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This Week In Internet Marketing 2013 08 27
Here's some trending Internet marketing article for the last week: Yahoo Is Bigger Than Google, And That Should Mean Something To Your Business; Solving the Pogo-Stick Problem (WhiteBoard Friday); Mark Zuckerburg Launches Internet.org To Connect ‘The Next 5 Billion’; and Mobile Advertising Now Makes Up 22% of Paid Search Spend.
Yahoo Is Bigger Than Google, And That Should Mean Something To Your Business
After 2 years, Yahoo overthrows Google for the number of unique U.S. visitors for the month of July. The sum of all Yahoo properties saw 196.6 million unique visits (excluding Tumblr traffic) compared to Google 192.3 million. These numbers have not only shocked marketers. From the look on Marissa Mayer’s face, she seems impressed as well.
Solving the Pogo-Stick Problem (WhiteBoard Friday)
It’s exciting to see your website show up on top of SERPs; however, maintaining your rank can be just as hard as getting it. The term pogo-sticking in relation to SEO refers to when a user clicks through to your website and clicks back to view other results. If this occurs often search engines will catch on and this could affect your ranking.
Mark Zuckerburg Launches Internet.org To Connect ‘The Next 5 Billion’
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, is teaming up with technology giants (Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung) in the launch of Internet.org to provide web access to the world. Yes, this will benefit the two-thirds of the population who aren’t connected online; nonetheless, Facebook has the most to gain with the potential massive customer acquisition.
Mobile Search Advertising Now Makes Up 22% of Paid Search Spend
Mobile search advertising continues to rise as more and more companies see its value and allocate more budget towards portable devices. The mobile ad sectors has seen a 90 per cent increase since 2010. A Google AdWords blog post (from July) states mobile ads have provided advertisers more click traffic than organic results.
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Thanks Vanessa. This week all are interesting and important news. Not sure whether Yahoo overthrows Google in terms of unique US visitors is that relevant. It’s just visitors and may be the result of overspent ad campaign. Those who use Google hardly leaves and don’t count in the Yahoo! May be the newbies looking for search engines landed in Yahoo 🙂
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Oh boy, that Mark Zuckerberg is highly ambitious. He will not settle for the giant that is Facebook. He wants more! And hell must be freezing over if Yahoo is really bigger than Google. How does that happen?
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Google beaten by Yahoo, that’s interesting news for sure. I want if its a new trend, or just a blip? what do you think it could signify?
The Zuckerberg initiative sounds like more of a business or PR move than an attempt to better the world…though I might just be too cynical.
Overall, a good update. Quick and gets to the key points.
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Wow! Yahoo beat out Google.. That’s pretty interesting.