YouTube has just released their biggest design change in history – and it’s starting to feel a little more like a social network that married a TV Guide and had DirectTV has a child. Following activity on interesting channels and keeping track of what your friends like and comment on just got easier thanks to [...]
Google has launched a simplified interface that allows small business clients to easily setup and manage ads for sponsored search results. The new service, renamed from Google Boost to Adwords Express, should be hugely successful. AE allows anyone to setup ads and bid on keywords in less than 5 minutes. The cost per click system [...]
Twitter is flirting with the top 10 sites in the world based on Alexa’s traffic ranking system. Perhaps most people don’t realize Twitter is still putting on record growth because the Fail Whale hasn’t been making many appearances lately. The novelty of Twitter may have worn off quickly for the original generation of twitter users, [...]
Recently one of our web hosting clients had her Adsense account disabled right after she crossed the minimum payout threshold so I examined her Analytics and asked about her click-thru rates, if she had ever clicked her own ads, etc. I did a quick search for “disabled Adsense May 2010″ and as expected found a [...]
The new YouTube layout changes have been met with a lot of criticism from users for a good reason. I have to admit for a week I thought something I changed in my browser settings was causing YouTube’s layout to break .. but then I realized it was showing this way for everyone, on purpose. [...]
YouTube has traded in the 5 star rating system for a Like/Dislike system. Off the bat, it seems to devalue search results (no longer can see the rating of each video) by only indicating which videos are most liked and not displaying any ratings information for the other 90% of videos on the page. YouTube [...]
Today is the first time I noticed thumbnail images in the right side sponsored ads in google search results. Perhaps Google is taking some lessons away from Facebook‘s success using the thumbnail + text for sidebar ad delivery. Check out this example (click for fullsize) Notice how many of the links on Google’s search results [...]
Christoph Cemper gives a great overview of Google’s Decision to provide personalized results for all searches. Should SEOs be worried? Learn why Google Analytics is now illegal in Germany. Find out how many of the world’s websites now use Google Analytics and get up to date on Google’s new DNS services. Christoph says don’t freak [...]
Google impresses me with their vision for “Goggles”, the new search app for Android Mobile Phone users. Instead of typing words for your search, “Goggles” allows you to take a picture using you cell phone, then it returns relevant search results. Google can also provide information for nearby businesses and restaurants based on what it [...]
Domain registration length does seem to be a small factor when Google is trying to make up it’s mind where to rank your site in search results. I’ve spent time reading snips of blogs, watching YouTube videos, and the only thing I can really determine is your might as well register the domain for 5 [...]
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