Great news for businesses, especially the SMEs! They no longer need to fear Google's upcoming Panda/Penguin updates. In case your online presence was hurt badly because of Google's past algorithmic updates, such as Penguin/Panda updates, then the good news is that other algorithm updates can help enhance the search ranking of your site. So, if you are left scratching your…
Google served notices to webmasters last week, stating that it has decided to penalize sites with unnatural outbound links. Google's mass manual action message to webmasters turned out to be a brief warning to blogwriters to disclose nofollow links when reviewing gifted products online. In a brief message, Google warned bloggers to “nofollow the link, if you happen to link…
It's now time to welcome the Bot Store! If you don't believe it, just read on... The future of all messenger apps and websites is in for a change. Kik, which has for years been a supporter of bots, is officially launching it's first bot messenger app. The company believes it will play an important role not only in shaping…
In an effort to bring more interesting and engaging content into its ecosystem, Facebook recently updated its Branded Content Policies. Here, branded content can be defined as any post that includes text, image and video “which specifically includes or houses a third-party brand, product or a sponsor. With this recent update, Facebook has altered it's branded content policies to include…
It was February 24, 2016 when Google's much awaited AMP project went live for specific mobile searches. Post that, businesses, especially those without a mobile-friendly presence were a bit concerned whether Google was going to make it a major ranking factor to get ahead in searches. Google then surprised advertisers by rolling out AMP enabled Google Search Analytics reports which…
Twitter has had much to celebrate recently, with its 10th anniversary marking a decade of transformation in the world of social media. Simultaneously, its live-streaming video app, Periscope, celebrated its first birthday. The introduction of Periscope on Twitter was a strategic move aimed at boosting engagement and expanding Twitter's capabilities, especially during a time when its user growth had plateaued.…
Google's now offering AdWords support to advertisers by auto-recommending bids as an assistance to set up dynamic categories in their Ad Search (DSA) campaigns. This can be a bit of worrying piece of information for businesses, since they don't want Google to overlook or suggest changes in their DSA campaigns. But businesses don't need to worry as they can easily…
If not Google, then what? If you happen to ask this query to businesses then most of them would get a heart attack! Because most businesses are Google based advertisers (we actually don’t want that to happen). Frankly speaking, we're so habituated to or dependent on Google searches that we don't care to try any other of the plethora of…
Google now knows what's the “Best” and “Cheapest” option available to you, when you do a Google search for a restaurant in your vicinity? Well, it's true. Google has recently added support for “Search Autofilters” in its Search Ranking Algorithm that takes into consideration phrases such as “Best” and “Cheapest” before revealing information related to “Local Restaurant Searches”. The newly…
After recently testing colored filter buttons to go with its image search feature, Google's now busy rolling them out for users across the globe. To use this feature, go to Google's Image Search option and do a search for any query. At the top of the SERPs, you'll see a carousel of colored buttons. When you click those tabs, it…