The reason that it is important to stay informed about feature changes at major services is because it enables you to both understand how consumers locate, identify, and experience your products (in the case of e-commerce merchants. Google made a small but rather meaningful update related to its “Instant” search feature several weeks ago, expanding the offering to shoppers in Google Product Search.  Google users are now able to see Google’s instant keyword and key phrase suggestions as they type when comparing prices, looking for local stores, or researching products. So what does this mean for Internet retailers? It means…more»

Vimeo, long playing second fiddle to YouTube, has released some new features that should be very attractive to video producers. First, Plus members ($59.95 per year or $9.95 per month) can now upload files as large as 5 GB – meaning full-feature HD film uploads, or up to 2.5 hours of HD per week. With a Plus membership, Vimeo users can also upload unlimited HD videos per week, within the weekly limit (non-Plus members are limited to one new HD video per week). Also when it comes to HD videos, Plus members can automatically embed the HD version of their…more»

Google continues to provide amazing ways in which search marketing professionals can improve their campaign efforts. The latest is this week’s announcement that webmasters using Google Analytics to track site data can link verified sites in Webmaster Tools when using the same Google account. What does this mean to you? Perhaps the most valuable aspect of connecting the two services is that users are able to access the Google Analytics Referring Pages report from within Google Webmaster Tools. This means that you will be able to “understand the overall trends in traffic volume from referrals, as well as the sites…more»

Are you interested in processing payments through your mobile device? Who isn’t! I can think of about a dozen instances where that might come in handy right now.  Sage Payment Solutions just released its Sage Mobile Payments product today and for the SMB’s among us it is most definitely worth having a look. The offering, which is bundled with a Sage merchant account (of course), gives SMB’s the ability to accept credit and debit cards on over 400 types of mobile phones and computing devices like tablets. Pretty interesting, particuarly for sales people on the move. The mobile payment solution…more»

Search analytics software provider SearchMetrics debuted Link Manager last week and it might just be the most powerful solution on the market for enterprises – of course, we’ll leave that for you to decide.  The Link Manager tool is a module in the SearchMetrics Suite which handles pretty much every aspect of the link management process. Features include the ability to manage up to 500,000 links, import new links found with Search Metrics’ backlink analysis function, link strength evaluation with ranking information, the ability to organize links into seven different types, set attributes (eg. link placmeent, content link, etc.), includes…more»