Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Search Engines Send More Traffic Than Social Media, New Study Reports

For the first time in over 3 years Search Engines were once again the dominant referrer of website traffic in 2017, overtaking Social Media that held reign since 2014. This revelation comes through a recently released report from the folks at Shareaholic who track web visits.  

Google’s Advice on “How to Hire a Good SEO” Explained

Finding transparent and straight-forward advice from Google and Bing can often be a challenge. We’ve come to expect search engines to parse information in small bite sized morsels. This often leaves us trying to find the deeper, hidden meaning. So, it was quite refreshing when Google offered up advice to business owners on assessing and […]

Digital Marketing Update – November 2016

It has officially been a year since we launched our first newsletter! We’re very excited that you’re still with us, and we look forward to another great year! In this month’s digital update, we look at Google’s new click-to-message, shopping on instagram, and understanding your online audience. Get your thanksgiving forks ready, cause we’re about […]

Digital Marketing Update – July 2016

This month is filled with top news stories and insights from the world of digital, upcoming events, a new Stat of the Month, and conferences we’ll be participating at. Dive on in!

Digital Marketing Update – April 2016

This month is filled with top news stories and insights from the world of digital, upcoming events, a new Stat of the Month, and conferences we’ll be participating at. Let’s see what’s new.

Digital Marketing Update – January 2016

Welcome to our first Digital Marketing Update of 2016. This month is filled with top news stories and insights from the world of digital, upcoming events, a new Stat of the Month, and conferences we’ll be participating at. As we kick off 2016, we look ahead to what we hope to accomplish. We’ll try and […]

Digital Marketing Update – November 2015

Welcome to WebRanking’s inaugural Monthly Digital Marketing Update. Each month we will be sharing with you the top news stories, statistics and insights from the world of digital marketing. Let’s get to it!

Search & Social: a Match.com made in heaven or Tinder’s awkward hook-up?

  I recently had the honor of presenting to the Social Media Breakfast group at “SMBMSP #82 – Social + Search = A Whole New Ballgame for SEO & SEM” along with Aaron Weiche on September 11th, 2015 at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota. My presentation for this session is entitled “Search & Social: […]

Google, what the (bleep) are you doing?

Google announced its new privacy policy last week – it was immediately met with Congressional concern, fire and brimstone from privacy advocates and some good old fashioned ribbing on Twitter from none other than Steve Martin (yeah, THE wild and crazy guy). This was just another dark cloud in a growing storm of concern regarding […]

The First Paid Google +1 Popularity Building Unsolicited Email?

It was probably just a matter of time before someone tried to monetize Google’s +1 by selling them to webmasters either desperate for search engine attention or too naive to understand exactly the type of manipulation that Google frowns upon. In case you don’t quite understand what G considers a poor and manipulative practice, this […]