MSN โjust says noโ to paid inclusion
I’m in sunny Orlando at the Annual Catalog Conference… In yesterday’s Q&A With the Search Engines session, Matt Lydon, Senior Sales Director of Search at MSN, stated quite categorically that they will not offer paid inclusion, the practice where advertisers can buy their way into the natural (organic) search results (but without any control over […]
โHigh poweredโ panel agrees: itโs all about conversion
MSN launches shopping search engine in beta, competes with Froogle
Hat tip to Steve Rubel for pointing out the new MSN Shopping engine, now in beta. I can’t say I’m overly impressed with it. It does feel kinda like Froogle, with the price range selector on the left side, but it is way over the top with all the graphic logos on the right side. […]
Latest thinking from SEO thought leaders
If you’d like to learn what some of the world’s leading SEO experts Mike Grehan, Jill Whalen, Cam Balzer, Christine Churchill, Ammon Johns, Brian Klais, Barry Lloyd, Ian McAnerin, Alan Rimm-Kaufman, Eric Ward, and myself of course! ๐ think about such topics as: developing a business case for SEO, managing expectations on outcomes, favorite search […]
Embrace and extend, courtesy of Yahooโs Creative Commons Search
Yahoo’s just released a very cool new search engine called Yahoo! Creative Commons Search. With it you can search all the Creative Commons licenced content on the web. For those not familiar with Creative Commons, I’ve blogged about it before. In summary, it is an alternative to copyright, where some rights are reserved by the […]
Search Engine Room, an Australian SEO conference
Last week I was in Sydney speaking at the new Australian SEO conference Search Engine Room. It was my first time in Australia, which is inexcusable considering it’s just “across the ditch” from New Zealand where I’ve been living for over 5 years now. For a brand new conference, I found Search Engine Room well-organized […]
PR in the blogosphere
Public relations in the blogosphere seems to operate under a new set of rules than traditional PR. With traditional PR you hire a PR firm that has relationships with various journalists and media. With the new PR, you start your own blog (assuming of course you have something worthwhile to say) and you work to […]
Getting noticed in the blogosphere part 2
As a follow-on to yesterday’s post about getting your blog noticed by influentials, i.e. A-List bloggers, I thought I would describe a scenario just recently presented to me. I have been asked by analyst Shar VanBoskirk of Forrester Research if I would be willing to blog about their upcoming boot camp on integrated marketing on […]
Business blogging best practices: when and how often to post
The podcast I mentioned in my last post about recommendations on blog posting frequency has arrived! It is the inaugural podcast of the Business Blog Roundtable. It will be a weekly podcasted roundtable discussion with 5 business bloggers, covering various business blogging best practices. Tris Hussey has already blogged it, so I won’t bother restating […]
