Up until March of 2013 the guidelines governing a cover photo on Facebook were very limiting when it came to using them for marketing. They did not allow text to cover more than 20% of the image, and the text that was there couldn’t be a direct call to action or other marketing message. Things … Read more
In Bing’s ongoing push for market share they have announced another new feature for website owners looking to optimize the traffic they get from the Bing search engine. This feature will allow site owners to block specific pages of their site from being displayed as a deep link in the SERPs. Sites which rank well … Read more
Marketers should attention to this: Bing has announced another new feature to their search engine, this time focusing specifically on their image searches. In addition to searching by image size, the date it was published and other options you can now search by license type. If you’re looking for an image to use on your … Read more
In a recent video with Google’s head of search engine spam, Matt Cutts, he started off talking about the importance of links in white hat SEO, but seemed to go off on a little bit of a tangent about proper linking. The video explains that when using other people’s information there should be a link … Read more
NEW YORK (July 1, 2013) — Performance marketing agency MediaWhiz, a Matomy Media Group company, today announced the complete integration of its three distinct sub-brands into MediaWhiz. As part of the brand unification, MonetizeIt, the MediaWhiz affiliate network, and White Delivery, the company’s proprietary email product, have been folded into the MediaWhiz brand. In addition, … Read more
In order to pacify some of the more brand-conscious advertisers out there, Facebook has decided to start reviewing pages with questionable content and removing ads from those pages. This is generally content that more conservative folks could consider offensive, such as adult conversations, violent content, semi-sexual photos or sex-toy pages. Facebook had reported been talking … Read more
When people download that great new free app they can expect to see some sort of advertisement embedded somewhere within. It is well known, and an accepted part of getting great apps without having to pay a fortune. The problem comes in when mobile advertising networks attempt to get more than they bargained for by … Read more
While most of the news from Yahoo has been about the purchasing or innovating of new products and services, they recently announced the elimination of several of their products. The biggest name among the dozen products and services they will be cutting is the search engine, “AltaVista”. Launched in 1995, AltaVista was one of the … Read more
ReputationChanger, the leading provider of online reputation management services has announced that they will be acquiring Brand.com for a six figure price. ReputationChanger has been growing extremely quickly and saw over 1500% growth in revenue in the last two years. The purchase of this domain is designed to help them continue that rapid growth by … Read more
Spindle, a tool which has been growing in popularity over the past couple years by providing real time information about things going on near the individual searching. They gathered information from Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to help people learn about all sorts of local events ranging from sporting events to business openings and … Read more
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) posted on their site that they have sent out letters to over 20 search engines regarding some updates to their guidelines regarding the way search engines display ads in the results. Since 2002 the FTC has required search engines to label paid results, or ads, in a way which … Read more
Google’s Matt Cutts has confirmed that there is another algorithm update which is going to be slowly rolled out over the course of the next several weeks. It was confirmed that the updates started this week and will go through at least the week after July 4th. The question is, however, what is the update … Read more
If you’ve been browsing through your Google Webmaster Tools lately you might have noticed that there are some missing links in the “Links to your site” section. Some people have reported that up to 80 percent of their backlinks are no longer there. This is obviously causing some pretty widespread panic for many individuals who … Read more
Kobeni, the mulch-faceted marketing company, has announced that they are closing their email-service provider (ESP), Onpoint, in response to pressure from SpamHaus. SpamHaus is an offshore, secretive organization whose influence can often determine if a company continues to do business in the realm of email marketing or not. In this case, they blame SpamHaus for … Read more
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