We have often heard about pay per click advertisements being displayed at inopportune times or on inopportune news stories, but it is mostly the case of PPC managers who don’t react quickly enough when a bad news story hits their market area – such as cruise ships advertising on Costa Concordia news stories or Porsche […]
Archives for July 18, 2014
Google Reduces Video Snippets Visibility in Search Results
If you are an SEO who makes extensive use of video rich snippets in the search results, Google has made a change that dramatically affects the number of video thumbnails (snippets) that appear in the Google search results. The changes also hints that there might be an algorithm change that goes beyond video snippets in […]
More Large Embedded Videos in Google Search Results
Google is now showing large embedded YouTube videos at the top of the search results for more videos other than the music videos that have previously been shown. Google began showing large music videos embedded right at the top of the search results when users were searching for specific songs that people were likely to […]
Pinterest Launches New Interest Category Pages
Pinterest has launched a brand new feature – category pages. These pages act as a guide to Pinterest, showing some broadly targeted pins in each category area and allowing users to narrow down to specific types of content displayed. They also want users to take advantage of these new categories by following them so that […]
Facebook Testing New “Buy” Button
Facebook is testing out a brand new feature – a “Buy” button which shows within a suggested post in a user’s news stream. The button displays on a sponsored post where a company shares a product, which includes information about the product, the pricing and the “Buy Button”. Facebook has selected a few small and […]