Click Forensic’s quarterly assessment of overall click fraud rates for the paid search industry says that click fraud has increased to 22.3% in the third quarter of this year, up from 18.6% last quarter. There has been a consecutive rise in click fraud rates over the past 18 months, from the 17.4% Click Forensics reported *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Today Google announces Demo Slam. Demo Slam is a place were creative and tech-savvy people can create videos to help the rest of the world understand all the newest and greatest technology out there

In the wake of mistakenly collecting Wi-Fi payload informatio n, Google announced that they would no longer use their Street View cars to collect information on the locations of Wi-Fi networks. Yesterday, the company released a report on Street View and it stated that “collection is discontinued and Google has no plans to resume it.” The issue as to whether or not Google would find out why the cars were collecting the data, rectify it and than resume using the cars was up in the area since the discovery this summer, but this statement by privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, seems to lay it all to rest .

Making good on their promises to add social layers to its search platform, Google has added “shared by” and “recent updates” links to the bottom of some of its results in Google News. The features, however, are merely tests as of right now and both Malcolm Coles and Barry Schwartz can view these features. According to their posts, the former “shared by” feature shows Googlers the amount of people that are currently sharing that exact link with others on sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc

What is Google Demo Slam ? Now we know

I would have prepared an abstract for this rather lengthy post, well you’ve been warned, but instead I’m inviting you to read on if you’re interested to know more about the Asian online market. Mind that this isn’t a research paper; hence I wouldn’t be presenting any detailed charts and/or graphs, rather, I would derive most of my statements from real world experiences

SEO, Social Media, PPC, banner ads etc are all important to drive traffic to your site!  But we all spend so much time trying to drive traffic and not many people focus on what to do when the traffic gets there! Do a lot of people bounce from your site quickly?  Are you getting the sales you want/need? There is something you can do to decrease your bounce rate and increase your sales! IMPROVE YOUR COPY (sorry for yelling there, but wanted to make sure you got the message!)  Most people don’t realize the true value of good copywriting.  Copywriting is not something that you should consider as a possible way to increase results.  Copywriting is the FOUNDATION of driving sales.

Blogging is exciting as each great published piece brings you new listeners and builds your community. But is it all about new posts?

Whitey in the WebmasterWorld forums posted something new he is seeing. He said: Google has put stronger “auto detect” user location search preferences onto it’s filters on the left hand panel

Having caused PR and legal headaches around the globe for Google the company has decided to permanently discontinue its Street-View-based WiFi data collection. Multiple countries have asserted that Google’s Street View practices violated privacy laws for the collection of personal information from unsecured WiFi networks. Google is being fined in Spain and in Canada the *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***