Archive for the ‘Search Marketing’ Category

Audio Post

July 24, 2010

Audio Post

July 19, 2010

My First Audio Post Via Smartphone

July 3, 2010

Google Father’s Day 2010 Doodle

June 20, 2010

Google has replaced its traditional logo with Neckties and Bow Ties to honor Father’s Day 2010.

Google Father's Day 2010 Doodle

Google Father's Day 2010 Doodle

Since it was almost 100 degrees here today and I spent the better part of the day in the lake, my visit to the Google home page was a close as I came to seeing either type of tie.

A Penny Auction Website?

May 31, 2010

I saw a television ad for the penny auction website Beezid.com.

Beezid.com

Beezid.com

My question is: Do penny auction website’s deliver on their promise?

Is so, how can any business profit from this type of business model?

Will You Give Us An Interview?

May 28, 2010

I received a request to give the following web site an “interview”.

How to be “interviewed” by WhoHub.com:

* Simply begin by responding to the questions, and the interview will have started.
* Choose only the questions which you find applicable to you.
* Everything that you respond gets automatically added to your interview page.
* Don’t worry about mistakes, you can always re-edit the whole interview

Will You Give Us An Interview

Will You Give Us An Interview?

The WhoHub.com website’s process for eliciting content via questions is quite simple and brilliant.

How could this same question and answer process be used to generate user provided content and populate other web sites?

Microsoft Advertising Change In Terms and Conditions

May 27, 2010

In advance of the upcoming Yahoo and Microsoft Search Alliance, Microsoft has changed its terms and conditions.

Microsoft Advertising Change In Terms and Conditions

Microsoft Advertising Change In Terms and Conditions

DoubleClick Ad Planner Top 1000 Sites

May 26, 2010

Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner now publicly publishes their list of the Top 1000 sites on the web.

DoubleClick Ad Planner Top 1000 Sites

DoubleClick Ad Planner Top 1000 Sites

According to DoubleClick’s Ad Planner, Facebook is the most visited site on the web receiving 540 million visitors and a whopping 570,000,000,000 page views.

Doubleclick’s Top 1000 site’s list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites.

Visit the DoubleClick Ad Planner Top 1000 sites list at: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/

Google’s Approach To The New Age

May 22, 2010

“The mobile web is not the mobile web, the mobile web is the web.”

The following infographic is how Google perceives and classifies the web:

Google's Approach To The New Age

Google's Approach To The New Age

While Google acknowledges there are important and ascending areas of web usage – video, social and mobile – none will produce anything close to the revenue and profits for Google like search has.

Kurrently.com Real Time Search

May 17, 2010

Kurrently.com does a nice job of mashing up and delivering results from multiple sources into a real time search feed.

Kurrently

Kurrently.com Real Time Search

I know there are a handful of other real time search engines but I don’t recall seeing them work as well as Kurrently appears to.