Archive for March, 2008

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

I hope you all enjoy your Easter Sunday.

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) download released

Vista SP1 is now available for both 64 bit and 32 bit Microsoft Operating Systems. However, if you have your Vista updates set to “automatic,” your Vista Operating system will not be updated automatically until mid April, 2008.

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Recession Proof Job = Search Marketing Professional

The economic forecasts of a looming recession are starting to get more and more bleak. Every passing headline seems to indicate we are no longer in stormy conditions, but officially in the dark ages.

The economy is now in a recession,” Harvard economist Martin Feldstein told The Boston Globe over the weekend. “It will last longer and be deeper than the last two recessions, which lasted only 8 months from peak to trough. It could well be longer and deeper than the recession in the early 1980s that lasted 16 months.

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SEO Raps on Search Marketing, Google Paid Search and Social Media

“gangsta” rap has finally made its way to Search Engine Marketing Education.

Mo Serious of Pop Labs has made a few videos that you can see on YouTube (click the heading links below to view the rap videos).

The videos of very clever in as far as creating a great link bait tactic for Pop Labs, but I’m not sure if these videos would actually acquire any new clients or cross-sell any existing clients….

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strengthsfinder 2.0 - strengths finder 2.0 results

A quick repost from another blog I lightly post to. The post below was made this last February…

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Ask.com Quits - Goes back to answering questions

Ask is doing an about face and going back to answering questions as in the askjeeves.com days.

I never thought Ask would last in the “search space” being that Ask allows advertisers… Read the rest of this entry »

Google Analytics can track Google Audio Ads

Google Analytics blog has announced that Google Analytics can now track Google Audio Ads… Read the rest of this entry »

EU ready to approve Google-DoubleClick deal

According to Reuters, the European Union is going to approve the Google-DoubleClick merger.

I think this is great news (aside from privacy and monopolistic concerns) it’s great for advertisers needing a one stop shop for online advertising coupled with indepth analysis of user behavior for targeting efficiencies… Read the rest of this entry »

Load time to impact Adwords Quality Score

Adwords has announced on a blog post earlier today that Google will begin to factor page load times as part of your Adwords’ Quality Score.

The update is set to start impacting Quality Scores later this month…

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Search within Search - Google Pushes the Ad Revenue Needle

Google has formally announced a new feature within Search results for large sites such as Best Buy, Wikipedia Microsoft and the like.

Google explains:…

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