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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IT’S A GIRL!!!

The newest member of Team Pattison - Sophie Ann Pattison

Born: 3/4/2008 4:11pm

8lbs. 1oz. 20″

Mom and baby are healthy and all turned out well. We are expected to return home on 3/6.

Thanks to all for all your support, love and gifts.

Check back often for pictures, videos and updates.

New Arrival - To the Hospital

I’m off to the hospital…

My wife is being induced March 4th (early Tuesday morning at 5am MST).

This will be our second child; her name will be Sophie Ann.

I’m going in tow with digital cameras and video cameras.

I’m very excited - I will be posting many pics and videos here; stay tuned for updates.

Spring Cleaning - Yahoo Weather Update

Yahoo is updating their index.

There should be some minor fluctuations in organic Search Engine Results Pages according to Yahoo.

We’re in the process of rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.