⚡ Google’s New AMP Pages ⚡
Google has announced their modified html called AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages – will be visible to users in results pages. The AMP pages are indicated by a little lightning bolt⚡. It’s an attempt at creating faster mobile load times and is not to be confused with ExactTarget’s …
New Adwords Expanded Ad Format
Google announced yesterday that an update is coming for its Adwords ad format. It may not seem like a momentous change, but the real estate that ads will take up in search results is going to increase. There will now be space for 10 more characters in total. This update comes on …
New Adwords Price Extension
Price extensions are coming! The above image shows an example of one advertiser using them in Adwords. This new feature in Google Adwords will be available to most advertisers in most countries very soon. Each product or service will link to a unique landing page similar to Sitelink …
Google’s new ad layouts: was the panic legit?
It’s been a few weeks since Google switched up the ad layout on its search results pages. If you missed the news, here’s a recap: the ads that used to be on the right-hand side of the search results are now on the top and …
Google’s New Logo
You’ve probably noticed by now that Google’s logo looks a little bit different. The search giant revealed its new look last week: a serif-free, open-faced font that loses the embossed look and replaces its icon—formerly a lower-case ‘g’—with an upper-case, multi-coloured letter. It’s also …
Tweets Now in Desktop Google Results
Expanded previews of single tweets are now showing up in desktop Google results. They’re in a carousel format which is a nice layout option. You may have noticed that tweets were embedded on mobile results since May. This is another positive bonus for brands as their own …
100 Things We Love About Vancouver
If you need a reason to be happy about living in Vancouver, there’s the list. It’s 100 things we love about the city off the top of our heads. Fullscreen version. Here’s the list of people, businesses, neighbourhoods and things in the gif. We’ve missed 100 …
Mobilegeddon: The Rollout
Image credit Mobilegeddon: it was supposed to shatter SEO and leave ranking-less all non-mobile-friendly websites. But, so far, Mobilegeddon doesn’t seem to have lived up to the hype. Although the update is still rolling out and hasn’t yet hit every Google data centre, we haven’t …
Google’s Easter Eggs
Here’s a collection from Buzzfeed of all of the great easter eggs that Google has thrown together. 1) Atari Breakout. Google image search “Atari Breakout” and you get to play the classic Atari game! 2) Google in 1998. This search brings up the old school version of the …
Vancouver Tweed Ride 2014
We were ecstatic to be a sponsor of this year’s Vancouver Tweed Ride. All of the proceeds went to Power To Be, which is a fantastic organization helping adventure-based programs designed for youth and families in need of support. That’s me on the right and …
