Search Marketing

Aegis acquires German search agency Rmsarcar.com

Ellen Keohane May 14, 2008

Aegis Group plc has acquired German search engine marketing agency Rmsarcar.com for an undisclosed amount. The marketing communications group made the announcement yesterday.
 

UK-based Greenlight releases Quant in US

Ellen Keohane May 12, 2008

UK-based search marketing agency Greenlight has released Quant, its pay-per-click advertising tool in the US. According to the agency, Quant uses predictive model algorithms to help marketers better forecast the success of their paid search campaigns.
 

Letter to the editor: We don't say "hits" anymore

Sara Holoubek May 12, 2008

Despite the hassles associated with air travel, I must admit that there is one part I do relish: disconnecting from all things digital while in flight. Where I once wore my 24/7 accessibility like a Girl Scout badge, I now long for the few hours where I am both unreachable and unable to reach out.
 

Bad Ideas in Search Management

May 12, 2008

During its more than 30-year run, Saturday Night Live has made the parody commercial a staple of its repertoire. One such commercial was the Bad Idea Jeans sketch. About once every two weeks, someone shares with me a situation which makes me quote a line from this faux commercial.
 

PPC in a Web 2.0 world

Bryan Brickley, general manager, Searchfeed.com May 12, 2008

The growth of user-generated content is changing the way brands interact and engage with customers. Successful communications in today's Web 2.0 world are increasingly based on establishing and maintaining a two-way dialog. Building UGC elements into an online strategy is only one piece of the jigsaw, however. The key is to drive people to those pages to kickstart the dialog.
 

Yellowbook greets future in new campaign

Ellen Keohane May 08, 2008

Yellowbook, a publisher of print and online yellow pages directories, launched a new campaign called "Say Yellow to the Future", which includes a new logo and name change. "What this campaign does is really tries to position Yellowbook as a company that is actively thinking about the future — that's going to be taking care of the needs of users and advertisers in the future in the digital age," said Gordon Henry, CMO for Yellowbook.
 

Local.com partners with MediaSpan

Ellen Keohane May 05, 2008

Local.com Corp. partnered with MediaSpan, a digital content management and online marketing solutions provider. The partnership will provide Local.com's Local Connect search platform to more than 1,500 of MediaSpan's newspaper, television and radio clients.
 

Comparison shopping engines: Marketing in the real world

Nicholas Ward, search technology strategist, Range Online Media May 05, 2008

Search marketers who try to buy each and every branded and non-branded term remotely pertinent to their Web site have a distinct advantage over everyone else. But let's take a step back from this fairy-tale world filled with unicorns, elves and race cars that run on compliments. In reality, there are pesky things like budgets and ROI goals, not to mention competitors and the resulting cost per clicks.
 

Microsoft withdraws proposal to acquire Yahoo

Ellen Keohane May 05, 2008

Microsoft officially withdrew its proposal to acquire Yahoo on May 3. In a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer wrote, "By failing to reach an agreement with us, you and your stockholders have left significant value on the table."
 

Marketing to an anti-Web 2.0 world

Sara Holoubek May 05, 2008

It is hard to visit a Web site today without being asked to register, comment, social bookmark, upload content or forward to a friend. These feature sets are all examples of what O'Reilly infamously dubbed Web 2.0, where the Web is a platform for services that encourage participation and sharing among the masses.
 

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