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The Web’s Wild West Days Are Gone
Just a few years ago, the Web was an open playing field where few things were taboo. Those days are gone, and if we're…
Persian Translation Features Launch on Facebook, Google
If you’ve been following the events surrounding the election in Iran, you know that sites such as Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in…
Offers.com Takes Effort Out Of Searching For Deals
Steve Schaffer, CEO of Vertive, announced his company is launching a new look for Offers.com – the site that takes the work out of…
SearchDay | Sage’s Dirty Little Secret
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Sage's Dirty Little Secret; Microsoft, NBC Universal to Sell Addressable TV Ads; Searching Twitter: TweetScan Offers History,…
Privacy Roundup: Google Street View, French Law, and Congressional Hearings
Privacy concerns are ever-present, but the past week has generated significant buzz on the matter. First up, Google has been asked by a the…
Google Analytics Goals Can Now Be Imported Into AdWords
If you’re tired of going back and forth between AdWords and Analytics to track conversions and goals (or tired of setting up a separate…
Average Search CPC Data by Category for May 2009
Cost-per-click data by vertical category in search in the U.S.
New NC Tax Law Would Use Affiliate Programs to Define Physical Presence, Collect Sales Tax
North Carolina is following closely in the footsteps of the state of New York in desiring to collect an internet sales tax. If passed,…
Microsoft, NBC Universal to Sell Addressable TV Ads
Microsoft today announced that NBC Universal will be the first media partner for its digital TV advertising marketplace, Admira. The technology, which Microsoft gained…
Searching Twitter: TweetScan Offers History, CrowdEye Launches
Searching Twitter is becoming increasingly popular (you can tell by the amount of spam seen in the trending topics). So, it comes as no…
AT&T Plans a Mashup of Yellow Pages and Social Networking for the Under-30 Set
Yellow Pages are a great source of income for AT&T – $1.3 billion in the first quarter of the year, to be exact. But…
Sage’s Dirty Little Secret
Lean forward here. I'm about to tell you a dirty little secret: Part of an effective PR response is to keep the controversy going.
Calm Before the Bing Storm: May 2009 comScore Ranking Remain Steady
Not a whole lot changed from April to May 2009 in terms of core search share, but it will shock no one that Google…
To tweet or not to tweet?
I came across a recent study by Harvard Business which sums up Twitter ‘s “current condition” as such: “Twitter resembles more of a one-way,…
SearchDay | Quality SEO Pays for Itself
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Quality SEO Pays for Itself; Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle; Facebook's New Search Test Continues Faceoff with Twitter;…
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle
Matt Cutts says Google changed its handling of nofollow last year, but no one noticed. Can that really be what happened?
Nicholas Fox of Google AdWords to Keynote at SES San Jose
It seems like I’ve just returned from Search Engine Strategies Toronto and it’s already time to look ahead to SES San Jose. Wow, time…
Quality SEO Pays for Itself
Quality SEO is a valuable activity that can dramatically transform profitability of a business. However, since this is not yet understood by many management…
Searchme Launches Search Advertising Program Out of Beta
In February, visual search engine Searchme began testing a search advertising program in a closed beta. Now, the ad program is officially launching to…
Bing’s Bang Continues in Week Two
New data from comScore shows that Bing’s big bang launch in week one has carried over to week two. The percentage of internet users…