Archives for the Month of May, 2008

SearchDay: Taming the Placement-Targeted Campaign Beast

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Placement-Targeted Campaigns: Taming the Beast; Microsoft Puts New Yahoo Deal on Table; Search: The Next Five Years; and more.

SearchDay: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Training Your Search Marketing Employees; Taguchi Sucks for Landing Page Testing; and more.

SearchDay: Delving into SearchMonkey

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Delving into SearchMonkey; Ask.com to Acquire Dictionary.com; Keeping SEO Staff Motivated; and more.

SearchDay: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO; Google’s Superiority Complex; Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization; and more.

SearchDay: Don’t Hire a Butcher to do a Baker’s Job

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Don’t Hire a Butcher to do a Baker’s Job; Small Business Owners Need Twitter and LinkedIn; Syndicated Versus Pure Search Referrals; and more.

SearchDay: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content

Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content; Google Friend Connect to Make Advanced Social Features Easily Available; Google on Spam; and more.

If you can’t have it all… Microsoft and Yahoo! re-enter negotiations

It seems that the Microsoft/Yahoo! saga is nowhere near over. It may only be a short while since Yahoo!’s rejection of Microsoft’s proposed takeover, but now the two companies are parlaying over a possible compromise.Yahoo!’s been under a lot of pressure these last few months - and while this seems to have been driving […]

Microsoft Live puts the books away

After last week’s announcement of their cashback scheme Microsoft have announced in a recent press release yet more changes to their Live service. No new features this time however, but instead the removal of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic.Live Search Books, released in 2006 was Microsoft’s answer to Google Book Search. […]

Married? Sleazy? Web dater finds ways to pick losers

When Jane Coloccia set out to find her
soul mate online she had no idea that eight years and 200 dates
later she would end up an expert on the topic, writing a book
and setting up a course to teach the pitfalls of Web love.

Microsoft sees Windows Mobile unit sales up 50 pct

Microsoft Corp expects global unit sales
of its Windows Mobile software for mobile phones to grow at
least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 as
demand for smartphones rises rapidly.