Fahad HNov 19, 20142 min readYahoo’s Marissa Mayer: Firefox Deal Will Help Grow Search Share; Some Mobile Ads Won’t CWill Yahoo’s new deal with Firefox help the company grow search traffic? Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said she hopes so — and she hopes the...
Fahad HNov 12, 20144 min readThree Years After Breaking Up, Twitter Wants Back The Google Search Love It Once HadTwitter is having its Twitter Analyst Day today for investment analysts, designed to reassure them about the company’s future. Analysts...
Fahad HOct 21, 20146 min readHow Google’s Latest “Panda” Algorithm Should Change Your Content StrategyPanda “4.1” — another iteration of Google’s algorithm aimed at low-quality web content — hit on September 25, and some brands saw upward...
Fahad HOct 20, 20142 min readGoogle Gives Stephen Colbert A Half Inch After Comedian Spotlights Bad Info In Search ResultsLooks like Google heeded Stephen Colbert’s threat, and has manually fixed the quick answer for the comedian’s height, which Colbert...
Fahad HOct 16, 20142 min readStephen Colbert Demands Google Apology For Getting His Height WrongIncreasingly, Google has been trying to provide people with direct answers to questions rather than sending them to web sites. That got...
Fahad HOct 15, 20142 min readInfographic: Google Study Finds Voice Search Most Used To Ask For DirectionsWe’ve had the ability to speak a search query to smartphones for some time now, but there hasn’t been a lot of data on what types of...
Fahad HOct 14, 20145 min readGet Ready For Next Gen Search By Exploring The Google-Initiated Physical Web ProjectIn 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed a way to connect text documents stored on different computers together via hyperlinks. That project...
Fahad HOct 1, 20141 min readA New Click Through Rate Study For Google Organic ResultsAdvanced Web Ranking has released a study showing fresh data on the click-through-rate from Google’s organic search results. The data was...
Fahad HSep 26, 20141 min readGoogle Rolling Out New Panda Update Designed To Penalize Websites With Low Quality ContentGoogle announced a new Panda Update that helps the search engine identify websites with low-quality content. According to Googler Pierre...
Fahad HSep 23, 20146 min readIn Shopping Search, Keywords Are The End, Not The BeginningImagine you are working at a flourishing brick-and-mortar electronics store. It’s a typical autumn Sunday and a customer walks in. He...
Fahad HAug 7, 20142 min readGoogle Dangles A Big Carrot To Make The Web More PrivateGoogle said this evening that it will give sites that use HTTPS a small ranking advantage in search results. This is a very...
Fahad HJul 25, 20141 min readGoogle “Pigeon” Local Search Algorithm LaunchesLast night, Google pushed out a major local search algorithm update. The update has been pushed out to U.S. English based search results...
Fahad HJul 9, 20141 min readTwitter A-Listers Are More Likely To Have Their Tweets Indexed In Google Search Results [Study]If you are counting on Google indexing your tweets, you had better have Twitter influence — we are talking serious influence. As in, if...
Fahad HJul 2, 20149 min readThanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EUThe EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the...
Fahad HJul 2, 20144 min readThe Future Of Paid Search (From A Data Perspective)Over the past five years, the media buying world has changed dramatically. The incredible advances in adTech (Advertising Technology) and...
Fahad HMay 30, 20141 min readGoogle’s Right To Be Forgotten Form Gets 12,000 Submissions On First DayGoogle’s new Right To Be Forgotten from has been up for just about a day now, and the company says that over 12,000 submissions have been...
Fahad HMay 6, 20144 min readDoes Facebook Have A Teenager Problem? Does Google Have A Mobile Problem?Teenagers are leaving Facebook, apparently in droves. I found one study that suggested a stunning three million teens had left Facebook...
Fahad HApr 10, 20145 min readNative Mobile Apps May Dominate Now, But The Mobile Web Will EndureIf you’re lucky enough to be a huge brand marketer with unlimited budgets, what I’m about to say probably doesn’t apply to you. You have...
Fahad HApr 1, 20144 min readThe Fatal Mistake Content Marketers Are Making With NofollowRIP, content marketing. Thanks to Google’s algorithm updates and quality guidelines that require paid links to include a nofollow tag,...
Fahad HFeb 13, 20144 min readGrow In-Store Visits From Smartphones For Better Traffic From Google MobileWe know 2013 was the year that Google finally started to improve the smartphone search experience, warning webmasters and marketers about...
