Posted by COEH on March 7, 2012
PPC managers have struggled for a long time with the inability to track individual sitelink performance in Google AdWords. Cindy Prathoumvanh, on the Standing Dog blog, has solved the problem within Google Analytics. Cindy has discovered how to Track Performance in Google Analytics.
Posted by COEH on February 22, 2012
Google has made the decision to retire the “hosted domains” item that they have via the Google AdSense program. According to an e-mail directly from the Google AdSense team, they’ve evaluated the advantages of their companion network and decided to retire the Hosted Domains system with Google AdSense. This system shutting down is various than [...]
Posted by COEH on January 25, 2012
On January 30th, 2012, Google will begin rolling out Impression Share Metrics at the Ad Group degree in Google AdWords. If you’re familiar with Google AdWords, Google’s pay per click (PPC) program, and also you use it every day, then you understand that this is likely to be a very welcome new feature.
Posted by COEH on January 11, 2012
Google recently add a new feature or alter to their search results called Google Search Plus Your World. Google’s search results underwent however another radical change. But only if you are logged into your Google Account. Google has begun to integrate internet content that has been shared with you privately through their Google Plus social [...]
Posted by COEH on November 15, 2011
Google has added a way for companies to make their own Google Plus Company Page for their business. Just like a business page on other social media or social networking web sites, your company can have a Google Plus Business page for itself. The Google Plus Company Page is not tied to one particular individual [...]
Posted by COEH on November 2, 2011
Google Sidewiki is being closed by Google. Apparently this is just an additional certainly one of Google’s products that failed. I am not precisely sure why Google Sidewiki never caught on with the public, but maybe it is because of the fact that Google Sidewiki has been so difficult to find, being practically hidden within [...]
Posted by COEH on October 31, 2011
For most businesses, providing a link to your location on Google Maps is a must. It is a part of doing business on the web for a local business, especially if you have a location where you want people to visit and do business with you. Some businesses, though, may have to rethink that plan, [...]
Posted by COEH on October 28, 2011
Today, Shelby at Standing Dog noticed a new Google AdWords Format of ads that totally creeped her out. This is no Halloween joke.
Posted by COEH on October 14, 2011
I did not realize that this week the number of Google Plus Users reached a milestone of 40 million users. So if 40 million people really have signed up for Google+, where are they? As far as I can tell, they are a very silent 40 million. I mean, really. Where are the 40 million [...]
Posted by COEH on September 28, 2011
If you have a website and use Google Analytics to track website visitors, it’s important to set up funnels in Google Analytics. Funnels will help you understand your visitors’ activity more on your website. When you utilize funnels through Google analytics, a basic sign up form on your site, for example, can be assessed at [...]
Posted by COEH on September 26, 2011
Chances are that your website probably already is using Google Analytics in order to track the visitors to your website. Many websites do, and it can be a very effective tool. If you are not using Google Analytics yet, then you may want to consider setting up a Google Account and installing Google Analytics. While [...]
Posted by COEH on September 20, 2011
Today on my blog, I posted about Google Penalties and what they really mean. There are a lot of various reasons why the Google search engine can decide to penalize your website, and not list it as high in the search engine results as it should be listed. Then again, there are also Google search [...]
Posted by COEH on September 16, 2011
I find it rather interesting to note today that Google registered several typo domain names related to Google Analytics. They bought domain names that are apparently common typos of the word “Google Analytics”, the domain names that are related to the hyphenated version of their Google-Analytics.com domain name. What I find interesting is their choice [...]
Posted by COEH on August 10, 2011
For a period of time yesterday, Ripoffreport.com was removed from Google, totally de-indexed. None of their pages were in the Google search results. They were not banned, though. We can learn from this, and I examined whether or not removing yourself from Google hurts your search engine rankings. Does Removing Your Website from Google Hurt [...]
Posted by COEH on August 3, 2011
Previously, I wrote on my blog about how to get your Google+ Plus posts ranked in Google, and how you can get them to show up in the Google search results. Up until recently, Google was indexing about 200 to 300 new Google+ Plus posts that were marked as Public. However, Google has now stopped [...]
Posted by COEH on August 1, 2011
Without a doubt, Google+ Plus and the Google +1 Button are new. So new, in fact, that we are still debating on the actual impact that the Google Plus and Plus One Buttons are going to have on search engine marketing. There are, though, things that we know already, so let’s review what we know [...]
Posted by COEH on July 29, 2011
Google recently launched Google Hotel Finder, a place that Google says will help you find the perfect hotel. Using Google Hotel Finder, you can search for the perfect hotel. Here’s how you can boost your rankings in the Google Hotel Finder search results.
Posted by COEH on July 24, 2011
Google+ Plus is a new social network that’s getting a lot of attention lately. It’s becoming very popular, especially amongst those more “tech savvy folks” such as myself. Google has been very adamant about making sure that there are Google+ Personal Profiles only, no businesses. So, here is how you can take advantage of this [...]
Posted by COEH on July 21, 2011
Google recently quietly made what I would call a “significant” domain name, plus dot com (+.com) (the plus symbol dot com). This is an IDN domain name. The problem is that +.com, aka xn--dra.com is not allowed. It’s an illegal domain name under the current IDNA2008 rules. In fact, pretty soon, that character will not [...]
Posted by COEH on July 20, 2011
Should you use Google+ Plus? Well, I took some time to put together a Google Plus Review to tell you what to watch out for when using Google Plus, the new social network from Google.