ReachLocal Chosen As Prestigious “Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner”

ReachLocal is one of thirteen marketing firms in the world to have the prestigious honor of becoming one of Google’s AdWords Premier Small & Medium Business Partners. The Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Program connects experienced AdWords partners with businesses that want expert help in creating, managing and optimizing their online advertising campaigns. ReachLocal is also the only company to …

Dex actions programs…New Low?

I stumbled across a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) today that has taken the last of the air from the Dex sails.  Dex One, or dexknows.com has started claiming local listings on the customers behalf and pointing the local, or places (shown in example below in red) listings at the Dex “digital storefront.” What does this mean?  On the surface …

Google to ramp up YouTube ad-friendly content

Google Australia plans to add more original content to its video website YouTube in a bid to appeal to marketers’ rising interest in online video advertisements. According to Nick Leeder, managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, the company has built a solid stable of marquee advertisers for YouTube over the past year.  “To get more revenue, YouTube needs …

Google: Outstanding Growth, Robust Cash Flows

Google (GOOG) is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google generates revenue primarily by delivering relevant, cost-effective online advertising. Businesses use Google’s Adwords program to promote their …

Panda Cleanup Hunting Down Duplicate Content.

Website publishers have had about three months to react to Google’s “Panda” algorithm update, which primarily targeted “content farms,” sites that the Web search giant has long aimed to squash from its results because it views their information as basically identical to that found on other sites, or just too sparse to be useful. Google claimed that Panda, at least …

Google came out with its new ‘+1″ button

I know that I have posted another article about the +1 button, but this article seems to better describe the new Google feature. Today, Google came out with its new ‘+1″ button.  This is Google’s newest foray into the social scene, although they are still saying they are not attempting (yet) to create a social network to rival Facebook.  The …

Google Buys PostRank for Social Media Analytics

Google acquires PostRank to help cut through the social media noise for users and advertisers. The move is Google’s latest play to challenge Facebook in social software. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) June 3 said it has purchased PostRank, a startup whose software sifts through social media to disambiguate signal from noise. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ReadWriteWeb, which uses …