Good SEO requires hard work, execution and usually a large chunk of time and labor creating content, fixing on-page issues and defining long-term strategy. It’s a positive signal that you moved 30 positions in a day, even if traffic hasn’t started...
In the future, SEM agencies will desperately need to justify why they cost 3x-4x more in labor than hiring someone in-house. While now there are no standards of good SEM (and new ad formats are coming out every day), the rate of innovation will...
Also, consultant billing rates are usually much higher than marketing services labor. The search engine marketing (SEM) space is hot and growing hotter every day. Buying SEM services can be tricky in the best of circumstances, given how new and...
Article spinners, keyword density counting software, and cheap labor reigned supreme. The Evolution of Web Content Creation Some day, they won’t need us! I had the opportunity to meet a few of the folks from DataPop at SES San Francisco this summer.
With Labor Day weekend approaching, it’s time to think about firing up the BBQ grill again. Have a happy Labor Day weekend. This recipe is great for cookout holidays such as Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Labor Day.
As Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm points out, King's image has been sanitized, including, for example, the fact that King backed labor unions and voting rights and opposed America’s bloody wars: “The icon of the national holiday, the Disneyfied...
Well, Google Insights for Search forecasts that web search interest in April Fool’s Day, Earth Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Christmas will spike in the United States on those holidays in 2012.
You calculate your fixed overhead costs (costs that you pay no matter what your sales are), variable costs (what costs go up as sales go up – and what the relationship is to the sale dollar; not all relationships are the same for each sector of...
Although searches for “labor day” are down 38 percent compared to 2010, plenty of people still searched for Labor Day related terms. Labor Day 2011 As usual, the big question was “When is Labor Day 2011?
The reason: it's "out of respect for Labor Day," Google noted in a blog post. Google is paying tribute to Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury on his birthday with a special animated music video Doodle. Queen is best known for rock anthems such as...
Bing also serves up the date of Labor Day 2011 in the search results, but goes one step further, counting down the days remaining until Labor Day (in 40 days, as of this writing), and searching Yahoo for the date of certain holidays will also give...
So how do we get from that, to labor camp prisoners being forced to play WoW all day long? This past week, The Guardian (a newspaper in the UK), reported a story about a labor camp in China forcing prisoners to play World of Warcraft in order to...
This labor of love that is the new Search Engine Watch is a work in progress. With so many talented marketing strategists contributing to the site every day, offering timely tactics and opinions on breaking news and current trends, it made sense to...
Taiwan's government wants to highlight "the importance the government attaches to children," but according to this article, it seems Taiwan's real fear is less children are being born (due to Taiwan having the lowest fertility rate in 2009 -- 1.02...
Running search campaigns takes time and is highly labor-intensive. Ad networks that are able to effectively aggregate thousands of individual traffic sources together -- and offer access to a significant number of queries per day -- serve as a one...
Since Labor Day, the shopping cart abandonment rate has gone up by more than 10 percent this year compared to 2009, according to SeeWhy.com. It's that time of the year. The malls are jammed, carols are playing in the grocery store, and Starbucks...
For example, one of our clients' PPC campaign results fell off the map over Labor Day weekend. We then looked at segmented data for Labor Day 2009, and saw that performance fell off during that week last year, too.
Management (website management, content creation and delivery, labor management, internal management software) His tip of the day is to go to the Google Ad Innovations page which lists all of the tools that Google have, so go check this out.
In Japan, they celebrate a combination of Thanksgiving plus Labor Day called Kinro Kansha no Hi. Christmas holidays for Greeks officially end on January 6, the day of Epiphany. One benefit of growing up in a multicultural household was that I...
Sure, the labor is cheap and can help keep a company profitable, but it takes a job away from someone here. Until the day he passed away, he could never pronounce my daughter's name, Zoe. This isn't to say that your team isn't being successful...
