Omniture Aquires Mercado – End to End Demand Engine in the Works
Monday, 20 October 2008
Last week, web site analytics engine Omniture agreed to acquire Mercado’s multi-channel retailer site search and merchandising businesses. Macy’s, Overstock.com, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., and OfficeMax, are just a few of the major retailers who use leverage Mercado consulting and technology services to vastly improve the effectiveness of their store’s navigation, search experience, and
- Published in Analytics, Insights / Research, Paid Search, Search, Vendors / Agencies
Integrate Search Marketing with Offline! (for cryin’ out loud!)
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
My heart bleeds with tears of sorrow at the discovery by iProspect and JupiterResearch that nearly half (45%) of search engine marketers do NOT integrate their search marketing efforts with offline channels. diable pensez-vous?!? (pardon my french) How can we be doing this when evidence consistently shows that a majority of searchers are driven to
- Published in Brand Marketing, Display Advertising, Paid Search, Search
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
Is the media helping or hurting our understanding of SEO?
Friday, 25 July 2008
CNET’s Stephen Shankland has written a thorough review of Microsoft’s BrowseRank, “Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank” but its this perspective that really tells the story. It’s maddening to see yet another naive or deliberately misleading article on an innovation in search ranking, that perpetuates persistent misunderstanding of how search works and what makes search
- Published in Insights / Research, Search
The Top 10 SEO Myths (& Priorities)
Thursday, 03 July 2008
iMedia Connection, Associate Editor Michael Estrin has pulled together a must read SEO article with contributions from SEO Superstars, Kevin Ryan, Paul Bruemmer, Danny Sullivan, Aaron Wall, Shimon Sandler, and Google’s Adam Lasnik. The article reviews what I think everyone would agree are the most widely believed myths as well as the most important considerations
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search
Performance Based Web Design
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
For those of you that have been with me a while, you know that I’m a tremendous advocate of performance based marketing. I firmly believe that online marketing is heavily, certainly predominantly, and almost completely analytics driven when done well. We need not as what ad rates well with focus groups or how effectively a
- Published in Analytics, Display Advertising, Vendors / Agencies