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Avatar Posted By: RobD 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google has already announced that page loading time was going to be a factor in Adwords quality scores, but now you can see if your landing page is quick enough. Here's how you check if your landing page is loading fast enough... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.robdumouchel.com)
Category: Google AdWords
What exactly can’t you sell on Adwords? There always seems to be a lot of mystery and disagreement on what you can and can’t do so I decided to compile a list of items prohibited from Adwords. In a nut shell if it’s illegal, unethical, or fun you mi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Google Adwords can be a beautiful yet dangerous mistress... her seemingly targeted traffic, easy going daily budgets, and conservative broad matching. As you get to know each other and start to build what you think is a trust-based relationship, she read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 149 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Yahoo
"Yahoo Inc is in advanced talks to carry Web search advertising from Google Inc as part of a search for potential alternatives to being bought by Microsoft Corp a source familiar with the discussions said on Wednesday."

This could be interesting read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.robdumouchel.com)
Category: Google Searching
Since everybody is all excited about video ads showing up today from Google, I thought I'd see if anybody else has seen organic video results in the sponsored links column... anybody? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 260 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A soldier's spin on Adwords Management. We apply the Army's steps on how to evaluate a casualty to finding problems in an existing Adwords account. Check out the pictures of me and Bob armed and dangerous :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 266 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Google
As if fighting Wikipedia for organic listings wasn't bad enough... Google is mixing Wikipedia and Squidoo's models to create a new user generated information site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.wired.com)
Category: Google
That is a lot of imaginary money...

"Google Inc.'s stock price barreled through $700 for the first time Wednesday, propelled by a belief that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable as it plants its products and services in ne read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Social Media
"Microsoft Corp beat out rival Google Inc on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a roughly 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon and expand a deal to sell advertising."

$240 million read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 320 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pcworld.com)
Category: Search Marketing
"Google Inc. has gotten undeservedly all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft Corp. wants to put a stop to that. So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft's Advertiser Publis read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://freelanceswitch.com)
Category: Other
"You can’t imagine how surprised I was to discover an incredible freelance marketing lesson while picking pumpkins with my daughter at a family farm in Pennsylvania last weekend. And, the story behind it is the key to building a giant client-base fo read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 323 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Search Marketing
"New reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu."

So now the country on track to have more broadband internet users than the US is read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 325 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Social Media
Finally a site for people that hate people. Anti-social Networking on a Facebook-esque platform for you to let everyone know how much you don't like them. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 330 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Google AdWords
A click can lead to more actions than you can track with your computer. The post follows me from a click to a hat store 2000 miles away from my house in rural northern Illinois. I think it's a good story for clients that doubt the value of internet read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 333 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com)
Category: Google Other
Just thought that it was interesting that Google, a company that basically sells monitor space, is now worth more money than a retail giant like Wal-Mart. $609+ a share! Holy crap!
Come to think of it I give Google way more money than I'll ever giv read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 340 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Google AdWords
"I proceeded to put 3 numbers into my phone from memory: Mom, Girlfriend, Work... pretty much everybody that might yell at me, and then I hit the wall. Luckily the Internet knows everything I forgot."

Google is the new Phone Book,and for not too read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://hosted.ap.org)
Category: Google Other
Why is it whenever someone or some company ends up with too much money they decide to try to take over the moon? Richard Branson is doing it, why can't Google! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Usability
Most people see the value in a good landing when it involves gymnasts, divers, and the red eye to Cleveland, but miss its importance to web traffic. A good PPC Campaign mixed with bad landing pages is just a fancy way to set your wallet on fire... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 372 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: SEM
Before I was a search marketer I was a Military Intelligence Analyst/Linguist (surprisingly good training for SEM) and I have always wanted to get more into foreign language SEM.

Has anybody tried it out or had much success with it? There's huge read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 375 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Blogging
One of the hardest things about running a web site is keeping it fresh. If you have new interesting content on your site at a daily or near daily frequency, visitors have a reason to come back often. More visitors usually mean more money, so this is read more »
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Avatar Posted By: RobD 394 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smsrd.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Use Google Analytics to track you own in-person social networking, learn more about visitors by their movement on your site, and figure out who to follow up with. read more »
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