In this week’s video recap, I go through the July 2010 Google webmaster report. I also discuss how Yahoo has dramatically changed their algorithm, but no one really knows why. Google banned AdWords help and it is really causing issues with support re…

PR 2.0 — Are you playing Foursquare? Are you “going out” with Gowalla? Are you looped in with Loopt? Location-based services are once again changing the face of social networking. Where relationships were once at the center of user experience, in the…

Guide to Understanding Social CRM

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Social media. Is it meant to be purely organic or intently strategic? Is it quality over quantity? Where do you stand?

Social Media: Organic or Strategic is a post from: Digital Peas and Carrots

This is a brief and long overdue post…I’m honored to be participating in the AAAA’s 2010 Jay Chiat Awards as chair of the social media strategy category. Assisting me with judging the category are some people you may know: David Armano, SVP Digital a…

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Buddy Media is a New York-based company that’s been helping brands take advantage of their social media presence since Facebook opened the platform in 2007. The idea was to assist companies with establishing themselves on Facebook…

GROUNDSWELL BLOG — Here’s the problem. “Influencers” — that’s reporters, analysts, bloggers, anyone with an audience — are targets. PR people are the ones who want to influence them. The PR folks subscribe to databases from companies like Cision an…

DREW’S MARKETING MINUTE — Do you want some free publicity? The 2010 version of “let’s get an article in the newspaper, because that’s free!” is “we’ll get bloggers to write about it!” Not a bad PR strategy. In fact, when employed correctly — it can …

E-CONSULTANCY.COM — What do B2B services really need to concentrate on if they want to have a viable social media presence? Let’s examine the value of social media from a B2B point of view. While social media has all the engagement buzz right now, th…

NIELSEN WIRE — Social media usage has seen unprecedented growth in Asia Pacific in the past year and is now one of the most critical trends in the online sector, according to Nielsen’s Asia Pacific Social Media Report. The survey found that three o…

READWRITEWEB — We know some of you may be saddened by the news of Facebook closing down its Gift Shop, but we have just one thing to say – good riddance to virtual junk. Whether it’s a box of chocolates that you can’t actually taste or a teddy bear y…

ALL FACEBOOK — This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company’s gift shop on August 1st of this year. Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to wonder why the company would take …

MEDIAPOST — Twitter and other social services like Facebook that allow people to update their status still lack clout on wireless devices. Only 10% of the 59% of adult Americans who go online wirelessly have used their mobile phone or wireless laptop…

On July 1st Vanessa Fox and the team at Search Engine Land broke a story that Google was cloaking AdWords help page and ultimately had to ban the AdWords Help area from coming up in Google’s search results. It turned out to be all the help pages cloak…

Two months ago, we reported AdSense Account Hacked, Google Sends ~$25,000 Payment To India. In short, an AdSense publishers account was hacked into, the password and email address on file were changed and the bank account information was also changed….

Okay, maybe my title is a bit strong, but there is some truth to it. As I blogged at Search Engine Land this morning, Google announced China renewed their license to operate in the country.

Long story short… Google earned a license to operate in Ch…

Those of you who have migrated off their desktops or laptops and onto an Apple iPad, like Michael Gray, may be out of luck when it comes to managing their Google AdWord account.

If you try to login to your Google AdWords MCC account, the iPad Safari …

They want you to throw away your hard drive!? Spotify and a gaggle of other companies are hoping you chuck away your precious storage device in favor of their cloud-based services. As usual, right about the time the critical mass…

A featured WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who said his 13 year old well ranking web site was updated to use the latest CSS and coding techniques. The page content, titles, meta information was not touched, only the way the page renders, by us…