The launch of iPhone 5 was perhaps the most awaited electronics launch ever. In connection with it there was a rampant speculation on the influence it will have on the mobile market.
But as for mobile search perspective, iPhone 5 is pretty much more of the same.
New Players Could Change the Game
Earlier this month took place a launch of Nokia’s new smartphones, but not as many people looked forward for it.
Google has announced the launch of Google Now on iOS. According to the company’s official, Google’s ‘predictive search’ tool will become available with a regular update to the Google Search application. The tool is said to be compatible with both the iPad and iPhone. It also said that iOS version of Google Now will contain the same Google’s information cards as Google Now for Android. At first sight, the tool is identical for both platforms, at least the look and feel. However, there are some differences, the main of which is that iOS will display fewer different kinds of cards.
Apart from that, it will be impossible to launch the Google Search app for iOS with a system-wide shortcut and the Google iOS search app isn’t able to perform the same kind of background sync that Google Now does on Android. At the same time, Google asserts that the predictive search tool for iOS is provided with the background location feature.
WordPress is currently one of the most rampant management systems for SEO professionals. It was reported in September 2012 that WordPress SEO powers 1 in 6 websites.
However, there are some secrets about the system SEOs should know to make their sites really successful. Below are 5 basic tips that will help to improve your WordPress site both for SEO and the user experience.
App Stores SEO usually differs from those of traditional SEO for websites. It requires understanding of limitations of different devices, platforms and tracking.
The most difficult task with the developed app is to inform users about its existence and let them find it. There are some tactics that can help online marketers in this process. Let’s analyze them in more details.
Google has claimed that its Meebo bar, the service for getting and sharing content from websites, would stop it operation on June 6. In hindsight, the company bought Meebo toolbar service for $100 million in June, 2012. Apart from the toolbar than provided advertisements and personalized content, the bar also allowed customers to connect to social networking sites, including Twitter. There was also an instant messaging application within the toolbar.
The company is going to retire the Meebo publishing tool in favor of its Google+ Sign-In service and other plug-ins for its social networking site. Google+ Sign-in is a recently launched by the search giant feature that includes web installs from publisher websites and interactive posts.
Bing Webmaster Tools were supplemented with new two additional features: a new geo-targeting and malware tool.
The Bing’s reaction on the malware detected on a particular site will be the following: the search engine will send a notification to a web-master via Bing Webmaster Tools and alert users who visit this site about the malware danger.
Given that rankings are constantly varying, you can’t be sure that once gaining in SEO industry, you’ll always be in all glory. You might be on top of the SERPs one day, and the next day you are at the very end of search engine results page, because of a Google update or some other factors. That’s why it’s advisable for marketers to recognize all your SEO successes, even if they are insignificant.
Microsoft has recently announced about its decision to improve the security of its inline users on the company’s sites. The security reinforcing policy includes the rolling out of the two step verification during the account authentication.
Since now, when you will try to access your personal account on Microsoft, the system will require the following information: password and security code sent to your mobile phone or email.
Search engine optimization’s (SEO) effect on position of your website is usually underestimated. Marketers should remember that knowing basic SEO strategies and implementing them properly in their businesses can help their web presence to become more gainful, as the main aim of foundational SEO is to create a great user experience.
Below are some basic SEO tips that will help you in fruitful optimization of your websites:
Several days ago, Google officials shared information with ICANN that they have an intention to turn their .search domain into a “dotless” one. We remind you that such top-level domains as .search, .app, .blog and .cloud officially belongs to Google.
The company promised to launch some global changes to their domain policy last year in May. And recently, it was announced that the company has sent an official letter to ICANN via its Charleston Road Registry subsidiary.
