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Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Make Sure Your Promotion Is Legal; Luxury Brand Survival; Look to Your Other Opportunities; and more.
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Make Sure Your Promotion Is Legal; Luxury Brand Survival; Look to Your Other Opportunities; and more.
Today’s Top Story:
Sage Lewis |
Make Sure Your Promotion Is Legal SEW EXPERTS: PROMOTION & LINK BUILDING Jumping into sponsoring a promotion without first thinking through the potential legal issues involved could lead you into trouble. Here are some things to keep in mind. » Full story » Print version |
Search Engine Watch Experts Columns
Kevin Ryan |
Luxury Brand Survival SEW EXPERTS: SEARCHING FOR MEANING Did you ever notice that luxury brands that have been with us since the dawn of time somehow survive economic turmoil? Ever wonder how they do it? Of course, smart search strategies play a role. » Full story » Print version |
Eric Enge |
Look to Your Other Opportunities SEW EXPERTS: BY THE NUMBERS Vertical search engines offer huge potential opportunities for publishers, yet many organizations fail to take advantage of them. The potential traffic may be smaller, but there’s less competition in image search, product search, news search, and other verticals. » Full story » Print version |
News from the Search Engine Watch Blog
Yahoo! Favicon Test Offers Opportunity for Increased Branding in Search Ads Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009 Yahoo! is testing placing Favicons (that little graphic next to the URL or in the tab of your browser) next to search ads. This is an idea I LOVE because it creates a great branding opportunity without having huge intrusive display ads. Additionally, while the “big three” search engines remain largely … » Continue reading |
MySpace Ad Revenue Drops in Q1 2009
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
News Corp, which owns Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace, has reported their first quarter earnings for 2009. The news was not so great for the social network, with a reported 16% decline in ad revenue. “â””Our third quarter results directly reflect the continuing weakness of the global economic climate. Despite …
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Webtrends Proposes Digital Marketing Measurement Standards
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
Webtrends is offering up The Digital Marketing Maturity Model (DM3) as a model for standards in digital media measurement. Webtrends says the model will help organizations: Measure the maturity of digital marketing programs in six core areas (measurement strategy, analytics resources and domain expertise, data integration and visualization, data analysis and …
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Google Trends Releases Embeddable Widget
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
Google Trends has released an embeddable widget that you can place on your website. The annoying thing is that you can’t set what terms you want to appear on the widget. So, I’m stuck copying and pasting code featuring the default terms, which today are the top four contestants on …
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New Version of Android Includes YouTube, Picasa Uploads
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
The new version of Android, version 1.5, includes the ability to upload multimedia directly from the mobile device. Here’s what can be done: YouTube: record and easily upload videos to YouTube Picasa Web Albums: upload photos directly to your Picasa Web Albums Gmail: multiple-thread selection to easily archive, delete, label or mute several …
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AdSense for Feeds Update Offers New Features
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
Recently, AdSense underwent a slight makeover where the ads being served up changed their root URL to doubleclick.net. Google is now making the same change for AdSense for Feeds. Google the change allows advertisers to more easily create ad campaigns that span the Google Content Network (sites, feeds, mobile). The …
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Microsoft Integrates Photosynth with Virtual Earth
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
Last year, Microsoft introduced Photosynth, which creates 3D images by using multiple images “stitched” together. A few months later, Photosynth search was enabled via Live Maps. Now, Microsoft is integrating the product to its Virtual Earth. Microsoft sees the potential for the union in the following ways: Real estate. Showing …
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Google and YouTube Accounts are Now Linked
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
When you sign up for a Google account, you get access to a account-level features on a bunch of products through a singular login. That hasn’t included YouTube, until this week. Now, new YouTube signups will be automatic Google accounts. Existing users can link their YouTube accounts to their Google …
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Google Ad Planner Seeks Voluntary Data Contributions from Publishers
Posted by Nathania Johnson May 8, 2009
Google has launched an Ad Planner Publisher Center, which they hope will improve the data offered by the media planning tool. Through the Center, publishers could contribute their own data which will be combined with shared Google Analytics data. Google hopes this will enhance the quality and accuracy of the …
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Search Engine Watch Forum Discussions
How Important are Links to Google May 6, 2009 Hi There – I was just wondering if you could break down how important the proportion of how good text links from reputable sites are to google, related to good metadata, site’s content, and blog maintenance. I.E.: Good Content and Metadata: 25% Links: 50% Blog Maintenance: 25% Let me know what you think? … » Join the discussion |
Page rank question Apr 29, 2009 Hello, I have a question and hope to find some guidlelines here 🙂 2 websites; the first has more than 134,200 inlinks (using yahoo explorer )and the website has a PR of 6 or 7. On the other hand, another website has about 200 inlinks and PR of 9. Analysing … » Join the discussion |
Is Every SEO, SEM, PPC Professional Employed? Apr 27, 2009 I’ve gotten a lot of recruiters calling or emailing me with information. I’ve tried to reach out – Twitter, LinkedIn connects – to pass the job opportunities along, but no bites! My church recently held a job fair/job finding skills forum. Plenty of people looking for work – but no one … » Join the discussion |