Last week Google’s Dennis Troper announced on Google+ that you can now finally pin your G+ post to the top of your stream. So if you want people to see a specific post first, you can pin that post and even if it is weeks old, it will remain at the top of your profile.
Tag Archives: Google
Yahoo Search Use Is Increasing
Google has been the default search engine on a wide array of browsers for quiet a while – and surely this helped Google hold the number 1 spot in search engine popularity for quiet a while. However with the recent change by Mozilla to use the Yahoo search engine as the new default search tool […]
Media Temple Launches Google Apps for Work
Media Temple has partnered with Google to offer Google Apps for Work to its customers, the company announced Wednesday of this week. Through the new partnership, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Hangouts will be fully integrated with Media Temple’s premium web hosting and cloud services, and supported by its 24/7 phone […]
Facebook and Google Make Up 80% Of All Social Logins
As a regular internet user chances are that you’ve logged into a website or two using one of your social profiles. These days you can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIN, and a slew of other social profiles to login almost anywhere. However while it might be cool to offer your users the ability to login […]
Google Launches New Features to Improve Online Shopping Campaigns
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, and Christmas and New Years coming up soon after Google wants to make sure their eCommerce advertisers can make the most of the holiday season through their shopping campaigns. As such they have introduced a slew of new features specifically designed to help users boost their marketing campaigns. First up […]
Google Removes Carousel From Local Listings
Back in June last year I had first mentioned the introduction of the carousel display for Google local listings which was loved by many business owners allowing alot more businesses to be on the first page for a search result. Sadly Google has officially dropped the black carousel user interface from their local listings. So now […]
Google Trends Now Shows Trending YouTube Videos
The Google Trends is a great little service that lets you easily keep up with all the popular news of the day. This used to be based solely on searches, however as of yesterday Google Trends will now also showcase trending Youtube videos which will surely have video marketers excited. If you click into Trending […]
Google Gets Flooded With DMCA Requests To Remove 11.6 Million URLs
Remember when Google announced their new DMCA algorithm update a bit ago. Well over the past week, the search engine has received enough DMCA requests to remove 11,668,660 …
Google Introduces Local Forwarding Numbers for Google Adwords
Despite the recent report showing that Google AdWords is getting cheaper to participate in – Google is actively developing more and more features to enhance PPC advertising …
Google PPC Ads Are Getting Cheaper
Statistica has released quiet an interesting report showing that the average cost of Google pay-per-click ads is steadily decreasing – all while Google’s revenue steadily increases showing a 20% increase in revenue for the 3rd quarter of 2014. So if you’ve been on the fence about making the jump into PPC marketing for your business […]
Google Upgrades Search On Google Developers Central
Being a search engine it only makes sense that Google upgrades their own internal search functions they use across their various properties. While the main Google search engine has had autocomplete and suggestions for a while now – this feature was just integrated into the search function on Google’s Developers Central (http://developers.google.com). The upgrade now […]
Halloween Logos From Your Favorite Sites
First off, Happy Halloween. It’s not every year any holiday falls on a Friday – so make the best of it this year. To help you get into the spirit some of your favorite websites have dressed up:
Google Lets Business Owners Respond To Reviews Directly From My Business Mobile App
Google announced a new update rolling out to the Google My Business mobile application which intends to keep a business owners attention on their reviews and allow for an easy way to respond to reviews and complaints.
Lysol Buys The Top Ad Spot For Ebola Searches
As spotted on Tuesday, October 28th, Lysol seems to have spent some serious cash and bought themselves the top ad spot on Google for ebola searches. I’m not seeing the ad appear much as of today already (October 30th) – however this was interesting while it lasted. Google searches for ebola have sky rocketed, understandably – and […]
Stop Blocking Your CSS/JS from Googlebot
In the past Google has always crawled your site in much the same fashion as the Lynx browser would display it – no CSS, no Javascript – just text and links. Over the years this has caused many webmasters to specifically block the crawling of CSS and JS files by Googlebot in an attempt to […]
Google Announces Partnership with PwC
Google has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an effort to “bring new and innovative services to companies around the world.” “For our clients, acquiring the knowledge most important to their operations, securing that information and using it optimally are critical-now more than ever before,” stated PwC Vice Chairman Mike Burwell. “PwC is teaming with Google to offer […]
Google’s New Meta Tag for Disabling Sitelinks Search
Chances are that you’ve already seen the Google Sitelinks search box in-action already. Google has put it into motion around the same time they announced the retirement of the Google Web Search API. The Sitelinks search box allows you to search through your site of choice without actually visiting the site – which may be […]
More Free Google Domains Invites!
Google was nice enough to hook me up with a handful more invite codes for their Google Domains beta – and as usual I’m giving them out for free here! If you want to see some screenshots about the clean awesome UI within Google Domains check out my review here. Otherwise ask for a free […]
Google Rolls Out A Quick-Post Button In It’s Navbar
While doing my daily rounds of email checking I had noticed a new icon in the top of my Google navigation bar. The new icon, a square with a plus in it, can be clicked to open a pop-up that will allow you to quickly post or share something onto Google+. You have the […]
Google Updating Their DMCA Algorithm
Back in August of 2012 Google introduced the original DMCA algorithm – a policy designed to demote sites which have an unusually high number of DMCA takedown requests. On Friday of last week Google announced that they will be updating the DMCA algorithm as a global roll-out. An improved DMCA demotion signal in Search. In August […]