Google+ has finally opened its doors to Google Apps users. Alongside this much-demanded change, Plus added a photo editing toolkit, a post-sharing visualizer, and the inclusion of a "what's hot" stream. Google+ for Apps Those who use a Google .

Given that over the past two or three years most of the significant Google algorithm updates have negatively impacted many affiliate-model sites, I was expecting to hear some pessimism and foreboding last week at A4U London. In fact, it was quite .

Many marketers procrastinate when it comes to building adCenter campaigns. There is a prevailing notion that MSN campaigns are just as labor intensive as AdWords campaigns yet produce a small fraction of the yield. While the latter point has val.

In an effort to further entice webmasters to create mobile-friendly websites, Google has launched HowToGoMo.com, a mobile website training and testing ground. Visitors can view their website as customers see it on their smartphones, check out exam.

Two of the largest credit card networks Visa and Mastercard have been looking into ad targeting. Using everything they know about their customers and their customers data, they are investigating how to leverage these networks and data to target .

Many Google AdWords users are reporting a change in the Google Keyword Tool. Competition data is now showing a ranking between High, Medium, and Low instead of the green bar that you used to see when you searched for terms. Until today, the gree.

The makers of enterprise-level SEO platform Searchlight recently started the Conductor Foundation to help local nonprofit organizations increase their organic search visibility. Last week at their C3 event, Conductor awarded a grant to advocacy an.

Last Friday, Robert Kyncl, YouTube's Global Head of Content Partnerships, announced that "More great content creators )are( coming to YouTube." Many in the mainstream media wrote stories about new YouTube channels created by we.

The web is full of great articles covering the myriad of advanced PPC techniques and features. I've written a few myself. Every now and then, though, we all need to remember the basics that are the framework behind every successful PP.

Getting into the link bait debate always gets controversial. In fact I often regret it because it seems as though everyone has distinct, borderline passionate, feelings on the subject. It's pretty clear that the predominant classification .

This story originally appeared on ClickZ: Christopher Heine wrote Google Mirrors Facebook's Deal Aggregation Strategy Google evidently believes better targeting will turn a deals strategy previously tried - and abandoned - by Facebook int.

Seems the guys at Google are partial to the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin special. The company's latest Doodle is a timelapse video of eight hours of pumpkin carving on six 1,000+ pound pumpkins that took place at their Mountain View headquarte.

Happy Halloween, readers! Now that the big day is upon us, let's have a look at the top costumes and search trends for Halloween 2011. Google, Yahoo, and SortPrice have shared the top user searches and trends for Halloween costumes and other.

Last month, we had a look at an InboundWriter study that showed how search and social intelligence provided to writers during the content creation process can increase quality score, time on page, search traffic, and conversion to sale. What we fe.

Just because your SEO campaign is experiencing hiccups doesn't mean you aren't a good SEO practitioner. Certain situations like this force you to look at the alternative factors that can affect SEO success. When you work within the a.

Twitter now has 100 million active users generating some 200 million tweets and 1.6 billion search queries every day. Despite the promise of reaching such a massive, highly-engaged audience, many advertisers have struggled to find the best wa.

It's only a matter of weeks before the industry's thought leaders and top practitioners converge on Chicago for our annual Midwest online marketing bonanza. As many thousands of past attendees are aware, getting to meet the expert speakers for s.

Coming up with an idea to get people to link to your site can be challenging, whether you're looking for a story idea, developing an online tool, or wanting to do something humorous. Yet there are strategies to find new ideas on a regular basis. .

In 1993, Peter Steiner famously wrote in the New Yorker that, "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." In 2011, trillions of dollars in e-commerce transactions and a growing number of other interactions have made knowing that someone is not o.

Last Friday, Linden Lab announced a most unusual event - a weekend land sale during which the setup fees for private regions would be waived. As someone in business within SL I am aware that drastic sales of this nature are usually the result of o.