It has long been debated whether a Penguin update is needed in order to recover from a true Penguin algo hit, or whether it is possible that you can recover despite the fact we haven’t seen a Penguin refresh for almost a year. General consensus is that an update is needed, but there are those […]
Archives for September 8, 2014
How Marketers Should Be Using New Facebook Video Features
Facebook has some new changes coming this week to videos which will make sharing videos on Facebook a higher priority than before. View Count Facebook is adding view count onto videos. This will help users determine the popularity of a video before watching it, and makes it a bit easier to identify trending videos on […]
7 Social Media Bookmarklets from the Social Media Ninja
I am a very, very busy person. Here: I said that! Personal productivity is very important for me to manage to do everything I like doing. My browser is a huge part of my productivity I have selected over years, thanks to all the tools and bookmarklets, among other things. Why bookmarklets? They are easy […]
Bing Ads Adds Preview & Diagnostics Tool for Mobile Ads
One of the pain points of setting up mobile ads is that you can’t really preview how it will appear on mobile, as most advertisers set up their campaigns through either the Editor or via desktop. Bing Ads has made a change that makes it a bit easier for advertisers to both preview how their […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Submit Helpful Documentation
It is day # 5 – and the final day – in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips. It has long been known that webmasters should include additional information with reconsideration requests, whether it is to show you have taken steps to get links removed or perhaps actual evidence of a negative […]
Google Introduces New Search Box Within Sitelinks in Search Results
Google has introduced a new sitelink feature where it will show a site search box above the sitelinks for a website in the search results. The new change, in addition to the search box getting a prominent spot just under the site description, also takes advantage of auto-complete when people type something into the search […]
Microsoft Target of Getty Images Lawsuit Over Bing Image Widget
When Bing recently launched their Bing Image Widget, a tool that allows users to create a panel of images to display on any website, there was plenty of speculation over whether this would be considered copyright infringement. After all, many images were copyrighted by others who did not give their permission to have the images […]