Google has announced that it’s extending product listing ads to YouTube via TrueView for Shopping – a brand new ad format that lets advertisers run product ads within related-content videos. According to a report that Google released last month – how-to searches have seen a 70% increase with over a hundred million hours of such […]
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Score 10% Off on All Vimeo Subscriptions for Memorial Day 2015!
Vimeo has launched a brand new coupon code to help everyone get the most out of their Memorial Day videos by offering 10% off on all Vimeo subscriptions. Seriously all of them. Vimeo PRO with it’s 20GB of weekly storage which is usually $199 per year, and Vimeo Plus with 5GB of weekly storage and can […]
DreamHost Launches DreamPress 2
Hosted on virtual private servers, DreamPress is a super fast and highly reliable managed WordPress hosting service offered by DreamHost. DreamPress 2 kicks things up a notch by including SSD drives, PHP 5.5 with OpCache & HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine). For those of you who don’t know, HHVM is Facebook’s faster replacement for PHP and as […]
Google Webmaster Tools Renamed to Google Search Console
Google announced a name change today to their almost decade old Google Webmaster Tools platform, renaming it to Google Search Console in an attempt to broaden the target audience. Google doesn’t want to limit the audience behind Webmaster Tools/Search Console to solely webmasters – they want small business owners, bloggers, designers, and essentially everyone to […]
Twitter Has Quite The Decision To Make – Do They Do A Porn Purge Or Not?
Advertisers have caused quiet the stir regarding all the adult material on the Twitter network and the worry about their marketing content appearing next to or near porn-related posts. In-fact many companies have stopped their Twitter advertising campaigns due to this, such as global TV & data company Nielsen. What’s the solution? One solution proposed […]
USPS Wants To Bridge Direct Mail & Digital Marketing
A-lot of us tend to overlook snail mail these days considering how technology-oriented we are these days. Our notifications come to our phones, directly to our desktops, to our emails. Letters and physical mail is generally reserved for online shopping these days – and the USPS seems to be extremely aware of all of this. […]
Twitter Won’t Show Me The New Search Screen on iOS
So first off this isn’t really news, so if you wanted news – read something else. That being said this is kind of interesting – and I doubt I’m the only person out there experiencing this. So back in April of this year Twitter announced an update to trends on mobile platforms. Trending topics are […]
Bing Launches Their Own Mobilegeddon
Following in the footsteps of Google who recently implemented their own mobile-friendly algorithm, Bing announced that they too will add mobile friendliness as a ranking signal. If you remember Bing started showcasing mobile friendly badges in their search results a little while back – and according to yesterday’s post that was the start. Now Bing […]
Stop Wasting Your Time Setting Priority & Change Frequency Inside Your Sitemaps
Webmasters have always wondered the true importance of the priority and change frequency settings when generating XML sitemaps for their website – however we never really had any definite answer. Various members of the SEO community & various webmasters have made their assumptions – however none of the big search engines have ever stood up and […]
Stablehost Launches PingThat Beta – Website Monitoring Made Awesome!
StableHost has been around for quiet a while now and they’ve built up a reputation for themselves in the web hosting community as a no-nonsense hosting company with a huge focus on support & performance. Well continuing with that focus the team over at StableHost has began building a simple, straight forward, website monitoring platform […]
Facebook Offers It’s Own Search Engine to Find Links to Share
Sharing links on Facebook for mobile users was always rather annoying. You had to either copy paste the link from your browser; or utilize the Copy Link function when you’re browsing something within the Facebook browser window. Then you write a new post; paste the link in, and finally share it. Facebook is looking to […]
Test Out The New Transparent Youtube Player in TestTube
The transparent video player that YouTube is testing is pretty awesome; however forcing YouTube to let you try it out took some work. Luckily the new player is now available in TestTube – YouTube’s own experiment playground much like Google Labs used to be. Right now there are 2 “experiments” listed there, 1 for 4K videos […]
Verizon Buys AOL for $4.4 Billion
There’s been some speculation lately in the tech community that Verizon may acquire AOL – and this week that speculation was proven to be correct as Verizon announced it has purchased AOL for $4.4 billion, or $40 per share. Verizon’s vision is to provide customers with a premium digital experience based on a global multiscreen […]
Google Rejects Your Right To Be Forgotten About 60% Of The Time
Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online […]
Windows 10 Will Launch With 7 Versions
Windows 10 is coming this summer – and plenty of us are patiently waiting for that to come out – especially since the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 will be completely free. In a blog post today Microsoft announced some more information regarding the various versions that Windows 10 will be released with. These […]
50% Off on a Linux VPS from eUKhost
eUKhost is running a new promotion for the month of May 2015 where you can score 50% off on your first invoice on any Linux based VPS. There’s absolutely no limit on how long of a term you can use this coupon code on – so the longer term you go for the more you […]
123-Reg Coupon Codes for May 2015
The May 2015 coupon codes are here for 123-Reg. Granted I am a few days late in posting these – but they do all remain valid until June 2nd, 2015 so you have plenty of time to make use of them. First up is a coupon code for 10% off a .com domain name. Use coupon […]
Google Testing A New Value Alert Tag in Google Shopping Search Results
Google has been testing a new “Value Alert” tag to Google Shopping search engine results. The alert shows below the store name on the Google Shopping results page similar to the Special Offer tag or a star rating and seems to showcase items that are on sale. This was first spotted by Elizabeth Marsten at CommerceHub on Thursday; […]
Order Your Food from Your Google Search
Google has decided that ordering food is way too complicated these days – and as such figured they would follow along in the footsteps of Bing and let you order food directly from your search results. Well so long as your in the U.S. and the restaurant you want works with either Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, […]
Applebot Is Live & Crawling Around
Apple posted a help document on May 5th this week confirming the existence of Applebot – Apple’s own web crawler. According to the help article Applebot is used by various Apple products such as Siri and Spotlight Suggestions; and it follows all robots.txt and robots meta tags rules. Considering that a TON of people search […]