When I first started with Twitter, I didn’t have a clue.  I had no idea what I was supposed to do. Sure, I watched the cheesy Twitter video explaining stuff, I google searched, I read other’s wisdomful nuggets, but I’ll admit, the Internet Marketing guy didn’t have a clue. In fact, one of my own [...]

“Lots of links aren’t always the most helpful way to answer your question,” said Stefan Weitz, Microsoft’s director, search group, in a promotional Bing video. “What if we could cut through those endless lists of links and give you great results quickly?”

In our office, there is always an array of sounds. People are typing frivolously at the keyboard, the fax machine is printing, the phone is ringing, the radio is going, employees are discussing new and innovative ideas……you get my point. Amidst all of this noise, is the one phone call or fax that begins the [...]

ICANN  (the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names) is supposed to vote today (Thursday, June 26) on whether or not it will open the flood gates of domain name extensions.  There are of course .com and .net domain names as well as .biz, .tv., etc., but this move would allow for virtually any extension with the [...]

Internet search portal Yahoo.com has announced a partnership with Google (which honestly blows my mind….). Yahoo will be displaying Google AdWords along side it’s own pay per click ads.  This of course is opening up much speculation as to how this new system will work, how will ad pricing be determined, etc.
Yahoo will have the [...]

Google’s stock price dropped 4.57 percent last Tuesday: one of the reported reasons for the drop: Stagnant pay per click performance over the last year. Google AdWords had been growing at least by 25% in previous years.
This, of course, brings up an interesting question: are searchers turning a blind eye to pay per click? I [...]

Found this great article regarding blogging and your corporate web site.  A corporate blog for your company is a fantastic way to keep your clients and prospects updated as to corporate news, new products, new services and industry trends.  Not only does your blog benefit your web site visitors, it is also an excellent way [...]

Google has been putting in some overtime lately: check your web site for the latest Google Page Rank Update.  We noticed a change in PR on late afternoon Friday.  While there are many schools of thought on page rank and it’s importance with organic search engine results, it is just one tool of measurement that [...]

The open source search engine Wikia Search is alive and in beta testing as we write: we’ll be kicking the tires on this one for the next couple of weeks… http://alpha.search.wikia.com/.
Pardon me for being Mr. Glass half empty, but we’ll have to see how this whole open source search engine pans out with the human [...]

November was a strong month for Google searches: The AP reports that Google snagged 57.7 percent of US online searches in November which is up over two percent from October. With this staggering number ahead of us, it’s time to think about 2008 and your search engine optimization / online marketing plan. Will [...]