Big Brands Spend Big Money on Adwords
There was some numbers leaked from Google on the June 2010 spend of some Adwords customers and wow is there some major moola being spent!
Category: Google News
Purple is the New Black in Link Building
Does the text color of your link matter? According to a Google patent granted a little while back it just might! You can view the document yourself here. But let’s spend a little time with claim 18, The one or more server devices of claim 16, where the data associated with the features of the Read more about Purple is the New Black in Link Building[…]
Weird Adsense Bug
I have the strangest Adsense bug happening and I am finding it very hard to contact Google customer support. When I look at the three month view of my Adsense balance I get one number and when I look at the twelve month view I get a much different balance.
Google’s 50 Billion Plus Chest Thumping Gets Dissected
I am all for putting your best foot forward, after all that is what SEO is all about but it seems Google has used some very creative accounting in making claims about how much it contributes to the US economy. They (Google) claim that in the US they “generated $54 billion of economic value in Read more about Google’s 50 Billion Plus Chest Thumping Gets Dissected[…]
Click-Thru Percentage for SERP
Chitika advertising network published some analysis it did of click through percentages based on 8,253,240 impressions. “In order to find out the value of SEO, we looked at a sample of traffic coming into our advertising network from Google and broke it down by Google results placement. The top spot drove 34.35% of all traffic Read more about Click-Thru Percentage for SERP[…]
My Social Circle Beta Results are Live
A friend of mine just emailed me some social circle results that came up when he was doing a search for Toronto SEO – while I think these are interesting I am worried that Google is going to make it very hard for new companies in any industry to breakthrough in the search results.
Site Load Speed Effects Ranking it is Official!
Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also Read more about Site Load Speed Effects Ranking it is Official![…]
Google’s SEO Report Card
Now that Google is coming to terms (publicly) with the fact that SEO is real and important it seems they released their own SEO Report Card internally. Very interesting report and you can download the entire thing here.
Funny Google Bit
The onion takes on a Google request in American Voices:
You Know SEO has Gone Mainstream when…Dilbert
You know search engine optimization has gone mainstream when it shows up in a Dilbert comic strip!