Can I Get an S? Can I Get an M? Can I Get an X?
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Is that grammatically correct? If S is a consonant, should it be “Can I Get a S?” an S? Who’s going? I couldn’t be more excited; the conference is expecting over 2,000 search marketing professionals, agencies, and marketers and I haven’t been to NYC in some time. Monday through Wednesday next week, the industry converges
- Published in Conferences / Events, Insights / Research, Search
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The Library Analogy Takes Hold
Monday, 08 September 2008
The turn of the year brought us Christmas, New Years Eve, and one of my favorite favorite ideas: The Library Analogy. The premise is simple, the easiest way to explain SEO to someone unfamiliar with search engines, websites, or optimization, is to compare the practice to managing a library. I won’t go into the detail
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search
Why the world needs SEOs (or – Google only works in an efficient market)
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
In our industry, we often opine two important considerations:Google’s algorithmThe Question (if you will) of an SEO Most significant to the first question is the process of SEO itself; our constant evaluation of how it works, methodology, success stories and failures. We question how the model works so as to effectively optimize a site to
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search
MSN Search Excluding Paid Search Advertisers from Natural
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Did you know your position in natural search results could be adversely affected by a paid search listing? Weeks ago Microsoft filed a patent with which their search algorithm could filter the organic results to remove any duplicate listings (two domains pointing to the same website). Interesting implications I’ll admit, I’m intrigued and hope Microsoft
- Published in Search
New Google Base Attributes
Friday, 09 February 2007
My favorite CSE, Google Base (I still prefer “Froogle” don’t you?), has made a significant enhancement to the quality of their product engine with the addition of product attributes to the feed specifications. As I hope you know, Google Base allows stores to upload product feeds so that their audience can find, consider, and compare
Search Behavior and a Proxy Site (yes, its a full day!)
Wednesday, 06 December 2006
The holidays sure keep us busy don’t they!? I confess my recent intermittent posts are not a result of the busy season but attention to new research and my support of a couple remarkable blogs. I anxiously await the results of a comprehensive study of online searcher behavior correlated with online activity and time spent,
- Published in Comparison Shopping, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Vendors / Agencies
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