SEO
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines
Google’s about to make a change to how it reports referrer information for those using its Chrome browser. As a result, some analytics programs may begin listing search visitors as if they instead came directly from Google without doing a search, though major packages will probably adjust OK. The change was posted on the Google [...] The Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced agenda is now posted! Check out the agenda and register before super early bird rates expire at the end of Saturday.
SEO by the Sea
By Bill Slawski , on April 4, 2012 A rumor surfaced last week that Google would launch a third party commenting platform to rival Facebook’s . Coincidentially, Google was granted two patents this week describing comment systems, and how comments might be ranked under those systems. But the patents appear to describe comments on two different services from Google that have been discontinued. One of the patents appears to involve Google Sidewiki , which had more of a Web annotation service feel than that of a commenting system, and and the other involves comments on Google Knol .
In the fickle world of fashion, finding, engaging, and retaining brand devotees online is not easily stitched together. But YouTube helped one couple turn an online-only retail operation into a global, 275-employee company in less than a decade. Google is the most popular tech company in the U.S., with 82 percent of Americans having a favorable opinion and 53 percent indicating a “strongly” favorable opinion of the company, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Pinterest is now the third most popular social networking site in the U.S. and could help foster "meaningful connections" between retailers and consumers. That's according to a lengthy new 2012 Digital Marketer report from Experian. A Google Doodle today is paying tribute to motion picture innovator Eadweard J.