Some of you may have recently received a rather annoying email from LinkedIn about it’s automated Twitter support feature: Recently, it was decided that the Tweets application, a LinkedIn feature that you’ve used at some point, will no longer be supported as of January 31, 2012. Starting on that date, you…
By Jeff Ferguson Social Media
Google really knows how to keep users on their toes. Right from the time the search giant introduced Google+ (28th June, 2011), everyone’s been thinking – what happens next? Though Google has always claimed that it’s not into any kind of war against other popular social networks, the ever-increasing number…
This past week, we saw a twitter post that went something like this: “#SEO Question: Did anyone else notice title tag weight increase by Google in the last 48 hours?” However, there was no official announcement of anything that would have effected how TITLE tags are handled by Google. Do…
I originally had the title of this post as, “Google has a need, a need for speed!” and then suddenly realized that was probably the least original post title ever. After a quick Google search, I confirmed as much, and instead alluded that a search engine has drug issues… much…
By Jeff Ferguson Social Media
The following is a summary of Jeff Ferguson’s (@countxero) live tweets of the Facebook new product announcement on July 6, 2011 with additional, post announcement commentary. Live tweeting the Facebook Live session featuring Mark Zuckerberg who has promised a “big announcement” #zucklive I love the way business works sometimes. I’m…
Jeff Ferguson, Managing Partner at Amplitude Digital, provides details on his recent speaking engagement where he presented some advanced (and “amazing”) Google AdWords PPC tactics on bidding strategies at SMX Advanced 2011 in Seattle, WA on June 8, 2011. Wow… just wow. It’s one thing to attend a show like…
By Jeff Ferguson Email Marketing
One of our awesome clients was having a little trouble with their customer emails getting popped as spam and there were reports of their hard work ending up in the junk pile and never seeing the light of day. The sucky thing was, they weren’t spamming at all… I mean,…
I can’t be the only one seeing these weird ads on Facebook. Actually, I know I’m not; so, maybe I’m just one of the few that cares. Here’s one for home loans, as you can clearly tell from the headline and body copy… … but only headline and body copy…
Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Supreme Master of Google Space, Time, and SEO, posted his latest video response to a question that I thought was just priceless. If you don’t want to play the video, the question was, “When analyzing rankings for highly competitive keywords in our industry, we have found sites…
This post originally appeared on the Search Engine Watch, where Amplitude Digital regularly contributes articles about leveraging search engine marketing. Like many with active AdWords campaigns in their control, I awoke Thursday to news from Google HQ informing me that the Position Preference feature was being phased out of existence. My first…