Facebook has some new changes coming this week to videos which will make sharing videos on Facebook a higher priority than before. View Count Facebook is adding view count onto videos. This will help users determine the popularity of a video before watching it, and makes it a bit easier to identify trending videos on […]
Bing Ads Adds Preview & Diagnostics Tool for Mobile Ads
One of the pain points of setting up mobile ads is that you can’t really preview how it will appear on mobile, as most advertisers set up their campaigns through either the Editor or via desktop. Bing Ads has made a change that makes it a bit easier for advertisers to both preview how their […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Submit Helpful Documentation
It is day # 5 – and the final day – in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips. It has long been known that webmasters should include additional information with reconsideration requests, whether it is to show you have taken steps to get links removed or perhaps actual evidence of a negative […]
Google Introduces New Search Box Within Sitelinks in Search Results
Google has introduced a new sitelink feature where it will show a site search box above the sitelinks for a website in the search results. The new change, in addition to the search box getting a prominent spot just under the site description, also takes advantage of auto-complete when people type something into the search […]
Microsoft Target of Getty Images Lawsuit Over Bing Image Widget
When Bing recently launched their Bing Image Widget, a tool that allows users to create a panel of images to display on any website, there was plenty of speculation over whether this would be considered copyright infringement. After all, many images were copyrighted by others who did not give their permission to have the images […]
Twitter Advertising launches in 11 new countries
Twitter has expanded their self-service advertising offering to 11 new countries. Advertising is now available to businesses in: Argentina Chile Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Mexico Peru Belgium Italy Luxembourg Netherlands This follows on the heels of the launch of Twitter advertising in 12 new countries a couple of weeks ago, which focused on countries in Central […]
Google Officially Removes YouTube Keyword Tool
If you have been a fan of the YouTube keyword tool, a tool that many marketers found useful beyond YouTube as well, Google has officially removed the tool in its current form. Google recently began alerting users that they would be disabling the tool on September 1st with an alert at the page stating: The […]
Twitpic Shutting Down After Trademark Dispute with Twitter
It is a sad day for Twitpic users after they have announced they are shutting down after getting into a trademark dispute with Twitter. A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark application or risk losing access to their API. This came as a shock to us since Twitpic has […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Identify Hacked Content
It is day # 4 in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips this week. Sometimes a page may look clean to you but hackers often inject content that only search engines can easily see. ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ shows how your page looks to Googlebot (our website crawler) so use it to identify […]
Twitter favorites & follows only show in timeline when no updates twice in a row
When Twitter began showing favorites and follows in the Twitter timeline, there was a lot of confusion about why this would trigger. Some users were seeing it consistently, while others weren’t seeing it at all. According to a tweet by Twitter CEO Dick Costello, Twitter will show favorites (and presumably follows, which I also verified) […]