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Facebook Drops Gmail As Find Friends Option

TechCrunch reports Facebook has removed the Gmail option of finding friends on Facebook. If you go to the find friends section on Facebook, you will find options to find your friends via Skype, AIM, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, MSN, sbcglobal and verizon.net, but...
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15 checks you should make when choosing a link partner

How can you best evaluate a site to determine whether it’s a good linking partner? Contributor Julie Joyce outlines 15 things you need to check including site hacks, poor quality content, traffic and more. When inbound links occur naturally, you don’t look to see if the site...
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AdWords Managed Accounts can finally share negative keyword lists across accounts

Create a single list of negative keywords that can be applied to campaigns within an MCC. Google has quietly added another perk for Managed Accounts: the ability to create and share negative keyword lists across accounts. Maybe you’ve been laboriously adding the same lists of...
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Bing Tests New News Card That Expands

Check out this neat new Bing Search test, where you can expand to see more news related content in the Bing search results. Ruben Gomez found a new Bing test where they are experimenting with showing a News card that expands and shows more news. Searching in Bing for news related...
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Google AdWords and the conversion blind spot

Countless marketers and business owners swear by Google’s marketing tools. This is evident in the perennial corporate increases in AdWords pay-per-click (PPC) budgets, and it makes sense. After all, online marketing yields new leads at a rate of 54 percent. But marketers who...
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T-Mobile Experiencing Outages Due to Severe Weather

As severe weather pummels much of the US, T-Mobile is experiencing outages throughout the country and especially in Texas. The US is currently in the midst of a record-breaking cold snap, leading to snow, ice and other severe weather in portions of the country that rarely see...
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Do you have a leaky lead generation funnel?

Want your sales team to love you? Contributor Janet Miller recommends adding gate pages to indexed PDFs as a way to generate more leads and avoid lost lead and SEO opportunities. Are you leaking your gated content in organic search? Personally, I’m not a fan of finding portable...
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SMX Report is next week… grab your All Access pass now!

Join us next Tuesday, February 23, to learn how to turn raw data into actionable insights that drive traffic, leads, and sales. Join hundreds of search marketers next week to learn how to transform your data into actionable insights that drive more traffic, leads, an...
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Bing Ads Reduces Campaign Reporting Lag To 1 Hour

Impression and click performance data is now delivered much faster. Bing Ads has been focused on improving platform performance over the year and today announced another improvement. Click and impression reporting data is now available up to the previous hour. Previously there...
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Google My Business adds messaging to desktop interface

Businesses can now message with customers through their web browser, not just the mobile app. Google is rolling out the messaging functionality within the Google My Business desktop interface. This is not fully live yet, but many can see it already. Previously, messaging was...