San Francisco, California–Twitter analytics are now free to all users. Thus far, for ordinary users to track tweets which have been favored, the number of users which have replied to a tweet, and the number of retweets a user’s tweet has gotten, have had to rely on constantly monitoring their interactions.

Only advertisers have been privy to such information, and the microblog just stepped-up its ad power by announcing

Santa Clara, California–WhatsApp, the rising-star of mobile instant messenger apps, has recently notified their Twitter followers that the company has reached a new daily record.

According to their numbers, the tech firm has now processed about 27 billion messages in 24 hours; to be exact, there were 10 billion incoming messages and 17 billion outgoing messages. These numbers are

Mountain View, California–New Google ranking factors have gone into effect, targeting spammy queries and bad mobile sites. As the search engine rolls out its new social media dashboard, it likewise is forging ahead with algorithmic changes which are designed to improve user experience on the web.

Penguin 2.0 has already gone into effect, and now, new Google search ranking factors are specifically hitting hard search terms considered to be

Mountain View, California–The Google+ dashboard has arrived, and, it’s bound to be a welcome addition to businesses large and small. For individuals or companies with a Google Plus page, the dashboard allows them to make several changes without needing to login to their various properties.

The introduction of the new Google+ dashboard comes on the heals of the

Menlo Park, California–Facebook ads have been quite complex since their debut. With twenty-seven units, businesses have had to labor in order to pinpoint which category they fall into and seeing site-wide consistency in those advertisements.

Companies have been telling the social media site for some time their

Online branding is an absolute necessity. The problem most businesses have is, they don’t have time to do it in-house, so they hire an online branding agency or farm various tasks out to third parties. But even if a business does choose an online branding company, there’s still a question of how the business will be presented.

The best online branding strategies have one single thing in common: they keep the

Mountain View, California–Google Now, a series of UI cards, is taking the task of user search to the next level. Akin to the Siri technology, Google Now debuted in late 2012, but now is expanding its scope into predictive search.

While it won’t necessarily mean that the technology will forecast all user search queries before they are typed or spoken, it will make the process of

Video transcript, it’s a phrase that doesn’t often appear in SEO, but it’s very important. You see, videos, audio, and images are like a “hole” in the internet. Search engines can’t watch, listen, or view them. They’re just something attributed to a file upload and nothing really more.

It’s not unlike social media. Sure, there’s a benefit to being on those networks, like Google+, but if you don’t

Sunnyvale, California–Yahoo search just got a makeover, one that essentially copies the Google search results model. The tech company, which just acquired Tumblr and has also bought out the news app Summly, has reintroduced its search page, debuting new features which include tabs to its other properties.

The new Yahoo search results page is a bit more minimalistic, places the results closer to the top of the page, and seems to

San Francisco, California–Pinterest search just expanded to individual user boards, allowing pinners to search their own boards instead of scrolling, trying to pinpoint a specific image. The social pinboard has always allowed its users to search for pins site wide, but until now, did not include the option to zero-in on pins they have uploaded to their own boards.

It also comes as a welcome addition to a social network that is growing its user base, the majority of which, are

San Francisco, California–Twitter advertising might be getting a little more in-depth. According to a news report by AdAge, the social site, which is continuing to develop its ad features, is working on introducing retargeting. The microblog has yet to comment on the matter, but the report states that those with knowledge of the development confirm that its currently in the works.

Such a move would be a welcome one to companies seeking a second bite at the online window shopping apple. Retargeting is designed to do just that, with about 2 percent of consumers making a commitment to buy in their first interaction. The remaining 98 percent would be

Menlo Park, California–Facebook verification has been introduced on the social media site, borrowing a page from the playbook of Twitter, which debuted that feature four years ago. What’s also similar to its 140 character microblog competitor is that much of the metrics, the makeup of the process, remains largely unknown to the public.

Equally unclear is why the social platform is introducing a Facebook verification now. What is likely is that its to prevent fraud, because it applies only to