Search Marketing Shows Strength in 2006
SEMPO's annual look at the State of Search Engine Marketing finds that search continues to grow, reaching $9.4 billion in North America in 2006
Google Finance Plus Signs In Google Search Results
Vygantas Lipskas spotted plus signs within Google search results that contain Google Finance information. A search at one Google data center on computers brings back the follow results:. Google Finance at Google.com
Google Sending Wikipedia A Ton Of Traffic
Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year by Hitwise's LeeAnn Prescott gives us some of the data search marketers have been craving for years. We all knew that Wikipedia tends to rule in the Google results but these statistics
Finding a Reputable Search Marketing Agency
While the number of companies reporting that they plan to take search marketing in-house has increased over the past two years, a significant number have not yet established enough internal SEO/PPC vendor management capabilities to make
Google Issues Paper On Hard Drive Failures
Google has issued a paper on the reliability of certain types of hard drives named Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Engadget sums up the study via Slashdot saying the following:. Click to continue reading
Google Sues Group Of Polish Poets Over Gmail.pl Name
Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl via the AFP reports that Google is now going after a group of Polish poets for the domain name gmail.pl. Gmail.pl is the domain name for "Grupa Młodych Artystów i Literatów" (GMAiL),
Understanding Link Reputation
The point the writer was making was this was a case where a paid link would in fact fool the search engines, because they'd have no way to distinguish paid from not paid. The person paying for the link would receive algorithmic benefit
Brand Management and Apple
This brings up the issue of brand or reputation management. Formerly the domain of the PR department, brand management is becoming an everyday reality for search engine marketers
Interview with Bill Slawski
Manoj Jasra interviews Bill Slawski regarding Patents, Social Media Optimization and the state of the Search Industry
Must Read Search Marketing Blogs
Below is a collection of over 250 blogs covering search marketing with a few The list will be maintained on an ongoing basis on the Search Marketing Commerce360 Blog - Craig Danuloff posts about search marketing and analytics.
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