Archive for the ‘SEM’ Category

Blog Ethics

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I was about to write about an article I read on PCWorld.com today, but stopped to read an email. The email mentioned a company so of course I went to their site and ended up reading their blog and had a thought. Having your own blog is great, reading other blogs is great, but reading a blog and realizing the topic is a regurgitated story without giving any credit really feels like online plagiarism.

The topic was “Bing in Chinese“, a topic that blew up on Twitter and the blogosphere in late May. It was on TechCrunch and BrandInfection, so I will share the links here for those that didn’t see it back then.

Enjoy!

Search engine market growth

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

If you are still not sure about spending marketing dollars on Search Engine Marketing (SEM) here are some stats. Nielsen recently released the year-over-year (YOY) growth statistics for the U.S. search engine market. The overall market grew by 16.7 percent and Google grew by 27.6 percent.

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Search engine marketing trends

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Recently we have had many conversations about the future of Internet marketing versus traditional advertising and I recently read an article that supports a few assumptions. Market research and statistical resource, eMarketer’s latest report titled Search Marketing Trends: Back to Basics claims that search marketing budgets, especially SEO budgets will increase in the next five years.

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I guess what I take from this is that people are realizing that paying for paid search engine results leads to a higher ROI, as long as you are converting those clicks to leads, and utilizing SEO is an extremely important consideration that is actually projected to grow at a faster rate. You can also see there will be downward trends for contextual advertising and paid inclusion.

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