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 […]
Archives for September 2014
Twitter Advertising launches in 11 new countries
Twitter has expanded their self-service advertising offering to 11 new countries. Advertising is now available to businesses in: Argentina Chile Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Mexico Peru Belgium Italy Luxembourg Netherlands This follows on the heels of the launch of Twitter advertising in 12 new countries a couple of weeks ago, which focused on countries in Central […]
Google Officially Removes YouTube Keyword Tool
If you have been a fan of the YouTube keyword tool, a tool that many marketers found useful beyond YouTube as well, Google has officially removed the tool in its current form. Google recently began alerting users that they would be disabling the tool on September 1st with an alert at the page stating: The […]
Twitpic Shutting Down After Trademark Dispute with Twitter
It is a sad day for Twitpic users after they have announced they are shutting down after getting into a trademark dispute with Twitter. A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark application or risk losing access to their API. This came as a shock to us since Twitpic has […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Identify Hacked Content
It is day # 4 in the Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request series of tips this week. Sometimes a page may look clean to you but hackers often inject content that only search engines can easily see. ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ shows how your page looks to Googlebot (our website crawler) so use it to identify […]
Twitter favorites & follows only show in timeline when no updates twice in a row
When Twitter began showing favorites and follows in the Twitter timeline, there was a lot of confusion about why this would trigger. Some users were seeing it consistently, while others weren’t seeing it at all. According to a tweet by Twitter CEO Dick Costello, Twitter will show favorites (and presumably follows, which I also verified) […]
3 Google Webmaster Tools For Implementing Structured Data
For some time now, the SEO community has been abuzz about semantic search and incorporating structured data markup to sites in an effort to help search engines understand the context of content on a given page and render rich snippets within search results. And for good reason! In a (relatively) recent case study conducted by […]
Yelp Uses Private Yelp Messages to Find Paid Reviews Evidence
Yelp announced that they have released 61 new “Consumer Alerts” on the Yelp pages of businesses who have been found to be spamming the review system through either multiple reviews from the same IP address or who have been found offering payment or discounts for fake reviews. The businesses are flagged with alert notices for […]
Google Reconsideration Tips: Remove Inorganic Backlinks
Another day and another Google Webmaster Help Reconsideration Request Tip in their series of tips this week. Day # 3 brings us “remove inorganic backlinks”. Day 3 of #GoogleRecon — For a reconsideration request to be successful, a significant percentage of inorganic links should be removed from the website. If you can get a backlink […]
AdWords Callout Extensions Rolling Out to All Accounts
Callout extensions are coming out of beta and rolling into all accounts starting this week. This new extension type displays as 3 or 4 extra text snippets typically shown below the ad description body separated by “…”s. Google’s direction on callout extensions is that they are meant to “callout” the unique selling propositions of a brand […]