
Report: Facebook leads other platforms for app-install ROI in performance index
According to the latest AppsFlyer Performance Index Report (registration required), Twitter offers the best user retention record (12...

Microsoft’s Cortana comes to iPad, ChromeOS devices to get Google Assistant
Last week, Microsoft released a version of Cortana for the iPad. Cortana is already available for the iPhone but has now been optimized...

Apple HomePod gets mixed reviews, Nest returns to Google
The battle for the smart home is well underway, triggered by the advent of smart speakers. Apple’s entry, HomePod, will finally be...

It’s 2018. Are your Google Shopping campaigns ready?
What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your campaigns fare? Stellar? Decent? Mediocre?...

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...

Google’s new #SmallThanks Hub automatically creates digital & printed marketing assets fo
In a move to help SMBs — as well as drive up its verified business listings — Google has launched #SmallThanks Hub, an online resource...

8 game-changing SEO trends that will dominate 2018
With over 200 factors in Google’s algorithm, SEO is a complex science. But it’s not how much you need to know that makes it really...

RCS messaging takes a few more steps toward rocking mobile
Browser wars are so last century. In a few weeks, we could see the next phase of the Messaging Wars. That’s when Sprint is expected to...

All the devices Google announced Oct. 4 at its ‘made by Google’ hardware event
In San Francisco on October 4, Google held its “Made by Google” hardware event. This comes in the wake of Apple’s recent iPhone X launch...

Tracking the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project
AMP isn’t quite a household acronym yet, but it has big implications for virtually everyone with web access. The Accelerated Mobile Pages...

Gab.ai sues Google after removal from Play store for hate-speech violations
Described as a “digital safe space for the far right” or the “alt-right’s very own Twitter,” social site Gab.ai is suing Google parent...

Google rolling out support for AMP landing page in AdWords search campaigns globally
In May, Google announced it was running a beta test with advertisers to test driving traffic from mobile search ads to AMP landing pages....

Google reportedly looking at buying HTC’s phone unit, expands Android One program
HTC is the maker of Google’s successful Pixel smartphones. However, the Taiwanese company has been under intensifying financial pressure...

AMP for Advanced SEOs: SMX Advanced insights
At the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle this year, Ranna Zhou from Google, Scott Sala from iProspect and Paul Shapiro from Catalyst all...

SMX Advanced session: Mobile-First For The Advanced SEO
SMX Advanced was amazing this year, and when they asked me to write up a session, I immediately asked to cover the mobile-first session....

Setting up and testing AMP for WordPress: A quick 7-step guide
In today’s mobile-centric world, having pages that load quickly is essential for satisfying the user. Not only that, but the effects of...

Google’s mobile-first index likely not coming until 2018 at earliest
Google is “probably many quarters away” from launching its mobile-first index. So said Gary Illyes, Google webmaster trends analyst,...

Google rolling out GMB simple website creator
According to Mike Blumenthal, Google is now broadly rolling out its simple website creator for small businesses: websites. It first...

Report: Facebook’s Instant Articles faster than AMP, both formats boost user engagement
Chartbeat released a report this week that quantifies the benefits of faster mobile page-load times, and specifically of publisher usage...
























