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Is Google Becoming a Portal?

Google has long held that it is not a portal. Concerns of publishers wary of giving away their content to Google for free have always been met with…

By Kevin Newcomb · 19 Mar 2008

SEO

Online Reputation Management Requires Cabinet War Rooms

Intense preparation helped Churchill win the war, and it can help you deal with a sudden reputation management crisis. Reacting swiftly and…

By Greg Jarboe · 11 Mar 2008

Analytics

Google Analytics Adds Industry Benchmarking

Users who opt into the new program will be able to compare their site's performance against the rest of their industry or…

By Kevin Newcomb · 09 Mar 2008

Industry

Microsoft in Hot Pursuit of Google

At the Mix08 Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft loudly declared its intentions to increase its share of the search market. Yesterday, Steve…

By Nathania Johnson · 07 Mar 2008

Industry

Why Digg’s Worth $200 Mllion or More to Google

Digg IPO? No. Digg FSBO. For Sale By Owner. Again. The auction for social search engine Digg begins when Microsoft and Google…

By Kevin Heisler · 07 Mar 2008

Industry

SEW Experts: Has Google Already Won?

With the imminent demise of Yahoo and Ask.com, Google seems to have cemented its near-total control of search. The monopolization of our…

By Kevin Newcomb · 07 Mar 2008

Industry

AdWords Annouces, Explains Load Time Usage In Quality Score

The Adwords blog just announced the details of the inclusion of page load times in calculating Quality Score. This is an important…

By Frank Watson · 06 Mar 2008

SEO

Free Online March Bootcamp Shows Jenn Slegg Still Queen of Adsense

If you have been making money using Google AdSense for more than a few months chances are really good that you have…

By Frank Watson · 06 Mar 2008

Industry

Google Serves Up Search Within Search Results

Yesterday, Google announced that it is rolling out its new Search within a Site feature. When searching for specific sites instead of…

By Nathania Johnson · 06 Mar 2008

Industry

48 Practical Questions to Qualify Prospective Search Marketing Vendors

Don’t Get Bamboozled! We’ve all heard anecdotes regarding the unfortunate results of under-qualified or downright deceptive SEM vendors. Common disasters include set-it-and-forget-it…

By Marty Weintraub · 03 Mar 2008

PPC

Contextual Advertising Best Practices: Banners and Video Ads

Google AdWords reinvented the text ad. Now: banners, video ads, animated banners.

By David Szetela · 03 Mar 2008

Industry

No Brokeback With Google Health

The launching of Google Health last week and Microsoft’s existing HealthVault, offers a serious benefit for access to people’s health records thouigh…

By Frank Watson · 03 Mar 2008

Industry

Baidu Search Engine Launches IM in Beta – Baidu Hi

Search engine Baidu has launched instant messaging (IM) in beta, the first formal foray into the Chinese IM market. The “Baidu Hi”…

By Kevin Heisler · 29 Feb 2008

Industry

Would Ask be Ask?

If Ask dismantled its Teoma engine, would Ask still be Ask? The simple answer to this existential question is no. The Ask…

By rumo · 29 Feb 2008

SEO

Google Yahoo MSN Live Sitemaps: Cross-Hosting Grokked by SEOs for SEOs

With sitemaps cross-hosting (or cross-submission), Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft cracked open the door for corporations to outsource search engine optimization. How big…

By Kevin Heisler · 29 Feb 2008

Industry

Google is an Optimist. Newspapers are Pessimists.

If today's newspapers want to succeed in a meaningful way in the future, they have to stop making incremental moves while expecting…

By Sage Lewis · 28 Feb 2008

Industry

Google News UK Sorting News Without Bias?

Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings in the Googleplex set off a tornado in the top UK news and media sites?…

By Kevin Newcomb · 27 Feb 2008

Local

Google Maps User Reviews to Neighborhoods: Google Rat Pack!

Google Lat Long Blog announced Google Maps and Google Earth teaming up to provide User Reviews and refinement by Neighborhood in local…

By Kevin Heisler · 26 Feb 2008

Industry

Many See AdSense Income Dropping

I have been hearing and reading a lot of reports about decreased income from AdSense. A recent detailed post on the topic…

By Frank Watson · 26 Feb 2008

Industry

Google to Offer AdSense Video Units

Google today opened up its 9-month-old pilot program to allow qualified publishers to put video ad units on their sites. The AdSense…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Feb 2008

Industry

SEW Experts: Social Media and Online Commerce: Birth of Socialommerce

With all the media attention focused on Microsoft’s not-so-friendly takeover bid of Yahoo, a below-the-radar acquisition target proves why social commerce is…

By Kevin Newcomb · 21 Feb 2008

SEO

How to Drive More Organic Traffic by Understanding Search Engine Algorithms

This morning over at Seattle-based blog SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin asks “What is an Algorithm? How does it apply to the Search Results…

By Marty Weintraub · 20 Feb 2008

Industry

Google Tightens Restrictions on AdWords Display URLs

Beginning April 1, Google will no longer make exceptions to its policy requiring advertisers to match the display URL in an AdWords…

By Kevin Newcomb · 20 Feb 2008

Analytics

Landing Page Optimization for SEM: Design and Execute

Landing page optimization: design and execution. First, let's kill all the designers.

By Eric Enge · 20 Feb 2008

SEO

American Express Axes Ellen DeGeneres: Au Natural On Amex Site

In an ideal world, American Express would AX the Ellen DeGeneres ads and spend a fraction of the marketing budget on au…

By Mark Jackson · 19 Feb 2008

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