- Orange County Adobe Photoshop Users
The Orange County Adobe Photoshop User Group has been created to help individuals of all skill levels learn and apply the different techniques used with the Adobe Photoshop application.
- KLIMT.com
KLIMT.com is next week on the Moniker Premium Domain auction 28.1.10 and will be the silent ART powerbooster there. if you want to buy a KLIMT painting minimum 20 mio USD. Gustav Klimt is one of the most famous artist worldwide. His painting “Adele” was sold for USD 135 million to Ronald Lauder and recently [...]
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- Better contextual matching
As an AdSense partner, you know that Google is continually making improvements to the way we match ads to your content so that users see even more rel…
- More webinars coming your way
We've just published a new webinar schedule for the next month. In our live webinars, we'll highlight changes you can make to your ad implementation i…
- Donate your AdSense earnings to help Haiti
As you may have already seen, Google has made various efforts to contribute to the earthquake relief response in Haiti. We've heard repeatedly from Ad…
- Troubleshooting tips part IIa: Ad relevance and targeting
Last week, we took a closer look at implementing your ad code, and today, we'll address some of the common issues related to ad targeting. If you're s…
- Troubleshooting tips part I: Implementing your ad code
Today, we're beginning a troubleshooting series to help you diagnose and solve common issues with your ads, search boxes, and account functionality. W…
- An update from AdSense about the response to Haiti Earthquake
We've heard from many of our AdSense publishers about your concern for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. We wanted to take this opportuni…
- AdSense for Domains Expands Use of Keyword Hints
You asked for it, you got it! AdSense for Domains, which launched a year ago to help publishers earn revenue through ads placed on undeveloped domains…
- Site maintenance on Saturday, January 9
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You'll be unable to log in to your AdSense and Ad Manag…
- Happy New Year
Wishing all our publishers a very Happy New Year!Posted by Dia Muthana - Inside AdSense Team
- Happy Holidays
We'd like to send our best wishes to all our publishers around the world. Wherever you're spending this holiday season, we hope that it's filled with…
- Webinars - out with the old, in with the new
This year, the AdSense team has brought you a series of live webinars covering a range of topics, and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank ever…
- Keeping your account secure
We understand how important your AdSense account is to you. You need to sign into your account to generate ad code, manage the appearance of your ads,…
- More Google Web Elements for you
We've posted a few times about Google Web Elements and how they can benefit you as a publisher. Today, we're excited to announce new features for Goog…
- A note about a messaging change in your AdSense account
Today we're changing some messaging in the AdSense interface concerning your earnings, and we wanted to give you some more information on why we're ma…
- Search for ads in the Ad Review Center
When we announced the new AdSense interface a few weeks ago, we mentioned how we've been working on building more functionality into the Ad Review Cen…
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- Google Analytics API Case Study: Dolby Laboratories automates analytics reporting with Shufflepoint
We're really excited to see how companies can grow their businesses around the Google Analytics API. Today, we're publishing a case study that illustr…
- No-tags Google Analytics Integration: Pion Lite from Atomic Labs
We occasionally see a particularly inspiring integration with Google Analytics. Our latest source of inspiration comes from a product called Pion Lite…
- Sharing Our Favorite Custom Segments
Analysts often consider an aggregated view of their visitors when assessing reports in Google Analytics. Every visitor is assumed to be of the same ty…
- Master Class In Singapore And Kuala Lumpur
Are you ready for a Google Analytics Master class, happening Tuesday, 9 March in Singapore and again on Thursday March 11 in Kuala Lumpur? We bet you…
- Upcoming System Upgrade for Greater Scalability & Reliability
Within the next two weeks, Google Analytics will be performing a system upgrade. This upgrade is to further increase the scalability and reliabilit…
- Web Analytics TV Episode #6 with Avinash and Nick
This is the sixth edition of Web Analytics TV with with a dash of Nick and Nash! In this series you share your most burning questions via the Google A…
- Powerful, Flexible, Secure and now approved by the US Federal Government
This week, the US federal General Services Administration (GSA) has approved listing Google Analytics in its apps.gov web site, which is a place for g…
- Upcoming Google Analytics Workshop
Feras Alhlou, president and principal consultant of E-Nor, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant, will be conducting a Google Analytics workshop at…
- Quick Survey on the Help Center
We're always looking for ways to improve Google Analytics - not just the product itself, but also the ways in which we provide information about the p…
- Web Analytics TV #5 with Avinash and Nick
This is the fifth installment in our Web Analytics TV series in which you share your most burning questions via the Google Analytics Google Moderator…
- Google Analytics Even More Global
Today, Google Analytics is available in 6 more languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak and Vietnamese, bringing the total to 31 langu…
- Annotations Now Available In All Accounts
In December, we announced the phased roll out of Annotations. It's now available in all accounts! Thanks for your patience and enjoy!Here's a fantasti…
- We're raising the bar on Google Analytics IQ
Since the Google Analytics IQ launch, people from all over the world have taken the online course and test. Web analytics is increasingly important to…
- Upcoming Seminars for Success in Australia
Australia in summer - white sand, warm nights, occasional sun burn and Google Seminars for Success!For the first time, the Seminars include new Google…
- Clicks vs. Visits Revisited
Online advertisers make frequent use of AdWords reporting in Google Analytics to measure the impact of paid visitors to their site and business. The i…
- Google Analytics IQ: Make Sure You're Searchable!
If you've passed the Google Analytics Individual Qualification exam, you probably want people to know. One thing you can do is publish a link to your…
- In Case You Missed It
Before you say goodbye to the holidays, take a look at this great holiday list on the official Google blog by our very own Avinash Kaushik, called Top…
- Web Analytics TV with Avinash and Nick
This is the fourth video in our recent Rapid Fire series which we are now calling Web Analytics TV. In this series you share your most burning questio…
- 2009: A Look Back
2009 was a fun year for us, and we hope, for you too. Here's a month by month breakdown of new features and significant launches from 2009, with links…
- Holiday Gift Idea: New Book By Avinash
You're going to put surveys in holiday gifts this year, right? Well, if you're as customer-centric as Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist for Google…
- Coradiant/Urchin Analytics In A Box Launched
Urchin analytics software has a long tradition of integrating with other software/hardware platforms, and today we are pleased to announce the latest…
- API Python Client Library Updated
It's easier for developers to program in the languages they know, so we updated the Google Analytics API Python Client library with the just-launched…
- Happy Holidays!
The Google Analytics team would like to shout THANK YOU! to our users. We are so proud of the people using this product. It's a pleasure to be associa…
- Multilingual Urchin 6.602 Now Available
Join us in welcoming Urchin 6.602 to the world, the long-awaited multilingual upgrade to our run-it-yourself web analytics package. This release adds…
- New Google Analytics API Features
Over the past few months we've received a lot of great feedback from our developers about what they wanted to see in the Google Analytics API, and it…
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- Weds. Signal: Get Me a Mobile Strategy or You're Fired!
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do abou…
- Quick Hit: Mobile Report From Weisel
Just got this report in my mail and wanted to share it. Seems worth a read: Inte030810-231050.pdf...
- Tuesday Signal: The Internet Is A Human Right (And Spending Is Up. Yippee!)
Well, it's Monday night, but I'm in NYC, and I am pretty sure Tuesday is going to be a blur. So here are the links I read on the plane out here (love…
- Database of Intentions Chart - Version 2, Updated for Commerce
There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created…
- Monday Signal: Block Those Ads!
Monday's Signal round up is light. The news was a bit boring over the weekend, and I'm OK with that. We all watched the Oscars and enjoyed the suspens…
- The Database of Intentions Is Far Larger Than I Thought
Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called T…
- Friday Signal: Google Google Google!
(image) Today I'm not going to write a piece and then append links. You've been giving me a lot of feedback, and you miss my in depth stuff. Honestly,…
- Thursday Signal: Google's AdSense Cookie - The Untold Story
Today in Signal we take a walk down memory lane, of sorts, because sometimes such a journey helps us prepare for what lies in the path ahead. Earl…
- 3.3.10 - Weds. Signal
Today will be light, I'm preparing for a talk at the Omniture Summit. Outside my window are majestic peaks capped in snow, it's hard to be here and no…
- 3.02.10 Tuesday Signal
Off to Salt Lake later today for the Omniture Summit. I've been spending a fair amount of time studying marketing platforms of one kind or another, an…
- 3.1.10 - The Signal
Consider this the *early* Monday Signal, as I'm already deep in writing this morning, then off to staff meetings the rest of the day. So these are not…
- I Don't Like The iPad Because...
...it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditi…
- Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope)
(image ) A couple of days ago I riffed for bit on the convergence of conversation in our industry around mobile, local, real time, and social. Sometim…
- Thurs. Signal
I'm spending the balance of today working on a longer piece, so here's some short links from yesterday, which I spent mainly on a plane without wifi (…
- Weds. Signal - "Local-Mobile-RealTime": Re-imagining Social
Today finds me in Chicago, making the rounds of a great city that I don't get to often enough. Meeting with senior folks at agency holding companies l…
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- Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener To Stop Scams; Good Marketers Need Not Fear
Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortene…
- 71 Technical Factors For Backlink Analysis (From 30 Link Building Experts) – Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of our 3-part group interview series on backlink profile analysis. Part 1 covered backlink analysis for link building campaign desi…
- My Dream International Content Management System
Choosing a content management system which helps you make progress internationally - rather than blocking every move - is a good plank to have in your…
- Social Engagement: Making Content Interactive
Last year, I wrote an article, Using Infographics in Social Media to Promote Content and Visualize Data; it discussed taking data and visualizing it…
- Math Engines: For Multiplying Mixed Fractions, It’s Wolfram Alpha Over Google & Bing
Ah, math. It’s why I became an English major. But now math is spinning back around and haunting me in the form of my fifth grader. Last night, I fou…
- New MSN Out Of Beta, Driving Nearly 50 Percent Of Bing Queries
Microsoft is formally launching its much improved MSN portal today. I wrote about the preview version and the wide range of improvements when it first…
- SMX Advanced Seattle Registration Open – Best Rate Available Through March 20
Ready to exchange ideas, influence the industry and build your network? Join the most accomplished search marketers in the world for Search Marketing…
- SPONSOR MESSAGE: Drive more traffic with Bing
Want to improve traffic to your site? It’s easy! The BingTM Toolbox provides everything you need to get started to optimize your site for increased…
- The Pitfalls Of A/B Ad Split Testing, Part 1
Most search advertisers have no question that testing ads is a good thing, and can lead to much higher performing campaigns. But is it possible to ove…
- Why Most Attribution Analysis Is Fatally Flawed
At SMX West last week the halls were echoing with passionate cries about attribution analysis. It seemed as if all topics (other than the Yahoo-Micros…
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- Targeting Multiple Keywords vs. Singular Keyword Focus
Posted by randfishDespite being a seemingly simple topic, this one seems to stymie even experienced SEOs. There's a natural conflict that creates the…
- Search Marketing Success Stories
Posted by RobOusbeySearch Engine Optimization covers a huge range of tactics - all of which can bring direct benefit to a website. In this post, I've…
- Strategic Link Building: How to Productize Link Acquisition and Dominate Your Niche
Posted by randfishThis week, despite still being seriously under the weather (see this week's sad WB Friday), I flew down to SMX West to speak on the…
- Whiteboard Friday - Twitter as an SEO Research Tool
Posted by great scott!Sure, you use Twitter as a social media tool, but have you ever considered it as an SEO research tool? No? Well watch and learn…
- Introducing New Features for Open Site Explorer
Posted by Danny Dover Today I am proud to announce the launch of the second version of Open Site Explorer. Since SEOmoz has officially moved out of c…
- Ballmer, Sitelinks & Other Favorites from SMX West Day 1
Posted by jennitaSMX West 2010 kicked off with quite a bang (or was that a yell?). Since Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer was the keynote, people arrive…
- One Dead Simple Tactic for Better Rankings in Google Local
Posted by randfishThis post is short and easy to follow, just like the tactic it recommends. Most everyone who optimizes for Google Local (aka Google…
- Pagination: Best Practices for SEO & User Experience
Posted by randfishWe've been getting a lot of questions in Q+A and on the road at events like last week's Miva Merchant conference, Online Marketing S…
- Managing SEO Campaigns in Declining Industries
Posted by RobOusbeyThis is a graph of organic traffic for a theoretical site - they might be in an industry such as print advertising, construction eq…
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- Grading Google's Marketing Practices Based On Google's Standards?
The following is a guest post by Slaven Radic. The Google Buzz team has had quite a week. Their new product quickly lived up to its name, though mostl…
- How To Start A Web Business And Survive
An SEOBook reader, Josephbm91, outlined a problem many of us have faced: when you're starting out, it's easy for clients to walk all over you. So let'…
- Why Be Fair
We've discussed in the past about how our brand is everything we do. As an SEO provider, business owner, or service provider, your brand is more than…
- Why Many Successful People Become Jerks
Why Popular People May Seem Negative to Some I was chatting with a friend today about one of our projects and he mentioned how he stopped liking a few…
- The 'Information' Age
Relevancy is a good thing. It makes search and the world more efficient. Many attempts at relevancy, like search is getting more social, may just crea…
- Interview with Andrew Shotland
Today I get to interview one of my favorite reads in the SEO blogoshpere, Andrew Shotland. Andrew runs the Local SEO Guide blog and has graciously tak…
- Mark Cuban's Mahalo Wants Your Blood (And Gets it TOO!)
Mark Cuban recently talked about how search engines and content aggregators are vampires. There is no reason to be indexed in Google. ... You haven’…
- Slow & Steady vs Hype, Crash & Burn
HOPE is perhaps the single most lucrative thing to sell. There are so many people in need of direction, while so few actually want to do the work req…
- More PROOF Jason Calacanis is a ____
Publicly Jason claims to be ignorant about SEO because it allows him moral flexibility and makes Google less likely to torch his site (even though he…
- Why Mahalo (and Other Content Scrapers) Render Google's Spam Team Flaccid
I was talking to a friend yesterday who was at a conference where Demand Media's CEO spoke, and he stated that nobody asked the big question: what if…
- Starving Artists in the Age of Cesspool Content
On Hacker News, Melvin, from Web Design Company, had a great analogy on the Mahalo business model Let's use a different industry to illustrate what is…
- I Turned the Google Toolbar Off, But It Kept Spying On Me...
Ben Edelman: Although I had asked that the Google Toolbar be disable[d], and although the Google Toolbar disappeared from view, my network monitor rev…
- Google AdWords Tax Calculator
Many experienced advertisers realize that there are many gotchas in the AdWords system...optimization tools and default setting which optimize to boos…
- All Shades of Gray
Does Google like auto-generated websites wrapped in Google AdSense ads? The short answer is no. The long answer is a bit more convoluted. But so long…
- Open Site Explorer is Pretty Slick
From a marketing and a public relations standpoint this tool is brilliant. Rand just put up a full in-depth review here. In the past I have not been a…
- eBay SEO: an Interview of Dennis Goedegebuure
Dennis Goedegebuure, aka DennisG, is the head of eBay's in-house SEO team. After seeing him make some great posts in our forums and chatting a bit ba…
- Invesp for the win :)
Of course all ranking systems are biased and whatnot (I get paid to influence Google's search results & even within the realm of academia colleges try…
- The Evolution of Man & Media [Sweet Infographic]
[Update: And it was so bad that Demand Media removed it from YouTube after I highlighted it, proving my point] So remarkably bad, that I had to share…
- Is SEO Science or Art?
Recently SEOmoz posted about running a test that proved their thesis that nofollow PageRank sculpting still works (while actually only proving issues…
- Local SEO - A Case Study
How Do You Do Local SEO? It's quite clear that local SEO will be *one* of the places to be in 2010 and beyond. Need convincing? Check out: Google a…
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- Ford’s Focus on Social Media: Scott Monty Interview
When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last year the…
- Poll: Best Royalty Free Stock Photo Sites for Bloggers
As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years. Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too but you c…
- 5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix
From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and…
- My Top iPhone Apps for Social Media Marketing
It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chanc…
- Customer & Influencer Research in Social Media
“If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Pink Floyd, The Wall. That…
- 5 Sure Fire Tactics to Promote a Business Blog
Relevant, Consistently Updated Content + Flawless Technical Functionality & User Experience = Perfect Blog Launch What’s missing from the equation…
- OMS10 B2B Marketing Case Study: Marketo
Our agency TopRank Marketing has been working with Marketo providing SEO, content and blog marketing consulting services for about 2 years. I finally…
- How Journalists Use Search & Social Media
TopRank ran a survey of journalists, reporters and editors on their use of search and social media in 2008. We found 91% use search engines like Googl…
- 15 Social Media Answers From OMS10
Online Marketing Summit 2010 in San Diego is host to a smorgasboard of internet marketing topics and this afternoon I am priveledged to participate on…
- Small Business Tips For Reporting Web Metrics
[Last week, we shared some web analytics basics for small businesses or web site owners new to tracking website visitor data. Building on that, this p…
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- Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2010
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
- Microsoft Aims To Capture UK Search Market Share with Ads
There are reports that Microsoft is going to do a huge ad push in the UK in an effort to capture market share there. Currently, Microsoft's Bing has a…
- Google Public Data Explorer, Private Data Soon?
Google announced a new feature named Google Public Data Explorer. What it does is allow you to mash up data from the public sectors into neat charts a…
- Do You Use Search Operators To Find Link Opportunities?
A WebmasterWorld thread started by forum administrator, engine, wrote: A webmaster I spoke to today was after a simple way to find new link opportunit…
- Google's International Women's Day Logo at Google Russia Only?
I was browsing the various Google forums and spotted several complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums and Google Webmaster Help about there bei…
- Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2010
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
- Have Google Index Your AJAX, Here Is How
In October 2009, Google proposed a way to index AJAX. Back then, all it was, was a proposal, but it was not implemented. However, last week, Vanessa F…
- Bing: We Know About Your Images & Choose Not To Show Them
We rarely ever talk about Bing's outstanding image search, but I spotted a thread today in the Bing Community forums on that topic. In short, one webm…
- Google Help Forums To Change Member Ranking System
The Google Web Search Help, Google News Help & Google Merchant Center Help forums all are announcing new changes coming to how forum members are ranke…
- Yahoo Releases Search Marketing Desktop Just In Time To Kill It
Yahoo announced they have removed the BETA from the Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop client. Yahoo Pete, Yahoo's search ad representative, said in both…
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- Toolbar Updates
We've made some small updates to all of the Alexa Toolbars. These include the Alexa Toolbar for IE and the Alexa Toolbar for Firefox, both of which ar…
- What's Going On With My Alexa Rank?
There are two questions that seem to come up quite often in both our forums and out in the Blogosphere. Why does the rank of my website jump around? A…
- We're Listening
We are always interested in hearing what you think, your ideas, your suggestions, and even your complaints. We pay attention to all feedback, and when…
- Finding Sites with the Site Finder
Have you tried the Alexa Site Finder recently? If not, we've made a few improvements that you might want to check out.The Alexa Site Finder is differe…
- Search Analytics with Alexa
When we search for something on the internet, either through a search engine like Google or a site's dedicated search, we're showing our intent. Our e…
- Webmasters, Own Your Site!
The Alexa help forums have been great for letting webmasters provide us with ideas for new services, as well as ways to improve existing ones. One suc…
- New Sites Linking In and Demographics data now live!
In addition the the Alexa Traffic Rank, Alexa's Site Info pages provide a plethora of information about each site on the web. Two of our more popular…
- Network with the Alexa Toolbar for FireFox!
If you use Twitter or Facebook, then we have something cool for you. I am happy to announce that we have released a new version of the Alexa Toolbar f…
- 2009 Year in Review
For those of you using the Gregorian calendar, Happy New Year! It has been an amazing year for us here at Alexa, one that has brought with it a large…
- Get a Reviews Widget for your site!
Since we reintroduced website reviews on Alexa, we have received a number of requests from webmasters for help getting their site reviewed. Well, one…
- Move over Sparky, there's now a full fledged Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
I am happy to report that you can now download an Alexa toolbar for Firefox with the same look and feel as the toolbar for IE. Previously, the Alexa T…
- Alexa in Chinese continues to grow
59E4ZA2KEN8EThe amount of positive feedback we've received about the Chinese version of the Alexa website has been amazing, sometimes even humbling. W…
- Alexa, Now in Chinese
To better serve our Chinese users, today we are releasing a beta Chinese language version of the Alexa website, cn.alexa.com. You can browse the traff…
- In toolbar reviews
Since adding the ability to review websites back to Alexa.com, the response has been phenomenal. Reviews are a great way to share your experiences wit…
- It's good to share
As the father of a toddler, I'm constantly reminding my little one how important it is to share. For good reason, too, sharing is a good thing. That's…
- Easier to find international rankings.
The ease with which you can find how websites are ranked by country has just gotten easier.Let's first take a step back, though. Did you know that in…
- Alexa 101: The Anatomy of the Traffic Rank Graph
This is the first in a series of blog postings dissecting the Alexa site information pages. In this posting we take a detailed look at the Traffic Sta…
- The new and improved Alexa Toolbar
Not that long ago we released version 9 of the Alexa toolbar, which had a number of cool new features. But like most things there was room for improve…
- What's Hot?
Do you enjoy keeping up with what's hot on the web right now? Then you really need to check out the new What's Hot feature at Alexa.What's Hot improve…
- Your Customers are Talking. Are You Listening? Alexa Website Reviews are Back.
In business, reputation is a currency that is not easily accumulated, and easily lost. It can make or break a business. Online, this is more true than…
- How To Increase The Traffic To Your Website
I get asked this all the time, whether via Alexa's forums, or after work by my friends: How do I get more traffic to my Web site? I wish there was jus…
- In Time for Summer, Top Travel Sites
Every Summer people flock to the online travel sites to make their travel plans. This year, despite the flagging economy, is no different. Here is a r…
- Facebook Juggernaut Overtakes YouTube
Observant tweeter nametrader noticed that Facebook has been continuing its rise up the rankings and has recently unseated YouTube to become the 3rd mo…
- Don't forget the Grads... Top Used Car Sites
It is that time of year again, with Summer fast approaching, and students preparing for graduation. I know a little something about Alexa's readers, a…
- Father's Day - Top Online Golf Stores
With Father's Day just around the corner (only 23 shopping days left!) I thought it would be helpful to put together a list of the Top Online Golf Sto…
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- Go Deep With Our Paid Search Training at SES New York, March 22
Are you and your company dabbling in paid search, but feel that you're far from maximizing the assets you have? Or you're thinking about investing, bu…
- Making Marketing Matter: A Reply to Mitch Joel
Taking Mitch up on a challenge like joining the dialogue as to how we can make marketing meaningful (and not scummy) carries only one danger with it:…
- Yahoo: It's Worse Than It Looks (Again)
Techcrunch reports on a Wall Street analyst's recent analysis of Yahoo (YHOO).Among the more painful realities:Only a third of Yahoo's $21b valuation…
- Europhobic Response to Google Antitrust Issues - Not Productive
The latest bubblings of legal action against Google for anticompetitive behavior are, many believe, just the tip of the iceberg.One thing that surpris…
- One-Day Emarketing Conference in London (Ontario) - Monday March 1
SES London was a smashing event, but you don't have to fly across the pond to get an early spring tuneup for your online marketing. If you're located…
- Why Google Buzz Is, Um, Not Quite Right For Me
I've just tried out Google Buzz and I couldn't quite put my finger on why it just wasn't going to be convenient for me to use. But there was this nagg…
- Myths Busted: Feb. 9, 2010
It's little wonder people are paid big sums of money to remind the layperson of what seems really obvious to the people who work in a specialized fiel…
- Social Media: It's About Mission, Not Measurement Alone
This is not about measurement, but about organizations and their capacity to manage this changing real world of reputation. They find it hard to do th…
- Life Is Good
How are things? Trick question: it's a matter of perspective. It's a matter of how you frame things.Hardly anyone searches for february blahs (you can…
- Is Your Search Marketing Knowledge Outdated? You Know What to Do
It's becoming a truism that search engine marketing as practiced by busy in-house marketing managers, and others in similar positions who may drift in…
- Why I Won't Invest in Avid Life Media
Jason Calacanis, the notorious web entrepreneur of Weblogs, Inc., and Mahalo fame, recently raised a flap by telling everyone to boycott comScore and…
- AdSense Revenue Share: 72% for partners, 28% for Google
Google's impressive Q4 2009 earnings report makes certain aspects of the business clear for all to see. For example, they report that revenues of $2.0…
- Attention SES Toronto Alumni
Hey there! If you've attended SES Toronto in the past, you should have received an email offering a deep discount off the price of a pass to this, the…
- Incredibly Specific: A Trend for 2010 (Like Never Before)
I just paid $100 for an extremely targeted information package, written and recorded by an affiliate marketer, about a very specific element of Google…
- Introducing My New ClickZ Column: Paid Search Strategies
After enjoying nearly three years writing monthly columns in the paid search channel at Search Engine Land, starting tomorrow (Friday), I'll be writin…
- Google Considers Pulling Out of China Four Years After Grand Entrance
Google is reporting through its Chief Legal Officer David Drummond that it's ending the censored version of its site in China, and considering pulling…
- Study Assesses Sales Lift From Display Ads: Zero
Given the prevalence of studies that prove a certain lift in sales from costly display ad campaigns -- often showing indirect impacts of sales increas…
- Congratulations, RIM, on Atlantic Canada Expansion
On a brilliant summer day this past summer, driving with my wife on the rather deserted and beautiful Fredericton-to-Saint-John highway, I recall musi…
- Yahoo Hiring More Engineers? Good Idea
In her self-evaluation for a B- Grade, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz notes that the company has become more focused. This Bloomberg article about the Yahoo tu…
- Google Suggest and the Term 'Scam'
There are so many positive, non-controversial uses of Google Search, it makes it hard to believe that sometimes there are serious problems in it that…
- Local Search: A Winner-Take-All Market?
Earlier today, David Szetela asked for big bold predictions for paid search for 2010, for his PPC Rockstars show.Partly jumping off Aaron Wall's earli…
- Salute to the Gladwellian Decade (And Many More)
I. Huh! The decade is drawing to a close, isn't it? No Y2K stuff to worry about this time around. But for some reason, reflecting on this decade remin…
- Traffick Infinite Regression Awards 2009
We love ourselves, don't we? So said The Church Lady. And yes, lady, we do. We, the Internauti, the digeridoochebags who endlessly refer to ourselves…
- They Mean Well, But...
Microsoft, touting some functionality related to Exchange Server 2010 and the like, notes that an employee in Nigeria will instantly know if a co-work…
- Meatless, Meaty, Starchy, Fruity Holiday Treat
The world as seen through the eyes of the AdWords targeting in GMail accounts can be a quirky place indeed.Based on an email thread about a holiday po…
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- Video: What’s Next for Yahoo! Search?
David Pann talks about customer migration and continuing search innovation How will the search agreement with Microsoft affect Yahoo! advertisers and…
- Right on Target
Case Study: Affiliate marketer profits by fully leveraging the targeting tools of Sponsored Search Self-proclaimed “retired computer geek” Don Tut…
- 4A’s Conference Round-Up
Trends and tips from the smartest minds in advertising This week, your indefatigable Yahoo! Advertising correspondents went on a field trip to the 4A…
- Five Ways Advertisers Can Save Time
Yahoo! Search Marketing Desktop simplifies multiple campaign management If you’re an advertiser running more than one campaign, you will probably we…
- Ad News and Views from Around the Web
Segmenting segmentation; bad tech predictions; activity streams are the new black; consumers using online search for offline research, and more What s…
- Video: Carol Bartz on Science, Art and Scale
“No one can do this as well as we can.” In an informal conversation at the 4A’s conference, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz says that only Yahoo! can off…
- Science, Art and Scale
Carol Bartz: What Yahoo! offers advertisers Yahoo! can bring advertisers a combination of strengths that no one else can, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz said…
- Talk About A-Plus
Yahoo! at San Francisco’s 4A conference Did you ever see the 1950 classic “All About Eve?” In it, Bette Davis plies the classic line, “Fasten…
- Yahoos at SMX West
Attending the SMX confab in Santa Clara next week? Check out our line-up of speakers and panelists It’s no secret that we Yahoos are big fans of Dan…
- Optimize Your Way to a Cleaner Account
Keeping your list of blocked domains up-to-date Some things are just plain messy. And unlike the savvy behind keeping previous W-2s neatly filed and p…
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- How AdWords Determines How Much You Pay Per Click
Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian has posted a fantastic video that simplifies the whole system and makes it easy for anyone to understand. We diss…
- Introducing The New AdWords Networks (Placements) View
Post detailing some of the great new features of the new AdWords beta interface including content network placement tools and the new ajax interface.
- 5 More Ways to Improve CTR
A follow on post on different methods to increase not only Adwords, YSM and MSN click through rates, but organic SERP click through rates too along wi…
- Pardon Our Long Hiatus
A blog post about our long blogging hiatus and our plans for 2009.
- Irish SEO, SEM, Webmasters & Designers Meetup Take 2
The time has come again. Irish SEOs, online marketers, webmasters, all members of the Irish Webmaster forum and anyone with an interest in all things…
- How To Use The Content Network To Invest In Domains
A detailed article on using placement performance reports from the google content network to source domains with ROI to invest in. The article goes in…
- RedFly Interview With Aaron Wall Of SEO Book
An interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Search Engine Optimisation. Dave Davis from RedFly asks Aaron Wall some burning SEO question…
- Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business?
There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like Myspace and Facebook or socia…
- Free $100 Facebook Coupon Courtesy Of Visa
For those of you who are not advertising on facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give it a try, now there is a completely free way to te…
- Unusual Google Website Optimizer Bug – Check Your Code
Today, Google announced that it would be holding a website optimizer competition where you can win a partnership with a website optimizer to improve y…
- Use PPC To Dominate Your Typo SEO Landscape
PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the BEST possible keyword research tool available. While oth…
- Take The Guesswork Out Of PPC Campaign Setup
As we grow and take on more and more clients as well as consult with smaller clients, there has been one very alarming trend that we have noticed. The…
- The Desktop Analytics Package Of Your Dreams
Details about the fantastic new up and coming Google analytics desktop version build in Adobe Air.
- The Irish Blog Awards – Best Blog from a Journalist
The 2008 Irish blog awards are to be held on the 1st of March at 7.30pm in the Alexander Hotel in Dublin. This is a non profit event and al proceeds w…
- Dublin SEO, SEM & Webmaster Meetup
The stage has been set and flights to Dublin from most European and domestic locations are fully booked. The first annual Dublin SEO, webmaster, Desig…
- How Too Many Press Releases Can Damage Your Credibility
As an online PR consultant, there are a few questions I repeatedly get from webmasters and online entrepreneurs. One of those common questions is how…
- 7 Tips For Finding & Expanding Your Negative Keywords
A detailed how to guide on building an effective negative keyword list for your PPC campaigns to improve CTR and increase conversion rate and quality…
- A Press Release is NOT a PR Campaign
Article explaining how an effective online PR campaign is a lot more than a simple press release. There’s a pretty common misconception (especially…
- Seasons Greetings To All
RedFly LTD would like to wish every single one of our readers, friends and especially clients the very best tidings to you and your loved ones this fe…
- Google Global Video Guide – How To View Google Results In Different Countries
Our good friend Vittorio over at Tech Savvy Marketer has created a video tutorial on the installation and usage of the new Google Global Firefox exten…
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- Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta Descriptions for Page Summaries in Search Results
A misconception about web pages that lingered for a long time on the Web was that most people who visit your web site will enter your site on your hom…
- How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links
Sometimes when you search at one of the major search engines, you’ll see an extra set of links showing up under one of the listings in those search…
- Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for iTunes Store
A new patent filing from Apple may be a sign of changes to the way Apple presents music recommendations at the iTunes store. That change was hinted at…
- How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations Higher in Search Results
One of the words that often appears when someone describes how search engines work is relevance. A search engine attempts to show searchers web pages…
- Xerox Brings Patent Infringement Suit Against Google, Yahoo, and YouTube
Charles Knight, who is now the Search Editor at Nextweb pointed me to a Bloomberg report at BusinessWeek, Google, Yahoo Sued by Xerox Over Search Quer…
- SEO for Government: Trying to Find My Town on the Web
It may be possible that governmental web sites are at least as important, and in some cases more important that most of the other web sites online. Th…
- The Evolution of Search Results into Query Portals
When you perform a search at a search engine, you usually see a list of links to web pages in response to your search. Over the past few years, search…
- Google Book Search Patent Offers Copyright Protection, Not Censorship
Geographic and political boundaries are challenged by the Web, where laws of one state or province or country may differ from another. Web sites inten…
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- Introducing Open Site Explorer
I attended SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer (OSE) webinar last Thursday, January 28, and learned some things on how to make the most of the new link anal…
- PPC Management Software and Tips
One of the best ways to drive interested visitors to your site is through pay per click (PPC) advertising. It is common sense that if you provide some…
- Social Search and SEO
So how is the social search engine relevant to SEO? It is obviously important because we see how more and more each day search is turning into somethi…
- Google Social Search
Google launched its Google Social Search this week. The new product is still in its experimental phase so you will need to log in to your Google accou…
- Google News Rank Boosters
Last time I gave some tips on how to rank better in Google News. Today I’ll be giving some more tips that are still straight from Google Developer P…
- Ranking in Google News
If you are aiming to rank in Google News but doing exactly the same thing you do in your ordinary websites then you are likely wasting your effort in…
- Observations on Google Caffeine
Last month Google unveiled their secret project: Google Caffeine. According to Google, Caffeine is “the next-generation architecture for Google’s…
- Bing Ignoring Instructions Not to Index Pages
Bing has been having problems with its indexing. Just recently Brett Yount, Program Manager of Bing Webmaster Center has responded to some complaints…
- Microsoft-Yahoo Tie Search Tie Up
Earlier this year there was a lot of talk about a possible Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. As we very well know the deal did not push through. This ti…
- The Power of the Hash # in SEO
Early this month I promised a post detailing the uses of the # in SEO. Here it is. As I have mentioned before the hash is often overlooked, if at all…
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- Google’s One-Line Sitelinks Explained
Last Thursday (April 2), Google unveiled new shortcuts in their SERPS, displaying a single line of four links that take search engine users deeper int…
- Yahoo Enhanced Results Allows Embeds Directly Into SERPs
Yahoo Enhanced Results (via Search Monkey) - by adding a small bit of markup around an embedded object in your webpage, you enable Yahoo to extract th…
- Back to Basics: Finding Flickr Explore Photos
Although it’s been a while since I’ve been active on Flickr, my posts on Flickr Explore and the Interestingness algorithm still get steady daily s…
- Are Behavioral/Interest-Based Ads More Relevant?
With the new buzz about AdSense going the route of behavioral targeting (or “interest-based advertising” in Google-speak), I felt a strange sense…
- Revving Up with RedEngine Digital
When faced with scary economic times, the instinct is often to dig in, batten the hatches, hunker down and try to stay safe… in other words, play it…
- Sitelinks on Subdomains and Subdirectories
A while back there was a lot of talk of subdomains being abused for SEO and how people thought Google was going to start treating subdomains more like…
- 3M’s Post-It Note Viral Marketing Attempt – Redux
My post about 3M’s Post It Notes viral marketing campaign told the story of how 3M Corporation contacted my friend to use some very well-known, reco…
- Quote of the Week: Links Are Not Bad
John Andrews, always thought-provoking, has a great piece on affiliate links vis-a-vis Google. He ends with: The FTC is a consumer advocate,not Google…
- What Information Sources Consumers Trust
Newly released survey data from Forrester sheds light on some things that reinforce what we already suspected (consumers don’t trust company blogs)…
- Quote of the Week: Like Riding a Bicycle
Quadzilla draws an apt analogy when confronted with the question of how to succeed in search or the MMO niche, one that precisely sums up my own think…
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- Link Building this Month (02.2010)
The long winter days seem to have kept quite a few folks inside, considering the large amount of great in-depth link building articles I came across l…
- What if link requests were honest?
Everybody who owns a website gets them, and usually several a week: link requests. Especially when your site jumps to a PageRank of 5 or higher, all k…
- Creating Resource Lists for an Improved User Experience, Content Ideas and Links
Great content is the solid foundation of a good website, a positive user experience and (hopefully) some nice incoming links. This, in turn, usually l…
- Link Building this Month (01.2010)
Since there wasn’t a Link Building this Month in December, because of the yearly recap, this month’s edition basically is a double edition. In 201…
- The SEMMYs: My Personal Favorites
Just like last year, SmallBusinessSEM’s Matt McGee is hosting the SEMMYs, an annual awards event for search engine marketing content. So in case you…
- More Link Building Tool Goodness
About a year ago, I made a selection of a few (in my opinion) indispensable link building tools. Except from a Majestic SEO redesign and some changes…
- Link Building this year
It’s already the last day of the year, so it’s time to list the best link building related posts of 2009. Just like last year, I’ve read a lot o…
- My Link Baiting Idea Generation Process
We all know that link baiting can be one of the efficient ways of getting more websites to link to yours (if you don’t, please go read these article…
- Link Building this Month (11.2009)
With Halloween, Thanksgiving and even the other upcoming holidays in sight, November usually is a slow month in terms of finding high quality articles…
- Easy Links: Send A Thank You Note
Just recently, I used crowdSPRING’s creative community for designing the logo of a new project website. The process went according plan; there were…
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