
Survey: Amazon, Google top SMB ‘Trust Index’
Local business network Alignable released its most recent small business (SMB) Trust Index Report, which reflects net promoter scores...

How to use brand mentions for SEO, or the linkless future of link building
Google has used links to determine the authority of websites since its early days: the idea of webpages casting “votes” for other pages...

Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change
Chris Tolles should be freaking out right now. As CEO of news aggregation site Topix, his is one of the media companies that would...

Pummeling users with Google remarketing ads they don’t want to see? Now they can mute those, t
On Thursday, Google announced more ways for users to control the Google-served ads they see. The changes will have implications for...

Insights from our 2017 holiday retail survey
By most accounts, the holiday shopping season was an e-commerce success, with final tallies beating analyst estimates. Earlier this...

Google AdSense adds style automation for native in-feed ads
Publishers that want to run Google AdSense native in-feed ads on their sites can now opt to have Google’s machine learning take control...

YouTube sets stricter rules on videos that can carry ads
Google has announced several significant changes to how it will be monetizing content on YouTube. The changes come after a series of...

SEO trends and Google changes to expect in 2018
We’re already over a week into 2018, and the start of a new year is a great time to check in and see where we stand as an industry — and...

For Google AdSense publishers experiencing recent ad fulfillment issues, crawler access might be the
A small segment of Google AdSense publishers have noticed changes in ad delivery on their sites over the past month or so. Publishers say...

Report: Google to step up reviews of YouTube premium videos
Google is set to begin placing tighter review controls on videos published on YouTube channels included in the Google Preferred bundling...

AdSense rolls out ad balance optimization tool for publishers
Google AdSense has announced two new Experiments features to give publishers a deeper understanding of how certain factors affect their...

The AdWords 2x budget change: How’s it going?
When Google announced that campaign daily budgets could spend up to double their setting, some shrugged and others thought it could cause...

Holiday shoppers increasingly turned to Google Maps in the countdown to Christmas Day
Ahead of the 2017 holiday season, I wrote a column detailing how much more important locally focused ads became during the 2016 holiday...

Alibaba’s UC browser beating Google Chrome in Indian mobile market
The Alibaba-owned UC browser is winning the war for mobile users in India and Indonesia. Relying on StatCounter data, The Wall Street...

From algo to aggro: How SEOs really feel about Google algorithm updates
As SEOs working in the weeds with our clients each day, it can sometimes be hard to truly see how major Google algorithm updates affect...

Measuring how offline marketing drives website traffic: The fundamentals
If you don’t measure the success of your effort, you’ll never know if it’s giving you a positive return. Fortunately, there are...

6 trends that show the (Thanksgiving) tables have turned in Google Shopping
Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are evolving concepts for shoppers and retailers alike. Catching Thanksgiving and Black...

IAB: First half 2017 ad revenues reach $40.1 billion, on track for $87 billion for the full year
The Interactive Advertising Bureau just released its first half 2017 digital advertising revenue report. Revenues reached a record $40.1...

Google confirms ad-blocking in Chrome will start February 15
cease showing ads on websites that display non-compliant ad experiences beginning February 15. The initial warning was issued in June but...
























