The TMO Blog

Widespread Reports of CTR Dropping in Google AdSense

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It seems something odd is happening over at Google AdSense. While there is always a pretty much constant stream of complaints coming in about drops in CTRs (click through rates), they are usually isolated cases. Most often, an individual is…
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New Type of Manual Action Appears in Webmaster Tools

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There's a new manual action showing up in Google Webmaster Tools, according to Jessica Lee from Search Engine Watch. Webmaster Tools was updated over the summer so that site owners could be notified when a specific type of manual action had…
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Google Shuts Down AdWords Offer Extensions

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After an underwhelming debut in February, it appears AdWords Offer Extensions is being sent to the grave in favor of Google Offers. Ginny Marvin explains that AdWords Offer Extensions was intended to allow advertisers to dedicate extra real…
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New Report Estimates 28 Percent of All Traffic Now Mobile

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It is hard to ignore how quickly mobile traffic has grown to become an essential part of how people access the internet, but there are still a fair amount of brands burying their heads in the sand and pretending nothing has really changed. It…
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Android App Content Begins to Be Indexed By Google

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Smartphones have revolutionized how we browse the web, but most browsing still happens within the same web browsers we have all grown accustomed to. For the most part, we do our searches and actual browsing from Chrome, Safari, or Firefox,…
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The Most Important Information You Need About Responsive Design [Infographic]

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Creating a website that works well on the huge range of devices is no easy task. In fact, creating a website with a solid user experience on every device being used to access your site may actually be impossible. You have to account for a…
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Avoid These Two Mistakes Which Keep Google From Indexing Your Site

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No matter how bad of shape your website is in, Google will crawl it. Google crawls and indexes seemingly the entire internet. Though we know they may not look as deep into low-quality websites, that doesn't mean they haven't at least crawled…
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Twitter Users Expect Responses From Brands Within an Hour

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Think you can get away with not responding to tweets directed at your brand's Twitter account? It shouldn't come as a surprise that ignoring those tweets or even putting off responding, can be terribly damaging to your brand. Social media…
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Bing Unveils Full Page Hero Ads For Branded Searches

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You may remember that Google recently started testing large banner ads on branded searches. It raised quite a stir in the online community, mostly because it seemed that Google blatantly broke an older promise to never show banner ads. But,…
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