Search Engine Journal

Though the iPhone may be considered the best phone for internet mobile use, Google has improved its search results for the Blackberry. As Googles goal is to help users search more efficiently, these improvements to the Blackberry will do just that.
As reported in the Google Mobile Blog, the new update features:

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The battle still remains between the two largest online social communities, Myspace and Facebook. While many people think Myspace is “dead”, the site was up a 7% in May compared to May 07’. Facebooks’ numbers were quite impressive increasing 83% from May 07’ according to Nielsen Online reported by Marketing Charts.
The network I’m most impressed […]

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Today I was surprised to check my email and actually find something interesting (I get spammed a lot) that caught my attention with the subject title, “Questioning the Integrity of Google’s Ad Auction Process.” It was an email sent to me by Scott Cleland which found me by reading a post I wrote in SEJ […]

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The Wall Street Journal had a great piece on mobile marketing, “Advertisers to Consumer: We’ll Text You.” Do you have any text messaging advertising plans for your business in the near future?
Text messaging is a growing trend between users becoming more popular than actually calling a person, but more so interesting and great for marketers; […]

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Talking to many companies who are doing their search engine marketing in-house, I’ve noticed they are solely focused on paid search in the search engines. Sure, billions of people worldwide search the engines daily, but those people are being led to websites which many of them use content networks to monetize their sites which display […]

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As search marketers, quality score has played a huge role in our campaigns determining our bids and positions in the search engines.  I just attended the session, “Ads in A Quality Score World” by panelist David Miller from Yahoo Search Marketing, Joel Lapp from Reprise Media, Jon Kelly from Sure Hits and Frederick Valleys from […]

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Most talk about or plan to do it, while the reality is that very few companies do. A viral campaign is probably the best way to spread buzz and word-of-mouth marketing for branding purposes, drive traffic, or even monetize a site.
I will post my notes from this session to help you understand what a viral […]

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If you are using paid search as one of your online marketing strategies (who isn’t, if you’re not, get with the program,) this was one of the most important sessions I have ever attended and paid very close attention to.
In order to try and give you the information up-to-date, I will post the notes I […]

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I was answering some questions on the Digital Point forum when I came across a thread about getting paid to click on ads, instantly, a red flag was raised. Getting paid to click on ads?
The thread was started by a company called AdBuck.net. How do they work?
You register to their website and they […]

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CNNs Rick Sanchez reported today on the new Rolling Stone article on the success of Barack Obamas campaign. I havent read the article myself yet but it reveals the secret to Obamas successful grass roots campaign is due to social networking online.
Sure, Howard Dean did reach the people online in his last presidential candidacy but […]

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