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Search Marketing: Evaluating The Experts

by Travis Unwin September 1, 2010

You admit it. Figuring out the intricacies of how your business shows up in search results is hard. Your business is your business, and your business is not the business of search engines. You’ve come to terms with this, and you understand that you need to write a check to someone who is in the [...]

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Google: Balancing Risk, Reward, Reputation & Revenue

by Anthony Mills August 30, 2010

As the saying goes, “with great power comes great responsibility.”  Unfortunately for Google, smaller competitors are less concerned with responsibility of privacy control and more concerned with power ad relevance.  Because of this, the search giant has fallen behind the times and is sacrificing a good deal of revenue because of it. In a recently leaked seven-page [...]

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Facebook Places: What it is, How it Works, What it Means

by Shannon Johnson August 23, 2010

Something substantial happened in the sphere-o-social-media this past week – Facebook’s rumored geolocation “check-ins” feature finally cropped up. It’s called Facebook Places. But you probably knew that already since it’s likely that you’ve recently seen a story about a friend’s location appear in your News Feed. Or maybe you know of it because Facebook alerted [...]

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Google Introduces New AdWords Location Ad Extensions for Mobile Devices

by Chris Corak August 5, 2010

Google has worked very aggressively to add value and relevance to its standard text-based advertisements. While text-based ads are highly useful and appropriate in most circumstances, sometimes videos, pictures of products, seller reviews or maps may be more appropriate. This depends on the user’s search, where the user is searching from and what device the [...]

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Optimization Without Limits

by Leslie Jackson July 26, 2010

The luster is gone from SEO. The mystique, the veil of secrecy, has long disappeared. In its place are shiny new objects – social, mobile, augmented reality, geo-location.  SEO is the “Woody” to new media’s “Buzz Lightyear.”  As least that is how it is perceived. While it may lack the bells and whistles, SEO remains [...]

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Google Launches “Broad Match Modifier,” A New Option in Match Types

by Chris Corak July 15, 2010

In May Google introduced a new match type option within AdWords called “Broad Match Modifiers.” The initial launch of this feature was only available to advertisers within the UK and Canada. Google deemed the beta a success and announced yesterday that Modified Broad Match has been rolled out globally in most languages. What It Is [...]

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