As Facebook’s big announcement was approaching all of my friends on my newsfeed were pretty adamant that Facebook would reveal a phone. Instead, Facebook announced Facebook Home. A new mobile experience that makes it easier to connect with your community on Facebook, or just another way to force you to spend more time on Facebook. Read more →
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The New Multi-Screen Reality: How Consumers Juggle Their Many Devices
Several excellent studies were released in 2012 highlighting the unprecedented rate of consumer adoption for smartphones and tablets. The ramp of these technologies—as I’ve written in past posts—is hitting historic levels. But what exactly is the impact of this growth on the way consumers now use all these devices? How are habits changing in this new multi-screen Read more →
The New Digital Milestone: When Consumers Don’t Even Know They’re Online
Ever since the web was born in 1990, researchers have used surveys to track the growth of consumers “logging on” to the internet, and going “online” to get things done. And – of course—that number has been consistently ramping upwards over the last 23 years. Yet—as Forrester Research recently noted when they released the latest version of their comprehensive look at consumer’s online usage– a strange thing happened in 2012: the amount of time that they “use the internet” actually went down– for the first time ever.
Advance’s John Denny Moderates BlueglassX Local Mobile Search Session
At the BlueglassX conference in Tampa last week, Advance Digital’s John Denny moderated a session that included two of the top experts in local search. The session—called “Local Mobile Domination: Harnessing the Changing SERPS” featured Local SEO industry leader David Mihm (formerly of Getlisted.org and now just joining SEOMoz) as well as Dr. Michael Dorausch Read more →
Telemetrics study – 1 in 3 car searches are mobile
Mobile searches for cars are experiencing explosive growth this year and now represent 30% of all search traffic for this industry,according to a recent study by Telemetrics. This highlights the great opportunity auto dealers have to improve their search visibility to a rapidly-converting audience and also warns that their websites must be friendly Read more →
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