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Pablo Palatnik

Pablo Palatnik is the author of the blog PalatnikFactor, focusing on all things Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization specialist for Fortune3, a shopping cart software company by online retailers, for online retailers.

Myspace Partnering with Google to Boost Profits From P2P Transactions?

In an effort to boost profits, Myspace is considering allowing members post ads on their profiles and conduct transactions with one another. Besides profiting from Google Adsense which was a $900 million deal, Myspace also generates profits from digital music sales which hit $550 million turning into a $10 million dollar profit according to CNN.

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Google Still Dominating Market Share

Google’s stock is at $515.00, it is now working with NASA working together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces, and of course, still leading the search market. Hitwise reports Google search accounted for “64.35% of all US searches in the four weeks ended July 28, nearly four percentage points more than the comparable period a year earlier…” Other Hitwise stats: Yahoo...

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IAB Defines Best Practices for Lead Generation Data Transfer Online

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Lead Generation Committee today announced “Lead Generation Data Transfer Best Practices”. This document is designed to educate both advertisers and publishers on security practices when generating user information, but also, which is most important, to help standardize the transfer and receipt of data between both the advertisers and lead generation service providers. With so much information being transferred online everyday and security issues rising, it is essential to...

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Top 150 Marketing Blogs from Ad Age

Most who blog about online marketing, news, etc. blog because one, they love what they do, and two, exposure in the industry which has been rising at an incredible pace with so many companies and self-made industry rock stars rising. We’ve all seen the important of all these marketing blogs which share with us great information about industry trends and give us all ideas and help us in our current projects. Not only are these blogs...

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YouTube Democratic Debate Correlates with Online Trends Strategies

Watching the YouTube democratic debate last night I started wondering, “wow”, what a great idea… but why did they do it? Just like anything else in the world of business, these debates are purely based on the marketing of all parties involved in monetizing from them (TV ratings, etc) to the candidates themselves. Two factors that these debates correlate with the on-going trends in search for web marketers. 1. User Engagement 2. Digital...

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Top 5 Pay-Per-Click Engines To Try

If you’re a small company trying to compete against the big dogs in the PPC space in a competitive market, you’re probably either spending a huge chunk per month to reach the top positions or about to quit and choose other avenues. We’ve all heard using other PPC search choices besides Google, Yahoo, and MSN barley work. Guess what? Sometimes they do, and as a marketer, the worse option you can choose is...

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Elections 2008 : Who’s Winning The Online Popularity Game?

The upcoming presidential election has become a media battle, which the Internet has been playing a huge role in. Video distribution via YouTube, Google Video, MySpace and other online channels has been a dominating factor and a key component for presidential candidates. Case in point, we'll look at two videos of candidate Hillary Clinton which have sparked great buzz from TV and Radio media outlets and have received the most attention from potential voters....

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What’s Next in Social Media For Google? SocialStream.

As the social space keeps developing and growing, you really think Google will just sit in the sidelines and watch? I think not. Besides Orkut, Google has been working to develop new social media projects, like SocialStream. Human Interaction Computer Institute states: SocialStream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other: * Initial...

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British Invasion of Online Advertising – Problem For American Advertisers?

The market keeps opening up in the UK for internet businesses and marketers. Day in and day out websites from English entrepreneurs arise. The latest to come out from the UK as reported on Mashable is AdJug, “The company provides an ad marketplace that will initially focus on the UK market, with expansion into Europe. Unlike Adsense, they say, they let advertisers choose where on the page their ads appear.”

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Yahoo! Search Marketing (Panama) Adds Tools For Advertisers

The YSMBlog announced yesterday the addition of a few new tools in order to effectively help advertisers build out campaigns. While these changes seem to be small ones, nevertheless, anything helps new advertisers and for someone running multiple campaigns, tools to make that make creating a campaign more efficient are always welcome. The first change is a move and copy feature which allows you to move keywords from one ad group to another. The...

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