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A coalition of ten European consumer groups is challenging Google’s account sign up process. You must have a Google account to use many Google products and services. However, the coalition claims that the signup process steers users towards options that collect more data. Google said it welcomed the opportunity to engage with consumer advocates on …
YouTube is getting into the ad-supported long-form game by adding 4,000 library TV episodes and 1,500 movies as viewership in the living room continue to grow. With the move, Google will gain more visibility in the growing Advertising-based Video on Demand marketplace (AVOD). NBCUniversal, Paramount, Disney and Warner Bros Entertainment have all acquired or developed …
The government plans to force social media platforms and search engines to reduce fraudulent advertisements. The duty will be included in an updated version of the Online Safety Bill. This draft follows criticism of a previous draft that covered harmful user-generated posts but not harmful advertisements and promotions. As well as announcing the amendment to …
Tracking how and if customers engage with your content is important as it helps you to understand what’s working and what isn’t. An actionable metric is one that ties specific and repeatable actions to observed results. This data can help you make better marketing decisions. Google Analytics To run an effective digital marketing campaign, it …
Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its Google+ social network platform, What is Google Plus? Google Plus was launched in 2011 to compete with Facebook, but it failed to take off, despite the fact that the company made it easy for people to create a Google+ …
Is your website secure? Does it have an SSL certificate? If not, come July Google will be telling all your visitors about it with the release of Chrome 68. Websites that have not moved from HTTP to HTTPs will be marked as “not secure.” Google has been pushing for secure by default websites for several …
If you own a website, SEO and Google rankings are probably very important to you. You may even spend a lot of time checking search terms related to your niche to see where you rank on Google. Is this you? You log into your Google Analytics dashboard to check your traffic stats then pop over …
I deleted my Google Analytics because as a blogger, I don’t feel I need it because: I’m not selling anything so don’t need to worry about goal funnels I don’t run campaigns It doesn’t matter what country my visitors come from or what browser they use If I want to know what my visitors are …
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’re SEO is on point but you still aren’t receiving any visits via Google, you may be blacklisted. This is what happened to my cousins. My cousins who have been blogging for a few decades became despondent and were thinking of throwing in the towel. Despite writing regularly …
Remember the EU Cookie Law and the hive of activity that ensued as European Union businesses took measures to implement the policy? Most bloggers ignored the directive but Google has decided to launch their own user consent policy. If you are a Google AdSense publisher you are now required to ask visitors from the European …
The people have spoken: Google has finally relented and is abandoning its \’real name requirement\’ policy. I can hear the keyboards of a thousand trolls warming up! The Big G made the announcement on their Google+ page saying that there name restrictions were put in place to help create a community made up of real people. …
Google Plus is the second-largest social networking site in the world. Yes it’s even bigger than Twitter but it was a ghost town for the longest time after it launched. From a business perspective, I had to create an account for the company I work for because if our customers are using it then, we …
Consumer rights law firm Hagens Berman filed a nationwide antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc alleging the company ”illegally monopolised” the Internet and mobile search market in the United States. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Google has expanded its monopoly of the internet search market by pre-loading its applications onto Android mobile devices through its Mobile …
Guest posting/blogging on someone else’s site is a great way to draw attention to your blog by putting some of your best content on a high traffic site. Guest blogging also provides a link back to your site, depending on the terms and conditions of that high traffic site. Links back to your site is …
Most people start blogging because they enjoy writing and sharing their views and opinions. I think you have to be passionate or at least enjoy what you are writing about as the financial rewards aren’t immediate. If you thought you could quickly earn money blogging you were probably disappointed to find out that you have …
After launching your new blog it’s easy to get obsessed with page ranking and your place in search engines. Here I’m going to talk about page ranking. Your readers will not care about your page ranking, but advertisers might use this to measure the worthiness of your site and other bloggers might if they are …
Over the next few days, Google plans to bring Gmail’s Labs translation service to all Gmail users. The service enables users to automatically translate email in other languages into their own language. “Since message translation was one of the most popular Gmail labs, we decided it was time to graduate from Gmail Labs and move …
