Google Chrome to Start Labeling Non-HTTPS Sites “Not Secure”
Google Chrome browser version 56 will begin warning users of Non-HTTPS web pages. If you don’t have an SSL certificate for your site, let us help.
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PPC Click Fraud Rate Q2 2008
There is good news and bad news for PPC advertisers on the issue of click fraud for the second quarter of 2008. Click Forensics has released their click fraud numbers for last quarter and so I will give you the good news first: Click fraud rates went down last quarter (16.0 percent) compared to the […]
ReadMicrosoft Opening European Search Centers
Steve Balmer of Microsoft announced Thursday that they were opening 3 R&D centers in Europe as part of their ongoing efforts to catch up to Google in Search Engine market share. The search center locations would be in Munich, Paris and London. Microsoft also announced that it was going to be increasing its $600 million/yr […]
ReadNew Microsoft Pay to Search Program
Microsoft started an initiative back in May called Live Search Cashback which provides rebates to users of its search engine who search for and purchase products through Microsoft Live. It was a novel approach to attempt to increase search engine market share. Currently, Google has a commanding lead at about 63%. Yahoo! is second with […]
ReadWikia Search Update
Wikia Search was launched in Alpha earlier this year and we have been watching it out of the corner of our eye to gauge its progress. At first, wow, it was bad. The search results were slow and chocked full of irrelevant sites. But, hey, it was only an alpha release and creating a new […]
ReadCuil First Impressions
By now, I would imagine that everyone in the SEO world has at least heard of the new startup search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). It is run by some former Google employees, uses different algorithms and shows the results in a layout similar to a magazine or newspaper. As one might expect, an announcement […]
ReadGoogle Selling Performics
When Google purchased DoubleClick, they also became the owners of Performics – Search Engine Optimization company. There was a lot of talk in the SEO/SEM community about that being a conflict of interest – a Search Engine company owning a Search Engine Optimization company. Last week Google announced it will sell off the Performics portion […]
ReadGoogle Owns Performics (By Extension)
Now that the DoubleClick / Google marriage has been blessed by both the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, SEOs and SEMs everywhere will be eager to see what Google will do with Performics. Performics is a Search Engine Marketing company owned by DoubleClick and so Google now owns a Search Engine Marketing […]
ReadPagerank Restored for Our Tech Blog
At some point over the weekend, Google restored the Pagerank to our tech blog. I filled out a reconsideration request on Thursday (I think) and the PR was restored sometime over the weekend. So, that was pretty quick in my book. I still do not agree with their whole approach to quashing paid links, but […]
ReadYahoo Improves Search Market Share in December
With all that shopping going on in December, it should come as no surprise that Search Engine traffic was down slightly (-3.9%) across the board during the month. After all, who can find time to goof around on the Internet when they are too busy doing last minute shopping? Despite that drop, Yahoo! search traffic […]
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