Google Plus Roots are Showing in Grouptivity Patent Filings

Google has been busy over the past couple of years acquiring a good number of small startups, including some that may help or have helped contribute features to Google Plus, such as Fridge, Tweet counting SocialGrapple, people sorting Katango, the team…

The Top 10 Ways To Achieve Breakthrough In International Search In 2012

As the first of the International Search Summits of 2012 looms large (at SMX West next week) I felt it was time to review what seem to be the most significant 10 issues for search marketers at this time. What’s interesting to note is that just o…

The Future Of B2B Search: Start Preparing For Social SEO Now

Just when you thought your strategy was defined in SEO, the time has come for us to once again get ready for significant change in how we approach SEO as search marketers. With the recent announcements from Google, the future of search is indeed s…

56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest

In case you’ve been living in a mountain cave in Bhutan for the past couple of months, Pinterest is a relatively new social networking site that allows users to create online image collages, then quickly and easily share those collages — calle…

Why My Blog’s Doing Okay: 3 Unexpected Answers

Yesterday we were talking about how benchamrking your blog and your performance against those of others only goes so far to give ou an idea of “how your blog’s going.” As I said then, looking at others—other people, other blogs—even subco…

7 Key Mistakes That Cost Advertisers ‘Mobile Super Bowl I’

By now, you may have already put Super Bowl XLVI in the history books. But let’s remember: this was the first to occur in the post-PC mobile era. (It was supposed to feature my Green Bay Packers, but that’s another story.) This was Mobile Supe…

Pinterest the Referral Giant: New Site Driving More Traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn Combined [INFOGRAPHIC]

In addition to recently winning the Crunchie for Best New Startup of 2011, a new study by shareaholic is now indicating that Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than Google Plus, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. The study, which examined aggr…

How Successful Blogging is Just Like Surviving Highschool

Do you ever feel like it’s high school all over again?
I’m talking about blogging. The whole “turn over a new leaf, do something great, do epic stuff, get famous” sense of it all feels like high school.
You know that feeling. It’s simila…

Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much. Not so, says Google search chief Amit Singha…

How Classification of Page Elements and Search Results May Influence Alternative Titles and Snippets Displayed in Google

Has an improvement in how Google understands the layout of pages, and understands and classifies different elements found on page had an impact on the titles and snippets that we see in search results? Google may classify queries to decide what to show…