10 Proven Ways to Market Your Website

10 Proven Ways to Market Your Website
Forbes
SEO is the process of increasing your website's visibility in search engine'sorganic results through optimizing your pages with the keyword phrases people are likely to search for. Think about it: when you search for something in Google, ...

Forbes

Google view on mobile ads awaited at CEO's 1-year anniversary
Reuters
By Alexei Oreskovic | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's advertising rates will get extra scrutiny as Wall Street ponders whether the proliferation of Internet-connected smartphones helps or hinders the money-making search engine that drives the ...

Google Searches For a Mobile Answer
TheStreet.com
By Chris Ciaccia 04/11/12 - 01:08 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) --Google(GOOG) has vastly underperformed since the start of 2012. Shareholders hope the company's first-quarter results on Thursday can be a catalyst for the stock to move higher.

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"Secrets of Google Search Revealed," Says DigitalMarketer.com Article
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The secrets of Google search are given out in Digital Marketer's new Special Report, and entrepreneurs are rushing to develop their YouTube and Google marketing strategies. Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 11, 2012 The secrets of Google search are hidden ...

Can Google get its groove back?
CNNMoney
By Paul R. La Monica @lamonicabuzzApril 11, 2012: 1:51 PM ET Google has missed this year's tech rally due to an earnings miss in January and concerns about growing competition from Apple and Facebook. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Is Google's future so bright ...

Your Social Shelf Space Opportunity
Huffington Post (blog)
In 2005, an innovative eye tracking study found that the majority of visibility during a search query happened in a triangle at the top of the Google.com search result page. Search experts called this area of concentrated interest the "golden triangle ...

Google's Rosetta Stone AdWords Woes Continue as Case Reopened
Search Engine Watch
At issue: whether the sale of trademarked search keywords to the company's competitors for sponsored links makes Google liable for trademark infringement. Language software company Rosetta Stone complained that users searching for their software were ...

Hey, Facebook, look at that: Google just redesigned Google+
Los Angeles Times
By Jessica Guynn The Internet search giant says the face-lift will make Google+ easier to use. And it says more than 170 million people have registered for Google+ accounts. Google is looking to catch up to social networking behemoth Facebook, ...

Google's $12 Billion Toy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By DENNIS K. BERMAN Here's a business riddle: Divine Google Inc.'s intentions for its largest-ever acquisition, the $12.5 billion purchase of the once-great, now-faltering Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. Motorola represents one of the thorniest ...

Google Hotel Finder v. YayHotels.com
MarketWatch (press release)
What makes YayHotels.com different is the dynamic update of all information whenever a filter is changed - no need to submit a search. It's a little like Google's Hotel Finder but with real-time rates and more options and features.

Google+ Redesigned With New Navigation, Profile Pages
Search Engine Watch
by Miranda Miller, April 11, 2012 Comments Google today announced a number of new features for Google+, including navigation and design changes. The result: a more “functional and flexible version of Google+,” according to Google's blog post.

Google Sales Seen Up 25%; Observers Watch Ad Prices
Investor's Business Daily
By KEVIN SHALVEY, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 10:47 AM ET Wall Street expectsGoogle's per-share profit for Q1 to rise 19% from the year-earlier quarter when the company reports its latest financials late Thursday, but analysts will be watching ...

comScore Releases March 2012 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, Va., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search ...

Google+ Revamped As Part of Larry Page's Big Clean Up
Forbes
Google announced a new design for Google+ today, saying it wanted to make the social network “more functional and flexible” with a design that is easier to use, nicer to look at and that “grows alongside our aspirations.” The changes come less than a ...

Is Baidu Ready for Google Again?
Motley Fool
Google may have publicly marched out of mainland China two years ago, but it was really only a partial retreat. Google continues to be the second most popular search provider in the country, though it's always been a distant second.

Google+ makeover is much more than a pretty face
BetaNews
Google+ is more than a social network. It is the future of Google. Like it or not, the company has embarked on a strategy around social search, and Plus is a pillar. Competing against Facebook clearly is one of Google's goals.

BetaNews

To tally Google ad boost, think long term
Futurity: Research News
LOUIS (US) — The effectiveness of Google search advertising is only accounted for by considering goods and services purchased off-line, as well. The study, from Washington University in St. Louis, finds that the conventional method of measuring the ...

We could be visiting search.google or watch.youtube domains next year if ...
Digitaltrends.com
As the opportunity to acquire new generic top-level domains nears its end, it has been suggested Google could be preparing to introduce .Google, .YouTube and potentially even personalized Google+ domains early next year. When the Internet Corporation ...

Digitaltrends.com

Google Moves Both Chromes Forward
PC Magazine
By Michael Muchmore Search giant Google today announced updates to test versions of both of its Chromes—the browser and the operating system. The browser news is relatively minor, with Chrome 19 beta getting the ability to sync tabs to multiple ...

Is Google Just A Tired Search Engine?
Marketing Pilgrim
So why was Google seen as tired and falling behind even Bing in the search engine race? There are no reasons given in the chart but I can think of a few. Google is getting old – Founded at Stanford in 1996 and incorporated in 1998 Google is REALLY old ...

Analyst Sees Better Quarter for Google
CNBC.com
Google's shares "tanked" the last time the Internet search giant reported earnings but "I don't think that's likely to happen this time," Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney told CNBC Wednesday. According to Thomson Reuters, analysts expect the company to ...

Google Maps illustrates how people depend too much on technology
Arizona Daily Wildcat
With everything a Google search or a click away, memorizing and retaining information is becoming a thing of the past. Basic knowledge of geography seems to be decreasing with each new innovation on Google Maps. North, south, east and west no longer ...

The New Google+ Is Only The Beginning
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 60 mins ago · Leave a Comment Google launched a big redesign of Google+ on Wednesday. It's in the process of rolling it out over the next few days. A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, “The new version of Google+ will gradually start ...

How to Get Your Business Started on YouTube
Computerworld
On many a Web search, Google will place videos at the top of the results. This is common for many terms, and some have suggested that Web pages that contain embedded videos place higher in Google's search results. For the vast majority of businesses, ...

Google+ Redesign Further Mimics Facebook
ABC News (blog)
Google announced the changes to its social network this morning on its blog, which the company says will roll out in the next few days. Some changes involve additions that no other social network has, others strive to keep up with Facebook's additions ...

ABC News (blog)

Google+ New Look: Struggling Social Network Gets Sharing Ribbon, Larger Photos ...
Huffington Post
That's what Google wants sharing on Google+ to feel like, and to that end, the search giant has announced a huge redesign of its struggling social network. In a blog post on Google's official blogspot, Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra laid out ...

Google wants no more helpings of keyword stuffing
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
Naturally, the search engine's announcement has caused some people to overreact to the point of saying Google is anti-SEO or that SEO is dead. That's silly. SEO isn't dead. Thinking about keywords first, content second is dead. There's a difference.

Google's Inability To Move Beyond Search Will Be Their Downfall ...
By Leigh Drogen
Google's Inability To Move Beyond Search Will Be Their Downfall. Posted by Leigh Drogen; on April 11th, 2012. Sooner than later, Google is going to see its core revenue driver search disrupted. I say sooner than later because we can now ...
Leigh Drogen

Google Panda 3.3NetViper Interactive | NetViper Interactive
By netviper
Google Panda 3.3. Posted on April 11, 2012 by netviper. Google released Panda 3.3 update in February. Though 40 updates were done, we haven't seen any change in ranks for the website we do SEO for. What stands out the most to me is: Link evaluation. ... [launch codename “Fuzhou”] This launch brings in a new data source to help generate the “Searches related to” section, increasing coverage significantly so the feature will appear for more queries. This section contains search ...
NetViper Interactive

RKG Report: Google Search Lead Strengthens Even as CPCs ...
By Jake
The latest RKG report also spotlights the performance of Bing and Yahoo in paid search and offers additional insights into data covering: search engine optimization (SEO), social media advertising, comparison shopping engines, ...
Data-Driven Online Marketing | RKG

Google's Human Trafficking Ad Policy Questioned - Search Engine ...
By John Rampton
human-trafficking-google-protest Two lawmakers are concerned about human trafficking advertisements appearing on Google. In a letter to CEO Larry Page, they are requesting Googleshare its policy for sexually exploitative advertisements ...
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Google Loves Shopper Approved - Ratings - Reviews | Shopper ...
By Shopper Approved
But now, with the new addition of Shopper Approved showing up in Google Product Search and Adwords (PPC), it's like Google and Shopper Approved are now going steady. We call it theGoogle Trifecta – Free Search, Product Search, and ...
Shopper Approved Blog

As Google readies semantic search the implications are huge | The ...
By Carsten Kraus
With the announcement that Google will be using semantic search technology as the backbone for its latest “drastic” makeover – which will see the search engine giant endeavour to actually help user's answer questions rather than simply ...
The Wall Blog

What Google Image Search Thinks About Famous Movie Directors ...
By Cole Abaius
Then, we got a kick out of Flavorwire's answer which involved 25 famous authors and what thesearch engine had to say. The experiment is simple. Type a name into Google Image Search, and the program automagically suggests more words ...
Film School Rejects

comScore Releases March 2012 US Search Engine Rankings; Google
By Eddie Staley
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites (NASDAQ: GOOG) led the explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent of search queries ...
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Panda 3.4, SEO and Link Building: Keeping It Natural | Network ...
By Karen Axelton
Certain aspects of a website's design aren't always search engine friendly (i.e., use of too many images, Flash). The problem now is that it's become easy to play the “SEO game.” If you do x, y, z, you'll rank number one in searches. Google is ...
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Phil Bradley's weblog: Facebook challenging Google on search RSN
By philipbradley
It's powered by Microsoft Bing, and as long as you want to find stuff IN Facebook, it just about works. A search for 'public ... If Facebook can create a proper search engine - and by that I mean one that searches the web, news, video and the rest of it, that's going to be huge. If the Holy Grail of search is to personalise search to the extent that the engine knows you well enough to know what you're searching for, Facebook is going to have an absolutely crushing advantage over Google.
Phil Bradley's weblog

TripAdvisor Fends Off Google | Marketing Times for the Hotel ...
By William
TripAdvisor appears to be trying to cut its reliance on Google for search engine referrals. Perhaps ironically — but out of necessity — TripAdvisor is a heavy advertiser with Google'sleading search service. ... to its site is when Google search users click its sponsored ads for vacation-centric keywords. Seeks Other Ad Outlets Anmuth says TripAdvisor is looking to advertise with Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing search and other sites that can funnel traffic its way. Read More at INVESTORS. COM ...
Marketing Times for the Hotel...

Optimize Google+ For Business | SEO Strategy | Marketing ...
By Mitch Levinson
The recent launch of Search Plus Your World, which tailors your Google search results to meet your needs, has made Google+ a powerful factor in Google search. Anyone who is signed intoGoogle when conducting a search will notice that ...
Marketing RELEVANCE

How to Set Up Google Places | Manning | Blog
By Claire
What is Google Places? Google Places is a service offered by Google to help businesses take ownership of their locations and improve their search identity. It enables businesses to come up in Google Maps searches, or as location results in standard Google searches. Google Places is... As an added bonus, a good Places listing can actually help your website SEO by giving users an external source that offers them relevant information related to your website. If your SEO is set up ...
Manning | Blog

The Real Meaning of the Google Places Statuses | Local Search ...
Furthermore, when you search for similar issues you find only threads from the old GooglePlaces forum, which was closed down and its content removed a few ...
www.ngsmarketing.com/the-real-meaning-of-the-google-place...

Display Your Profile Picture In Google Search Results | Digital Gyaan
You must have impressed with bloggers whose profile picture is being displayed with their web pages on Google search results. Well that is really an awesome.
digitalgyaan.com/how-to-get-google-authorship.html

Google Search "Plus Your World" | The Agency Post
Search engines like Google considered the presence of many of these links to be human “votes of confidence” in pieces of content or whole domains, and as a ...
www.agencypost.com/google-search-plus-your-world/

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