What Is Google Analytics Premium?

Google Analytics PremiumGoogle has launched a new analytics tool, Google Analytics Premium, designed to address the needs of the enterprise and those businesses for whom understanding their web presence is absolutely critical. So what does Google Analytics Premium offer and how do you get it?

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How Smartphone Users Search

Mobile marketingIn a recent survey Market Authority inc. studied more than 200,000 consumers in the U.S. to assess the growing value of marketing to mobile audiences.

The findings have highlighted some important factors of search behaviours that businesses should be aware of in their search marketing.

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Should Apple Build A Search Engine?

ApplesGoogle, Microsoft and Yahoo! all bid to become the default search engine on iOS’s Mobile Safari Web Browser and obviously Google won.

In the recent anti-trust hearing regarding Google’s search domination they have admitted to Apple’s iOS being the main source of mobile searches. Is Google at risk of loosing it’s search monopoly to Apple in Future?

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Improvements To Google Places

Fed up with Google’s approach to support for Google Places listing issues or simply wishing that key feature that would benefit your business could be implemented to make your Google Places listing(s) work harder for you? Well now is you chance to help pave the road ahead, Google has asked for user insight to help develop its local marketing toolkit, see what we’ve suggested and find out how to add your own ideas.

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We’ve Rescued Google From A Reported Bankruptcy!

Google Mountain View ClosedWhen we spotted that the local business listing for Google Inc.’s headquarters in Mountain View, California had been reported closed, we thought we’d better investigate to find out what was going on.

We didn’t realise that we were going to have to save them from a reported bankruptcy!

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Should You Submit Websites To Search Engines?

Search engine submission is the process of making the search engine aware of a website or web pages. The submission consists of suggesting the URL to the search engine. Then it will interpret the title, description and page content, so the site and the pages appear in relevant searches. Why should you submit websites to search engines and how frequently?

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Google Sitelinks Help Improve Internal Page Landing

Google have made a change to the way that certain types of search results appear. Established websites that already had a list of ‘Sitelinks’ to direct searchers to specific content within the website have suddenly taken over the page!

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AdWords Boost Becomes AdWords Express

If you are already an Google Boost user, then you may well already know this if not, or for those who aren’t, Google recently relaunched it’s quick online paid for ad service as AdWords Express.  Continue reading

Google Places Descriptions Have Disappeared

Over the past few weeks there have been a significant number of references to disappearing Google Places Descriptions.

They have even been referenced on Google Maps Support with businesses in the US, UK and elsewhere reporting that their company “Description” had gone from the listing which previously appeared in search results and on places pages.

The question is; Where have they gone?

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