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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cnn.com)
Category: Paid Search
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John McCain's campaign will stop advertising on several Web sites that have vilified Barack Obama as unpatriotic and, in one case, compared the Democratic nominee-in-waiting to Adolf Hitler. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Google Other
NYTimes Blog: Google is expected to unveil a new ad-planning tool for agencies and marketers at an industry conference on Tuesday. Word that the Internet search giant has something up its sleeve surfaced when the Advertising Research Foundation, whi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Gab writes: "Here’s just a partial rundown of the awesome folks I had the privilege of meeting and talking to at SMX Advanced!" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Hey, it's SEL...too fun not to bookmark (Gotta like Greg Sterling's commitment to journalism): "This afternoon Yahoo confirmed that it had entered into a paid search deal with Google. That deal is described by Yahoo in its press release and by Googl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: SEM Industry
[At the risk of being publicly supportive of the folks who bring you Sphinn] A cursory glance at session titles belies the intense depth of SMX Advanced 2008. WHO'S GOING? :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts has now elaborated on Google's role in policing the truth. [Marty note: I bookmarked the SEL story because Barry Schwartz's commentary lends additional perspective to the original which is Sphunn here: http://sphinn.com/story/48361 ] read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.copyblogger.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Copyblogger serves up an overt bait and switch headline on this motivational post aimed @ the blog's intellectual-sweaty-masses audience: "Oh, those dreaded ‘F’ words. ‘Finish’, along with ‘focus’ and ‘follow through’ are words that make creative ty read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Google's in-house analytics "Evangelist" dishes Web Analytics career advice for agencies, a Beginners Guide To Web Analytics, and muses about an email he received: "the Robots Are Out To Get Me!" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Greg Sterling revisits his Oct 2007 post with today's "SEL-suggestion" for Microsoft. "10/24/07 SEL: A Live Search box & related ad inventory is almost sure to make its appearance on Facebook in the near term," blending true search and social media. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 59 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Contextual Ads
WSJ Small Business: Concerns mount slowing economy may hurt online-ad market. Silicon-Valley start-ups developing new approaches. Younger demos tend to HATE old-fashioned online, like traditional "banners" to promote brands. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdWords
This technique of crawling & scraping sites for content themes and targeting pages through the Google Content Network is nothing short of brilliant. I bought the scraper today myself. This us hyper-targeted stuff. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 67 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.ericgoldman.org)
Category: Google AdWords
It looks like courts/lawyers are finally getting savvier about broad matching. This is some wild stuff and a must read for SEM legal buffs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Networking
Do you know of any other police forces in the world who use Facebook for fighting crime? If not, why the hell is Greater Manchester Police the first and only police force doing this? This is a fantastic idea. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Today Google was slapped with a an advertising fraud lawsuit that will be fascinating – and important – for AdWords advertisers to watch. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thearticlewriter.com)
Category: Blogging
Don't let your blog be left in the .mobi dust. iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, & Windows Mobile handsets are extremely popular & someday may even surpass PC usage. It's SO easy to prepare now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 80 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://social-media-optimization.com)
Category: Networking
The Prime Minister reaches out to his Tweeple! If you think the U.S. Presidential campaign is cutting edge with YouTube & other social media tools, check out what's happening across the pond. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 88 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Other Searching
WIRED: A U.S. government-funded medical info site (billed as world's largest reproductive health database) is blocking searches for keyword "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alleyinsider.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Silicon Alley Insider: Got any technical skills at all? Hacking Facebook is a cottage industry, with thousands of unpaid workers beavering away. The video shows how hack your friends "Moods" app in less than 1 minute. (Thnx KH) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.mediapost.com)
Category: Google AdWords
MediaPost SearchInsider: David Szetela writes "Banner Fatigue, personalized paid SERPS = growing irrelevance of traditional online ads," foreshadows the GROWING importance of paid advertising on social networks. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.aimclearblog.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
There’s a Marketing (r)evolution underway. Old marketing used Pavlovian methods. Passive consumers, like dogs, would salivate & buy when marketers pushed ads. Today’s consumers are cats that don’t come when called, they take a message & get back to read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://actsofvolunteering.blogspot.com)
Category: Water Cooler
A loving "news" Piece sharing history of IM-NY BOTW Charity Party (which warms the heart). Again the event benefits Lymphoma. This new blog is about acts & values of volunteering...cool idea. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.kaushik.net)
Category: Web Analytics
Avinash (Google Analytics Evangelist) Writes: "A lot of Web Analytics data collection is FRAGILE. Time on Site, a valuable shining Knight of a metric can be extremely useful for measuring core things like ROI for your campaigns/web efforts. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 118 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://changemod.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
BLOGGERS: Flickr, blogs, Wikis, web design, we're all passively aware of Creative Commons licenses to promote content sharing. Creators have GOOD reasons to publish under Creative Commons, but there are hidden negative implications. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Networking
Tools to determine web popularity include Google Trends, Blogpulse Trend Search, Technorati, del.icio.us, etc...Now add another to the list: TWITTER, thanks to a new Twitter mashup called "Twittermeter." read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Networking
Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications. In 10 weeks 80 students created 50+ applications that had over 20 MILLION installs, with 5 having more than 1 million users. read more »
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