The amount of information we share daily on Twitter is enormous: we rely on Twitter for sharing our most important updates, streaming our events and conferences, for curating testimonials, creating Twitter chats, etc. This article shares some mostly free tools that will let you archive Tweets based on various criteria for you to: Be able […]
Archives for November 2014
Google News Testing Tiny Video Thumbnails Alongside Images
A new Google News test has popped up for a limited number of search queries that displays a tiny thumbnail for a video result inline with a row of related thumbnail images. It is similar to how video results had been displayed several years ago, but something Google had moved away from in favor of […]
Google’s DoubleClick Outage Affected 55,000 Websites For Nearly Two Hours
When Google stopped serving DoubleClick Ads on publisher websites last Wednesday, it turns out that more than 55,000 publishers were affected. The sites, which included major websites such as Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, caused issues beyond simple ads failing to load, as it seemed to cause some websites to hang as […]
New AdWords Flexible Bid Strategy Performance Reports Now Live
Good news for flexible bid strategy AdWords fans, as Google AdWords has added new performance reports to help advertisers effectively track and gain more insights into their bid strategies. Advertisers can now access a new strategy-level report, which enables advertisers to quickly see how their bid strategies are performing at a glance. Available metrics to […]
Google+ Adds New Mentions Tab to Easier Track Mentions of You
With Google+ it can be especially hard to keep track of mentions people have made of you on Google+, especially since as soon as you click the “Bell” icon, it resets everything and removes anything you have clicked on, making it harder to find previous mentions. Well no more! Google has finally added a brand […]
Mozilla Firefox Will Display Ads on Homepage & New Tabs
It is the day that many thought would never come – Firefox will begin monetizing their browser by displaying ads on their homepage and in the tiles when a user opens a new browser tab. Mozilla had initially announced the possibility of changing from their previous ad-free stance, but there was plenty of concern over […]
Bing Ads Testing Alerts That Show How Many Visitors an Advertiser’s Site Has Received
Generally speaking, from a consumer perspective, people have more trust in sites they recognize. Bing Ads is taking this a step forward by showing the popularity of advertiser’s websites by displaying the number of times that particular advertiser’s site has been visited in the past month, to help guide a searcher to sites that are […]
Get to Know the Google Webmaster Tools Mobile Usability Feature
Google is usually good at giving signals to webmasters about its intentions. A two week old feature found in Google WebmasterTools gives us an indication of just how important mobile is to Google. The Mobile Usability feature is one of the most important additions to Google’s WebmasterTools (GWT) since the analytic toolbox was first introduced. […]
The Apple Search Bot is Actually a Crawler to Improve Siri Not New Search Engine
Everyone was buzzing earlier this week with rumors that Apple was crawling the web. It began popping up in the middle of October with Apple’s IP range with a NetName of APPLE-WWNET as “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Fetcher/0.1)” written in Go. The crawler does request robots.txt and is still actively crawling. But the crawler is only taking […]
Segment & Link Video Slices for Social Media: Interview with Vinja Video’s Kent Libbey
Most of us in the search marketing industry read The SEM Post to get the most important news about SEO and PPC. But we’re also looking for fresh ideas, tips and strategies on everything from social media to content strategy. So, let me explain why engaging your audience by making your growing portfolio of videomore […]