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May

12

Web Analytics: To Google or Not to Google

Filed Under Google, Internet Marketing, Marketing | 3 Comments

The world loves Google, right?  How can you complain with free Web search, free email, free blogs, free picture sharing, free video sharing and all the disk space in the world with which to do it?  So when Google released Google Analytics, we all said, “why not?”

Apr

1

Google’s April Fool’s Prank – CADIE

Filed Under Google, Internet Marketing, Misc Internet | 1 Comment

Kudos to Google for going too far this April Fool’s day a job well-accomplished this year!

Google didn’t disappoint, keeping with the tradition of their April Fool’s pranks.  This year, they carried a unified message with Google’s CADIE, and it would appear that every department got involved in this effort.

May

21

SEO for America 2008

Filed Under Internet Marketing, Misc Internet | 5 Comments

Obama Everywhere. That’s what his Web site shows in the bottom-right corner. He’s on Facebook, MySpace and Linked In. He’s got channels and profiles on You Tube, Flickr, Twitter and Eventful. There’s even a my.barackobama.com for you to do your own part to help his campaign and have a free [...]

Feb

1

Micro-hoo! Can Microsoft really buy the world?

Filed Under Internet Marketing, Marketing, Search Engines | Leave a Comment

Apparently, Microsoft is frustrated with being #3 behind Google, offering today to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 Billion in cash and stocks. this bid came right after Yahoo! reported a weak fourth-quarter, saw its stock price close at its lowest in four years and announced a plan to cut 1,000 jobs.

If Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang finally [...]

Sep

6

Windows Live Software Bundle

Filed Under Internet Marketing, Search Engines | 1 Comment

Microsoft – Wake up! You’re not Google.

Perhaps we should give Microsoft an A for effort in trying to keep up with the Joneses at Google. As my friends at Search Engine Land have reported, Microsoft as built a software package in their latest attempt to dominate computer users everywhere.

The new Windows Live Services bundles [...]

Sep

12

AmEx Gets It and Spreads It To Small Business…

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The Mobile Disc Jockey Service I co-own has a credit line with American Express. Being that it has nothing to do with Search Engine Marketing (not outwardly, at least), I found it odd to find the following email in the separate inbox I keep for that busienss: Web Marketing Contest for Delta Cardmembers.

Sep

7

AdWords Doesn’t Look Tightened

Filed Under Google, Internet Marketing, PPC | 1 Comment

Ok, so despite my last post on AdWords, it doesn’t appear that Google truly has their system quite in place. If they think they do have a system in place, it needs to be re-examined.I recently performed a search for a friend of mine. He was looking for menu covers for his restaurant. [...]

Jul

25

Google AdWords Raises the Bar … and the Price

Filed Under Google, Internet Marketing, PPC | 1 Comment

The “Google Dance” now has new meaning for Google’s AdWords customers. In their ever-evolving quest to better the Web, Google is now forcing their customers to not only write good, quality ads (using 2 lines of 35 characters each), but now their forcing them to link their ads to an equally high-quality landing page.

This [...]