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SearchDay | Integration of Your Marketing Efforts
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Going the Distance -- Integration of Your Marketing Efforts; Blogging for Search Engine Optimization; Google and SpotMixer…
Google Investigating Reason for Widespread Gmail Outages [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Over at the Official Gmail Blog, Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar, wrote that the problem was related to a server…
Google Launches TV Advertising Contest
Want to win $25,000 worth of cable television advertising? Google’s giving away just that in its “TV for All” contest. All you have to…
Global Search Market Share, July 2009 vs. July 2008
Google continued to outpace its rivals, while Latin America exhibited the most searches per person.
Social Media Comprises 20% of All US Display Ad Impressions
comScore has released data from their Ad Matrix for July 2009 and found that social networking sites comprised over 20% of all US online…
Going the Distance — Integration of Your Marketing Efforts
Integration is key to online marketing success. A killer idea for e-mail can work wonders when mirrored in a search campaign. There's a lot…
Google News Incorporates Search Suggestion Feature
Google Suggest, a query suggestion tool, has been added to Google News. The algorithm for the feature has been tweaked to feature news-related suggestions.…
Yahoo! Sets More SearchMonkey Features to Default
Yahoo! is expanding the number of SearchMonkey features set to default-on in their search results. The update is the result of the completion of…
Google and SpotMixer Expand Partnership to Include In-Stream Video Ads
Google and SpotMixer are teaming up to provide do-it-yourself in-stream video advertising. The ads can be produced for viewing on YouTube or the Google…
Global Search Market Tops Over 100 Billion Searches a Month
comScore has just released a study of the global search market that shows more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009. This…
Global Searches Increase by 41% Compared to a Year Ago
comScore has released global search market data showing that search is still on the rise in a big way all across the world. Overall,…
Can Social Media Be Measured?
There's a lot of debate around whether social media marketing can be measured. There's also a cauldron of bubbling issues around exactly what companies…
Google Analytics 101, Part 2
Besides tracking visitors to your site from other web sites, Google Analytics can also help you measure social media traffic, phone conversions, and AdWords…
SearchDay | Can Social Media Be Measured?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Can Social Media Be Measured?; Google Analytics 101, Part 2; Microsoft Lobbyists Meet to Thwart Google; and…
Microsoft Lobbyists Meet to Thwart Google; Politics as Usual Ensues
Daily Finance, an AOL site, is reporting that Microsoft’s lobbyists hold weekly meetings where the discussion revolves around taking on Google. In attendance are…
Proposed Bill to Give White House Authority to Control Internet in Emergency
A proposed Bill in the U.S. Senate would give the White House control of the internet in the case of emergency. The bill, S.773…
Common SEO Problems of E-commerce Sites
All sites must address technical infrastructure, content and linking strategies. For large e-commerce sites, some problems in these areas are magnified due to the…
Facebook to Update Privacy Practices in Response to Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Facebook has been working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to come up with solutions to concerns that the office has.…
Is Search Innovative?
Some clients see search as a static landscape, something to treat with a "set it and forget it" mentality. But a look at the…
Bing Offers Up Image Optimization Tips
Over on the Bing blog, Todd Schwartz is offering up some tips on optimizing your photos and graphics for image search. Schwartz says that…