Thursday, 21 Nov 2024
Month: August 2021

Apple Buys Primephonic, Will Launch Dedicated Classical Music App

Apple has acquired Primephonic, a leading classical music streaming service, and plans to released a dedicated classical music app. Primephonic made its name as a classical music streaming service, offering handpicked, premium quality audio. Apple wants to build on that, offering Apple Music subscribers the best in classical music. “We love and have a deep […]

Bing iPad App Gets An Upgrade

Bing has quietly released an update for the Bing iPad App, adding new features and making optimization improvements to the app. The app can be downloaded for free over here in the app store. The changes, as listed in version 1.3 include: Bookmark Web/Image/News Search Query Provide Daily Trending Images with density layout Enable Map […]

Google confirms it changed how it creates titles for search result listings

Google no longer uses the query to generate these titles but still uses HTML title tags 80% of the time. Google has confirmed that the search engine has changed how it creates titles for search result listings. “Last week, we introduced a new system of generating titles for web pages,” the company said in an announcement on […]

Twitter’s Traffic Growth & The Rise Of Social Search

There’s a lot of stats and analysis today about Twitter’s traffic, how it compares to other social search sites, and who’s benefiting from all the traffic Twitter can send. It seems no one argues that Twitter is on the rise, but just how high it’s risen is still up for debate. Let’s start, appropriately, with […]

7 on-site SEO problems that hold back e-commerce sites

Is your e-commerce site experiencing weak organic traffic? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares some common issues that impact SEO for online retailers and offers a few suggestions. Not long ago, I talked about 16 very specific on-site SEO mistakes that I see very often, and how to fix those issues. Today, I want to shift the focus toward […]

The case for advertising on search engines other than Google

If we break out of that loop and adopt these new platforms, despite our hesitations about volume and UX, we give them the chance to get better. It can be easy to equate search marketing with Google marketing, because, well, statistically, it is. But it shouldn’t be. By focusing on Google above all else, we […]

Blue Origin Losing Top Talent to Rivals

On the heels of losing out on a major NASA contract, Blue Origin is also losing some of its top talent to its rivals. SpaceX beat out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in a bid for NASA’s contract for a lunar lander. NASA had originally wanted to source multiple companies, but went with SpaceX exclusively due […]

Twitter To Offer “Verified Accounts”

Finally, Twitter’s making a move toward verified accounts — with the news coming out from the service in response to reports it had settled a lawsuit with the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Tony La Russa, over how someone apparently impersonated him on the service. Twitter denies any settlement. Earlier today, St. Louis Today […]

How to plan SEO content that actually ranks

Learn how to identify metrics for content goals, perform keyword research that drives SEO value and build your content calendar. Content has been king for a while now, but just because you wrote something doesn’t mean it’ll drive qualified traffic to your site. In fact, it doesn’t even guarantee that your content will show up […]

The state of cross-channel paid search, part 3: SEM & display

In the third installment of his series on cross-channel digital marketing, columnist Josh Dreller explains how search and display can work together to inform one another and drive results. In the first part of this series on cross-channel paid search, I posited that cross-channel marketing will one day be the standard for most marketing organizations. I also presented some […]