March Madness, blekko Style – blekko BlogCurated search engine adds 77 new slashtags/categories. Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Bing calls a search malware analysis "wrong". All this and much more in our quick recap of...
Occurring every spring, March Madness is the one time during the year when the public becomes fanatical over Division I college basketball finals wherein brackets are completed, bets runs rampant, and anxious fans gather to watch the games and...
Hashtag Madness: the NCAA Tournament on Twitter – Capture the ConversaionMinute-by-minute tweet analysis of 5 million tweets about NCAA tournament games. Google has safer results than Bing, Yandex, and Blekko.
Game of Thrones" beats March Madness on searches by 149 percent; Tigers are most searched for baseball team. Bing hits back on AdWords enhanced campaigns. Lots of advertising revenue forecasts. A new Google Places for Business interface rolls out.
Searching for the NCAA March Madness bracket? Search for [ncaa bracket] or [march madness] on Google and you'll see a giant box (officially called "answer cards") above the organic results dedicated to the latest scores and schedule – all leading...
Local SEO citations and mobile madness have hit the T-minus mark and are ready for launch. One week into the new year and it is time to reflect on the search madness from 2012. The previous two years have just been test flights.
Stop the madness! As marketers are tasked with the challenge of doing less with more, there's an increasing demand to quantify the value of social media. Here's a guide to mapping a social media strategy with meaningful key performance indicators...
An informative analysis of the holiday spending of various retailers in their efforts to cope with the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday shows some interesting and perhaps unexpected results regarding how they adjusted their expenditure and...
Isserlis writes, “The cause of his madness was probably tertiary syphilis, although his (apparent) manic depression cannot have helped. The Doodle shows Schumann playing piano with her children, five of whom stand in place of the two “o”s and the...
March (Link) Madness: Breaking Free of Link-sanity One common factor thus far appears to be the signals of links that are pointing to your website, early analysis indicates. The main purpose of the Penguin update is to put a deep freeze on web spam...
Since it’s NCAA March Madness time, create your own paid search bracket to help stay focused on tangible outcomes of your tests. We talk all the time about testing in paid search. Testing ad copy, landing pages, keywords, bids, etc.
The point where madness and wild hypothesis takes over from tempered curiosity seems well at hand. Eyes down, but watching the angles. Hands in his coat pocket concealing but preoccupied. It was then from the shadows a figure emerged, unwanted but...
In the other, there’s a much deeper kind of madness that comes from the idea that content development is a pointless investment. March Madness got me thinking about another kind of “madness” we get caught up in: building links.
Let’s look at a few campaigns that turn the typical holiday PPC madness on its head. This time of year, the search marketing blogs and PPC social groups are overrun with holiday tips and tricks. Much of the hullabaloo is focused on Black Friday...
With the recent WordPress security vulnerabilities, hacked themes, exploits, and all sorts of madness floating around, it was only a matter of time before search engines started to pipe in and penalize “vulnerable” sites.
At the height of the dot-com madness, suppliers were so busy with big customers that they couldn’t be bothered fending off the hell-hounds of demand snapping at Google’s heels. Don’t wait until Christmas.
Mobile Madness Now is the time to be creating and changing your web properties for the mobile user experience. Starting with your own email marketing or website is likely the lowest hanging fruit, but never skip strategy.
Mile-high madness with Richard Simmons! According to the Viral Video Chart, "Mile-high madness with Richard Simmons! One of the sessions at SES Toronto 2011, Next Gen YouTube Marketing, will address questions like: "Do you really have to blend an...
Verizon Takes a Big Twitter Shot for March Madness - ClickZ Search Industry News Viacom Appeal: YouTube Hits Back, Says It's A Good Net Citizen - paidContent There's no place like home for math education - Official Google Blog
The week before that, while most of the world was wondering how Arianna Huffington was going to handle being content chief over at AOL, Slate posted an article on how The Huffington Post website was using "SEO" to trick poor Google and the public...
