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Avatar Posted By: traffick 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
As silly season draws to a close, Traffick weighs in with its sixth annual Infinite Regression Awards -- an ode to circularity at its finest. This time by newcomer Matt Larkin.

We would have included the Best/Worst Sphinn About Sphinn as a catego read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 6:59 pm
Posted By: kevinheisler 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Danny Sullivan will be speaking at SES San Jose! In addition to Danny's return to SES, there will be lots of other must-see panels.

Check out Greg Jarboe's predictions for the top stories to come out of the conference. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: tamar 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Barry writes: "Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures." This is actually VERY funny! :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 12:15 pm
Posted By: NickWilsdon 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Thoughtful and well written response to the last few days in the SEM industry by Andrew Goodman. Beyond the events, he addresses the ethics of Marty's technique and argues that this courageous "candy ass" may end up walking away with the clients. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: corypk 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com reviews Google's updated keyword research tool and finds much to like. Perhaps most pertinently, Andrew reminds us that the tool was created not to facilitate keyword research for SEO purposes but to help AdWords adver read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 52 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Greg Sterling reports on rumors that AOL is very likely to be sold/merged very soon to either Microsoft or Yahoo, prior to Yahoo's Aug. 1 annual meeting. My money is on Yahoo buying AOL, as this would align with Jerry Yang's goal of bulking up furth read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Mona Elesseily gives a sense not only of the testing tactics for multivariate landing page testing, but pointers on setting objectives and assessing overall navigational feel and messaging quality in the planning process prior to testing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:55 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 65 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 10, 2008 - 8:23 pm
Posted By: Kimota 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Great post on what to do when inheriting a poorly managed Adwords account.

"If you've inherited a "dog" account, it could be a long, long time (like maybe forever) before minimum bids on a poor account get down to sustainable levels. It's as if G read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Greg Sterling reports that Marchex launches a "national-local" PPC Ad Network. Will it reduce or add to the clutter of "PPC" providers? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://theppcbook.com)
Category: Google AdWords
If Google offers vanity 800 numbers and call reporting for radio ads, what's stopping them from providing the full service for websites who want to do the same? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 1:09 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
One of the most common issues it that there is not enough information on the page. Especially if you’re not a well-known brand, it’s important to tell people a little about who you are and why people should buy from you (refer to point #1). Also, if read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Danny Sullivan points out data that show Wikipedia's a "SERP Staple" in Google. Translation: without Google, Wikipedia would be much less visible (duh). Google is developing Knol, potentially to supplant that Wikivisibility down the road. Stay tuned read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 152 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Andrew Goodman writes, "Maybe it’s just me, because I’ve spent years ingesting the Purple Cow Kool-Aid. But I can never get over the number of cookie-cutter, copycat businesses that spring up online. Choosing the exact same business model as someone read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Mona 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.traffick.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
There may be a different deal in store for Yahoo!. An interesting scenario for how Yahoo could find its feet in such a way that would satisfy shareholders and that they should do a different deal, and not the Microsoft one. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 8:55 am
Posted By: LtDraper 163 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: SEO
Interesting article on SEO standards. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 166 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Paid Search
Mona Elesseily puts an interesting 'Sphinn' on the potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 8:46 am
Posted By: DanielScocco 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DavidWallace 180 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Search Marketing
Andrew Goodman writes: "Another bundle of advertising flyers just landed on my front porch, only to go straight into the recycle bin. Although I merely dream of the distant day when such lazy and wasteful advertising methods will be punishable by de read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
Very pleased to see this detailed review of Super Tuesday, as we're able to track it online. I just wish out there in searchie-land, the usual tedious "SEO critiques" of candidates' websites would be coupled with some paid search chatter! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
Shades of old SNL debate to promote Live Search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Hannah 229 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
I thought the above article pertaining to creating a 'pulse' or sense of community on e-commerce sites was really interesting.

I work for a business to business company and like many of our peers our site is pretty static. Most of the deals are d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: traffick 251 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Gradually turning GMail into Facebook or twitter? Yikes!

But the integration with GTalk is already pretty aggressive, so this wouldn't surprise me - hey, I guess you can turn stuff off... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: OliverTaco 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Searching
I hate it when people mention google stock at 85 - I still remember being talked out of it.

It's good to look back and see how wrong we'd all have been with our "obvious" assumptions back then.

-OT read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 27, 2007 - 6:48 am
Posted By: 0thelisa 408 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: SEM Industry
Search Engine People pays tribute to social media prodigy Neil Patel the only way they know how -- by mocking him. Huzzah! read more »
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