Acknowledging the fear of internet disruptions, Google has provided a page to monitor which services are still available in China.
We will be maintaining a live report (below) on Google Hong Kong global usage share. If Google Hong Kong’s share drop back to near zero, it is an indication that the Chinese government has blocked access from mainland China to the Google Hong Kong website.
After a struggle with the Chinese government over censorship and possible state-sponsored hacking of email accounts belonging to human rights activists, Google decided to stop censoring their services in China, including search and news. China has held firm that censorship is a “non-negotiable legal requirement”. Therefore, Google is now redirecting their Chinese website (www.google.cn) to Hong Kong (www.google.com.hk).
“Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong,” officials have just posted on Google’s blog.
This has dropped Google China’s usage share to zero and increased Google Hong Kong’s usage from close to zero to 3% of global usage share.
In this post I’ll cover more advanced optimization strategies. Whether you’re new to the Content Network or have been using it for a while, you can get better results from your campaigns by employing some of these strategies.
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/*For this example I am using the Netapplications.com website. A title tag not only tells search engines what the topic of a particular page is but also your users. You should place the <title> tag within the <head> tag of the HTML document. For the best results a unique title should be created for each [...]
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/*While I was looking into this research, I found some numbers that amazed me. According to research by Knowledge Networks only 16% of the Internet users can be influenced by ads on social sites. While 83% of the Internet users between 13 and 54 years old participate in social media, uses less than 4% social [...]
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/*The first question to ask before investing in an SEO campaign is “What is the value of the first page organic ranking anyway?” For example, I’ve calculated the annual market value of a first page Google organic ranking for ‘Cosmetic Dentistry’ to be $295,367. For a strategic business decision maker, putting a dollar value on [...]
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/*The Internet currently dominates the way we communicate and find information. It used to be that business owners would dedicate most of their advertising budgets to:
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TV
Results were often difficult or impossible to measure, but at a minimum you made sure people could find you by being in the yellow pages. Now, with more [...]
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/*Although Microsoft is aggressively seeking and creating significant agreements to place Bing as the default search provider on mobile phones, Google is still by far the leader in the space.
This chart was created using our market share data that can be found at
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/*You do have some choices when it comes to your online advertising dollars. It may seem at times that Google is the only field of play in search engine marketing, and they do hold the lion’s share of search:
With NetMarketShare reporting Google having 86% of the global search market as of February 2010, it would [...]
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/*Google recently released their latest attempt at capturing the social media market in a service called Google Buzz. But, the backlash of privacy concerns that often seem to nip at Google’s heels erupted at a level unseen before.
Let’s not forget that when Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about the growing concerns in the public [...]
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