A4U revamps and rebrands to PerformanceIN

A4U brandsAfter great success running the popular A4U events as well as their news site, industry events company A4u has relaunched and rebranded its business, complete with the launch of a brand new website – PerformanceIN.com.

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Google Update affecting local Australian rankings?

house of yogaReports are floating around Australian shores that a recent Google update may have rolled out a double whammy impact, targeting both the devaluation of spammy links as well as location rankings.

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Google Acquires More Wearable Computing Glasses Patents

One of the more interesting discussions about Google Glass I’ve seen recently was in a forum where one of the participants was describing his own homemade version of Google Glass, which he named “Flass” (if someone at Google happens to be reading this, you should send him a pair of Google Glass, just because.) What […]

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Google Search App With Google Now Breaks Into iTunes Top 10

When Google first released its updated Google Search app last October, it never made the iTunes top ten and, last week, wasn’t even in the top 100. But the addition of Google Now helped the app make the top ten in less than a week. Google relaunched its app last October with Siri-like voice…

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Local SEO Industry Survey Reveals Most Customers Want On-Site SEO & Google+ Optimization Services

A local SEO industry survey, managed by SEO software company Brightlocal, revealed that the most in-demand SEO services are on-site SEO and Google+ optimization. Conducted between January 20 and February 20 of this year, the survey evaluated the health…

Bing Ads To Launch Ad Diagnostics Tool: Learn Why Your Ad Isn’t Running And How to Fix It

Bing Ads has made several announcements about upcoming feature updates over the past few weeks (see below in Related Articles), and they’ve made another today. Soon, the Ad Preview Tool will get a new name and added functionality. In its current form, you can use the Ad Preview Tool to…

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Report: Mobile Traffic To Local Sites Growing Faster Than To Total Internet, Now At 27 Percent

The Local Search Association has released a new Local Mobile Search report, which affirms many of the big themes and trends in the market now: PC traffic is flat, mobile is gaining rapidly and mobile is heavily used for local search. The Q4 2012 data i…

Last Year’s Top 3 U.S. Search Marketing Agencies Continue To Lead In 2013 Report

Every year, Ad Age ranks the top performing U.S. search marketing agencies based on the previous year’s U.S. and worldwide revenue. This year, the top three agencies held their 2012 report rankings, with iCrossing, 360i and iProspect coming in at No. 1, 2, and 3 on the list of largest U.S….

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Search In Pics: Google Glass In The Shower, Bing Living Room Giveaway & Google Rock Climbing Wall

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Protest Outside Of Google London: Source: Twitter Google Rock Climbing…

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