Gaming and Social Media Marketing Done Right

Two years is a lifetime in social media marketing. Tweets are constantly being sent out, Facebook statuses rarely remain static, and even Google has decided that the future of search is going to be in real-time. As the cliché goes, “if you’re not moving forward, you’re getting left behind.” At no point in time has…

Caffeine Goes Live

According to Irbtrax, an SEO Internet Marketing firm, Google has started rolling out the Caffeine update to its search algorithm, and the effects of it have already begun to manifest themselves. The company reports that, although Caffeine has yet to be implemented in its entirety, some sites have already seen their rankings fluctuate, search speeds…

Difference between Paid Search and Organic Search

So what is the difference between paid and organic search? The organic, or natural, results are the links that are determined by the search engine’s algorithm for page ranking. Paid search results are those links paid by advertisers that appear on top and/or to the left of the organic search, such as you see in…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) versus Google

Liz Gannes conducted an interview with David Glazer, Google Engineering Director, and spoke about Google’s plans for integrating Social Media for 2010. Google plans to incorporate more social results (who you are, your contacts, what you do) into current Google tools – Gmail, Google Talk, etc. However, it should be acknowledged that search engine optimization…

Google Reconsidering Their Presence in China

Google is on the verge and threatens to pull out of China due to cyber attacks targeting human rights activists and censoring search queries. Google announced that the attacks were directed at its Chinese-language search engine and Gmail accounts. Other companies such as Adobe Systems confirmed similar cyber attacks on their China operations. In 2006,…

Real-Time Web’s Biggest Movers and Shakers of 2009

Real-time web has been an important development, especially with companies banking on search engine optimizations and social media marketing to boost their ranks in Google and Yahoo. Aside from social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, who use real time updates for its users, businesses are now using real-time systems to capture significant information over…

Google Caffeine and Search Engine Optimization

Don’t mistake the Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace streams that have begun to rear their heads on Google’s search engine result pages (SERPs) for a forthcoming lull from the search giant. The company has been quietly working on their new, faster search index algorithm (internally referred to as “Caffeine”), and have been preparing for its launch…