Ann Arbor is abuzz with talk of A2 Fiber. I first heard about A2 Fiber when Facebook suggested I become a fan of the A2 Fiber Facebook page. I wondered what this was and why all my friends were “fanning” it. Google Fiber is a plan to create an ultra-high speed broadband network in a [...]
Category Archives: Google
Google Real Time Search Adds Facebook Fan Pages
March 2, 2010 – 8:09 am
Ever wonder if your Facebook Fan Page could appear in a search result on Google? Your dreams have come true…if you use Google’s Real Time Search you will now also see Facebook Fan Page posts included.
Real Time Search Results for Facebook Fan Pages
According to Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan, Real Time Search also includes:
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What role do keyword tags play in SEO?
January 11, 2010 – 11:57 pm
In nearly 15 years of writing for the web, one thing I’ve seen change dramatically is the role of meta tags in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This post is specifically about keyword tags – and their slow, painful death.
Today, Google doesn’t use meta keyword tags at all, as Google Engineer Matt Cutts explains in this [...]
Mobile Advertising: Google Acquires AdMob
November 10, 2009 – 12:33 pm
Google announced yesterday that it is acquiring AdMob, the current leader in the US mobile display advertising space.
Google’s no stranger to the mobile space themselves. They have been offering advertising on their mobile search platform since fall of 2005; and the Android operating system (launched in 2008) is a clear play to stay relevant as [...]
Has your Google ranking suddenly changed? Don’t panic!
October 31, 2009 – 7:45 pm
It has happened to anyone who watches their organic ranking. One day you are drinking a cup of coffee and you pull up your browser to look at where your site is for your favorite keyphrase. Then you spill your coffee in horror: IT’S GONE! Your website is not there.
How is this possible? You haven’t [...]
Avinash Kaushik at the 2009 Google Analytics Authorized Consultants (GAAC) Summit
October 13, 2009 – 6:07 pm
Hi everyone,
Megan and I are in lovely Mountain View, California at the GAAC conference. We have been asked to restrict our blogging and tweeting unless the speaker specifically says we can share.
Tomorrow morning the keynote speaker is Avinash Kaushik, so keep your fingers crossed and stay tuned! I will post and tweet if allowed. Our [...]
AdWords Conversions & Conversion Rates Detailed by Hour (A step-by-step guide to out-smarting Google)
October 7, 2009 – 10:37 pm
A constant source of frustration in the world of SEM is the seemingly conscious decision by Google to prevent the analyst from running reports detailing conversions and conversion rate by hour. From a campaign management perspective, it’s extremely valuable data for day parting.
Day Parting, for those who are unaware, is a technique allowing you to [...]
Cached Pages on Google and What They Mean to You
September 18, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Search results on Google often come with a handy “Cached” page link next to the green website address. This cached page link will take you to the version of the page that Google saw when it last visited the site and indexed its content. Some websites change frequently, so these cached versions can be very [...]
Google Insights For Search… For AdWords
September 11, 2009 – 4:08 pm
If you haven’t already checked out Google Insights For Search, you really should. Like Google Trends, this awesome tool allows you to figure out how a search query’s popularity has trended over time and compare the trends between these search queries.
But Insights For Search takes this functionality a step further, allowing you to find top [...]
Analytics News – Check out Urchin 6.6
June 8, 2009 – 6:27 pm
Urchin 6.6, an upgrade of Google Analytics Urchin software goes public today. As certified Urchin resellers, Pure Visibility was happy to be part of a beta release of the software.
Here’s the short list on what you need to know: Urchin version 6.6 is a significant upgrade. Features include further AdWords integrations, past problems taken care [...]
