Archive for May, 2012

7 Reasons Content Marketing is Better Than Link Building

2012/05/25

Content marketing and link building both have their merits in the realm of search marketing. However, the tale of the tape reveals that content marketing has a distinct advantage over link building for marketers. Here are seven reasons why

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What Trademark Search Data Can Reveal About User Behavior

2012/05/25

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been challenged by advertisers on the topic of trademark search. The question is simple: why “waste” money buying traffic on trademark keywords when it is clear that the user intends to get to their site? Researching the topic, there have been a number of…

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Mobile Isn’t Just for Your Phone

2012/05/25

If you think the mobile space is only beneficial to consumers, you’ve got it all wrong.

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Fantomaster Happy

2012/05/25

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Online Marketing News: Local Optimization Opportunity, Facebook Advertising Issues, Google Knowledge Graph Takes Over

2012/05/25

The Local Web – The Single Largest Opportunity For National Brands This infographic by Balihoo shares the significance of marketing locally to your potential customers.  According to this infographic: 73% of online search activity is related to local content 82% of local Internet searches follow-up offline 23.6%  the percentage that digital media is expected to represent of advertising by 2015 Featured Team Member Story Sara Duane-Gladden – Is Facebook Advertising the Problem?  Or Are Brands Expectations the Culprit?

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Mobile Local Monetization: How & Where is it Happening?

2012/05/25

How will mobile local monetization materialize? That’s the big question. This outline offers a few foundational elements for mobile monetization which many players ¬- including Yelp, Foursquare, and Facebook – could (as some already have) build on

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Baidu: We Do Semantic Search Better Than Google

2012/05/25

Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it called the “first step in the next generation of search.” Chinese search giant Baidu isn’t impressed, saying Google’s semantic search isn’t new, and Baidu has been doing it better since 2009

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Google Copyright URL Removal Requests Top 1.2 Million

2012/05/25

Google reports it receives over 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week.

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Google Search Results Alert Users of DNSChanger Trojan Infection

2012/05/25

Google is embarking on an awareness-raising program that will see it notify, via its own search results pages, roughly half a million users that they may be on the brink of losing their internet connection as a result of a malware infection.

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