[ad_1] Pinterest has slowly been building itself up as an advertising alternative to Google and Facebook over the past 12 months. The company’s focus has historically been on building an engaged user base through its intuitive, visual interface. As a social network, it has always offered something a little different. However, advertisers have been skeptical…

[ad_1] Image designed by Freepik Mobile video is a major up-and-coming trend in content, with brands everywhere converging on the new and lucrative mobile video market. Mark Zuckerberg said on a recent shareholder conference call that he sees video as “a megatrend on the same order as mobile” – which makes mobile video, the intersection between the…

[ad_1] PPC can deliver effective results for a business, but it can also seem overwhelming when you’re just getting started. How can you use it to increase ROI? PPC (Pay-Per-Click) marketing, or paid search marketing, offers a great opportunity for every business to promote its services and extend its reach. Whether you’re targeting an existing audience…

[ad_1] Mobile video is great. When it works. Implemented correctly, video or audio *should not* impact the speed that pages load on a mobile device and when the play button is pressed, it needs to start quickly and work well. Video content is top of the agenda for many brands. It is proving a great…

[ad_1] Customer reviews play an important role in the success or failure of a business. Just think, before you try out a new product or service, don’t you usually go online to read the reviews and see what kind of experiences other customers have had? In addition to boosting your online reputation, reviews can also…

[ad_1] Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of search marketing and beyond. Google has been busy this week, performing several interesting tests including two fairly major ones concerning hotel reviews and job listings. Meanwhile, Bing makes its homepage a little more interactive, and Google has announced that Similar Audiences…

[ad_1] My favorite funny anecdote is that one day an online marketer wakes up in horror from the nightmare that he has lost all his passwords. I actually get that nightmare too, but mine is worse. It’s that all my passwords have been stolen. As marketers, CEOs and managers we deal with too many fears…

[ad_1] Technical SEO has certainly fallen out of fashion somewhat with the rise of content marketing, and rightly so. Content marketing engages and delivers real value to the users, and can put you on the map, putting your brand in front of far more eyeballs than fixing a canonical tag ever could. While content is…

[ad_1] Recently, we took a nostalgic, infographic-based look back at the history of Google search results pages. In the past 20 years, Google has gone from a university project called Backrub to a global powerhouse that continues to shape how we search for, and discover, new information. And yet, these are still early days for…

[ad_1] Google’s Home device was launched in November 2016 in the US, and as recently as April 6 2017 in the UK. As a direct rival to Amazon’s Echo in the battle to gain control of the intelligent digital assistant market, Home has made great strides already. Some sources estimate that Google may already have…