Ask TV ad - Bigfoot
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 18th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Ask, Google, Marketing, Public RelationsAvailable to watch online, the new Ask TV ad is short and fairly quirky. It features Bigfoot using Ask to find out how to impress girls. Not entirely sure that Bigfoot is the typical Ask user (heh, well you never know!) nor that a search engine could help a hairy, 8ft beast pick up a hot […]
Sandbox clarification
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 17th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Google, Marketing, Search Engine OptimisationFound via Threadwatch, Mike Grehan recently interviewed Matt Cutts on his ClickZ coloum.
What’s a sandbox, Matt?
“Some people have asked, “does this apply to newer sites?” Essentially, the way to think about it is, around 2003 Google switched to a new method of updating its index. Before that we had monthly Google dances. So as a […]
Cutts on Alexa
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 17th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Alexa, Ask, Google, MSN, Marketing, Search Engine OptimisationMatt Cutts makes an interesting observation on Alexa data on his blog today.
Firstly that TV advertising doesn’t appear to have had any impact on traffic figures on Ask (and that the removal of Jeeves had a larger impact), also noting that TV advertising didn’t have much impact on MSN (search) traffic last year.
Secondly - the […]
Kill teh spammers!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 16th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamSome people really annoy me and those people are usually spammers. I’m not talking about autogenerated sites / keyword stuffing / whatever - I can ignore that (and am at times secretly impressed + jealous of the technical skills of the people behind it).
What bothers me is stupid spammers. People who don’t really have a […]