Archive for September, 2010
Google Rolls-Out “Hyper-Local” Search Ads Feature For Mobile
Posted by: | CommentsGoogle, adding to its ever-growing portfolio of mobile search ads, has now introduced a new hyper-local ads feature for mobiles. The new feature indicates users on the move, about the exact distance between them and an advertiser’s business location, on their mobiles.
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Google Rolls-Out “Hyper-Local” Search Ads Feature For Mobile
Google’s Updated Keyword Tool Comes Out of Beta Phase
Posted by: | CommentsAfter announcing the Updated Keyword tool to be in the final stages of the beta phase last month, Google has now fully launched it The Updated Keyword tool has the best features of the previous two keyword tools, i.e., the Keyword Tool and the Search-based Keyword Tool. Both the previous versions has been removed from AdWords and what now remains on AdWords is solely the Updated Keyword Tool. Core Benefits of the Updated Keyword Tool Better Search Options: The keyword tool users can now search with any combination of keyword, website/URL, and category and get a single set of results.
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Google’s Updated Keyword Tool Comes Out of Beta Phase
Google Brings Out a New Updated Version of the SEO Starter Guide
Posted by: | CommentsTwo years after publishing its first Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, Google has now come up with a new updated version of it. The guide outlines the best SEO practices, using which webmasters can optimize their sites, thus helping the search engines to crawl, index, and understand the site's content in a better way.
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Google Brings Out a New Updated Version of the SEO Starter Guide
New Bing Updates for Mobile iPhone and iPod Touch Apps
Posted by: | CommentsIn an announcement , Bing said that it has made few updates to Bing Mobile iPhone and iPod Touch apps.
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New Bing Updates for Mobile iPhone and iPod Touch Apps
Rich Snippets Can Influence Local Search Listings
Posted by: | CommentsIn a recent blog , Google made an announcement, that with the use of Rich Snippets, web pages with a reference to a particular place, are more likely to get displayed in the search results, when a user makes a search query on that specific location.
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Rich Snippets Can Influence Local Search Listings
Google Turns 12!
Posted by: | CommentsOn September 27th, Google celebrated its 12th birthday. To celebrate this special day, they chose a cake designed by an 89 year old artist, Wayne Thiebaud, famous for his paintings and drawings of cakes and other food items. In 1996, Google co-founders – Larry Page and Sergey Brin, then Stanford graduation students had started working on BackRub, which later become Google .
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Google Turns 12!
Google has introduced new SEO attributes – rel=”alternate” and hreflang=”x”, for better handling of multi-lingual pages and content. This feature is predominantly for websites, that contain: Template (side navigation, footer) which can be machine-translated into various languages
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Google Introduces New SEO Specific Attributes For Handling Multi-lingual Pages and Content
Google’s Tips for Getting Help on SEO and Site-Building
Posted by: | CommentsAs a leading search company, Google believes in developing scalable solutions to problems. Google says, that it has always tried to be prompt in answering to the queries, put forward by Webmasters. According to Google, Webmaster Tools were actually developed to provide relevant information to Websmasters about their own sites, so that, they could themselves handle issues related to the sites
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Google’s Tips for Getting Help on SEO and Site-Building
Google Relaunches AdWords Reseller Program
Posted by: | CommentsAt the BIA/Kelsey Directional Media Strategies 2010 Conference in Dallas, Texas, Todd Rowe, Google’s new Director of Global SMB Reseller Partnerships, announced about a new AdWords reseller program
Looking Forward – Big Updates On Yahoo! Prodcuts
Posted by: | CommentsAfter Google announcing its New Reseller Program(link to the google post), here is some good news for Yahoo! Loyals. The newest EVP & CPO, Blake Irving bloggged about the Yahoo! product updates in the coming fall.
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Looking Forward – Big Updates On Yahoo! Prodcuts