Forrester: U.S. Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017

If you currently have an online store, then you might want to take a look at this article.  Research company Forrester is prediction that mobile payments will skyrocket between now and 2017.  2012 seen $12.8 Billion dollars in mobile payments.  Predictions are that by 2017 that number could reach $90 Billion.  After reading this, now…

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Picking a Hosting Company

How do you go about choosing the right web host? There are several things that you should consider: Cost Amount of Web Space Reliability Speed/Bandwidth Tech support Nowadays you want to make sure that your host provides you with some type of control panel (Cpanel being the most common). The control panel is where you…

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Reflections on Real Time Bidding and Search Retargeting in 2012

Real-time bidding (RTB) is expected to grow rapidly in 2013. As it grows, so will the cost per click. Plus making research even more important. Google now puts a heavy weight on relevancy. Your site must have good content, fresh content and all the relevant to your brand. 2012 was a huge year for real-time…

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3 Top Line Search Marketing Resolutions For 2013

Three top line search marketing resolution for 2013 This article starts out with a great line  “the beauty of working in the digital marketing industry is that it is difficult to get bored”. This is so true. Here is a quick breakdown of the three top line search marketing resolutions. Prioritize budget effectively Look below…

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November ComScore Data Suggest PC Search Volume May Have Peaked

Here are some search results and numbers for the month of November 2012. November usually has a high increase in searches due to the beginning of the holiday shopping period. 69.4% searches came from Google. 25.4% of searches were from Bing. Yahoo, AOL and Ask network were hardly even players. ComScore estimated over 17 billion…

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Infected Search Results Jump 80% During Holiday Season

Researchers have found an increase upwards of 80% during the holidays of infected search results. What exactly does that mean? Here is an example. You do a search on Google and the results are displayed, you then click on one of the results only to find that the link installed malware or even a virus.…

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Google Maps Is Back On The iPhone

Google maps is back on the iPhone! You knew it was just a matter of time before this would happen after the dismal failure of apples mapping software. It’s now an official app and is available in Apple’s App Store. This time it even includes turn by turn navigation. They are saying that this app…

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Google Transparency Report Now Showing False Takedown Requests

Google Transparency Report Now Showing False Takedown Requests It seems that Google has now updated their transparency report to show the number of false takedown requests.  These takedown requests are all generated by the DMCA. Take a look at the link provided below ( which is request ID 266534). You will find the following breakdown.…

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What’s My Brand Identity and How Do I Communicate It?

What’s My Brand Identity and How Do I Communicate It? Your brand is the identity of your company! It’s basically how your customers see your company and associate the items that you sell to your company. Your brand is almost a representation of your business actions. Below is a link to a great article on…

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Hot and Cold Trends in Search Going into 2013

Hot & Cold Trends in Search Going Into 2012 This is a very interesting article pertaining to “Search”.  Its a little lengthily however it does have a lot of information and a lot of the article are graphs and snapshots.  Here are a couple of facts right in the beginning that stood like a sore…

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Google Maps App A Step Closer To Apple App Store

Google Maps:  Will Apple Let Them Back In Seems like Google maps is on its way back to IOS 6 devices.  After the big disappointing release of Apple’s own map app it appears that Google is on its way back to our iPhones, iPads and iPods.  Here is a direct quote taken from the Wall…

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6 Holiday Trend Shifts That Heavily Impact SEM

Holiday Online Shopping Trends and Spending. There are many online retailers out there that rely on the holiday shopping rush for their survival.  So as a online retailer you should make sure your SEO and SEM are effective. In a post we came across titled “6 Holiday Trend Shifts That Heavily Impact SEM” show some…

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Google Introduces Targeting Improvements.

Google is trying to help local business as well as customers trying to find local products by rolling out some improvements to there “Local Search”.  This is just in time for the holidays (how convenient). One of the other improvements is that Google will start showing the location extensions and the site links together.  Google…

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Hijacking Google Search Results With Duplicate Content

You’ve been Hijacked! Here is a somewhat comical article where a guy by the name of Dan Petrovic was able to “hijack” a couple pages in Google. For example, he was able to confuse Google into thinking a page on MarketBizz should really show on dejanseo.com.au instead of on marketbizz.nl. Once he could verify his…

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Email Marketing Done Right!

Email Marketing 101, that’s what I’m calling this particular article that I came across (and spent quite sometime going through).  This is a cross between an “Interview”, “Seminar” and “Training Session”. We are going to get into making your emails more social and personal.  Even if you are not into marketing you have to know…

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Google’s Most Expensive Keywords

Have you ever done a PPC (Pay Per Click) campaign?  Finding the right keywords is what its all about. Once you find your keywords then you have to find the ones that actually convert. For the most part if there is a keyword out there that converts well then its going to cost you. Have…

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Bulk Editing Comes To AdWords Web Interface

This is straight from Google’s Blog. Google is releasing a new feature for “Bulk Editing” in Adwords.  This bulk editing will allow you to make global changes in URL’s, Text and elements at the keyword, ad, ad group and campaign level.  They are also stating that you can view all your changes before accepting them…

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Google is Learning From Your Actions !

Your results may very.  Thats right! Depending on where you live, Google will display different results  based on your actual location.  They have been doing this for quite some time now.  Google is watching us, they know where we are…. Scary stuff! Check out this very large article that goes into the science of how…

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Another Google Panda Update (#21)

Nov 5th, 2012 Google rolled out another “Panda Update”.  Although Google states that the Update will only effect around 0.4% of the queries.  That number is much greater if you are searching in the United States in English.  Those results effected are said to be around 1.1% Here’s a list of all the updates and…

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To Link Build or Not To Link Build

Link Building its working, wait now its not working and now Google says it is working, but now its not working.  So is it or is it not the way to go?  Check out this video to learn more.

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