Posted in search engines, sem, seo on Dec 21st, 2007
The face of search is constantly changing. Though search engines are supposedly helping SEOers: we see reps from the engines at our conferences, read their blogs, know their cats names, etc. In reality, the engines do not care about us SEOers, they have fed us a lie.
Google claims to be for users first [...]
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Posted in general updates, search engines on Oct 24th, 2007
Well, it finally happened, a “major” online company just partnered with Facebook.
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Posted in ppc, search engines, sem, work on Oct 2nd, 2007
I work with some horrible search engines.
After running a campaign on ABCSearch for months (reader remembers when I first wrote about 3rd Tier engines) I saw traffic for the first time last week. Anxious to build a report for my client, I went to their reporting center and this was a link on their [...]
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Posted in ppc, search engines, sem, work on Oct 1st, 2007
Hey Reader!
Remember that post on 3rd Tier Search i did a while back? Well, here’s a short writeup on the results! Nothing unexpected happened, as the search engines were held well in check.
3rd Tier Search Review
The Players: Enhance, Miva and ABCSearch.
Metrics: Cost Efficiency, Traffic and ROI.
From our test we have been [...]
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Posted in ppc, search engines, sem on Aug 16th, 2007
Since i’m too busy to post new content, here’s a throwback from the blogger days…
Understanding Search Engines
Many people will tell you that a 2nd or 3rd tier SE is just as good as a 1st tier engine, except it’s missing the “big name advertisers,” has cheaper traffic, fewer visits, etc. In reality, the idea behind [...]
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