I once read a provocative question by Eric Ward (that I will paraphrase): “If the search engines went away tomorrow, how would anyone find your website?” Now, you might say, “That is a big ‘IF’- Google isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.” Then again, if you were hit by one of the recent algorithm changes, Google

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A Broader View of Link Building

The IAB has recognized the power of giving consumers the choice of skipping ads in online video by including a guideline in VAST 3.0 which is open for feedback until early May. Along with Skippable Linear Ads, Ad Pods are being introduced which are “a sequenced group of ads” much like that which is found ..

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IAB Adds Skippable Linear Ads to VAST 3.0 Guidelines, I Like it!

YouTube today announced YouTube Slam , a new “experiment” they cooked up with Google Research.

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YouTube Slam – YouTube To Aid Video Discovery With Weekly Head-To-Head Video Battles

Your website is an incredibly important component of your online marketing. While that may seem like a “well, duh” statement, there’s no shortage of poorly designed websites to make it worth saying again. First off, your company’s website may be the first (but hopefully not only) impression your brand gets to make on a potential customer

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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Custom Website Design

What makes a video go viral? What triggers the act of sharing a clip on Facebook or Twitter

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The Week’s Best Viral Videos & Viral Video Marketing Lessons – Musical Multitasking

Back in December, an image from a Yahoo in-company slideshow warned us that several major sites would be “sunset,” including popular community sites like delicious and search sites like AlltheWeb and Alta Vista. For AlltheWeb the news was made official in March, when a message appeared on the site indicating that the site’s final day would be April 4th. That date is now past, and anyone attempting to reach alltheweb.com will now be redirected to Yahoo search instead

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AlltheWeb Search Closes Its Doors

It seems that all the world’s corporations have banded together against WikiLeaks, with the major credit cards having blacklisted payment options, Amazon having shut down the hosting, Facebook having locked down the FB Page, and — well, you get the idea. Now, add to that list Apple, who has removed the WikiLeaks application from their web store. Design Taxi’s report gives us further details

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Android Keeps WikiLeaks Apps, Apple Banishes

Unhappy with the look and feel, YouTube has decided to do more with the space alloted them. That means more nifty changes for you to peruse should you opt-in to do so

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YouTube Diddles with Their Video Pages Once Again

My background is in Internet marketing, project management and SEO.  So, when I first took the dive into online video, I quickly found that there was a steep learning curve for me – especially with regard to understanding new terms like codecs, video file formats, compression and the like. At ReelSEO, Ive had several readers ask

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Video File Container Formats, Compression & Codecs – Oh My!

Mobile application reMail has just been acquired by Google, and so its owner claims via a post on his blog.

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Did Google Buy reMail or Hired its Creator?