
Google’s Year Of Change Hits Mobile Retail
It has been a year of change at Google. A barrage of updates to the format of mobile search result pages have thrown the organic search...

Optimizing For Mobile Search In 2016: A Continuous Process
The growth of mobile has become undeniable. The Google mobile-friendly algorithm update of April 2015 set off a firestorm of activity as...

Google’s Chrome Android App Loads Pages Without Images When Low Bandwidth Detected
“There’s a new way to load pages more quickly with Chrome’s Data Saver,” reads the announcement on the Chrome Google+ page, “The Chrome...

Click-to-Call & Paid Search: Best Practices And Secrets From The Pros
Research from Google has shown that the most common response to a mobile, local search is a phone call. Advertisers have caught on,...

App Developers To Europe: Don’t Hurt Google’s Ability To “Improve” Android
A group of roughly 140 Android developers under the coordination of an organization called the Application Developers Alliance is...

Google Announces New Advertising Support For AMP Pages
Google plans to rollout fast-loading AMP pages into its mobile search results early next year — and now it says there are advertising...

Google Shows Offline Analytics Capabilities With Holiday Store Traffic Data
Like so many others, Google is putting out holiday shopping data this week. I’m sitting on 40 or more studies and surveys that discuss...

New Google Play “Warning”: App May Contain Advertising
Is “advertising” becoming a dirty word? In the broader climate of complaints about low-quality ads and ad blocking, it’s interesting to...

Make It So: Google’s Voice-Search-Enabled Star Trek Communicator Pin
Credit: Google Google, and search czar Amit Singhal in particular, have long been trying to develop experiences that mimic the...

Is Google Now Becoming A News Reader Too?
Ever since “stories to read” started appearing in Google Now, I’ve been eager for Google expand the section. Now Google appears to be...

Mobile, Millennials And Marketing: An Insider’s View
Last week, I had the luxury of sitting in on a panel hosted by the Advertising Research Foundation titled, “Millennials Unplugged: What...

Google App Streaming: A Big Move In Building “The Web Of Apps”
Google App Streaming became a reality today, and with it, a new era of Google pushing to create a “web of apps,” the ability to easily...

What Publishers Must Consider When Planning Their Mobile Strategies
Mobile traffic on most publishers’ sites has been soaring in recent months, sparking them to consider fundamental and strategic issues...

Urban Airship Enables Real-Time Mobile Data Insights For Marketers
“Don’t cross the streams” was the famous line from the movie, “Ghostbusters.” But that’s exactly what Urban Airship is trying to help...

Android 6 “Marshmallow” & SEO Series: Click To Search With Google Mobile
As Google’s crawling technology becomes more sophisticated and prolific with the release of Android Marshmallow, search behavior is...

Location-Based Targeting and Capturing “Near Me” Moments
According to ComScore, Consumers now spend more than half of their online time on mobile devices, identifying, researching and connecting...

Study: Mobile Users Will Go On Roughly 4 Dates With Apps Before Breaking Up
If a new survey from Localytics is correct, apps will figure more prominently in future user behavior, but their success is contingent on...

Appnext Launches Cost Per Install-Based Ad Serving Solution For Mobile Publishers
London-based Appnext, a self-serve monetization and app distribution platform, has launched an ad-serving solution that aims to help...

Mobile Marketer Localytics Adds “True Impact” Analytics
Today, app marketing/analytics firm Localytics is releasing a new capability to measure a marketing campaign’s true impact. Actually,...
























