by ekoppel | Oct 19, 2011 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google officially announced that over the next few weeks, it will begin encrypting search queries and results for signed-in users. This change will increase privacy and security for all signed-in users. However, for us web analysts (and Google Analytics users), this...
by mtraphagen | Oct 12, 2011 | Analytics, Free SEO Tools, Google, Paid Search
Google has handed a graduation diploma from Google Labs to its Page Speed Online tool, which is now “in the wild” as they say. Find it at https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/. It’s home page couldn’t be more simple: just enter your...
by mtraphagen | Oct 3, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search
Now you can see how your campaigns stack up against competitors in your same verticals with a new feature added to the Opportunities tab in the AdWords interface. To use it, click “Analyze Competition” on the Opportunities tab. You can choose to compare...
by mtraphagen | Sep 22, 2011 | Google, Paid Search, Social Media
Google announced today that mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads’ quality score. Mobile AdWords ads that point to a web site optimized for mobile will receive a higher quality score. That translates to higher visibility at a lower...
by mtraphagen | Sep 16, 2011 | Google, Hive Digital
Google’s Doodle (homepage logo) for today celebrates the birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and its benefits. A glance up at the title of this blog will tell you why we couldn’t resist sharing this! Here’s the...
by mtraphagen | Sep 8, 2011 | Google, Paid Search
Google announced that they will now begin reviewing even paused ads on a regular basis. This means Google will check ads for policy compliance and functionality (such as destination URL leading to an active page) even before you activate them. Why this change? Google...
by mtraphagen | Sep 7, 2011 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Social Media, Twitter
What kind of social media marketer do you want to be? You want your marketing efforts to live “where all the retweets are strong, the ROI is good-looking, and the account engagement is above average.” (Apologies to Garrison Keillor!). But where is that...
by mtraphagen | Sep 2, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Paid Search
Google announced yesterday that they are adding a new metric to the AdWords online account management interface. The metric shows the estimated bid it would take to (theoretically) place your ad regularly in the top positions above the organic search results. Combined...
by mtraphagen | Aug 30, 2011 | Free SEO Tools, Google, SEO, Social Media
It’s one of the more frustrating experiences for any original content producer. You work hard to craft an interesting, well-researched, readable blog post or article. A day or two later you type the posts primary keywords into Google to see how your content is...
by mtraphagen | Aug 30, 2011 | Google, Social Media
In an email to Wired.com, Google confirmed that it will be using signal gained from its +1 button to affect its own search engine rankings. This is no surprise and not really news. We published almost the exact same statement from Google back on July 8 (“Google+...
by mtraphagen | Aug 24, 2011 | Google, Social Media
Google announced today that the Google +1 button will begin to allow the sharing of a link to a web page along with a rich snippet (image plus excerpt/description) directly to your Circles on Google+ (Google Plus). This is in addition to the original function of the...
by mtraphagen | Aug 23, 2011 | Google, Social Media
Google announced yesterday that it is rolling out a new feature where faces and names of “friends” (people among your various Google contacts) who have clicked a +1 button on your site can show up as names and tiny profile pics next to the button. It looks...
