Tag Archives: web markeing
YouTube hits all-time highs with 14.6 billion videos
May was a banner month for YouTube. ComScore’s latest video rankings report shows that the site hit all-time highs with 14.6 billion videos viewed and more than 100 videos seen per user Continue reading
Search Engine Marketing 2010
It’s probably no surprise to anyone working as a search marketer, but the industry is chugging along at double-digit growth rates, even as budgets for other forms of marketing and advertising continue to be slashed. Continue reading
The Things That Facebook Causes, According To Google, Yahoo & Bing
I had a good chuckle over the news yesterday that Facebook apparently has caused an increase in syphilis ( or not ). So reported the Daily Telegraph, which turns around today to add that to a list of other things Facebook supposedly causes, such as cancer or a surge in rickets Continue reading
comScore Search Share For February
The financial analysts were busy yesterday pushing out the comScore search market share data for February, which officially comes out later today. What the data show is: Google regaining some share “lost” in January and continued gains by Bing, albeit at a somewhat slowing pace. Yahoo lost some share again and so did Ask, while AOL was “stable.” Yahoo’s search losses, attributed by the search team there to lost “default” toolbar and other similar deals, is now a kind of chronic, month over month phenomenon — a decline in slow motion Continue reading
Facebook Search Gains Boost Bing & Motorola
In my discussion yesterday of the comScore search data I neglected to point out (as GigaOm has ) that Facebook saw 10 percent search query growth in the past month. That’s significant and it validates an argument I’ve long made that Facebook could turn out to be a meaningful player in search, which would in turn benefit Bing Continue reading
Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live
Today at SMX West, Maile Ohye from Google confirmed that Google is indeed now crawling AJAX pages that use the standard proposed last Fall. Continue reading
Google Wants Feedback On Buzz
Google is asking for user feedback and ideas for its Google Buzz product, and has setup an ideas forum using Google Moderator. After signing in with a Google account, users can submit ideas or vote on existing ideas from other users Continue reading
Google Grades Itself On SEO Best Practices
Culminating an internal project that seems to have lasted for several months, Google has published a “Google SEO Report Card” showing the results of an internal SEO audit on the home pages of 100 different Google Products. The main verdict? Like many companies, Google’s web site is a mixed bag of good SEO tactics and missed opportunities. Continue reading