A few weeks ago Google announced that a number of changes have been made to it’s Google+ Pages for business social media platform, to enhance their Pay Per Click campaigns and web reach among potential customers.  The official announcement came via the Google Adwords blog post for Pay Per Click news and updates:

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Earlier this week Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google announced the launch of Google+ Pages for business, and summarised the announcement by indicating that there were to be further imminent changes to the Google+ platform for businesses: “we’ve still got lots of improvements planned”.

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CEO of Google Larry Page, has revealed that their progression into mobile and social has proved rather lucrative for the search engine giant, reporting that revenue generated from run rate mobile markets is up from $1 billion in 2010 to an impressive $2.5 billion this year, an increase of 150% over the twelve month period.  In addition to their successes in the mobile market, there are now more than 40 million users registered with their nascent social networking site Google+ and according to their figures, 3.4 billion photos have already been uploaded by users to the social site launched in the summer of this year.

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With the management of Pay Per Click Advertising platforms becoming ever more complicated, for some businesses it’s hard to know which channel will maximise the exposure of their business or brand, and provide the best results when it comes to PPC management strategies.

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Google has added the +1 feature on the Google Display Network for Google AdWords Advertisers.  As part of their Pay Per Click portfolio, Google are enhancing their offerings in the display ad market, and as Eider Oliveira, Senior Software Engineer for Google explained in the announcement made via the Google AdWords blog, the +1 button combined with the display ad approach has the potential to revolutionise the way that people interact with advertisements online:

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Google has updated it’s Analytics PPC platform, and included a tool that reports in real-time on website activity, as the Google blog calls it: “Google Analytics Real-Time: a set of new reports that show what’s happening on your site as it happens”.

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Google has partnered with Intel Corporation to produce smartphones that will run the Android operating system, using Intel Atom chips, and aim to launch the new devices early next year.  Google has recently adapted a number of it’s advertising management tools, such as Pay Per Click, in order to meet with the rising demands posed by online mobile users, with smartphone and tablet sales rising at a rapid rate across Europe and the US.

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Google has implemented the use of their new +1 button on advertisements and search listings globally, providing Google account holders with the opportunity to circulate their favourite sites among their friends and an extended network of Google users.

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Google has announced that they are in the process of purchasing digital advertising experts Admeld, in what is no doubt a move to further establish themselves as one of the world leaders in the development of the next generation advertising platforms.
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On the 8th June some of the worlds leading web companies took part in the global test for IPv6, the so called “test flight” aimed to encourage ISP’s, hardware and software manufacturers and web-based companies, to make the transition to the new protocol, following the successful completion of a 24 hour global test.
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Last week, via Google’s blog, the search engine giant announced it’s partnership with integrated brand agency Digitas.  The collaboration was agreed in a bid to secure progressive mobile marketing data for advertisers, utilising Google as a platform to enhance and develop their business prospects.

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PPC Summit, the organisation behind a number of training events and Pay Per Click support, have announced the launch of their 2011 SEO and Social Media Success Event. (more…)

The medium of search engine marketing, both SEO and pay-per-click (PPC) remains a strong and successful source of traffic and sales for online retailers. That is according to an Internet Retailer survey conducted in April 2010. The survey included 102 consumer brand manufacturers, web-only retailers, catalogers and chain retailers. (more…)

A very interesting adwords development that’s been trialled across the US recently has finally made it to these shores. Essentially what’s happening is that Google are allowing some accounts, initially just ones with particularly high quality scores, to show more than just text in their ads, this can take some surprisingly diverse forms with everything from links and maps, to pictures of products and even videos. (more…)