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Bill & Ted & Rufus: The SEO Version – Search Engine Roundtable
Mar 12th
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Bill & Ted & Rufus: The SEO Version
Search Engine Roundtable Last night during the The Search Police: Matt & Duane's Excellent Search Engine Adventure session at SMX West, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Duane Forrester played roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Who was Rufus? Danny Sullivan. It was pretty … Matt Cutts, Duane Forrester talk 'Adventures in SEO' at SMX West Google's Matt Cutts On Upcoming Penguin, Panda & Link Networks Updates Major Penguin algorithm update coming in the next week |
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Is Google Launching Its Own Version Of Amazon Prime?
Mar 5th
According to a report today from TechCrunch, Google is at work on its own version of Amazon’s premium fast-shipping subscription service, Amazon Prime. The service would be called “Google Shopping Express” and could undercut Amazon Prime’s $79 annual membership rates by as much as $15. TechCrunch’s report names Google e-commerce product manager Tom Fallows as the head of the project.
Assuming the report reflects what’s on the way (Google had not responded to inquiries at press time), Google’s Prime competitor would partner with brick and mortar retailers – Walmart, Target and the like. The service would tie into the Google’s Amazon lookalike shopping portal, Google Shopping.
We’d be interested to see what a Google Shopping Express-like service might offer in the way of digital perks – after all, Amazon Prime not only nets its users free two-day shipping, but also access to instant streaming videos and Kindle e-book lending perks. Fortunately, Google has plenty of virtual goodies of its own to offer in the Play store.
It may dominate in areas like search and mobile, but Google remains an underdog in e-commerce, where giants like Amazon and Ebay run the show. And after the Google Wallet buzz fizzled out – you know, since no one could actually use Google Wallet - its efforts in online shopping and payments have been pretty quiet.
It might not be enough to make the new service a success, but same-day shipping would at least speed up the process for anyone out there still waiting to for their Nexus 4 to show up in the mail.
Images via Shutterstock and Google.
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Online Marketing Company Ajax Union Introduces New 2013 Version of Onsite … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Mar 4th
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Online Marketing Company Ajax Union Introduces New 2013 Version of Onsite …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) “While social media management, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and email newsletters are all important marketing strategies for any business with an online presence, onsite SEO should be at the core of a sound marketing campaign. Not only will a … |
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Google’s Enhanced Campaigns Inspire Love, Hate And Hope For The Next Version
Feb 7th
Tensions were high in the pay-per-click world yesterday, as marketers held their collective breath waiting for news of what were rumored to be “big changes” from Google AdWords. Indeed, it was big news — the launch of Enhanced Campaigns, which let marketers combine separate…
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Google Panda Update Version #24; 1.2% Of Search Queries Impacted
Jan 22nd
Google has announced a new Panda refresh, making this version number 24. This refresh has a noticeable impact 1.2% of English based queries according to Google. The previous confirmed update was #23 and it impacted 1.3% of English queries on December 21, 2012. Prior to that was a refresh on…
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7 New WordPress Version 3.5 Features You Must Know About
Nov 30th
WordPress is about to release version 3.5 in a few days. It’s scheduled for December 5 according to their timeline. This is in keeping with their recent release tempo of a new major release about once every six months. As always, there are changes and improvements with a new release, so here are some things [...]
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Skitch Listens To Users, Revives Old Version After Controversial Redesign
Nov 21st
Perhaps the biggest fear for app developers is that when they come out with a new version of their product, the people who already use it don’t like the changes. It does happen – just ask Facebook.
Sometimes, people eventually get used to the new design and plow ahead. Sometimes they hate the new version so much they hang on to the old one as long as they can, and completely drop the service when they can no longer do so.
That was precisely the scenario facing Skitch, a photo/screenshot capturing and photo-hosting app that is now part of the Evernote family of products. Skitch is great for taking screenshots and resizing them to fit in articles and blog posts and hosting them online with custom URLs. Skitch has been a favorite of ReadWrite staffers for years because it made it easy to grab screenshots and resize them quickly for publication.
But when Skitch released its new Skitch for Mac version 2.0 recently, several of us at ReadWrite freaked out about the changes to its user interface (OK, it was mostly me). The screen-capture app we relied on had been borked. We found resizing much more difficult – and other features that we had grown accustomed to also changed. It got to the point that I refused to update Skitch on my MacBook after using the new version on my iMac.
Listening Is Important
One mark of a good company is how well it listens to its customers. If a new release collects criticism, some companies just tell their users, “this is our new product and we are sticking to it, so get used to it.” Smarter companies pay attention to user concerns and respond accordingly. Skitch did it right.
On Wednesday, Skitch co-founder and chief designer Keith Lang responded to users upset with Skitch for Mac 2.0 by providing a roadmap for how his team is going to improve the app going forward. Just as important, in a blog post, Lang promised that the previous version of Skitch for Mac will remain available for download, “until the new version fits into your workflow.”
I could not be happier.
Where Skitch Is Going
Lang’s roadmap shows a variety of features that will eventually come to Skitch for Mac. Some of those features are old Skitch standbys that were removed from version 2.0, such as auto-creation of URLs for sharing, shortened URLs and streamlined cropping and resizing. Skitch will also have direct hosting of images (like it used to) and storage and synchronization options accessible from any Evernote-enabled device. It will also get the ability to create multiple file formats from the app’s “Drag Me” tab.
When Evernote bought Skitch in August 2011, ReadWrite thought it was a perfect match. Evernote promised to bring Skitch mobile (which it has) So far, the companies have worked well together. Just as important, it is nice to see that despite being subsumed by a much larger company, Skitch can still be nimble and responsive to its users.
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Skitch Finds New Life At Evernote With iPhone Version
Sep 19th
When your favorite app gets bought by a bigger company, you have good reason to fear for its life. But when that company is Evernote, something different happens. The app sticks around, and it gets better. On Wednesday, Skitch came to the iPhone, and it syncs everywhere through Evernote. Now you can annotate your images from anywhere.
Skitch was beloved by many before Evernote bought it. It’s one of the quickest, sharpest tools for cropping, resizing, highlighting and annotating images. You can add text, boxes or arrows, whatever you need. And Evernote has preserved most of those features. It even made the full version of the app free, shipped an Android version, and launched an iPad version in December, which on Wednesday became a universal app.
That doesn’t mean all has gone smoothly for Skitch’s happy pre-Evernote users. Evernote has removed some tools, like translucent colors and paint bucket, although it has added new ones, like highlighting and pixellation for blurring out details.
Evernote has also shut down the Skitch.com service for editing notes via the Web, moving the sync over to your Evernote notebooks instead.
That’s actually a great update for Evernote users, but for people who use Skitch but not Evernote, it can result in unfortunate situations like this:
Skitch 2.0: cl.ly/image/402N3v1X…
— Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass) September 19, 2012
It’s no fun to have a tool you use daily change underneath you. But it could be much worse. When Google buys a great third-party app like the Gmail client Sparrow, the new management tends to kill it stone dead.
In the case of Skitch, as well as handwriting app Penultimate, yes, things will change. But the core usefulness of the app remains, and it gains the advantages of being searchable and shareable in Evernote across platforms. But you don’t even have to use the standalone Evernote app to use it, though I’m not sure why you wouldn’t.
Evernote wants to be your personal (or shared) external memory, and it wants to work on every device on every platform and last 100 years. Handy apps could find a much worse home than Evernote.
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Bing Offers Own Version Of “Pepsi Challenge” Against Google: “Bing It On”
Sep 6th
Surely you remember (or have heard about) the now classic “Pepsi Challenge” ad campaign from the 1970s and early 1980s. Pepsi went around to public venues like shopping malls and offered people blind taste tests of its own caramel colored soda vs Coke. Overwhelmingly people preferred…
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Google Panda Refresh On August 19th: Version 3.9.1
Aug 22nd
Google has confirmed they have pushed out a Panda refresh this past Monday. This updated affected less than 1% of search queries and is a “minor” Panda refresh. We emailed Google, after hearing speculation of a Panda update and Google confirmed it by tweeting it. Here is that tweet:…
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