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Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
An associate asked what I thought about Mahalo. In addition to pointing him to our previous post, Mahalo is a Ho’opa’ani, I gave him the following response which I’ve decided to share with you all.
In the real world the human touch is coveted; held in the highest regards for quality craftsmanship and skill. In the [...]
Posted in Google, MSN, Mahalo, Search Engines, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
From the Search Sultan who brought you Search Engine Land comes: Sphinn (pronounced ’spin’), the newest social site for search and interactive marketers. Think of it as the area underneath the Facebook bleachers where all the geeks and misfits congregate to talk about what’s really going on throughout the web while looking generally standoffish.
The [...]
Posted in Austin, Blogging, E-Commerce, Natural Search (SEO), Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines, Social Media, Sphinn | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Yesterday News.com made mention of a horde of postings and literature that had been written by Google Veep, Adam Bosworth. One piece of information they focused on in particular was Bosworth’s interest in the development of the next generation of personal health records, or—Google Health. It’s been theorized that Google Health would be a web-based [...]
Posted in Austin, Blogging, E-Commerce, Google, SEM Tools, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines, Tools | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
This week web measuring company Compete released the June market share for search engines. Google still leads the pack with 62% of the market share, so why are major publications like The New York Times covering this data? Evidently Google’s market share dropped five percent, in contrast to MSN’s market share that raised 5 percent. [...]
Posted in Austin, Blogging, Google, MSN, Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Google Site Targeting is a companion offering to Google Content Match. On the latter, ads are placed against particular keywords. Google’s system automatically places the advertising on pages with Google AdSense that thematically matches those keywords. Content Match is purchased on a Cost Per Click (CPC) basis.
Site Targeting, by contrast, allows an advertiser to place [...]
Posted in Google, Paid Search (PPC) | 3 Comments »