Well, Marcus said it before, Infographics are becoming important. And off course we listen to Marcus! We found this infographic through Flowtown about the State of YouTube. It shows the immense growth of the video search engine, going from almost 89 million monthly unique visitors in November 2009 to 103,817,689 in May 2010. What do you mean, video is getting important?
Again though its too bad this is US data only… (click to see the full infographic after the read more) (more…)
Google News can really be a great traffic driver. It was already a good source of traffic when Google News was only accesible through the special “news” tab. Now Google News is also integrated in Universal Search it gets even more interesting to get your content out there.
Getting your content in Google News requires a little bit of work. First of all you need to make sure you live up to the regulations Google has set up for Google News. Second you need to understand how it works. You need to know for example that the position of the news items can change based on how ‘hot’ a specific newsitem is at that moment.
There are many articles out there already about how you can get your content in Google News. Our very own Barry Adams also wrote a post about that on Searchenginepeople for example. But there is one other item which can get you into Google News which gets a little less attention: video.
I want to highlight a few items here which can help you get your video content showing up in Google News, thus driving even more traffic to your site. (more…)
There has been a lot of discussion lately about what happened with the MayDay update Google has done. Many website owners are experiencing a drop of long tail traffic from 30% to 50%. People are still guessing about what happened and how to solve it.
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The question now remains: where will this go? Has anybody experienced these drops in traffic? Let us know!
Universal Search has changed the search landscape. You now get videos, images, news, blogs, products and much more. At
I talked to Tom Critchlow after his talk at day 1 of
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Sometimes you just have to put things into perspective. And who is better in doing that than the creators of South Park? They have already created several episodes who tell us with a lot of humor how ‘hooked’ we are. Sometimes we just have to laugh 
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At SES New York I got to talk to a couple of speakers who all had interesting sessions at the conference. Every single one of them had a different angle on search and social media.
I talked to Tracy Falke, John Marshall and Kristjan Mar Hauksson about their talks, their jobs and what keeps them busy. Find the videos below.
Tracy Falke runs Content, SEO, SEM, and Social for Freestyle Interactive, one of the largest full service creative digital agencies in the UK. She also works with their Art Directors to conceive, execute and manage CRM (or social CRM campaigns, and sometimes even invent technical solutions, though she can’t code!
At SES she talked amongst other things about automating Twitter in a much discussed session. After the session I talked to her:
Google is powerful, very powerful. Over the past year, especially in Europe, Google has been running into some boundaries though. But would Google care? According to comedy.com not. And there is also no way back. Enjoy this video!
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