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Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2003
Grant Crowell |
Analyzing Search Engines as Investments Search has become increasingly popular, but do the common stocks of search engines make a good investment? High-tech investment analysts share a glimpse of the techniques they see to value publicly traded search firms, and which companies appear to be succeeding.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 23, 2003
Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
Entrepreneur
November 2001
Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
December 23, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engine Contextual Ads Gain Momentum A relatively new form of search engine advertising has nothing to do with search engine results. Instead, 'contextual ads' are displayed on other sites' Web pages, based on the content of pages people are viewing. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Throws Hat Into The Contextual Advertising Ring Last week, Google unveiled a new method of distributing its paid listings, placing them on web pages, as opposed to the traditional means of inserting them into search results. |
Search Engine Watch
December 16, 2003
Grant Crowell |
How Search Engines Make Money Too often, web entrepreneurs today think of search as a one-way business, focusing solely on how to make money off of the search engines without understanding how search engines also need to make money in order to survive and thrive. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2004
Catherine Seda |
Contextual Ads: Vital to a Search Marketing Campaign? Are you bidding on keywords through Overture's Precision Match, Google's AdWords or another pay-for-placement service? If so, you're eligible to participate in their contextual advertising programs. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
May 30, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
July 17, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies... |
InternetNews
December 18, 2003
Zachary Rodgers |
Ah-ha.com Adopts New Moniker The paid search listings provider changed its name to Enhance Interactive. The name change was motivated foremost by a gradual change in ah-ha.com's business model. |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2004
Shari Thurow |
Kanoodle Joins Contextual Advertising Fray Kanoodle has joined the competition between Overture and Google for distributed search marketing dollars, launching a content-targeted sponsored links program. |
Search Engine Watch
January 14, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular keyword-based search results and ads has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community. Will Google follow suit? |
InternetNews
July 18, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Google Buoys Print Ads to Newspapers' Delight Google said today it has expanded its Print Ads advertising initiative, an extension of the search giant's AdWords platform that lets agencies and advertisers buy traditional newspaper ads in newspapers through a Web interface. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing Finally Getting Respect To some degree, search engine marketing has been like the Rodney Dangerfield of online advertising -- it's gotten no respect. The positive financial performance of GoTo is making people take notice, though all the signs have been there for ages... |
InternetNews
January 7, 2004
Janis Mara |
Overture Breaks Up Contextual, Search Listings Overture will offer the option to bid on each of its products individually. |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Fast Company
August 2004
Alison Overholt |
Search For Tomorrow In an advertising environment that has steadily weakened over the past three years, search marketing has breathed new life into online advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Report Shows Confusion Over Paid Listings Expect to see the issue of how well, or poorly, search engine disclose paid content to come up this month. Reason? Consumer WebWatch will be issuing an "anthropological" report later this month showing confusion about disclosure of paid listings based on a study of 17 web surfers. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Alex Porter |
Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Catherine Seda |
Taken Out of Context? You might be part of a contextual ad program without even knowing it. Visit the search engines' sites to learn more about contextual advertising and how to manage it. |
Search Engine Watch
November 25, 2003
Catherine Seda |
Dayparts & Other Search Engine Paid Listings Evolutions When it comes to gaining the most bang for the buck from paid search engine listings, micro-managing is a good thing, says our panel of experts. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports Three different publications released recently cover the issues of selecting a search engine marketing firm, which search engine marketing strategies seem to work and a review of how the web sites of Fortune 100 companies rate in terms of search engine friendliness... |
InternetNews
November 13, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
It's Not Your Father's Ad Industry IBM study predicts the rise of interactive advertising to stand the industry on its head. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Success With Search Engines What if you had a Web site and no one came? |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
InternetNews
January 14, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
The Graphical Search Divide Graphics in sponsored search listings. Want them? Need them? Marketers are divided. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side? The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as Star Wars, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow? |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Versus Search in Silicon Valley The Search Engine Strategies conference focuses on optimizing Web pages so they'll rank higher in search results. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
SuperPages.com's PPC Play Verizon's revamp of the Internet yellow pages site adds a cleaner interface and a new advertising model, utilizing pay-per-click ads with technology from FindWhat.com. |
Search Engine Watch
December 13, 2007
John Tawadros |
Search and the Comeback Kid: Part 1 Some kinds of online ads waned when marketers discovered search ads. But search ads led to content ads, which is leading back to a completion of the circle. |
Search Engine Watch
March 26, 2009
David Szetela |
PPC Content Advertising: The Latest Tips and Best Practices Great progress has been made over the last year in the capabilities of the search engines' contextual advertising offerings. Many advertisers could be tapping into a source of clicks where there's less competition and lower click prices. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2004
Shari Thurow |
Ad Agencies & Search Engine Marketing Firms Beginning to Play Together Advertising agencies are spending more on search engine marketing, with one in five marketers buying in excess of 1,000 keywords, according to Jupiter Research. |
Search Engine Watch
August 26, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 2 How do the search engines view search marketing firms? What are the growth drivers of the industry? And Is the search 'bubble' going to pop soon? Danny Sullivan continues his discussion with four top search executives. |
Search Engine Watch
April 22, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Mastering Search Engine Advertising Buying your way to the top of search results may seem easy, but managing an effective search engine advertising campaign requires a thoughtful approach. Here are some recommendations from a new book, Search Engine Advertising. |
InternetNews
March 4, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo's Little Ad Gap Yahoo opened its advertising APIs, but they'll only benefit large advertisers. Is it missing out on the long tail? |
Search Engine Watch
June 28, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local interest. |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Chris Sherman |
Consumer Watchdog Files Complaint Against Eight Search Engines for 'Crass Commercialism' Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against eight Web search engines "for placing ads in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads"... |
InternetNews
July 17, 2009 |
Online Marketing Eats Into Traditional Media Social media and mobile marketing are next big sectors for interactive advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 12, 2008
Benjamin G. Edelman |
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates. |
