Internet Marketing
March 31, 2006
Matt Says, Part II: Matt Answers Your Questions
Matt Cutts, chief Google search engineer and one of my favorite boys named Matt, offered up a long Q and A session in his blog this week. Faithful readers were able to ask Matt questions via a Grab Bag thread and Matt provided answers to the questions he felt would help the most readers. The post touched on some of … Read more
Friday Roundup
It’s Friday, March 31, 2006. Here’s what’s the engines are up to.
Google has officially launched its Local Business Ads, combining the strength of its already successful Adwords and Google Local platforms. We blogged last week that Google had been testing this feature, but the Google guys say the beta was officially launched last night. If you read our entry … Read more
March 30, 2006
Ask Shoots, Scores!
I consider myself a pretty intelligent person. I can usually tell where people are going with things. But I must admit. I had no idea where Ask was going with its latest blog entry.
I read Ask’s entry entitled, George Mason Fact Guide, and thought to myself, Wait, this is about basketball? What? Don’t tell me Barry re-branded again! I read … Read more
Search and Destroy
In an attempt to get back at the DOJ for dragging them into court, Google went ahead and deleted all of the pages of a government website. Just kidding!
Well, about it being Google’s fault anyway. Barry of Search Engine Roundtable has started a thread on the SER forums commenting on a post by Alex Papadimoulis entitled, The Spider of Doom. … Read more
March 29, 2006
Never underestimate the power of monkeys
John Battelle comments on a Bear Stearns report that uses comScore data to show Google’s continuing increase in its already overpowering market share. This time Google has climbed from 39.8 percent last year to a current 42.3 percent. But the interesting news coming out of this report isn’t that Google has gained another handful of percentage points (what else is … Read more
On a blog note:
Blogs may not be having a good week, but they sure are getting a lot of press. It’s only Tuesday and so far they’re housing rants, being subjected to rules, getting people in trouble, getting ripped off and accidentally being deleted. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the sword never got this much action.
It all started on … Read more
March 27, 2006
BC Weekend Update
New interfaces and updated toolbars – it’s how the search engines spent their weekend.
Want to take a peek at the new, left-centric Google redesign? Google Blogoscoped tells you how. Follow these steps to grab yourself a look and then come back.
1. Go to Google.com
2. Copy and paste this URL into your browser window: javascript:alert(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=0TM=0:LM=0:S=0;path=/;domain=.google.com”)
3. Ignore the error message and go back to Google.com … Read more
Which Adwords is it anyway?
Guest Entry by Cindy Turrietta, SEM Analyst–Bruce Clay, Inc
While many people understand the relationship between Google AdWords and the Google partner and content networks, I find there are many who do not. Even professionals from within the search marketing industry can become confused when they read information for instance about ads needing to be reviewed.
To clarify, changes to ads appear … Read more
How to achieve link building bliss
Earlier this month we pointed out the dangers of creating content-less content for the sole purpose of furthering link building campaigns, so the question arises: How do you create effective link building campaigns when you do have excellent content? Text Link Broker’s Robert Sullivan recently published two articles with some excellent tips for users.
Sullivan’s first article entitled, “Using your … Read more
March 24, 2006
Those other search engines
Did you know that there are other search engines out there besides Google? It’s true! Sure Google gets all the press, what with joining the S&P 500 and starting their GeoAds and buying small, cool companies and their millions and billions of betas, but hey, don’t some of these other engines deserve love too?
Sure, they do. And I’m … Read more
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