Facebook Advertising vs. Google AdWords

Do You Really Have To Build A Fan Base? Not sure about building a fan base on Facebook? Facebook advertising straight to your website is not necessarily wrong. Maybe you aren’t prepared to invest thousands of dollars to build a fan base, or the audience-building step won’t help your business. To be sure, Fan Pages [...]

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November 2, 2010 | 14 Comments | Read Story

Umlauts, Accents, and Google

When optimizing sites in languages that contain characters not found in the English language, it is important to know that Google will return different results depending on whether the characters (called diacritical marks or diacritics) were used.

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October 19, 2010 | 4 Comments | Read Story

Whites Spaces Super WiFi Expands Search Marketing Reach

A decision by the FCC on Thursday September 23rd could affect search marketing far beyond interface changes such as Google Instant. The FCC is to finalize provisions for unlicensed wireless devices to operate in unused parts of the TV spectrum – aka White Spaces – for advanced Wi-Fi technologies and broadband. This White Spaces spectrum formerly used [...]

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September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment | Read Story

Competing in the Global Market for Online Travel

A review of Hotels.com’s international search strategy including areas where it excels and other areas where it can be improved.

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September 14, 2010 | 2 Comments | Read Story

The Four P’s of (Search) Marketing

Search Marketing isn’t all that different than traditional marketing. And, just like the physical market, you have a plethora of vehicles from which to choose.  Optimizing your efforts can get a little confusing, so look to the traditional Marketing Mix to help a bit. P Number 1:  Product The end-result.  In the Internet world, we’ll call [...]

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September 2, 2010 | 8 Comments | Read Story

Hello Search Engine Journal – It’s Yvonne Bell

Hello everyone my name is Yvonne Bell and I am the new Search and Social Media blogger for SEJ. I wanted to take up a few lines introducing myself – as you will be seeing a lot of me around here :) I am pretty new to the world of search marketing, but not so [...]

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August 23, 2010 | 13 Comments | Read Story

UK University Launches SEMPO Backed Search and Social Media Course

Two weeks ago I attended the open evening and formal launch of a unique course in Search and Social Media Marketing.  What makes it unique is that it was launched by an academic institution, the University of Salford in Manchester, with support and backing from SEMPO, the industry body for the search industry. What really [...]

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August 19, 2010 | 3 Comments | Read Story

What’s New With AdWords?

Google’s been busy with AdWords this summer, launching a number of new features. Here’s a wrap-up of six of those features as well as Google’s new advertising news website. AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) This tool, which is currently in beta, lets you test and measure changes to your keywords, your AdWords bidding, ad groups and [...]

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August 18, 2010 | 3 Comments | Read Story

“My God, It’s Full of Stars” – Seller Rating Extensions in Google AdWords

If the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey were released in 2010 versus 1968, the classic line above may have been followed by a click-through to read reviews.  Let’s find out why.  Over the past year, Google AdWords has introduced a number of ad extensions that enable advertisers to provide additional information about their businesses and [...]

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August 10, 2010 | 6 Comments | Read Story

Internet Marketing Interviews Galore

Some of the best tips, tricks, strategies, and tactics on the Web come from experts giving away great information in interviews. It is far more likely that an Internet marketing expert is going to give up some of their coveted information in an interview rather than a written blog post. If you’ve ever been to [...]

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August 5, 2010 | 7 Comments | Read Story