Bing has added some new functionality to Bing search which will be of special note to readers. They now have a new bestseller carousel search that will appear the top of the search results when doing a Bing search for best selling books. They are missing the opportunity to highlight many other book areas. While […]
Twitter Planning to Launch Their Own Video App for Video Creation & Uploading
Twitter is launching a brand-new video product within the next few weeks. The new product is an app that can be used not just to post video to twitter but also to shoot and edit it as well. Video has been growing in popularity, particularly in the last year. Facebook has been making their own […]
Google Loses 2% of Search Share After Firefox Makes Yahoo Default Search
When Firefox announced that they would be changing their default search engine from Google to Yahoo, and many people were quite curious to see just how many Firefox users would be switching their search engine. And it would appear that the answer is quite a few as Google suffers the largest search share loss since […]
Bing Ads Will No Longer Allow Phone Numbers in Ad Copy
If you have been sneaking phone numbers into your Bing Ads ad copy, in hopes of getting free calls without paying for the click throughs, you will need to make some changes to those ads. Bing Ads is bringing in new editorial policies that no longer allow advertisers to include their phone number in the […]
Google Adding New Viewing Reporting Metrics For Video Ads Served Through DoubleClick
Google is adding some new visibility reports for advertisers that are running online video ads. One of the big complaints about online video ads is that many advertisers aren’t certain just how much of their video is being viewed, and many platforms give very limited details on what percentage of the video is watched or […]
Getting More Results of Google’s In Depth Articles for Any Keyword
Wondering if your articles have the potential to appear as an “In-Depth Article” in the Google search results if only they showed more? While Google tends to only show one or two in-depth articles, they are ranking many more than that – up to ten for each search query. If you find yourself ranking just […]
345 Million Pirate Links Removed from Google in 2014
Ever wonder just how many URLs Google receives each year in DMCA complaints? Torrent Freak has analyzed Google’s weekly transparency reports for 2014 and discovered that copyright holders and others have submitted over 345 million URLs to the search engine for removal last year. That is an average of over 6 million URLs per week, […]
Google’s HTTPS as Ranking Factor Announcement Increased Secured Webpages by 3%
When Google pushing webmasters to adopt HTTPS with their announcement in August that it would be a ranking signal, it prompted many webmasters to rush to get their websites secured. And it would appear that the announcement had a huge impact on the number of websites that chose to switch from HTTP to HTTPS. So […]
Bing Search, Along With Yahoo Search, Down For 30 Minutes
Bing Search, as well as Yahoo Search which is powered by results from Bing, has gone down, with “Bing Services Not Available Now” showing up when someone goes to Bing.com. The service went down about 11:25 PST and was back up at 11:45 PST. Yahoo Search was initially showing their regular search results page with […]
Twitter Begins “While You Were Away” Tweets in Twitter Stream
Twitter has always been about chronological tweets. Don’t check Twitter for six hours? Unless something gets retweeted, chances are you will miss something you might have considered important. While many have wondered whether Twitter would change to a non-chronological news feed similar to Facebook (although Facebook’s implementation of it has issues too), it would seem […]