The Google AdWords Blog announced that to make things simpler they have created a new “umbrella name” for Google display ads on YouTube, Google Finance, Gmail, Google Maps, Blogger and Google’s display ad partners. The new name is the “Google Display Network.” The Google Display Network lets you run ads in text, image, rich *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below. ***

A Google Webmaster Help thread started by SEOmofo is clearly out to try to get a Googler riled up. He posted on the topic of hiding links from Google in order to get “an official answer” from Google and that..

The Telegraph interviewed Google’s Amit Singhal and Udi Manber about the Caffeine launch. In that interview, Amit Singhal, Google’s head of core ranking, said something interesting

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land based on a discovery by James Carswell that Google was testing a new AdWords ad block in the Google search results. The new ad block was “related ads” that expanded on the searcher’s…

I have once shared a web-based tool that allows to view “technologies” behind any website (like server information, widgets, etc). This week I am sharing another similar tool

I am seeing sporadic but yet recent reports from WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help with complaints about Google Image Search being spammed and taken advantage of. The complaints come in the form of spammers taking images owned by a particular…

As more and more people are utilizing their mobile phones to access web content on a daily basis, more and more publishers are looking for ways to monetize that area better. A WebmasterWorld thread has several Google AdSense publishers discussing…

U.S. online ads spending will reach $25.1 billion this year, with search being the single biggest category and social media marketing taking over from display media, according to eMarketer’s latest report. Click to read the rest of this post..

Regardless of how experienced you may be with AdWords, and with interpreting data that Google reports about your campaigns, you’ll occasionally see numbers that simply don’t make sense.

Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Magnetic, Kenshoo, WebVisible, Covario, BLiNQ, Ace Metrix and BrightRoll. Click to read the rest of this post..