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There's so much good writing out there covering issues from both the brands' and consumers' perspectives, but what about the agencies? For independent consultants or ambitious entrepreneurs looking to build a viable business arou.

We're fast approaching the season for annual rituals - joining with family, stuffing our faces, watching football, and frantically preparing for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. After all, nearly a quarter of retail revenue for all of Q4.

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Kate Kaye wrote Google+ Integrates With Social Media Brand Platforms Brands like Al Jazeera English hope to attract more followers to their Google+ pages while Bank of America has had its brand hi.

Microsoft adCenter has upgraded their reporting tools, features, and user interface. Microsoft believes these new changes will help advertisers to understand their accounts better for the upcoming holiday season. Most of the changes are foc.

ShopCity has joined the list of companies who claim Google is unfairly demoting their content in favor of its own. In response to these alleged anti-competitive practices, ShopCity - a site that describes itself as providing "all the tools i.

The holiday shopping season is coming. Are you ready? The holiday season is one of the busiest seasons for shopping online. Online retailers should have already started seeing an increasing trend in sales online. In order to prepare your busines.

Google has added highlighting for businesses in Google Maps that ties recommendations made by users through their Google account to others the company thinks match their reviewed locations. "Starting today, business labels for locations you've r.

In response to the U.S. FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search marketing organization SEMPO issues a statement to the FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, calling for zero regulation. This article discusses both sides of the heated debate. The "Lo.

No, you didn't read the headline wrong. Websites are now free for New York businesses, according to Google's new website, NewYorkGetOnline.com, which promotes Google's services to New York businesses. It's also a clever way for Google to.

Google is trying to become more open about their search algorithm changes. Beyond the much-discussed "fresh" update, Google discussed recent changes in SERP titles and descriptions, date-specified searches, image search signals, and more. While .

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Recently the folks over at Google had a new algo tweak that once more sought to be faster and more relevant to the users needs. This seems to also be a continuation of last year's need for speed, with elements such as real-time search )now defunct.

Being a small business, especially one that is just trying to get started online, can take a lot of investment of both time and money. So many small businesses get involved in AdWords because they know it will bring them traffic. Perhaps they've h.

"This is something that is a bit provocative, but we need to change the conversation in marketing. We talk way too tactically." And so began the opening keynote at SES Chicago 2011, delivered by Mikel Chertudi of the SES Adv.

YouTube is testing a new design that would clean up the site, make subscriptions more important, and integrate Google+ functionalities, The Next Web reported. The test is currently in early trials with a small number of users. Images courtesy.

Google has scheduled a Los Angeles press conference for tomorrow. It's been speculated that the conference will announce the launch of the Google Music Store. Early screenshots of what is allegedly the Music Store app have also been leaked. Goog.

A recent report on Google's "secret lab," known as Google X, shows how far beyond their core business Google will explore: space elevators, web-connected appliance, and robotic avatars are among the 100 far-out ideas being researched. Projects f.

WordPress has made it very easy for small businesses to have a website that is easy to update and maintain, but do you know how to optimize your WordPress site so that it has the best chance of appearing at the top of your customers' search result.

I recently upgraded my phone to the iPhone 4S and, like everyone else, started playing around with the Siri feature. I noticed that as I used the feature and watched others use it, almost everyone was asking Siri questions. This got me thinking .