Follow Google’s Advice for Better AdSense Performance
Google has been providing tips for optimizing AdSense ads to enhance their performance. The company has provided a three-part video series on this subject, which it has just released the final installment for.
Report: Roughly One-Tenth Of Brand Searches “Hijacked”
Companies put all sorts of time and effort into getting people to search for certain terms. This happens with the expectation that people will then visit corporate sites, but a fresh Hitwise report relays the somewhat threatening news that about 13 percent of searchers wind up somewhere else.
YouTube Goes Live
YouTube announced its first-ever live programming aimed at user-generated content, which will take place on Saturday, November, 22. YouTube may not be the first to offer live video online, but the brand power behind it (not to mention the force of Google) might be enough to push the concept into the mainstream.
Online Retail Spending Grows 1 Percent
Online retail spending in October grew by only 1 percent compared to October 2007, representing the lowest monthly growth rate since 2001, according to a report from comScore who began tracking ecommerce seven years ago.The report said that the softness in online retail spending was due in part by negative spending growth in households earning less than $50,000 a year.
Google Getting Hung Up In Privacy Issues
Google has a significant presence in Europe with large offices in Dublin, Zurich, and London, and smaller centers in Denmark, Russia, and Poland. The giant search company has been well received up to this point, but is now being forced to fight privacy laws.
Google Takes LIFE Photo Archive Online
Google said today it is partnering with LIFE magazine to make more than 10 million images available online from the magazine’s photo archive.One of the most interesting things about the project is 97 percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains iconic images from the 20th century with works from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W.Eugene Smith.
Tech Users Struggle With Gadgetry
While technology is well integrated into the lives of many Americans, close to half (48%) have to ask for help when it comes to getting their cell phones, Internet connections and other gadgets to work, according to new research from Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Mark Cuban vs. The SEC
If there is anyone who is representative of all the potential, all the excess and all the celebrity that the Internet economy has offered up to this point, it’s Mark Cuban. His flamboyant style keeps him in the news in one way or another and his mounds of cash from the sale of Broadcast.com to Yahoo! during the first internet gold rush has allowed him to live a life that most can only dream of (if that’s your sort of thing). Well, today that dream life may be looking more like a nightmare as the SEC investigates charges of insider trading by Mr. Cuban.
Motrin’s Ad Causes Online Backfire
Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a simple ball-point pen.
Mark Cuban Proclaims Insider Trading Innocence
After being accused of insider trading by the SEC, Mark Cuban’s done the smart thing and stayed fairly quiet so far. Just the same, one short announcement has given a few clues as to what’s going on in relation to the Mamma.com charges.