Archive for August, 2013

A Brief History of Google Search, as Demonstrated by Stephen Colbert

2013/08/12

As Google continues its worldwide dominance of search, we take a quick glance at the major events since a couple of kids in Stanford started their BackRub service. And who better to help us out than the Greatest Living American – Stephen Colbert.

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Custom Segments to Increase Sales

2013/08/12

Posted by CraigBradford One of the things that I like most about Google Analytics is that it can be as simple or as complex as you like. Out of the box it’s very easy to use. Without much experience, you can quickly see the basics, like the amount of traffic you receive as well as the medium and source of traffic

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Why Your Brand Must Tell A Compelling Story

2013/08/11

We think in story. It’s hardwired in our brain.

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Vine & Instagram Have A New Short Video Competitor by @smorgs13

2013/08/10

Two days ago Brianna Wills wrote a great post talking about how Vine videos are a great way to market your eCommerce business. Today, I’d like to add an additional tool to your tool belt. Once Vine was released, Instagram saw the opportunity and released their version.

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Content Marketing Crossing the Chasm to TV and Radio by @johnrampton

2013/08/10

James P. Mahon is a CBS affiliate news reporter based in Tennessee. He has previously worked in Knoxville, New York City, Los Angeles, the UK, and Ireland, both in broadcast and web journalism

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Google Maps App Revised Ads & Charges On Swipe But Not Click Through

2013/08/10

Yesterday, Google announced a new form of ads on the Google Maps app. The new ads now show on the bottom for a keyword search for local places.

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Google Guidelines: Make Your Mobile Pages Rendered Incredibly Fast

2013/08/10

Earlier this month we covered Google’s revamp of their pagespeed insights tool, where they greatly improve the usability and details within the tool itself. Last night, Google announced this new tool on the webmaster blog and added new mobile guidelines for your web sites…

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Google Webmaster Tools Shows Your Manual Spam Actions

2013/08/09

Google announced the introduction of a new awesome feature in Google Webmaster Tools named manual action viewer. The manual action viewer let’s you see if your site currently has any manual actions applied to it…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2013

2013/08/09

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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