Decoding Google’s Referral String (or, how I surviVED Secure Search)
YouTube Now Serving 4 Billion Videos Daily
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Watch
Ready for some more crazy YouTube stats? In the next minute, 60 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube, and by the end of today, 4 billion videos will have been watched around the globe on the world’s most popular video-sharing site. YouTube announced the new milestones yesterday in a blog post. To help [...]
CMO’s Say Tech-Savviness Is Greatest Area of Opportunity
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Marketing Pilgrim
Have you ever wondered how you can get a bit closer to the CMO of your company? Are you looking for a way to network your way up the corporate marketing ladder? Well, according to a study released by Forrester Research and Heidrick Struggles you may want to pass along some of your tech knowledge [...]
Meredith Buys AllRecipes, Web’s Biggest Food Site
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Clickz
For Meredith Corp, buying the web’s top recipe site, AllRecipes.com, should boost ad revenue through lots more inventory and help cut search marketing spend. AllRecipes, with its consumer generated recipes, coupons, and professional food how-to videos, will cost Meredith $175 million – quite a hike from the $66 million Reader’s Digest Association paid for it [...]
Facebook Coalition To Google, Don’t Be Evil, Focus On The User
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Webmaster World
Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross, Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications of Googles controversial integration of Google+ into its search results a move [...]
Is On Page SEO Dead With Google?
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in SE Round Table
There is an interesting thread taking place at WebmasterWorld. In short, a very respected and senior member at the forums said he made on-page text changes to his pages about 10 days ago and those changes had zero impact on his Google rankings. He was wondering the value of on-page text and SEO have in [...]
Google to Penalize For Excessive Above-the-Fold Ads
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in SEOchat
(Page 1 of 2 ) Every marketer knows that anything “above the fold” will attract the most attention. That’s why many advertising-supported websites put lots of ads near the top of the page. Now these ads are attracting some possibly unwanted attention from Google. You know that the search giant focuses on getting users to [...]
Buy.com hires a 15-year e-commerce veteran as chief marketing officer
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Internet Retailer
Bernard Luthi Buy.com has hired Bernard Luthi as chief marketing officer for the online marketplace. Luthi’s 15 years of e-commerce experience includes executive positions at Newegg.com and PC Mall Inc. Buy.com is No. 32 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. PC Mall is No. 52 and Newegg is No. 12. At Buy.com, Luthi will [...]
Meet the Speakers!
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in SEMPO
The In-house SEO Exchange at SMX West is fast approaching and we’ve lined up three veteran in-house SEOs for the speaker’s panel. We’re excited to have Jeremiah Andrick, Senior Manager of Online Customer Acquisition at Logitech; Michael Nguyen, Director of SEO at Shopzilla, Inc.; and Ryan Currie, Product Manager at ATT Interactive (responsible for the SEO [...]
Setting the Stage for the User Experience
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in AllTop
Everything we do is literally a form of building a relationship. In the office, we build professional relationships, and at home, we strengthen our emotional relationships with loved ones. We also have relationships with our computers; they keep us connected to the world, our work, and family and engage us with stunning visuals and enticing [...]
An Early Dawn for London, Courtesy Tropicana
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by admin in Adage
Creativity Pick of the Day custom_html As part of its ‘Brighter Mornings’ campaign, Tropicana made the sun rise an hour early in Trafalgar Square, London. A giant artificial sun with the power of 60,000 light bulbs lit up the area at 6.51 a.m. Monday, an art installation commissioned by the juice brand. The “sun” had [...]
