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Google Analytics Update Google Analytics Update (Beta)Always looking to push the boundaries, Google have released the latest version of Google Analytics and opened it up to a select few analytics accounts for beta testing. ( If you have not already been invited you can sign up to request early access via this link - Google Analytics beta )
Top Losers from Google's Farmer Update Last week Google introduced an update to its index which would try and remove low quality sites from the top of its results. There was a heavy focus in targeting content-farms which syndicated...
Bing Rises 21% in Search Market Data in January Hitwise announced its monthly search market share data for January 2011. Google accounted for 67.95 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in January 2011.
Bing Gains Search 5% Usage In December
Google Announces Analytics Widget for iGoogle I am a big fan of iGoogle and Google Analytics so I am really happy with the latest announcement of the new Google Analytics widget for iGoogle.
Bing Powered Search Gains In November The following data is from Experian Hitwise featuring search engine user behavior and the top 5 retail sites receiving traffic from paid search for the month of November.
Google Has Only Indexed .004% Of Online Data
Google Replace In-page Analytics Last Friday Google Analytics introduced In-Page Analytics whereby you can see your Google Analytics data superimposed on your website as you browse.
Myhomepage Looks To Compete With iGoogle and Yahoo The personalized homepage and password manager markets are becoming crowded scenes. Services like iGoogle, My Yahoo and RoboForm may be popular but there are a number of newcomers vying to topple the bigger names. I caught up with one recently to talk about their product and why they might be different from the competition.
Google Analytics Using Custom Segmentations
Google Adds Analytics Reports To Adwords
Maile Ohye Gives Sneak Peek of SES Toronto Last week I caught up with Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google (on the Webmaster Tools team). Maile will be keynoting SES Toronto in a couple of weeks with a presentation titled: Inside Google Webmaster Central. I was able to get a sneak peak on some of the topics from that upcoming session...
Google Analytics Home Page Gets An Overhaul If you visited Google Analytics in the last 24 hours you may have noticed a home page overhaul, now with access to the top support articles front and center, a product tour video...
Google Gets A Special Visit From Conan O'Brian
Facebook Continues To Be The Most Searched In March
Google Updates Docs With New Features Today the Google Analytics blog announced several enhancements to Google Docs. Here is a summary of the updates from the Google Blog:
Testing Google Analytics Without the Wait
Facebook Visitors More Engaged than Google's? A recent post from the Hitwise blog mentions that when comparing referrers from Facebook vs. Google to media sites, it appears that visitors from Facebook are more likely to return.
FourWhere and Google Maps Many of you have probably heard of the new service released by Sysomos called FourWhere. We were intrigued ourselves so we asked one of Syomos' Sr. Strategists to give us the low down: As location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla become increasingly popular, there's a huge amount of value data and content being contributed by users. The challenge is discovering...
Google Apps MarketPlace Released Today, the Google Analytics blog announced the release of the Google Apps Marketplace, a place dedicated to enhancing Google domains by allowing businesses owners to...
How Google Creates Most Of Their Products The Pingdom blog consistently puts out top notch content, so I was surprised when I missed the infographic they created 2 weeks ago which was all about Google Facts and figures.
More Google Analytics Tips and Answers Nick and Avinash are at it again this time entertaining analytics questions from all around the world. This week's topics include:
Yahoo Adopts the Twitter Style According to TechCrunch and the LA Times, Yahoo has reached a content sharing deal with Twitter (the deal actually hasn't been announced formally by Yahoo or Twitter).
Why Google Purchased Aardvark As you may have heard last week, Google purchased Aardvark - "...a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends.
Yahoo! SearchSpeak Event
5% Share Increase for Bing in January 2010 Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.49 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 31, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received...
Annotations for Everyone - in Google Analytics Google Analytics Annotations are now available to all users. Annotations allows any user with access to a Google Analytics profile to leave shared or private notes...
Google Search Getting More Social The first step in an ongoing effort to make Google Search as social as the web itself, Google social search is an new feature that surfaces public web content from...
Google, Yandex, Bing, & Ebay up 50%+ in Searches According to Comscore, Google accounted for two thirds of the 131 billion searches conducted in December 2009. Overall there was an increase in searches ...
Google Accounts for 67.3% of Searches in December
10 Twitter Powered Search Engines Real Time search has been a major focus of many startups and search giants such as Bing and Google. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Podcasts, YouTube Videos, and Flickr all...
Google Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share According to the Apple Blog (with data from Net Applications), Google Chrome has officially passed Safari to become the world's 3rd most popular browser. This is consistent...
Googles Keyword Tool in One Minute
2 Years Later, Still no Love from Yahoo 2 years ago I wrote a post titled: "Yahoo, Where is the Love?" which questioned whether or not Yahoo had issues with ranking Blogspot blogs strongly in its index.
Advanced Filtering How-To in Google Analytics
The Wall Street Journal Gets 25% Of Their Traffic From Google Over at the Hitwise Blog, Bill Tancer dives deeper into Rupert Murdoch's recent comments saying that he would consider blocking ...
Google Analytics vs. Yahoo Analytics by Insightr
Google Analytics Adds More Features Looks like Google Analytics is at it again - announcing brand new features in the midst of eMetrics Washington DC. Two of the new features that...
Google Web Analytics Q&A
Bing Goes Down And Google Goes Up Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.08 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009.
Microsoft Bing Continues To Gain Ground In Search Hitwise announced yesterday that Google accounted for 70.24 percent of all U.S.searches conducted in the four weeks ending Aug. 29, 2009.
Wordstream, Competition for Google's Keyword Tool When conducting keyword research, its important to look for both the deeper, mid- and long-tail variations of keywords " and also other adjacent ways of...
2009 Searchnomics
Small Businesses Getting Analytics In this episode, part 2 of a 3 part series called "Bottlenecks to Implementing Analytics", web analytics experts and Googlers Avinash Kaushik...
Day 2 of SES San Jose Day 2 of SES San Jose flew by, below are some of the things we were checking out on the 2nd day. * Session 1 - Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging...
Day 1 of SES San Jose Search Engine Strategies kicked off with conference day 1 today and our day was pretty full - we attended 4 sessions in addition to a product demo.
AOL at SES San Jose 2009 Yesterday I had the opportunity to catch up with Simon Heseltine, Senior Marketing Manager at AOL (working on the Sports and news properties). Simon and I discussed his upcoming panel at SES San Jose on the topic of "Brand, Trademark & Reputation Management" - which is a very hot topic these days, check out our chat below. -Manoj-: How has the prevalence of social media...
Yahoo Image Search More Refined
Bing SEO
Hitwise: Google Still On Top of Search Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 74.04 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009.
Local Business Center Dashboard Added by Google The LBC is a free tool that enables business owners to control the content of their business listings as they appear in Google Search and Google Maps.
Google.org Launches PowerMeter Google PowerMeter receives information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provides customers with access to their...
Google Searchology 2009 According to the Google OS blog, Google will host Searchology Today, two years after launching universal search. According to Google, the event will "offer an insider's...
SEMPO and Yellowbook
SeeWhy - eMetrics San Jose 2009 Converting website abandoners with real-time analytics, SeeWhy, Inc., today launched a real-time website analytics service called Abandonment Tracker Free...
Google Organic Search Ranking Segmentation Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR) today announced that they will be providing new reporting capabilities in Omniture SiteCatalyst that segment reports by organic...
Google Adsense and Analytics Integrate Google Analytics blog had some pretty big news. You can now link your Adsense and Analytics accounts allowing you enhanced insight into your Adsense data.
Yahoo Analytics and Dennis Mortensen As you may have heard, Yahoo Analytics has launched version 9.5. The latest version is packed with updates including Demographic/Psychographic reports, in...
Canada Launch of Hitwise
Google Announces New Scholarship Yesterday the Official Google Blog announced a brand new scholarship for Students with Disabilities called the Google Lime Scholarship.
Video and Mobile Search Online advertisers are embracing new marketing platforms and an increasing willingness to pay more for targeted reach through behavioral targeting and local search, and to expand marketing through video and mobile search, according to the data of the 2008 State of the Market survey of advertisers and agencies by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).
SEO Samba's Michel Leconte Interview Last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Michel Leconte, CEO of SEO Samba. During our chat I was able to get Michel's insight into SEO Samba's Organic Search Management platform - check out our conversation: -Manoj-: Can you provide us with a quick background on your Organic search management platform, SEO Samba? -Michel Leconte-: SEO Samba maximizes...
SEMPO Institute Graduate Mentoring Job seekers know a good education is the first step in competing for positions in a tight economy. Contacts and networking must follow in order to get ahead.
Google Knows Things About You Obviously if you use are a user of Google services you are sharing a lot of your search behavior among other things with Google as well. The E-Justice blog has published an interesting post on 25 Surprising Things That Google Knows About You. Below is a sample from the complete list of 25. The web pages you visit: Google AdSense is used by many web pages...
Problems with Google AJAX Search Results
Yahoo Making Money in 2009 How Yahoo Makes Money: Fourth Quarter 2008 Segment Financial Results. *United States segment revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $1,338 million, a 2 percent increase compared to $1,313 million for the same period of 2007. *International segment revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 were $468 million, a 10 percent decrease compared to $519 million for the same period of 2007.
Site Search Video, Google Analytics Analyzing data from your website's site search functionality is an excellent way to understand what people are looking for on your site.
Google Site Tracking With Google Analytics Do you have a Google Site and were having difficulty tracking the performance of your Google Site in the past, then you need not worry because...
SEMPO In-House Salary Survey
Hitwise Search Percentages for January 2009
9 Sitemap File Types Supported by Google Webmaster Tools XML Sitemap files for web pages - Use these files to submit all of your web pages (this is the preferred format for web pages). While not all search engines may support the Sitemap types listed...
Adwords Blog Releases their Top 10 Posts The Adwords blog has released their top 10 posts of 2008. You can see the top 5 below, but make sure to check out the Adwords blog for their complete list.
Google and Live Good, Yahoo Is Not
Enquisite, Zaaz and Netconcepts
New Features in Google Help Forum If you missed the news last week, you'll be interested to know that Google has updated it's Help Forums. Some of the updateds include:
Google Analytics Introduces Enterprise Features Today Google Analytics announced new enterprise-class features including custom reports, advanced segmentation, an API, as well as an updated interface, richer data visualizations, and an integration with Google AdSense. These new features combine the sophistication and versatility of a full-service...
Google Adwords Updates 2 New useful tidbits of information from Google Adwords yesterday, the first one coming from the Google Adwords API blog where they mention the...
Google Up 12 Percent Year Over Year
BooRah Launches Web Search API
Google, Microsoft, & Yahoo All Up
Yahoo Web Analytics Officially Launches We wrote about a potential Yahoo Analytics service being released however that never really made it to fruition until Yahoo acquired IndexTools earlier this year. Today Dennis Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo posted his blog that IndexTools is now officially: "Yahoo Web Analytics."
Google Toolbar PageRank Update? Has anyone else noticed a Google Toolbar PageRank update lately? I woke up this morning to notice that the home page of Web Analytics World has gone up from...
Google Chrome Day 1 Stats from Hitwise
Google Experimenting to Provide a Better Experience Ben Gomes over at the Google Blog posted about how Google continuously runs experiments on its results pages in order to further enhance the experience of users.
New Updates to Google Website Optimizer
Google Translate for iPhone The Google Mobile Team has been cooking up a new version of a Google application that millions of users have grown quite fond of, Google Translate now for the iPhone.
Relevancy with Google Adsense Ads Last week, Kent Sugarman of the Google Adsense team helped users understand how to get higher quality and more relevant Google Adsense ads to display within your content:
Expedia Implements Baynote
Google Approaching 70% Market Share
Google Learning to Index Flash Content Yesterday the Google Webmaster Central Blog reported that Google is working to integrate Adobe's flash player technology in order to better index flash files into it's algorithms.
Google Up, MSN and Yahoo Down in May Google accounted for 68.29 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending May 31, 2008, Hitwise announced yesterday. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received...
Google Analytics Integrates with TV Ads Today Google Analytics announced an integration with Google TV Ads, a flexible, all-digital system for buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. U.S. advertisers can...
Google Website Optimizer: Pump Up your Sales Today at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Google announced the Website Workout contest to help businesses pump up their websites. Any U.S. business can enter to have a webpage optimized for free by Google's team of consultants to boost sales, sign-ups or leads. Interested businesses can enter...
Google Custom Search Engine Rocks More and more each day you probably see Google's custom search engine functionality appear on site's across the Internet. In fact, I have implemented the Google custom search engine...
Google Up in March, Everyone Else Down
ASK Up 18% Year over Year - Hitwise
New Google Analytics Graphing Options Late last week, Google Analytics introduced the ability to segment report data by week and by month. The new views allows for some additional trending allowing users to organize...
Google I/O Conference Google I/O is a developer gathering (San Francisco May 28-29) focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google and open web technologies. Google engineers and web development leaders will lead you through two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest technologies, hands-on Code Labs, and informal Q&A at Fireside Chats.
Google News and Gmail Updates
Yahoo Answers Down but Dominating Q&A The market share of U.S. visits to a custom category of Question and Answer websites has increased 118 percent for the week ending Mar. 15, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007...
SEMPO: State of the Market in 2007 SEMPO, today released the results of its annual State of the Market Survey and the results indicate that the search marketing industry has exceeded the project spending allocations that ...
ASK Up 18% From Feb 2007
Google Maps API - Demo Samples If you're a user of the Google Maps API and have often wondered how a certain piece of functionality was coded then look no further because Google Maps API team have added a demo...
Google Tops Microsoft in Canada comScore reports that Google surged past Microsoft last month to become Canada's most visited web property. This is the first time that Google has been #1 in Canada and everyone knows...
Yahoo Remains Top Property in January comScore: Yahoo! Sites continued to lead as the top property with more than 138 million visitors, followed by Google Sites with nearly 135 million visitors and Microsoft Sites with 119...
Google's CLO Discusses Yahoo and Microsoft Sunday morning, David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, posted a blog post on the Google Blog discussing the Microsoft...
The Lost Strategies, Images and Video Image optimization and video optimization are not secondary organic strategies anymore, they are essential in creating a well-rounded online presence. There are numerous resources you can turn to help perfect your strategy but I wanted to take a look at some techniques you may never thought of as well as some additional questions to ask yourself before applying any tactics.
Baidu vs. Google.cn (China) Enquiro Research has released a new eye research comparing the two search engines predominantly used by Chinese searchers " Baidu and Google.cn " Enquiro conducted...
The Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing Only 10 days gone in 2008 and it feels like a years worth of great posts have been written. Below are this week's must reads in search marketing.
Learn Google APIs on YouTube Google has come up with an excellent way to teach developers Google's data APIs by offering courses over YouTube. Below are samples of the developer videos:
This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing 4 sleeps to go and its Christmas. I am sure there many people who are still scrambling to find gifts for their loved ones and I am pleased to say that I am...
Video Sitemap Intro - Google Webmaster Tools With Google introducing Video sitemaps recently it becomes important for marketers to understand the benefits and protocols when creating a video sitemap.
Future of Search: From Leading Experts On December 11, 2007 leading experts on search met to discuss the future. In fact they met to share their thoughts on the future of Search in the year 2010.
Google Appliance Comes Up Short CMS Watch has found that the actual technology inside Google's popular Search Appliance product has not kept pace with the company's marketing spin.
Must Reads in Search Marketing 18 more sleeps until Christmas and I haven't even started my Christmas shopping. How could I, there's just too much good content to go through.
Yahoo: Top Search Trends 2007 Today Yahoo announced it's top search trends for 2007. Below are a few of the hot searches that Yahoo reported:
This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing As this week comes to an end so does the month of November. Was it just me or did November just fly by and can you believe there are only 26 days until Christmas!
SEMPO Launches 2007 State of the Market Survey SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), announced yesterday it is launching its fourth annual industrywide survey to assess...
Google Receives 64% of Searches in October Hitwise today announced that Google accounted for 64.49 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending October 27, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN...
Application Search by Clever Hippo Clever Hippo Application Search is a search engine for applications and widgets across the web. A more robust version of our Facebook search app...
SAAS-Based Searches Declining CMS Watch has found that the software-as-a-services ("SaaS") model for enterprise search has faltered, as hosted players fail...
Search Engine Market Share for September Hitwise, today announced that Google accounted for 63.55 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 29, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search...
More Google Analytics Updates! Emetrics Washington DC, Google announced some more features to Google Analytics as well as a new update to Urchin 5 software.
Google Analytics Shortcut by Justin Cutroni According to Brett Crosby over at the Google Analytics Blog posted that Justin Cutroni, the Director of Analytics at EpikOne, Inc has jsut released a very thorough eBook...
Compete Search Analytics Now Live Compete Search Analytics is officially open to the public! Visit searchanalytics.compete.com to sign up or take a tour. Using just a credit card to activate the service...
Ultimate Local Search Optimization Resources Local Search is becoming essential in many businesses' online marketing strategy. With all major search players (Google, MSN, Yahoo, ASK, AOL) providing pristine real estate
Ultimate Video Optimization Resources Last week we gathered some useful link for Optimizing Images for Search Engines and this week we discovered some great resources for Optimizing Video for Search Engines.
Logic361: Analytics and Paid Search Best Practices Logic361 is an analytics firm that specializes in analyzing pay-per-click performance for internet retailers. They focus on helping internet retailers...
Optimizing Images for Search Engines If you want some basic tips on how to drive more traffic by leveraging images you may want to check out Pat Doyle's post titled: "Get More Traffic By Using Images." Pat's tips include:
Hitwise: Google Climbs - MSN Falls Hitwise, announced last week that Google accounted for 64.35 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending July 28, 2007.
Bringing SEO In House - Insight from the Experts In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we featured Chris "Silver" Smith and John W. Ellis. Today we are getting Rudy DeDominicis' thoughts on bringing SEO In-house.
Must Reads for This Week in Search Marketing It's difficult to stay on all the hottest stories so I have decided to recommend a few posts/articles that are definitely a must read:
Baidu vs. Google Gord Hotchkiss posted some of the findings from Enquiro's Chinese Eye Tracking Study in which they compared users' search experience between Google and Baidu (the post is at SearchEngineLand).
Fox on Duplicate Content Google's Vanessa Fox has posted an excellent entry on Duplicate Content at the Webmaster Central Blog. She touches on the most common issues in regards to Duplicate Content:
Future of Search Marketing? Have you ever noticed how your collection of photos, music and other documents keep growing everyday?
SEMPO Institute Launching Advanced Program SEMPO, (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), www.sempo.org/training, will very soon be launching its advanced level of distance learning classes for online marketing professionals.
Google vs. Yahoo vs. MSN When you look at the Big 3 Search Engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, it is difficult to compare them only from a search engine perspective.
This Week's Must Reads in Search Marketing It's only Thursday yet there are so many good articles/posts around the internet worth reading.
Results of SEMPO Election The newly-elected SEMPO Board of Directors for 2007 is:
Sustain Traffic While Search Engines Update Whether it's data refreshes, index updates, supplemental result cleanup or major algorithm changes...
Latest Innovations by Yahoo! Usually Google is the search engine known for its innovative new products. Lately, I've noticed some interesting developments from Yahoo! which have started to peak my interest.
Interview - Bill Slawski, President SEO by the Sea Last week I had a great chat over the phone with SEO by the Sea President, Bill Slawski.
SEMPO President Dana Todd Interviewed Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview SEMPO President/Chairperson of the SEMPO Educational Committee, Dana Todd.
My Daily SEM Routine I like following a morning routine I have established. I am paid to write and keep on top of the latest news in the SEM world so no matter what I have on my plate for that day, I do the following:
Estimate Technorati Rank Today I was looking for a way how to determine a blog's Technorati Rank based on the number of blogs linking back to it when I stumbled across the following nifty app.
Google Could Be Testing a New SERP While surfing the web today, I noticed that Google had slightly modified its results page (something similar to what they have tested in the past).
SEM and Web Analytics Grow Closer Lately I've seen SEM and Web Analytics grow even closer together with WebTrends Inc. purchasing SEO firm ClickShift and WebSideStory partnering with SEMDirector.
2006 Search Marketing Fact Pack Ad Age has just released a very detailed Guide on Search Engine Marketing. I am definitely going to block of an hour or 2 so I can thoroughly go through all the trends and stats.
Omniture, Inc. to Release SearchCenter 2.3 Omniture, Inc. announced that the newest release of their search marketing software, SearchCenter 2.3, will be available on November 2, 2006.
Top 10 Rules for Success in B2B SEM Gord Hotchkiss recently wrote an excellent 2 part series detailing the top 10 Rules him and his team (including me) has discovered in order to be successful with Search Engine Marketing for B2B organizations.
Google Image Search I was checking out Google News this morning to see what the hottest Google Topics were and then accidentally switched over to Google Image Search to find that the top images for "Google"...
Enhance Your Site with Google Gadgets Google Gadgets can now be put directly on any personal website. This free service was released to the public just recently. There are currently hundreds of...
Berkeley using Google Video While MSN is using their video service for showing live concerts, Google has taken a different road for alternative uses for Google Video. Steve Brandt of Google Watch...
Google in Microsoft's Home Town? Look out Seattle, Google Transit has now added King County Metro Transit routes to it's free trip planning service. On Monday night, King County was one of five...
Determining a Topic's Buzz When trying to determine how much buzz a particular subject has generated a person could use a few different sources. Lately, I have been using a combination of 3:
Simple SEO for Blogger After my first month on being blogger I checked the number of pages I had indexed in Google by going site:manojjasra.blogspot.com and noticed that Google showed:
Big 3 Updating at Once? It looks like a search engine update is imminent according to forum posts at webmaster world. Also see MSN Changes at SEO Round Table. This potential update...
First Google Trends now Google Music Trends Cory Bates, a colleague of mine, just wrote about a pretty cool new Google service: Google Music Trends. In the article Cory shares his insight on this new service.
Google Survey - Feature Requests Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped has created a survey for visitors to fill out regarding what features they would most like to see from Google.
Omniture to Release SearchCenter v2.2 According to my monthly Omniture newsletter, Omniture will be releasing Version 2.2 of SearchCenter tomorrow. This is actually a fairly big release because they...
Overrated Metrics There has always been a certain buzz in the online marketing industry regarding metrics; namely, which metrics to measure and how to accurately track them?
Analytics Analysis for Search Marketers Attending Omniture's Web Analytics Summit has made me realize the extent of segmentation and analysis an analytics suite can provide for an organization.
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