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2009 Predictions: Your Survival Guide for Google, SEM, Staffing, and more...

Last year at roughly this time, I published a “Web 3.0” list of predictions in which I predicted “A full length movie will be made about Craigslist. Jason Alexandar will play Craig Newmark” to which Craig Newmark replied “For update re “A full length movie will be made about Craigslist. Jason Alexandar will play...

Psyching Out Searchers

The fun and the frustration in search marketing is trying to understand and anticipate how people think. The mental processes by which people try to find things are often thought to be predictable, but new research in the journal Cognition, reported in Business Week, suggests that people file, sort, filter and associate words and ideas much more...

SEM Data Provides Creative Cues

  The key words and phrases customers and prospects use most can be creative cues for other forms of branded messaging. But too few creatives mine the insights from SEO analytics. Maybe its because SEO is considered to be an arcane art like alchemy or maybe because the data-centric nature of SEO puts off copywriters, but...

End of YaGoogle

The fact that Google broke off its proposed ad serving deal with Yahoo! is good news – the deal would only have served to increase Google's dominance of the digital advertising marketplace and increased the degree to which competitors like Yahoo! as well as advertisersand other distribution partners in the digital world rely on Google to...

SEO - listings vs sales

There seems to be a great deal of talk about what constitutes good SEO. As far as I can see the debate is divided into two camps – those who believe it is about chasing rankings and those who believe it is about the benefit the client receives from the traffic generated. In reality, of course, it’s both. As everybody knows,...

Microsoft: Lose The Battle To Win The War!

Seems like each day is a battle in search with the leader pulling further and further ahead.  Maybe the solution for MSN isn't to try and catch Google, but let it pull further and further ahead? Recently MSN announced SearchPerks, where a user gets prizes for searching on MSN.  I can't imagine this working well enough to help them...

Live Search's bid for friends on Facebook

If you’re a true addict like me, you may have noticed a change yesterday to Facebook’s search bar.  As part of Microsoft’s partnership with Facebook, a drop-down menu now appears as you type your query, providing a new option: Search the Web.  Web results are delivered via Live Search and are (of course) accompanied...

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