise. When you read the actual report, Google actually shows a percentage of compliance for each country. For example Google complied in 55 % of court orders from the United States to remove some or all of the requested items. Brazil which surprisingly had the second most court orders had a 46% rate … [Read more...]