Pinterest is working on yet another way to monetize their social media platform with plans to add a “Buy” button to pins. According to re/code, Pinterest is pushing to launch it within the next 3 to 6 months. The buy buttons would be powered through payment processing company Stripe which is reportedly close to signing […]
Archives for February 2015
Google Analytics Data From February 9th Finally Restored
If you are among those people with missing data for February 9, 2015 in Google Analytics, the data has now been restored. It is unclear what made the information vanish for a week, although people were suspecting it might have had something to the corrupted database. Many people were seeing the data from the 9th […]
Google Helpouts Closing, Citing Slow Growth of the Expert Video Advice Service
Google is planning to close down their Google Helpouts program on April 20, 2015. Google launched help out as a way for experts in various topics to give personal advice to others for a fee. However Google feels the program hasn’t grown as much as they expected to, so they are closing down the program. […]
Increase Google AdSense Publisher Revenue By Utilizing Google Display Network Data
From an Old Google AdWords Advertiser The good news: AdSense success is not all about your content or headlines. No, really, that’s good news! Knowing a few insider tips can help you be more competitive in the AdSense publisher space from the start as well as help you get more traffic to your website and […]
Which is Better: Subdomains or Subdirectories? Here’s What Google Says
There has been plenty of discussion lately over whether subdomains or subdirectories are the better route to go – with many people from both sides supplying Google Analytics screenshots details to prove their argument, with probably the subdirectories side winning the argument. Obviously someone else who has seen all these posts and tweets lately decided […]
Why Google is Slow to Process & Index Some 301 Redirects
On today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, one of the questions was why it can sometimes take significantly longer for Google to process some 301 redirects while others are processed quickly. John Mueller from Google says there’s actually two parts of this issue. Google processes 301 redirects right away, as soon as they discover it. So […]
Pinterest Bans All Affiliate Links, Redirects & Trackers from All Pins on Entire Site
If you’ve been making affiliate revenue on Pinterest, you’ll need to get a bit more savvy with how you do it as Pinterest is now banned all affiliate links from the popular social media platform. In an email sent out to their so-called “power pinners”, and they disclose that they are removing all affiliate links, […]
Pinterest Launches App Pins, Allowing Users to Install iOS Apps Directly from Pinterest
If you are selling iOS apps, you had better start getting your Pinterest account set up because Pinterest and Apple are joining forces to have pinned apps on the popular image sharing site. Instead of just having pins link to various webpages, these new app pins are designed to not only promote the app but […]
Facebook Ads Launches Relevancy Score, Facebook’s Version of Quality Score
When the choosing to display ads on Facebook, Facebook has been using an internal metric called relevance score. Now Facebook is going to begin displaying this metric to advertisers so they can improve their ads based on the feedback from it. Facebook’s relevancy score ranges from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. The […]
Overcoming AdWords Conversion Data Discrepancies
Let’s start with a simple question. Actually this question is better: How many conversions did a campaign generate last month? Any PPC worth their salt will be able to give me a definitive number for that. It will feed our reports and justify our marketing spend. And more than likely it will be wrong. I’m […]