Google Wave Dead to All Except Chrome Users
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Watch
Google has finally shut its Wave tool and told web users they can no longer access their group discussions and collaborative projects from the service, unless they are Chrome browser users. Internet Explorer and Firefox users trying to access the Wave website are now told the hosting servers for the service have been closed completely. [...]
American Icons Top BrandPower List
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Marketing Pilgrim
An icon is a symbol that evokes a visceral feeling when you see it. They’re well-known images that nearly everyone can relate to and generally they represent the very best a category has to offer. All that may sound very grandiose when talking about advertising, but there are handful of brands that truly are American [...]
Foursquare Offers Instant Verification For $10
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Clickz
Foursquare announced today it will charge businesses a fee of $10 to instantly verify their page online. In the past, restaurants, bars, and shops have had to mail in their application and wait for approval. The process typically took weeks to complete. While the development won’t likely create a huge windfall of revenue for New [...]
Google Changes AdWords Ad Rotation To 30-Day Period
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Webmaster World
This is ridiculous Google! This shows that CTR is still king at Google. We are running almost all of our tens of millions of Adwords clicks with the “Rotate: Show ads more evenly” option to test WEBSITE CONVERSIONS. This will indeed cost lots of TIME to reset this options every 30 days. What is the [...]
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2012
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in SE Round Table
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: What Is The Google AdSense UPS Club? You see the term “AdSense UPS club” mentioned throughout various Google AdSense help threads – but what [...]
Title Tags: Not Just for Keywords Anymore
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in SEOchat
(Page 1 of 2 ) I very nearly titled this article “The Truth About Keywords in Title Tags.” I didn’t because I’m no longer sure that anyone has all of it. If you’re ready to rethink one of the most basic things you’ve ever learned about SEO, and stop simply reacting to Google, keep reading. [...]
New European e-commerce association tackles privacy laws and payments
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Internet Retailer
Ecommerce Europe—a union of national e-commerce associations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden—swung into action last week by launching its web site, www.ecommerce-europe.eu. The organization says it will focus on three priority issues as it lobbies EU lawmakers and officials over coming months: EU privacy laws surrounding e-commerce; logistics, particularly shipping [...]
Google Drive or Dropbox – Which Cloud Storage Is Best For Me?
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Hobo Web
RECOMMENDED: Check out the best seo tools you should be using [Google Drive is not available in the UK at the moment. But - it's 'coming'.] Where will you choose to store your life in the cloud? Dropbox (aff) or Google Drive? NOTE – The following chart says Dropbox had 2 GB free storage as [...]
Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Google Webmaster Central Blog
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 6:07 PM Webmaster Level: Intermediate / Advanced We love data, and spend a lot of time monitoring the analytics on our websites. Any web developer doing the same will have noticed the increase in traffic from mobile devices of late. Over the past year we’ve seen many key sites garner [...]
Meeting Agenda Template: How to run more effective and efficient meetings
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by admin in Marketing Sherpa
I bet you could get a lot more actual work done without meetings, eh? An example of this is David Meerman Scott’s answer to the question, “How are you so prolific?” He lists several reasons, but my favorite is, “I don’t have to sit in any damn meetings (unless I want to).” However, you are [...]
