Archive for September, 2011

Infographic Link Building with StumbleUpon Paid Discovery

2011/09/30

As a social marketing tool, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery (a.k.a. StumbleUpon ads) is underrated. Paid Discovery helps people who are likely to be interested in your infographic – or your clever article or how-to guide, etc.

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$30 Million in Funding for Blekko: Blekko Has More Cash to Slash the Web

2011/09/30

On Wednesday, search engine startup Blekko received $30 million in funding from various investors including Yandex, Russia’s top search engine. Trailing only behind Google, Bing, and Yahoo, Blekko is the fourth largest search engine in the US

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5 Cheat Sheet Basics for International SEO

2011/09/30

The growing Global Economy has significantly increased the number of companies seeking search marketing strategies to connect with target audiences all over the world. Many clients we work with at TopRank Online Marketing are either already global organizations or aspiring to deliver products and services in different countries. As a result, we routinely field questions as clients begin their journey into International Search.

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Google+ Source Code Reveals Potential Quora-Killer “Google Experts,” Google Voice Integration & More

2011/09/30

A  recent post from developer Matt Mastracci uncovered a variety of potential features from the Google+ source code. He stumbled upon these findings when scanning code looking for early access to the circle sharing feature

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Google’s Hulu Bid ‘In the Range of $4 Billion’

2011/09/30

Google made the highest bid for streaming video site Hulu, reportedly around $4 billion, more than double what it paid for YouTube, Business Insider reported. However, Google was also bidding on some as-yet unspecified extras that didn’t mee…

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Blogger Adds 7 Dynamic Views for Easier Content Discovery

2011/09/30

Blogger has released seven new “dynamic view” templates. These templates speed up the content’s load time and organize your blog’s content in a number of visually rich ways to aid content discovery.

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Google’s Legal Woes: U.S. Government, Motorola, AT&T … Al Franken?

2011/09/30

A number of updates on Google legal and antitrust woes cropped up this week, as the Department of Interior/Microsoft case came to a close, the Google/Motorola deal received a second request, and Google filed to prevent release of proprietary infor…

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Google: No Longer Guessing About Celebrity Sexual Orientation

2011/09/30

Wondering if some celebrity is Gay, Lesbian, Straight or Bisexual? Plenty of people do and turn to Google to find out.

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