Today In SEO & Search News: January 24, 2017

It’s been an interesting past 24 hours in search. Here are the top stories we’ve been following: How Google’s Q4 Search Growth Got There Ginny Marvin over at Search Engine Land analyzes Merkle’s latest Digital Marketing Report and explains where the continued growth from Google comes from. CPC was down 0.5% so how is Google […]

Video Ads Planned for FB Timelines

Co-Workers and clients ask me why I stopped using MSN Messenger, like it’s a surprise to them that I don’t willingly sign into an application that spends most of it’s time trying to download videos/advertisements to distract me? To me the more advertisements I see on a service the more I see that service as […]

The Google/Netflix Internet Land Grab

There are indications of an apparent paradigm shift occurring with how your favorite streaming content is delivered to you. There appears to be a “land grab” by large corporations to move their servers next to their ISPs networking infrastructure in order to minimize lag and increase profits. In a typical setup, when you want to […]

Welcome to NewTube – HTML5 + Sneak Peek Tip

YouTube and Google have been update crazy this month. Apparently the Google engineers are doing more than growing facial hair and thinking about their tongues. The image above is a sneak peek at the new YouTube start page. It wasn’t intended to be public but a single command can enable anyone to use it right […]

Google Updates Social Search Algorithm

Google announced February 17, 2011 on their blog that they were upgrading its social search algorithm to include posts from popular social networking sites of a user’s social network friends into its Internet search results. The new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search is an effort by Google to help a searchers find […]

First Contact

Well today was the first day I had the opportunity to speak on Webmaster Radio. The topics we covered today included the importance of the alternative engines (to watch upcoming technologies and for traffic), the YouTube/Google deal, and Yahoo! announcing they’re now respecting the noodp meta tag. You can listen to the piece by clicking […]