I recently returned from the successful SMX-Advanced search engine optimization and advertising conference, and I had an epiphany: as a speaker, usability principles are applicable to these conferences. Which usability principle, you might ask? Before usability professionals create an information architecture and corresponding interfaces, they must identify and address various personas or profiles. The primary persona [...] ....
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Google has offered local coupons for a couple years now, but the response has never matched the promise.
Google announced they have purchased Teracent, a company that uses machine learning to show the different display ad creatives based on dozens of factors.
In this post I’m combining two search trends reports: early Q4 search spending data from SearchIgnite and excerpts from a terrific Q3 local search spending report from WebVisible.
Boycott Microsoft Bing by Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times claims Microsoft is “sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing.
One wonders how much the branding consultancy Wolff Olins was paid to help create America Online’s new “brand identity.
Quick: Are you a digital marketing pro? If so, complete this sentence:
In the future, advertisers will combine online media with mobile ads to drive:____________.
Want to make a recession-resistant career move? Consider going to work as an in-house search marketer.
Traffic value varies widely not just by the words users type into the search box, but whose search box they use.
It’s back, the prospect that Microsoft might try to make Rupert Murdoch happy by offering a “get listed with Bing” exclusive deal.
Google hosted something of a formal “status update” on Chrome the operating system in Mountain View on Thursday.