Google is now offering additional information on websites that Google has added the malware warning too. The warnings themselves aren’t new, but now users can look up and find out exactly what is triggering the warning that displays “The site ahead contains malware” on the red interstitial. Google has a new site status section in […]
Archives for October 2015
Unruly Launches New ‘Outstream’ Video Ad Format with MarketWatch
On Tuesday, Unruly introduced a viewable “outstream” video ad format which creates new premium video ad inventory within article pages. Less than a month since its acquisition by News Corp, Unruly is launching the high-impact format across a number of News Corp titles, including MarketWatch, The Sun in the UK, and News.Com.Au. The In-Article format […]
Duane Forrester Announces He is Leaving Bing & Microsoft
Duane Forrester from Bing has announced he is leaving Microsoft after nearly 8 years with the company. Or has he said on Facebook: Same old story. Boy meets cute opportunity. Boy falls in love with cute opportunity. Boy drops everything to pursue cute opportunity. He made a more official announcement via his blog. I’m leaving […]
Yahoo Reaches Agreement to Serve Google Search Results & AdSense Ads
Yahoo has announced a new search partnership with Google that will see Google serve the ads and search results for Yahoo on up to 49% of search queries, replacing Bing’s own search results and ads that currently run on Yahoo. This doesn’t come as too big of a surprise, as it has been known that […]
How & Why Google Rewrites Page Titles in the Search Results
SEOs who have spent time carefully crafting the perfect page title get understandably upset when Google decides to rewrite the titles they display for those pages in the search results. And there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to when or why they will replace the titles. But thanks to an English/Hindi webmaster […]
5 Practical Examples of Structured Data for Rich Snippets in Search Results
Once you familiarize yourself with what structured data markup is and why it’s important for SEO success, your brain should quickly shift into action-mode. How can you leverage structured data markup to in order to help the search engines help you? Well, the key is to avoid getting overwhelmed. When viewed as one massive entity, […]
Sign Up For Google Android Search App Beta
Interested in another Google beta test? Google is accepting people into the Android search app beta. The test is for a version of the search app that appears to be a cross between the regular Google search app and Google Now. You will get access to new features Google is testing prior to them being […]
Amazon Suing Fiverr Users Selling Fake Amazon Reviews
Amazon is hoping to make fake reviews on Amazon a bit harder by suing over 1000 people who were selling fake Amazon reviews via Fiverr. In April this year, Amazon sued multiple website owners who sold reviews via “buy Amazon reviews” type websites, successfully shutting most of them down. Now it is targeting sellers who […]
Optimizing Bing Shopping Campaigns – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of optimizing shopping campaigns! Today’s article wraps up by delving into the product feed and dimensions reporting to help provide optimization tips and tricks. (You can find part 1 here) Feed Health With regard to the product feed, one important factor to consider is your product feed health, most of which […]
YouTube to Offer Premium Paid Subscription Videos
We have been getting new details about YouTube’s plans for an ad-free subscription service… but now we know of another new feature that goes along with that subscription – premium content. It is unclear if YouTube video creators can take advantage of this. But if they could, I could easily see YouTube becoming the “go […]