Oh and there will be ads (er, "sponsored content") as part of a "small test. A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding.
Cheap(er)* traffic It’s true: Facebook ads just ain’t what they used to be. In case the recent changes have you scratching your head, here you’ll find a run-down of the most common self-service Facebook ads, text, and image specs, and what they are...
SUX = Search(er) User Experience There have been a lot of changes the past 12 months in how Google displays search results. No longer is it 10 blue links combined with a few universal and local results.
Perhaps the competitiveness of the term has prompted a bit of, er, penguin food. While I didn't find it as exhilerating and productive as the tilde, there were several notable uses that I hope you find helpful in your work!
Since the visitors are different, your ads need to be different, and the two universes need to arrive at different border posts – er, landing pages. Getting to Bray required a jarring 70 kilometer drive along a dirt road so deeply rutted that our...
Long Live, er, the Other SEO after witnessing the panic caused by the universal search rollout. SEO is dead. No, for real this time, I swear. Maybe. Well, you see, now it’s like.zombie SEO. It’s rumored to have died a few horrible deaths over a few...
The businesses with the most check-ins in their respective categories were: Target (retail), 7-Eleven (convenience stores), Old Navy (apparel), Bank of America (hot dog sta—er, banks), and Home Depot (home-related stores).
The Search Element Er, Bing Already Did It Google's ability to understand the complexities of synonyms, related terms, and categorization have improved dramatically over time. A recent addition to the SERP takes advantage of this understanding to...
Just shifting a small percentage of ER visits to urgent care centers through mobile search could save billions of dollars annually. Of the more than 300 million people in the United States, 96 percent have mobile phones.
Recently, Linden Lab finally did what they've been threatening, er.planning to do. I told her honestly that wasn't a half bad idea, actually. I can't recall whose commercial it is (it's either EHarmony or Match.com) that states that 20 percent of...
Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet Most companies manage their display advertising and search marketing activities in 'silos', having separate teams and platforms to manage it all. This week, SearchIgnite have enhanced their DSP to change all that...
These are dark times for the rebellion, er, Second Life. So it seems the Powers That Be here at SearchEngineWatch (SEW) have decided to lose their collective sanity long enough to give me a permanent bit of bandwidth to write about Second Life...
There are panels about social media targeting, measuring the ROI on SEO, integrating brand and search, the latest marketing and competitive intelligence toolkits, and new directions in information retrieval, to say nothing of debates about privacy...
This is a good thing, because search engines are secretive beasts.er, robots. SEO can be boiled down to three core elements, or functions, in the current era of Google: crawling time (discovery), indexation time (which also includes filtering), and...
So, SEO/SEMs - Bananas or.er.ironing boards? It being Friday and just for fun. On CNN Money this morning, I heard the mayor of Athens, GA commenting on wages and bonuses. And he said something about breaking down your annual salary to how much you...
Now, the daily workflow and daily insights of a journalist's investigation can easily be integrated into the brand channel and we can all follow and support our intrepid reporters on their journey of discovery, and.er, factchecking, just like we...
This will reduce the number of people needlessly exposed to H1N1 influenza in crowded clinic and ER waiting rooms, and allow doctors and nurses to focus their attention on those who need them most. The good news about companies competing to get...
However, you'll miss the pubs -- er, networking opportunities -- near Piccadilly. But SES is also bringing in SEM and SEO experts to teach full- and half-day of SEM and SEO training workshops in London on Monday, 26 October, 2009.
The new Google is so, er, familiar, that you have to wonder if it's just a fake punt in a pre-season NFL game (eh, hmm, A.J. But the vast majority of people? Probably not so much. I know Google said the changes would only be noticeable to "power...
Staying ahead of the game is something that has failed other social networks (er, hmmm, MySpace, cough cough, Friendster). Facebook just keeps growing and growing and growing. They've reached the milestone of 250 million members.
